Statistics for Historical British Figures

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher	97%
Lead guitarist for the Beatles	George Harrison	72%
Discovered Penicillin	Alexander Fleming	67%
Author of 'The Wealth of Nations'	Adam Smith	57%
'Troublesome Priest' killed on the orders of Henry II	Thomas Becket	49%
First recognised Prime Minister	Robert Walpole	47%
Captained England to victory in the 1966 World Cup	Bobby Moore	40%
Privateer who burned the Spanish fleet at Cadiz	Francis Drake	39%
Defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn	Robert the Bruce	36%
Invented the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	29%
King who came to power in the Glorious Revolution	William III	29%
Founder of Macroeconomics	John Maynard Keynes	26%
Last native Prince of Wales to lead a revolt against the English	Owain Glyndwr	14%
General who led the BEF in 1914	John French	6%
Commander in the Second Anglo Afghan War and the Second Boer War	Frederick Roberts	3%