Statistics for Famous people from County Tyrone

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
General of the Union Army and 18th President of the USA	Ulysses S. Grant	68%
1985 Snooker World Champion from Coalisland	Dennis Taylor	44%
Cook who spread infectious disease to 53 of her employers in New York, 3 of whom died	Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary)	39%
Edinburgh body snatcher of the early 19th century	William Burke	35%
Namesake of the above who won the 2011 Open (first and last name)	Darren Clarke	30%
First Tyrone man to lift the Sam Maguire	Peter Canavan	28%
Founder of a bank in Pittsburgh and namesake of a university in the same city	Thomas Mellon	28%
Signatory of the 1916 Easter Proclamation (first and last name)	Tom Clarke	23%
Dramatist and short story writer; works include "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" and "Translations"	Brian Friel	21%
Novelist who wrote "At Swim-Two-Birds" and "The Third Policeman" (most famous nom de plume)	Flann O'Brien	19%
Singer and guitarist from Strabane who was briefly a member of Planxty	Paul Brady	16%
Writer and broadcaster born in Omagh	Benedict Kiely	7%
Former unionist MP for North Down	Sylvia Hermon	7%