Statistics for Famous Britons #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Nurse during the Crimean War known as the "Lady with the Lamp"	Florence Nightingale	90%
Horror Film director who made "Psycho" and "The Birds"	Sir Alfred Hitchcock	82%
Wrote the original James Bond novels	Ian Fleming	77%
Comedian who partnered with Oliver Hardy to form one half of a famous duo	Stan Laurel	76%
2008 F1 World Champion	Lewis Hamilton	66%
TV presenter and prolific paedophile'll fix it.	Sir Jimmy Savile	64%
Singer who was known as the "forces' sweetheart" during WW2, and in 2009 made No.1 on the British album chart aged 92.	Vera Lynn	62%
Journalist and TV host who carried out the Nixon interviews	Sir David Frost	57%
Famous codebreaker in WW2 who was later convicted of homsexuality	Alan Turing	54%
"Doctor Death" who murdered at least 218 patients	Harold Shipman	38%
Lord Chancellor of England executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII's rejection of Catholicism	St Thomas More	38%
Aristocratic romantic poet who wrote "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"	Lord Byron	35%
Engineer who built the first steam railway	George Stephenson	34%
Wrote "A Dictionary of the English language", the first comprehensive English Dictionary	Samuel Johnson	33%
Co-inventor of the World Wide Web	Sir Tim Berners-Lee	33%
Inventor of the bouncing bomb	Sir Barnes Wallis	32%
Jacobite Pretender who failed to gain the British throne at the Battle of Culloden	Bonnie Prince Charlie	29%
Playwright, director and actor who created "In Which We Serve" and "Brief Encounter"	Sir Noel Coward	18%
Alledgedly invented the game of Rugby	William Webb Ellis	14%
19 year old controversially hanged for murder in 1953 after his accomplice shot a police officer	Derek Bentley	11%
Railway engineer who designed the "Mallard" and "Flying Scotsman" (A1 and A4) locomotives	Sir Nigel Gresley	3%