Statistics for Famous Britons

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Current reigning monarch	Queen Elizabeth II	99%
Tyrannical Tudor king who had six wives	Henry VIII	93%
First female Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	93%
Beatle who was assassinated in New York	John Lennon	92%
Popular Princess killed in a car crash in 1997	Princess Diana	92%
Discovered evolution	Charles Darwin	91%
Inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	89%
Wrote "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield"	Charles Dickens	89%
Queen who saw the huge development of technology and the expansion of the British Empire	Queen Victoria	89%
Prime Minister during World War II (May 1940-July 1945)	Sir Winston Churchill	89%
Legendary admiral in the Royal Navy who was killed at Trafalgar in 1805	Horatio Nelson	87%
Mythical King of Camelot	King Arthur	86%
Most famous Elizabethan and Jacobean playwright	William Shakespeare	85%
Mystery serial killer who struck at least five times in Whitechapel in 1888	Jack the Ripper	82%
Caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament	Guy Fawkes	81%
Credited with the discovery of Penicillin	Sir Alexander Fleming	75%
Creator of Poirot and Miss Marple	Agatha Christie	74%
Famous TV naturalist who presented, among others, "Life on Earth" and "Blue Planet"	Sir David Attenborough	71%
Leading Parliamentarian who served as Lord Protector	Oliver Cromwell	70%
Braveheart	William Wallace	68%
Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815	Duke of Wellington	64%
Creator of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	64%
Doctor _____________ I presume?	David Livingstone	59%
Iceni Queen who led revolt against Roman rule in c.60 AD	Boudicca	58%
Somali-born athlete who won 10,000m and 5000m gold at the 2012 Olympics	Mo Farah	58%
Last Anglo-Saxon king defeated by William the Conqueror	Harold II	57%
Founder of the Scout Movement	Robert Baden-Powell	55%
All-rounder who captained the England Cricket Team and played between 1998 and 2009. Nickname Freddie.	Andrew Flintoff	48%
Royal Navy captain famous for his voyages of exploration on HM Bark Endeavour	James Cook	48%
Famous actor who played, among other things, Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings"	Sir Ian McKellen	47%
Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered on the orders of king Henry II	St Thomas Becket	45%
Gave the "Rivers of Blood" speech	Enoch Powell	44%
Footballer whose hat-trick won England the 1966 World Cup	Sir Geoff Hurst	43%
World War II fighter pilot who lost both legs	Sir Douglas Bader	37%
Composer of "The Planets"	Gustav Holst	36%
Leading anti-slavery campaigner	William Wilberforce	29%
Poet Laureate who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	28%
Rapper who sings "Dance wiv me" and "Bonkers"	Dizzee Rascal	27%
Executed for High Treason for making pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts to Britain during World War II	Lord Haw Haw	20%
Suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the King's racehorse at Epsom in 1913	Emily Davison	16%
Only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated	Spencer Perceval	15%
Hangman who executed at least 400 people between 1932 and 1956	Albert Pierrepoint	13%
First sitting female MP in Britain	Nancy Astor	11%
British officer who was key in establishing British East India Company Rule in Bengal	Clive of India	8%
British commander in the Anglo-Zulu war. In command during the battles of Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi	Lord Chelmsford	4%