Statistics for Historical Britons

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Creator of Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet and MacBeth	William Shakespeare	100%
Author of the "Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	99%
Famously had 6 wives and founder of the church of England	Henry VIII	98%
WW2 Prime Minister (after Chamberlain)	Winston Churchill	98%
Queen during the defeat of the Spanish Armada	Elizabeth I	96%
Queen of the United Kingdom that had an era named after her	Victoria	96%
Invented the Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	95%
First person to communicate with people on Hawaii & Australia	James Cook	92%
Novelist of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"	Jane Austen	92%
Won the Battle of Trafalgar against Napoleon	Horatio Nelson	89%
1st Lord and Protector of England	Oliver Cromwell	89%
Originator of the laws of classical mechanics and laws of motion	Issac Newton	88%
Founder of modern nursing and humanitarian activist	Florence Nightingale	87%
Famous activist and sung the song "Imagine"	John Lennon	87%
Famously cracked the Enigma machine	Alan Turing	77%
Famous archeologist and diplomat who is known for his role in the Arab Revolt in WW1	T. E. Lawrence	76%
Improved the steam engine to be utilized in factories	James Watt	54%
Invented the first programmable mechanical computer	Charles Babbage	35%
"Hammer of the Scots" who turned the longbow into England's most deadly weapon	Edward I	35%
Designer of the Great Western Railway and revolutionized public transportation	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	35%
Explorer who made great contribution to the discovery of Antarctica	Ernest Shackleton	31%
First person to translate the bible into English	William Tyndale	7%