Statistics for Famous Cambridge University students

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	98%
Influential scientist credited with discovering gravity	Sir Isaac Newton	93%
Veteran naturalist and presenter of Life on Earth and The Blue Planet	Sir David Attenborough	86%
Computer pioneer and chief decipherer of the Enigma code	Alan Turing	76%
Long-time collaborator of Hugh Laurie and former QI host	Stephen Fry	75%
Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star	John Cleese	68%
Played Loki in the Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012) movies	Tom Hiddleston	64%
Shakespearean actor who played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy	Sir Ian McKellen	61%
Poet who helped launch the Romantic Period. Works include Daffodils, Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude	William Wordsworth	44%
Manhattan Project scientist who remarked "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"	J. Robert Oppenheimer	39%
"Father of the computer" who developed the concept of a programmable computer in the nineteenth century	Charles Babbage	36%
Victorian Poet Laureate and author of The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	34%
British host of The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight	John Oliver	32%
Became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721	Robert Walpole	22%