| Years | Value | Description | Person | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016– | £5 | Prime Minister during WWII | Winston Churchill | 99%
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| 2000–2018 | £10 | Author of "On the Origin of Species" | Charles Darwin | 85%
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| 1970–1993 | £20 | Greatest of English playwrights | William Shakespeare | 85%
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| 2017– | £10 | Author who wrote "Pride and Prejudice" | Jane Austen | 81%
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| 1992–2003 | £10 | Author of "Oliver Twist" | Charles Dickens | 80%
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| 1975–1994 | £10 | Considered the founder of modern nursing | Florence Nightingale | 69%
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| 2021– | £50 | Considered the father of computer science | Alan Turing | 63%
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| 1978–1988 | £1 | Scientist who wrote "Principia Mathematica" | Isaac Newton | 62%
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| 2007–2022 | £20 | Economist who wrote "The Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith | 58%
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| 1971–1991 | £5 | Victorious general at Waterloo | Duke of Wellington | 56%
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| 2011–2022 | £50 | Scottish steam engine engineer | James Watt | 43%
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| 1981–1996 | £50 | Architect of St. Paul's cathedral | Christopher Wren | 34%
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| 1999–2010 | £20 | Composer of "Pomp and Circumstance" | Edward Elgar | 30%
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| 2020– | £20 | 19th century landscape and early abstract painter | J. M. W. Turner | 30%
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| 1991–2001 | £20 | Scientist who experimented with electromagnetism | Michael Faraday | 28%
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| 1990–2003 | £5 | Known as the "Father of Railways" | George Stephenson | 22%
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| 2002–2017 | £5 | She made prisons more humane in the Victorian era | Elizabeth Fry | 14%
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| 2011–2022 | £50 | Business partner of the above | Matthew Boulton | 8%
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| 1994–2014 | £50 | The first governor of the Bank of England | John Houblon | 5%
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