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Famous British People - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 601 times
- The average score is 13 of 22
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Famous English playwright (1564-1616) | William Shakespeare | 95%
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| One of the greatest ever British Prime Ministers (1874-1965) | Winston Churchill | 95%
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| Mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Harry (1961 - 1997) | Princess Diana | 93%
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| Author of 'On the Origin Of Species' (1809-1882) | Charles Darwin | 87%
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| Nurse known as 'The Lady of the Lamp' (1820 - 1910) | Florence Nightingale | 85%
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| Originator of universal gravitation and laws of classical mechanics and laws of motion (1643-1727) | Isaac Newton | 84%
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| Scottish inventor, most notably credited with inventing the modern telephone (1847 - 1922) | Alexander Graham Bell | 78%
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| Naval commander famous for his service during the Napoleonic Wars (1758-1805) | Horatio Nelson | 72%
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| Author whose books have won mutiple awards & more sold mroe than 400 million copies (1965 - Present) | J K Rowling | 72%
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| Popular monarch of England who brought a period of relative internal stability (1533 - 1603) | Queen Elizabeth I | 71%
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| Infamous criminal who was part of a Catholic plot to assassinate King James I (1570 - 1606) | Guy Fawkes | 70%
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| Commander of the New Model Army during the English Civil War against King Charles I (1599- 1658) | Oliver Cromwell | 65%
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| Queen of ancient Britain who led a rebellion against the Roman occupiers (30AD - c60 or 61AD) | Boudica | 53%
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| Nicknamed 'The Milk Snatcher' - Education minister of Ed Heath's Government (1925 - 2013) | Margaret Thatcher | 51%
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| Engineer & creator of The Great Western Railway (1806-1859) | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 44%
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| Composer, musician, philanthropist, peace activist, artist & writer (1940-1980) | John Lennon | 40%
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| Biologist & Pharmacologist awarded a Noble Prize for medicine in 1945 (1881 - 1955) | Alexander Fleming | 38%
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| British Computer Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web (1955 - Present) | Tim Berners-Lee | 28%
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| Famous British war poet, killed in action November 1918, just before the end of the war (1883 - 1918) | Wilfred Owen | 26%
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| Pioneer in speed records who broke 8 world records on both Land & Water (1921 - 1967) | Donald Campbell | 21%
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| Influential physicist in the field of electro-magnetism (1831 – 1879) | James Clerk Maxwell | 5%
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| Popular Comedian of the post war period, novelist and writer of screenplays (1926 - 1984) | Eric Morecambe | 4%
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