Women in British history A-Z by first name - Statistics

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
M	First female Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	94%
J	Novelist best known for 'Pride and Prejudice'	Jane Austen	88%
V	19th century ruler, crowned Empress of India	Victoria	81%
K	First wife of Henry VIII, his struggle to get an annulment from her fuelled him to support the English Reformation	Katherine of Aragon	72%
W	To marry her, Edward VIII abdicated	Wallis Simpson	66%
Z	Member of the equestrian team that won silver in the 2012 Olympics	Zara Phillips	48%
O	British-American actress in the period of 1930s-1980s, most known for Melanie in 'Gone with the Wind'	Olivia de Havilland	35%
E	19th century prison reformer, previously on Bank of England 5 pound note	Elizabeth Fry	31%
F	Helped "Bonnie Prince Charlie" escape after Culloden	Flora MacDonald	21%
N	First female MP who took up her seat	Nancy Astor	20%
D	British-Zimbabwean author, recipient of the Nobel for literature, known for 'The Golden Notebook'	Doris Lessing	18%
U	4th century Christian saint, in whose honour the Virgin Islands were named	Saint Ursula	17%
C	Along with her mother, leader of the WSPU	Christabel Pankhurst	15%
Y	Policewoman shot in front of the Libyan embassy in London 1984, leading to an 11 day siege and a break off of diplomatic relations	Yvonne Fletcher	14%
S	17th century courtier, influential on Queen Anne, Keeper of the Privy Purse	Sarah Churchill	11%
A	Ruled Mercia. Left only female-to-female succession in Britain until Mary-Elizabeth	Aethelflaed	9%
B	Wife of Æthelberht of Kent, canonised for support of Augustine and spread of Christianisation	Bertha of Kent	6%
X	Sister of Nicholas II of Russia, lived in Britain from the Revolution to 1960	Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova	5%
G	12th century Welsh princess led army against Anglo-Normans	Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd	3%
H	Author of 'Cheap Repository Tracts', 18th century moral pamphlets	Hannah More	3%
Q	Archer who won gold at the 1908 Olympics	Queenie Newall	3%
I	Crowned Robert Bruce at Scone	Isabella MacDuff	2%
L	"Mother of the Welsh steam coal trade", first exporter	Lucy Thomas	1%
P	Artist in the British pop art movement	Pauline Boty	1%
R	18th century Scottish woman imprisoned by her husband on St. Kilda after she threatened to reveal his Jacobite activities	Rachel Chiesley (Lady Grange)	1%
T	Suffragette who whipped Winston Churchill in the face in 1909	Theresa Garnett	1%

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