Stats: Top 100 most important and famous people from United Kingdom

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Virgin Queen	Elizabeth I	96%
Queen died in 2022	Elizabeth II	96%
Sons of the current King	Prince William/Prince Harry	96%
Prime Minister during World War Two	Winston Churchill	95%
King from 2022	Charles III	94%
Singer active from 1960s, I'm Still Standing, Rocket Man	Elton John	94%
Playwright, author of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	94%
Female Prime Minister, nicknamed the Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher	92%
Former wife of the current King, died in 1997	Diana Spencer/Diana/Lady Diana	91%
Rock band of 1960s, Let It Be, Yesterday	The Beatles	89%
Queen of United Kingdom and Empress of India from 1837 to 1901	Victoria	89%
Naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	88%
The king of Magna Carta	John Lackland	88%
King, famous for his eight wives and founder of Anglicanism	Henry VIII	87%
Rock band active from 1970s, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Gaga	Queen	86%
Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922	David Lloyd George	85%
King during World War Two	George VI	85%
Physicist who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation	Isaac Newton	85%
Female writer, author of Harry Potter	J. K. Rowling	85%
Writer, author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	84%
Engineer, inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	83%
Writer, author of Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	83%
Writer, author of The Lord of the Rings	J. R. R. Tolkien	83%
Queen known for her vigorous attempt to testore the Catholicism in England	Mary I/Bloody Mary	82%
Footballer and sex symbol, legend of Manchester United	David Beckham	81%
Explorer, famous for his voyages to New Zealand and Australia	James Cook	80%
Rock band active from 1960s, Satisfaction, Paint it Black	The Rolling Stones	80%
Writer, author of 1984	George Orwell	79%
Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007	Tony Blair	79%
Female writer, author of Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	78%
Comic Actor, Mister Bean	Rowan Atkinson	77%
Singer active from 2000s, Shape of You, Galway Girl	Ed Sheeran	76%
Writer, author of Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	76%
Statesman, Lord Protector of England and Scotland from 1653 to 1658	Oliver Cromwell	75%
The first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film	Sean Connery	74%
Microbiologist, who discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, the penicillin.	Alexander Fleming	73%
Royal Navy officier famous for his naval victories during Napoleonic Wars.	Horatio Nelson	73%
Comic actor, Modern Times and The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin	72%
Writer, author of The Chronicles of Narnia	C. S. Lewis	72%
Writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	71%
Director of Vertigo and Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	70%
Mathematician, who decrypted Enigma during World War Two	Alan Turing	69%
Actor, winner of two Academy Award, one for The Silence of the Lambs	Anthony Hopkins	69%
Driver, 7 times Formula 1 champion	Lewis Hamilton	69%
Actor, famous for his roles in The Imitation Game, Doctor Strange and Sherlock	Benedict Cumberbatch	68%
King, main figure of the Crusades	Richard I/Richard the Lionheart	68%
Physicist, affected by a form of motor neurone disease that paralysed him	Stephen Hawking	68%
Economist, pioneer of political economy named The Father of Capitalism	Adam Smith	65%
Army officer known for his role in the Arab Revolt	Thomas Lawrence/Lawrence of Arabia	65%
Writer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	64%
Writer, author of The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	64%
Tennis player, winner of three Grand Slam titles	Andy Murray	63%
Prime Minister, who signed the Munich Agreement	Neville Chamberlain	63%
Actress, famous for her roles in The Nun's Story and Breakfast at Tiffany's, two times winner of Academy Award	Audrey Hepburn	62%
Northern Irish footballer, winner of Ballon d'Or in 1968, legend of Manchester United	George Best	62%
Explorer, who circumnavigated the World and famous for his role in the Anglo-Spanish War	Francis Drake	61%
Poet, author of The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	58%
Writer, author of Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	55%
Engineer, inventor of steam engine	James Watt	55%
Writer, father of science fiction, author of The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	54%
Writer, author of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Stevenson	52%
Inventor of the World Wide Web	Tim Berners-Lee	52%
Commander of all Allied forces during the Battle of Normandy	Bernard Montgomery	51%
Director of The Dark Knight Trilogy and Interstellar	Christopher Nolan	49%
Actor, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Darkest Hour	Gary Oldman	48%
Philosopher, one of the most influential of Enlightenment, known as the father of liberalism	John Locke	48%
Female writer, author of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	48%
Romantic poet, author of Don Juan	George Byron	47%
Poet, author of Paradise Lost	John Milton	47%
Explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions	Robert Scott	47%
Playwright, author of The Alchemist	Ben Jonson	46%
Chemists, whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA	Rosalind Franklin/Francis Crick	46%
Physicist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism	Michael Faraday	45%
Writer, author of A Dictionary of the English Language	Samuel Johnson	45%
Architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire in 1666, including St Paul's Cathedral	Christopher Wren	44%
Painter, known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent marine painting	William Turner	43%
Philosopher, called the father of empiricism and key figure of the Scientific Revolution.	Francis Bacon	42%
Civil engineer, one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, who built the Great Western Railway	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	42%
Actor, famous for his roles in North by Northwest and Suspicion	Cary Grant	41%
Philosopher, one of the founders of modern political philosophy, author of Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	39%
Actress, famous for her roles in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer, three times winner of Academy Award	Elizabeth Taylor	38%
Economist, whose ideas changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments	John Keynes	38%
Actor and director of Spartacus and Hamlet, four times winner of Academy Award	Laurence Olivier	38%
Physicist known as the father of nuclear physics, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908	Ernest Rutherford	33%
Actor, who received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in comedy Hannah and Her Sisters and in drama The Cider House Rules	Michael Caine	32%
Romantic poet, author of Lyrical Ballads	William Wordsworth	29%
Mathematician responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon	James Clerk Maxwell	28%
Romantic painter and poet, author of The Ancient of Days	William Blake	28%
Director of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago, two times winner of Academy Award	David Lean	27%
Playwright and translator rival of the previous one	Christopher Marlowe	26%
Civil engineer, inventor of railways	George Stephenson	26%
Romantic poet, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Coleridge	26%
Poet, author of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, winner of Nobel Prize in literature in 1948	Thomas Eliot	25%
Painter of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds	John Constable	24%
Driver, 3 times Formula 1 champion	Jackie Stewart	22%
Naturalist, coauthor of On the Origin of Species	Alfred Wallace	16%
Polymath of XVII century who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms using a compound microscope that he built himself	Robert Hooke	16%
One of the XX century's most influential philosophers of science	Karl Popper	11%
Composer and conductor of film music, five times winner of Academy Award	John Barry	8%
Physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933	Paul Dirac	8%

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