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Famous Alumni of the Oxford Colleges - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 86 times
- The average score is 28 of 87
Answer Stats
| College | Hint | Alumnus | % Correct |
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| Brasenose College | PM between 2010 and 2016 | David Cameron | 87%
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| First female PM of the UK | Margaret Thatcher | 83%
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| Author of The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | 80%
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| Author of The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 80%
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| St John's College | PM between 1997 and 2007 | Tony Blair | 76%
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| St Hugh's College | Current UK Prime Minister | Theresa May | 74%
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| Balliol College | Author of Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 73%
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| Actress who portrayed Hermione Granger | Emma Watson | 73%
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| Magdalen College | Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 71%
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| The Queen's College | Actor in Mr Bean and Blackadder | Rowan Atkinson | 71%
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| Physicist suffering from ALS | Stephen Hawking | 67%
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| Trinity College | British PM known as "the Elder" | William Pitt | 66%
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| Corpus Christi College | Leader of the Labour Party 2010-15 | Ed Miliband | 64%
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| Brother of the above | David Miliband | 63%
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| Author of Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 61%
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| Composer of Phantom, Cats, Joseph etc | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 60%
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| Wadham College | Architect of St Paul's Cathedral | Christopher Wren | 60%
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| King, abdicated in 1936 | Edward VIII | 59%
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| Author of Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 59%
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| Travel writer and Python | Michael Palin | 59%
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| First female PM of India | Indira Gandhi | 57%
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| New College | Comic actor, eg Bridget Jones | Hugh Grant | 56%
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| Exeter College | First runner of the sub-four-minute mile | Roger Bannister | 54%
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| Inventor of the World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee | 54%
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| PM between 1964 and 1970, and 1974-76 | Harold Wilson | 53%
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| King of England and leader at Agincourt | Henry V | 53%
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| Hertford College | Author of Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 53%
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| Christ Church | Founder of Pennsylvania | William Penn | 53%
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| Author of Dream Children | A.N. Wilson | 50%
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| Bishop of Calcutta, 1832-58 | Daniel Wilson | 50%
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| Scientist and vehement atheist | Richard Dawkins | 50%
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| University College | PM of the UK from 1945-51 | Clement Attlee | 49%
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| Author of Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 49%
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| Comedian, comedy partner of Gryff Rhys Jones | Mel Smith | 41%
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| Writer whose biography was written by Boswell | Samuel Johnson | 36%
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| PM between 1908 and 1916 | Herbert Henry Asquith | 34%
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| Explorer and tobacco enthusiast | Walter Raleigh | 34%
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| Former Education Secretary (2010-14) | Michael Gove | 31%
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| Jesus College | Archaeologist and military officer | T.E. Lawrence | 31%
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| Author of Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 29%
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| Worcester College | Screenwriter and producer who revived Doctor Who | Russell T. Davies | 29%
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| St Anne's College | Author of the Bridget Jones books | Helen Fielding | 27%
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| MP for Holborn; formerly Director of Public Prosecutions | Keir Starmer | 27%
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| Icelandic presenter of Mastermind | Magnus Magnusson | 27%
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| Famous for wallpaper designs | William Morris | 26%
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| Food writer and presenter | Nigella Lawson | 24%
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| Co-creator of "New Labour" | Peter Mandelson | 24%
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| St Catherine's College | Actress in Silent Witness, Merlin etc. | Emilia Fox | 20%
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| Author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Mark Haddon | 20%
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| Lincoln College | Author, real name David Cornwell | John le Carre | 19%
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| Author of Watership Down | Richard Adams | 19%
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| Director of final four Harry Potter films | David Yates | 17%
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| Current King of Jordan | Abdullah II | 16%
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| Historian, author of The Origins of the Second World War | A.J.P. Taylor | 16%
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| Pembroke College | Deputy PM under John Major | Michael Heseltine | 16%
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| Secretary of State for Education, 2014-16 | Nicky Morgan | 14%
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| Mansfield College | MP for Rhondda since 2001 | Chris Bryant | 13%
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| Poet and author of We're Going On A Bear Hunt | Michael Rosen | 13%
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| Principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic | Simon Rattle | 13%
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| Poet and playwright (1888-1965) | T.S. Eliot | 11%
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| Keble College | Author of Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce | 10%
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| Author of The Whitsun Weddings | Philip Larkin | 10%
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| Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill | Jethro Tull | 9%
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| St Hilda's College | Author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | 9%
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| Lady Margaret Hall | MP for Maidstone 1987-2010 | Ann Widdecombe | 7%
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| Author of romantic novels eg A Village Affair | Joanna Trollope | 7%
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| Tenor and partner of Benjamin Britten | Peter Pears | 7%
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| Composer of The Banks of Green Willow | George Butterworth | 4%
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| First woman bishop appointed by the Church of England | Libby Lane | 4%
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| Composer of Crown Imperial | William Walton | 4%
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| Author of Troy, Ithaka etc | Adele Geras | 3%
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| Somerville College | Author of The Children's Book | A.S. Byatt | 3%
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| Author of Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively | 3%
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| Author of Quartet in Autumn | Barbara Pym | 1%
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| English composer (1565-1638) | Francis Pilkington | 1%
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| Author of In Defense of Food | Michael Pollan | 1%
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| The last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury | Reginald Pole | 1%
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| Composer of the Warsaw Concerto | Richard Addinsell | 1%
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| St Peter's College | Writer of the screenplay for Slumdog Millionnaire | Simon Beaufoy | 1%
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| Merton College | Scientist and presenter | Adam Hart-Davis | 0%
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| Washington correspondent for the BBC | Ben Wright | 0%
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| Oriel College | Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1733 and 1737 | Charles Talbot | 0%
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| Archbishop of York 1942-1955 | Cyril Garbett | 0%
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| Author of The Hired Man | Melvyn Bragg | 0%
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| Artistic director of London Sinfonia (1988-94) | Paul Crossley | 0%
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| Clerk of the House of Commons 2011-14 | Robert Rogers | 0%
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| St Edmund Hall | India's Minister of External Affairs | Salman Khurshid | 0%
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