| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific explorer killed in Hawaii | James Cook | 100%
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| 'Mad' king | George III | 75%
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| Father of economics | Adam Smith | 50%
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| Noted highwayman | Dick Turpin | 50%
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| Hero of Waterloo | Duke of Wellington | 50%
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| Mistress of naval hero | Emma Hamilton | 50%
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| Hero of the Nile and Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 50%
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| Pride and Prejudice author | Jane Austin | 50%
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| Neoclassical architect whose house is a London landmark | John Soane | 50%
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| Address to a Haggis poet | Robert Burns | 50%
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| The ultimate dandy | Beau Brummell | 25%
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| Landscape garden pioneer | Capability Brown | 25%
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| Regent's estranged wife | Caroline of Brunswick | 25%
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| Defeated at Yorktown | Charles Cornwallis | 25%
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| Scottish enlightenment empiricist | David Hume | 25%
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| Father of modern conservatism | Edmund Burke | 25%
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| Charted the decline of Rome | Edward Gibbon | 25%
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| Vaccine pioneer | Edward Jenner | 25%
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| Diarist and novelist who married a French general | Fanny Burney | 25%
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| PM who lost America | Frederick North | 25%
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| 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' poet | George Gordon Byron | 25%
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| Oafish regent | George IV | 25%
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| Painted Whistlejacket and other horses | George Stubbs | 25%
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| Surveyed the Pacific northwest | George Vancouver | 25%
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| She explored the Levant | Hester Stanhope | 25%
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| Satirist and cartoonist | James Gillray | 25%
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| Scottish steam engineer | James Watt | 25%
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| Victor of Quebec | James Wolfe | 25%
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| Ode to a Nightingale poet | John Keats | 25%
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| Pioneer of methodism | John Wesley | 25%
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| Botanical collector | Joseph Banks | 25%
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| Portrait painter of the 'Grand Style' | Joshua Reynolds | 25%
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| Leading potter | Josiah Wedgwood | 25%
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| Powerful mistress of George IV | Maria Fitzherbert | 25%
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| Emigre wax sculptor | Marie Tussaud | 25%
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| Women's rights activist, mother of Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | 25%
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| Early European explorer in Africa | Mungo Park | 25%
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| The Jacobite 'Young Pretender' | Prince Charles Eduard Stuart | 25%
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| Industrialist and inventor behind the spinning frame | Richard Arkwright | 25%
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| Nabob and victor of Plassey | Robert Clive | 25%
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| First prime minister | Robert Walpole | 25%
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| Aphorist, essayist, dictionary writer | Samuel Johnson | 25%
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| Celebrity actress | Sarah Siddons | 25%
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| Society portraitist of Mr and Mrs Andrews | Thomas Gainsborough | 25%
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| The Tyger poet | William Blake | 25%
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| Provoked his crew to mutiny | William Bligh | 25%
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| Engraver of rakes and gin palaces | William Hogarth | 25%
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| Greatest Napoleonic war prime minister | William Pitt (the Younger) | 25%
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| Abolitionist leader | William Wilberforce | 25%
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| Romantic poet of nature | William Wordsworth | 25%
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