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50 Victorian figures - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 478 times
- The average score is 19 of 50
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Writer of Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 95%
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| Prince Consort | Albert | 91%
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| Baker Street resident | Sherlock Holmes | 84%
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| Queen | Victoria | 84%
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| Wrote Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 76%
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| Noted traveller to the Galapagos | Charles Darwin | 72%
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| Whitechapel killer | Jack the Ripper | 70%
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| Missionary and explorer who sought the source of the Nile | David Livingstone | 69%
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| Conservative prime minister and novelist | Benjamin Disraeli | 67%
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| Sent Alice down the rabbit hole | Lewis Carroll | 64%
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| Flamboyant poet and playwright | Oscar Wilde | 64%
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| Irish writer of Transylvanian terror | Bram Stoker | 63%
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| Crimean war 'angel' | Florence Nightingale | 62%
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| His tunes accompanied Gilbert's words | Arthur Sullivan | 60%
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| Peter Rabbit writer | Beatrix Potter | 52%
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| Inventor of Long John Silver | Robert Louis Stevenson | 50%
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| Violent explorer who sought Livingstone | Henry Stanley | 44%
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| Poet's daughter and mother of computer science | Ada Lovelace | 43%
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| Wrote Middlemarch | George Eliot | 40%
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| Romantic seascape painter | Joseph Turner | 40%
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| Conservative PM who founded modern policing | Robert Peel | 40%
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| Engineering giant who tunnelled the Thames | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 33%
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| The Liberal 'Grand Old Man' | William Gladstone | 33%
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| Enigma Variations composer | Edward Elgar | 32%
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| Antiseptic pioneer | Joseph Lister | 32%
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| Leading writer of the Raj | Rudyard Kipling | 32%
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| Mining magnate who expanded British rule in Africa | Cecil Rhodes | 30%
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| Poet laureate | Alfred Tennyson | 29%
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| British-Jamaican who revolutionised nursing | Mary Seacole | 28%
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| Novelist memorialised in Edinburgh | Walter Scott | 27%
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| Electrical science pioneer | Michael Faraday | 25%
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| England's bearded foremost cricketer | William Grace | 24%
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| Evangelical general killed at Khartoum | Charles Gordon | 22%
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| Doyenne of household management | Isabella Beeton | 22%
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| Leading Arts and Crafts movement designer | William Morris | 20%
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| Utilitarian philosopher | John Stuart Mill | 19%
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| Poet whose brother was a Pre-Raphaelite founder | Christina Rossetti | 17%
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| Actress and mistress of the Prince of Wales | Lillie Langtry | 15%
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| Dominated midcentury foreign policy | Palmerston | 15%
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| Conquered Sudan and modernised army | Herbert Kitchener | 13%
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| Orphanage founder | Thomas Barnardo | 12%
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| Led the Light Brigade at Balaclava | Cardigan | 11%
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| Art critic who influenced British public taste | John Ruskin | 11%
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| Explorer who translated the Kama Sutra | Richard Burton | 9%
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| Irish home rule champion downed by scandal | Charles Parnell | 8%
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| Wrote adventures set in Africa | Rider Haggard | 8%
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| Solved the 'Great Stink' with a massive sewerage works | Joseph Bazelgette | 6%
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| Developed the 'sensation novel' | Wilkie Collins | 5%
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| Colonial ruler of India during the 1857 rising | Charles Canning | 2%
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| Lost an army in Afghanistan | William Elphinstone | 2%
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