| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Victorian author of "A Christmas Carol", "Hard Times" and "Nicholas Nickleby" | Charles Dickens | 100%
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| Biologist widely credited with developing the theory of natural selection | Charles Darwin | 91%
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| Silent movie star whose famous on-screen persona was 'the Tramp' | Charlie Chaplin | 88%
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| Serial killer whose 'family' murdered actress Sharon Tate | Charles Manson | 85%
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| Leader of the Free French forces during the Second World War and first president of the French Fifth Republic | Charles de Gaulle | 82%
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| Frankish king who became the first Holy Roman Emperor | Charlemagne | 76%
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| Rock 'n' roll pioneer known for his song 'Johnny B. Goode' | Chuck Berry | 73%
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| Cartoonist best remembered as the creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip | Charles Schulz | 70%
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| Actor who starred in The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape and The Dirty Dozen | Charles Bronson | 67%
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| American aviator who was named as Time Magazine's inaugural 'Man of the Year' in 1929 | Charles Lindbergh | 67%
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| Actor who starred in Two and a Half Men | Charlie Sheen | 67%
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| American engineer credited as the developer of vulcanised rubber manufacturing processes, which were subsequently used to manufacture car tyres | Charles Goodyear | 58%
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| Former drummer of the Rolling Stones | Charlie Watts | 55%
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| Jazz saxophonist known as 'Bird' | Charlie Parker | 52%
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| US Air Force pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier | Chuck Yaeger | 52%
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| Classical English actor who appeared as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones | Charles Dance | 42%
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| Behind this man's beard, there is no chin; just another fist | Chuck Norris | 39%
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| Female English singer who popularised the term 'brat summer' in 2024 | Charli XCX | 33%
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| 19th century mathematician who designed the 'Difference Engine' - an early forerunner of the computer | Charles Babbage | 30%
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| Former British parliamentarian who led the Liberal Democrat party from 1999 to 2006 | Charles Kennedy | 21%
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| Former President of Liberia indicted for war crimes in 2003 | Charles Taylor | 21%
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| Jazz double bassist and bandleader who created the studio album 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' | Charlie Mingus | 21%
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| Author of "Fight Club" | Chuck Palahniuk | 18%
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| French poet best remembered for his 1857 volume "The Flowers of Death" | Charles Baudelaire | 15%
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| British Army officer who signed the surrender to American revolutionary forces following the siege of Yorktown in 1781 | Charles Cornwallis | 9%
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