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Context	Person	% Correct
... became prime minister and head of a coalition government in 1940	Winston Churchill	100%
On 8 September 2022 ... the longest-living and longest-reigning British monarch, died at the age of 96	Elizabeth II	83%
The current Prime Minister, as of October 2022, is ... leader of the Conservative Party	Rishi Sunak	83%
The English playwright and poet ... is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time	William Shakespeare	83%
In the mid-17th century, all three kingdoms were involved in a series of connected wars which led to the temporary overthrow of the monarchy, with the execution of ...	Charles I	75%
Upon the Queen's death, her eldest child ... acceded to the British throne	Charles III	75%
The Conservative government of the 1980s led by ... initiated a radical policy of monetarism, deregulation, the sale of state-owned companies	Margaret Thatcher	75%
From the 19th century ... whose theory of evolution by natural selection was fundamental to the development of modern biology	Charles Darwin	67%
Major theorists from the 17th and 18th centuries include ... whose laws of motion and illumination of gravity have been seen as a keystone of modern science	Isaac Newton	67%
Britain's military deployment in Iraq saw the largest protest in British history demonstrating in opposition to the government led by ...	Tony Blair	67%
The 20th-century English crime writer ... is the best-selling novelist of all time	Agatha Christie	58%
Other prominent British contributors to have influenced popular music over the last 50 years include ...	Elton John	58%
The flag of the United Kingdom was created in 1606 by the superimposition of the flag of England, representing ...	Saint George	58%
Under the leadership of ... the British Empire reached its greatest extent	David Lloyd George	50%
In 1603, the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland were united in a personal union when ... inherited the crowns of England and Ireland	James VI and I	50%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Jane Austen	50%
More recently ... who advanced major theories in the fields of cosmology, quantum gravity and the investigation of black holes	Stephen Hawking	50%
Irish writers, living at a time when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, include ...	Oscar Wilde	42%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Adele	33%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Ed Sheeran	33%
When he composed the anthem Zadok the Priest for the coronation of ...	George II	33%
The flag of Scotland, representing ...	Saint Andrew	33%
The 1884 Reform Act championed by ... granted suffrage to a majority of males for the first time	William Gladstone	33%
By the late 19th century, the Conservatives under ... initiated a period of imperial expansion in Africa	Benjamin Disraeli	25%
In the immediate post-war years, the Labour government under ... initiated a radical programme of reforms	Clement Attlee	25%
Major British artists include: the Romantics ...	J. M. W. Turner	25%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Mary Shelley	25%
In the 18th century, cabinet government developed under ... in practice the first prime minister	Robert Walpole	25%
Strikes in the mid-1920s culminated in the General Strike of 1926, which ended in a victory for the government led by ...	Stanley Baldwin	25%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Amy Winehouse	17%
Influential UK dance acts include ...	Calvin Harris	17%
Some of the British recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Music award include ...	David Bowie	17%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	George Michael	17%
The sculptors ...	Henry Moore	17%
The most famous philosophers of British Empiricism are ...	John Locke	17%
Following the Indian Rebellion in 1857, the British government led by ... assumed direct rule over India	Lord Palmerston	17%
Scotland's contributions include ...	Robert Burns	17%
Major British artists include: the Romantics ...	Samuel Palmer	17%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Stormzy	17%
The British director ..., whose film Vertigo is considered by some critics as the best film of all time	Alfred Hitchcock	8%
Scotland's contributions include ...	Arthur Conan Doyle	8%
Increasingly, however, composers became inspired by the English countryside and its folk music, notably ...	Benjamin Britten	8%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Damien Hirst	8%
The German-born composer ... became a naturalised British citizen in 1727	George Frideric Handel	8%
With grimmer works from ...	Iain Banks	8%
Major British artists include: the Romantics ...	John Constable	8%
Two Britons are also notable for the ethical theory of utilitarianism, a moral philosophy later used by ... in his short work Utilitarianism	John Stuart Mill	8%
Welsh literature includes Britain's oldest known poem, Y Gododdin, which contains the earliest known reference to ...	King Arthur	8%
By the late 19th century, the Conservatives under ... initiated a period of imperial expansion in Africa	Lord Salisbury	8%
Scotland's contributions include ...	Robert Louis Stevenson	8%
Scotland's contributions include ...	Sir Walter Scott	8%
The sculptors ...	Anish Kapoor	0%
The sculptors ...	Antony Gormley	0%
In the second half of the 19th century, as ... wrote their popular Savoy operas	Arthur Sullivan	0%
Irish writers, living at a time when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, include ...	Bram Stoker	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Charlotte Brontë	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Chris Ofili	0%
Poet ... is regarded as one of the greatest European poets of his age	Dafydd ap Gwilym	0%
... is credited as the first Welsh-language novelist, publishing Rhys Lewis in 1885	Daniel Owen	0%
The Pop artists ...	David Hockney	0%
The most famous philosophers of British Empiricism are ...	David Hume	0%
The British director ... is among the most critically acclaimed of all time	David Lean	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Doris Lessing	0%
... were major exponents of the Scottish "common sense" school	Dugald Stewart	0%
The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are ...	Dylan Thomas	0%
The Football Association is the oldest of its kind, with the rules of football first drafted in 1863 by ...	Ebenezer Cobb Morley	0%
... wide range of music rivalled that of his contemporaries on the continent	Edward Elgar	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Emily Brontë	0%
Some of the British recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Music award include ...	Eric Clapton	0%
There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including ...	Ezra Pound	0%
The figurative painter ...	Francis Bacon	0%
The Arthurian legend was further developed by ...	Geoffrey of Monmouth	0%
The most famous philosophers of British Empiricism are ...	George Berkeley	0%
Irish writers, living at a time when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, include ...	George Bernard Shaw	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	George Eliot	0%
The collaborative duo ...	George Passmore	0%
The collaborative duo ...	Gilbert Prousch	0%
Increasingly, however, composers became inspired by the English countryside and its folk music, notably ...	Gustav Holst	0%
Among the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: ...	Harrison Birtwistle	0%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Harry Styles	0%
After the Stuart Restoration, an English tradition of dramatic masques, anthems and airs became established, led by ...	Henry Purcell	0%
The abstract artist ...	Howard Hodgkin	0%
More recently ... contributed to the Scottish Renaissance	Hugh MacDiarmid	0%
The current Scottish Government is a Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens coalition, led by First Minister ... leader of the Scottish National Party	Humza Yousaf	0%
With grimmer works from ...	Ian Rankin	0%
From the 19th century ... who formulated classical electromagnetic theory	James Clerk Maxwell	0%
Two Britons are also notable for the ethical theory of utilitarianism, a moral philosophy first used by ...	Jeremy Bentham	0%
Scotland's contributions include ...	J. M. Barrie	0%
Historically, there has been exceptional Renaissance music from the Tudor period, with masses, madrigals and lute music by ...	John Dowland	0%
Among the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: ...	John Tavener	0%
Historically, there has been exceptional Renaissance music from the Tudor period, with masses, madrigals and lute music by ...	John Taverner	0%
There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including ...	Joseph Conrad	0%
The portrait painters ...	Joshua Reynolds	0%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Kano	0%
Leading Welsh novelists of the twentieth century include ...	Kate Roberts	0%
There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including ...	Kazuo Ishiguro	0%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Lewis Capaldi	0%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Little Simz	0%
The landscape artists ...	L. S. Lowry	0%
The portrait painters ...	Lucian Freud	0%
The current Welsh Government is Labour, led by First Minister ... who has been the First Minister since 2018	Mark Drakeford	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Mark Wallinger	0%
More recently ... contributed to the Scottish Renaissance	Neil M. Gunn	0%
Historically, there has been exceptional Renaissance music from the Tudor period, with masses, madrigals and lute music by ...	Orlando Gibbons	0%
The Pop artists ...	Peter Blake	0%
Among the many post-war composers, some of the most notable have made their own personal choice of musical identity: ...	Peter Maxwell Davies	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Rachel Whiteread	0%
Increasingly, however, composers became inspired by the English countryside and its folk music, notably ...	Ralph Vaughan Williams	0%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Ramz	0%
The Pop artists ...	Richard Hamilton	0%
Leading Welsh novelists of the twentieth century include ...	Richard Llewellyn	0%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Robbie Williams	0%
Some of the British recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Music award include ...	Rod Stewart	0%
The best-known of the Anglo-Welsh poets are ...	R. S. Thomas	0%
There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including ...	Salman Rushdie	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Sam Taylor-Johnson	0%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Skepta	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Steve McQueen	0%
Influential UK dance acts include ...	Sub Focus	0%
More recent UK music acts that have had international success include ...	Susan Boyle	0%
After the Stuart Restoration, an English tradition of dramatic masques, anthems and airs became established, followed by ...	Thomas Arne	0%
The landscape artists ...	Thomas Gainsborough	0%
... were major exponents of the Scottish "common sense" school	Thomas Reid	0%
Historically, there has been exceptional Renaissance music from the Tudor period, with masses, madrigals and lute music by ...	Thomas Tallis	0%
During the late 1980s and 1990s the Saatchi Gallery in London helped to bring to public attention a group of multi-genre artists who would become known as the "Young British Artists": ...	Tracey Emin	0%
There have been many authors whose origins were from outside the United Kingdom but who moved to the UK, including ...	T. S. Eliot	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Virginia Woolf	0%
Major British artists include: the Romantics ...	William Blake	0%
Historically, there has been exceptional Renaissance music from the Tudor period, with masses, madrigals and lute music by ...	William Byrd	0%
... were major exponents of the Scottish "common sense" school	William Hamilton	0%
The pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement ...	William Morris	0%
In the second half of the 19th century, as ... wrote their popular Savoy operas	W. S. Gilbert	0%
The modern UK is known to produce some of the most prominent English-speaking rappers along with the United States, including ...	Yxng Bane	0%
Twelve of the top 25 of 100 novels by British writers chosen by a BBC poll of global critics were written by women; these included works by ...	Zadie Smith	0%

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