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Famous Britons #2 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 184 times
146 since last reset
- The average score is 9 of 21
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Nurse during the Crimean War known as the "Lady with the Lamp" | Florence Nightingale | 90%
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| Horror Film director who made "Psycho" and "The Birds" | Sir Alfred Hitchcock | 82%
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| Wrote the original James Bond novels | Ian Fleming | 77%
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| Comedian who partnered with Oliver Hardy to form one half of a famous duo | Stan Laurel | 76%
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| 2008 F1 World Champion | Lewis Hamilton | 66%
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| TV presenter and prolific paedophile'll fix it. | Sir Jimmy Savile | 64%
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| Singer who was known as the "forces' sweetheart" during WW2, and in 2009 made No.1 on the British album chart aged 92. | Vera Lynn | 62%
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| Journalist and TV host who carried out the Nixon interviews | Sir David Frost | 57%
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| Famous codebreaker in WW2 who was later convicted of homsexuality | Alan Turing | 54%
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| "Doctor Death" who murdered at least 218 patients | Harold Shipman | 38%
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| Lord Chancellor of England executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII's rejection of Catholicism | St Thomas More | 38%
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| Aristocratic romantic poet who wrote "Don Juan" and "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" | Lord Byron | 35%
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| Engineer who built the first steam railway | George Stephenson | 34%
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| Wrote "A Dictionary of the English language", the first comprehensive English Dictionary | Samuel Johnson | 33%
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| Co-inventor of the World Wide Web | Sir Tim Berners-Lee | 33%
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| Inventor of the bouncing bomb | Sir Barnes Wallis | 32%
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| Jacobite Pretender who failed to gain the British throne at the Battle of Culloden | Bonnie Prince Charlie | 29%
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| Playwright, director and actor who created "In Which We Serve" and "Brief Encounter" | Sir Noel Coward | 18%
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| Alledgedly invented the game of Rugby | William Webb Ellis | 14%
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| 19 year old controversially hanged for murder in 1953 after his accomplice shot a police officer | Derek Bentley | 11%
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| Railway engineer who designed the "Mallard" and "Flying Scotsman" (A1 and A4) locomotives | Sir Nigel Gresley | 3%
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