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Famous Britons - Statistics
General Stats
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This quiz has been taken 158 times
124 since last reset
- The average score is 26 of 45
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Current reigning monarch | Queen Elizabeth II | 99%
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| Tyrannical Tudor king who had six wives | Henry VIII | 93%
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| Beatle who was assassinated in New York | John Lennon | 92%
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| First female Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher | 92%
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| Popular Princess killed in a car crash in 1997 | Princess Diana | 92%
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| Discovered evolution | Charles Darwin | 90%
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| Prime Minister during World War II (May 1940-July 1945) | Sir Winston Churchill | 90%
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| Inventor of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 89%
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| Queen who saw the huge development of technology and the expansion of the British Empire | Queen Victoria | 89%
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| Wrote "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield" | Charles Dickens | 88%
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| Legendary admiral in the Royal Navy who was killed at Trafalgar in 1805 | Horatio Nelson | 87%
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| Mythical King of Camelot | King Arthur | 85%
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| Most famous Elizabethan and Jacobean playwright | William Shakespeare | 84%
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| Mystery serial killer who struck at least five times in Whitechapel in 1888 | Jack the Ripper | 82%
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| Caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament | Guy Fawkes | 81%
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| Credited with the discovery of Penicillin | Sir Alexander Fleming | 75%
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| Creator of Poirot and Miss Marple | Agatha Christie | 74%
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| Famous TV naturalist who presented, among others, "Life on Earth" and "Blue Planet" | Sir David Attenborough | 71%
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| Leading Parliamentarian who served as Lord Protector | Oliver Cromwell | 69%
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| Braveheart | William Wallace | 68%
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| Creator of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 64%
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| Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 | Duke of Wellington | 63%
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| Iceni Queen who led revolt against Roman rule in c.60 AD | Boudicca | 58%
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| Doctor _____________ I presume? | David Livingstone | 58%
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| Last Anglo-Saxon king defeated by William the Conqueror | Harold II | 57%
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| Founder of the Scout Movement | Robert Baden-Powell | 56%
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| Somali-born athlete who won 10,000m and 5000m gold at the 2012 Olympics | Mo Farah | 55%
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| Royal Navy captain famous for his voyages of exploration on HM Bark Endeavour | James Cook | 48%
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| All-rounder who captained the England Cricket Team and played between 1998 and 2009. Nickname Freddie. | Andrew Flintoff | 47%
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| Famous actor who played, among other things, Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" | Sir Ian McKellen | 46%
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| Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered on the orders of king Henry II | St Thomas Becket | 45%
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| Gave the "Rivers of Blood" speech | Enoch Powell | 43%
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| Footballer whose hat-trick won England the 1966 World Cup | Sir Geoff Hurst | 42%
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| Composer of "The Planets" | Gustav Holst | 37%
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| World War II fighter pilot who lost both legs | Sir Douglas Bader | 36%
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| Poet Laureate who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 31%
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| Leading anti-slavery campaigner | William Wilberforce | 29%
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| Rapper who sings "Dance wiv me" and "Bonkers" | Dizzee Rascal | 26%
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| Executed for High Treason for making pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts to Britain during World War II | Lord Haw Haw | 22%
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| Suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the King's racehorse at Epsom in 1913 | Emily Davison | 18%
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| Only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated | Spencer Perceval | 15%
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| Hangman who executed at least 400 people between 1932 and 1956 | Albert Pierrepoint | 14%
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| First sitting female MP in Britain | Nancy Astor | 12%
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| British officer who was key in establishing British East India Company Rule in Bengal | Clive of India | 8%
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| British commander in the Anglo-Zulu war. In command during the battles of Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi | Lord Chelmsford | 4%
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