| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 99%
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| Influential scientist credited with discovering gravity | Sir Isaac Newton | 93%
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| Veteran naturalist and presenter of Life on Earth and The Blue Planet | Sir David Attenborough | 83%
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| Computer pioneer and chief decipherer of the Enigma code | Alan Turing | 74%
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| Long-time collaborator of Hugh Laurie and former QI host | Stephen Fry | 70%
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| Played Loki in the Thor (2011) and Avengers (2012) movies | Tom Hiddleston | 63%
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| Shakespearean actor who played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy | Sir Ian McKellen | 61%
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| Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star | John Cleese | 59%
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| Manhattan Project scientist who remarked "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" | J. Robert Oppenheimer | 43%
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| Poet who helped launch the Romantic Period. Works include Daffodils, Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude | William Wordsworth | 43%
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| "Father of the computer" who developed the concept of a programmable computer in the nineteenth century | Charles Babbage | 37%
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| British host of The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight | John Oliver | 34%
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| Victorian Poet Laureate and author of The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 32%
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| Became the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721 | Robert Walpole | 24%
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