| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Britain's first female prime minister | Margaret Thatcher | 97%
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| US President between Bush and Bush | Bill Clinton | 90%
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| Physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 90%
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| Author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy | JRR Tolkien | 89%
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| Creator of The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham | Dr Seuss | 82%
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| Star of Notting Hill, Love Actually and Bridget Jones' Diary | Hugh Grant | 82%
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| Scottish economist who wrote Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 77%
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| Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 77%
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| Playwrite of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 76%
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| First to suggest galaxies beyond the Milky Way and now has a telescope named after him | Edwin Hubble | 71%
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| First female prime minister of India | Indira Gandhi | 71%
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| Elizabethan sailor and famous for bringing tobacco to Britain | Sir Walter Raleigh | 55%
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| Credited with inventing the World Wide Web | Sir Tim Berners-Lee | 51%
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| The Rugby World Cup is named after him | William Webb Ellis | 22%
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| Suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby | Emily Davison | 20%
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| Invented the reflecting telescope and first coined the term "cell" | Robert Hooke | 13%
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