People Who Died or are Buried in London - Statistics

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Died	Age	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1965	90	Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom during most of WWII	Winston Churchill	97%
1603	69	She was known as the "Virgin Queen"	Elizabeth I	95%
1727	84	Physicist who formulated the three laws of motion	Isaac Newton	90%
1558	42	Half-sister of the above who is buried next to her at Westminster Abbey	Mary I	86%
2011	27	This singer didn't go to rehab and it ultimately killed her	Amy Winehouse	84%
1536	35	The second wife of Henry VIII and the first to lose her head	Anne Boleyn	84%
1883	64	German socialist who lived in exile	Karl Marx	80%
1939	83	Psychiatrist who fled Vienna just before the Nazis took over	Sigmund Freud	79%
1606	35	Gunpowder plotter who is burned in effigy each year	Guy Fawkes	78%
1970	27	Guitarist who recorded "Purple Haze"	Jimi Hendrix	73%
1658	59	He served as Lord Protector when England had no monarch	Oliver Cromwell	72%
1805	47	Admiral memorialized by a giant column at Trafalgar Square (but buried at St. Paul's Cathedral)	Horatio Nelson	70%
1305	35	Scottish independence leader who was hanged, drawn, and quartered	William Wallace	62%
1969	47	She was the main star of "The Wizard of Oz"	Judy Garland	58%
1649	48	The most recent English monarch to meet a violent end	Charles I	56%
2005	59	This Belfast-born footballer spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest, he squandered.	George Best	44%
1016	50	King who was given the nickname "the unready"	Æthelred the Unready	33%
1880	61	One of two notable female authors named George	George Eliot	33%
2001	49	Author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"	Douglas Adams	32%
1535	57	When he was chancellor, six protestants were burned at the stake. Later, this Catholic supporter would be beheaded himself.	Sir Thomas More	22%