Names of illustrous UK people

Question 1

Chris Hoy

Answer 1

cyclist velodrome - Olympic Games

Question 2

Sir Bradley Wiggins

Answer 2

cyclist - Tour de France

Question 3

David Hockney

Answer 3

pop art - 1960s

Question 4

Lucian Freud

Answer 4

German born artist - portraits

Question 5

Jonh Petts

Answer 5

Welsh artist - engravings and stained glass

Question 6

Sir John Lavery

Answer 6

Northern Irish portrait painter - Royal Family

Question 7

Henry Moore

Answer 7

bronze sculptures

Question 8

Joseph Turner

Answer 8

landscape painter

Question 9

Turner Prize

Answer 9

celebrates contemporary art

Question 10

John Constable

Answer 10

landscape painter - Dedham Vale on the Suffolk-Essex border

Question 11

David Allan

Answer 11

Scottish painter - The Origin of Painting

Question 12

Sir John Millais
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Holman Hunt

Answer 12

Pre-Raphaelites

Question 13

Henry Purcell

Answer 13

composer in Westminster Abbey

Question 14

Sir Edward Elgar

Answer 14

composer - Pomp and Circumstances Marches

March No 1 is played at the Proms.

Question 15

George Frederick Handel

Answer 15

German-born composer - wrote for George I and George II.

Messiah is sung by choirs at Easter.

Question 16

Gustav Holst

Answer 16

composer - The Planets

Jupiter for I vow to thee my country (hymn)

Question 17

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Answer 17

composer - orchestra and choir

Question 18

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

Answer 18

Paralympics and London Marathon

Question 19

Mary Peters

Answer 19

Northern Ireland athlete - pentathlon

Question 20

Ellie Simmonds

Answer 20

Paralympics - swimming

Question 21

Dame Kelly Holmes

Answer 21

running

Question 22

Dame Ellen MacArthur

Answer 22

yachtswoman - sail around the world singlehanded

Question 23

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill

Answer 23

heptathlon

Question 24

Olympic Games hosted in the UK

Paralympics hosted in the UK

Answer 24

1908, 1948 and 2012

2012

Question 25

Sir Mo Farah

Answer 25

10,000 metres in less than...

Question 26

David Weir

Answer 26

Paralympics and London Marathon

Question 27

Sir Ian Botham

Answer 27

cricket captain

Question 28

Ian Flemming

Answer 28

writer - James Bond

Question 29

Alexander Flemming

Answer 29

penicillin - 1928

Question 30

John Macleod

Answer 30

insulin - 1923

Question 31

Sir Ian Wilmut

Answer 31

Dolly the sheep - 1996

Question 32

John Logie Baird

Answer 32

Scottish inventor - television 1st TV broadcast London & Glasgow - 1932

Question 33

Sir Tim Beners-Lee

Answer 33

World Wide Web - 1990

Question 34

Sir Peter Mansfield

Answer 34

co-inventor of the MRI

Question 35

Sir Robert Watson-Watt

Answer 35

radar - 1935

Question 36

Francis Crick

Answer 36

Nobel Prize winner for structure of the DNA

Question 37

Sir Roger Bannister

Answer 37

run a mile under 4 minutes

Question 38

Sir Steve Redgrave

Answer 38

rowing

Question 39

Sir Christopher Wren

Answer 39

St Paul's Cathedral

Question 40

Robert Adams

Answer 40

Scottish architect - influenced the Royal Crescent

Question 41

Sir Edwin Lutyens

Answer 41

Cenotaph in Whitehall

Question 42

Robert Luis Stevenson

Answer 42

Treasure Island Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Question 43

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 43

Sherlock Holmes

Question 44

Graham Greene

Answer 44

Our Man in Havana Brighton Rock The Honorary Consul

Question 45

Evelyn Waugh

Answer 45

Brideshead Revisited

Question 46

David Hume

Answer 46

Human science philosopher during the Enlightenment 18th century

Question 47

Ted Hughes

Question 48

Robert Burns

Answer 48

Scottish writer - Auld Lang Syne (Hongmanay) Wrote in Scots language 18th century

Question 49

Robert the Bruce

Answer 49

Scottish king leading the Battle of Bannockburn (1314) against Edward II

Question 50

James Watts

Answer 50

steam power inventor during the Enlightenment 18th century

Question 51

Richard Arkwright

Answer 51

carding machine - Industrial Revolution (18th and 19th century)

Question 52

Nick Park

Answer 52

Wallace and Gromit (Ealing Studios)

Question 53

Tilda Swinton

Answer 53

Oscar winner

Question 54

Roald Dahl

Answer 54

children's books - Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, BFG, James and the Giant Peach...

Question 55

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 55

Jungle Book

Question 56

Emmilie Pankhusrt

Answer 56

suffragette

Question 57

William Beveridge

Answer 57

economist Social Insurance and Allied Services - 1942

Question 58

Dylan Thomas

Answer 58

Welsh poet and writer from Swansea Under Milk Wood and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Question 59

RA Butler

Answer 59

Minister for Education Education Act 1944 - secondary

Question 60

Gilbert and Sullivan

Answer 60

comic opera - Mikado, HMS Pinafore and the Pirates of Penzance

Question 61

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 61

naval tradition captain against the Spanish Armada in 1588