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Question 1

Dame Kelly Holmes

Answer 1

2 gold medal 2004 Olympics, running

Question 2

David Hume

Answer 2

Developed Human-nature ideas

Question 3

Harold McMillan

Answer 3

Prime minister during decolonization, Wind of Change speech

Question 4

Clement Attlee

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‘45-‘51 PM of Labour; welfare state

Question 5

William Beveridge

Answer 5

PM Liberal, 5 evils, Beveridge Report made basis for welfare state

Question 6

R.A. Butler

Answer 6

MP Tory, Education Act 1944 for free education in Eng and Wales

Question 7

Dylan Thomas

Answer 7

Welsh poet, Under Milk Wood, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Question 8

Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon

Answer 8

Soldiers who wrote their memories of WWI

Question 9

John Constable

Answer 9

Landscape painter, works in Dedham Vale & Suffolk-Essex border

Question 10

Mary Quant, Alex McQueen

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fashion designers

Question 11

Kingsley Amish

Answer 11

eng novelist and poet, wrote Lucky Jim

Question 12

Ellen McArthur

Answer 12

sailor

Question 13

Dame Mary Peters

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gold medal pentathlon 1972, made Dame in 2000

Question 14

Ellie Simmonds

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gold paralympian swimmer

Question 15

Frank Whittle

Answer 15

invented jet engine

Question 16

Frank Launder

Answer 16

movie director, Belles of St Trinians

Question 17

Baroness Tanny Grey-Thompson

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paralympian, wheelchair racing

Question 18

William Woldsworth

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writer, Daffodil

Question 19

Nick Park

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academy winner director, Wallace & Gromit

Question 20

William Wilberforce

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politician

Question 21

Francis Crick

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nobel prize for discovering DNA structure

Question 22

Ian Botham

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cricket, english team captain

Question 23

David Hockney

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pop painter, artist

Question 24

Sir Francis Chichester & Sir Robin Know-Johnston

Answer 24

sailors

Question 25

Thomas Gainsborough

Answer 25

portrait painter, people in countryside or garden scenery

Question 26

GF Haendel

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Composer, wrote Messiah for easter celebrations

Question 27

Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean

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ice skaters

Question 28

Robert Adam

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scottish architect, Dumfries House

Question 29

John Logie Baird

Answer 29

scotsman, invented TV. 1932 first broadcast between london and glasgow

Question 30

Robert Watson-Watt

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scotsman, invented radar 1935

Question 31

Alan Turing

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mathematician, invented Turing machine in 1936

Question 32

John McLeod

Answer 32

scotsman, invented insulin medication

Question 33

Sir Christopher Cockrell

Answer 33

invented hovercraft

Question 34

James Goodfellow

Answer 34

invented ATMs

Question 35

Sir Robert Edwards

Answer 35

invented in-vitro fertilization

Question 36

Ian Wilmot & Keith Campbell

Answer 36

cloned the sheep Dolly

Question 37

Sir Peter Mansfield

Answer 37

co-invented MRI scan

Question 38

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 38

invented the world wide web

Question 39

Roahl Dahl

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welsh writer

Question 40

Sir Richard Arkwkright

Answer 40

leading entrepreneur, inventor, employed mechanization in production, ran his factories very efficiently

Question 41

Benjamin Britten

Answer 41

composer, A young persons guide to the orchestra, Billy Budd, Peter grimes are some of his tunes

Question 42

Tony Blair

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labour PM when Scottish and Welsh parliaments were created.

Question 43

Kingdom Isambard Brunel

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engineer, made the great western railway

Question 44

Laurence Olivier

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actor, did lots of Shakespeare plays. Gave name to the Olivier Awards.

Question 45

Ian McEwan, Hillary Mantel, Julian Barnes

Answer 45

Writers who all won Man Booker Prize for fiction

Question 46

Henry Purcell

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Organist of Westminster, composer

Question 47

Gustav Holst

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Composer, wrote The Planets, about solar system

Question 48

Roland Joffe

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Director, made The killing Fields

Question 49

David Lean

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Director, made Brief Encounters

Question 50

Sir Walter Scott

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Poet who wrote about Scotland and it's stories, and stories about border between Scotland and england

Question 51

Evelyn Waugh

Answer 51

Wrote satyrical novels, Brideshead Revisited

Question 52

Sake dean mahomet

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Opened first curry house in uk

Question 53

Sir Terence Conran

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Interior designer

Question 54

Thomas chippendale

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Furniture designer

Question 55

Michael newell

Answer 55

4 weddings and a funeral director

Question 56

Sir Edward Elgar

Answer 56

Musician, Pomp and Circumstance Marches.

Question 57

Sir Roger Bannister

Answer 57

Runner, first man in world to run a mile in less the 4 minutes, 1954