United Kingdom

Question 1

Physician who described circulation of blood in 1628

Answer 1

William Harvey

Question 2

Author of Vanity Fair

Answer 2

William Thackeray

Question 3

Political philosopher; social contract theory; “Leviathan”

Answer 3

Thomas Hobbes

Question 4

French wife of Henry II; created the “Court of Love”

Answer 4

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question 5

Scottish discoverer of Penicillin

Answer 5

Alexander Fleming

Question 6

Baroque composer; “Dido and Aeneas”, “Te Deum and Jubilate”

Answer 6

Henry Purcell

Question 7

Philosopher; tabula rasa; “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”

Answer 7

John Locke

Question 8

Royal Navy Admiral and Caribbean pirate

Answer 8

Henry “Captain” Morgan

Question 9

First Prime Minister, 1721-1742; name-Townshend

Answer 9

Robert Warpole

Question 10

Forced to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215

Answer 10

King John

Question 11

Painter and printmaker; “A Harlot’s Progress”, “A Rake’s Progress”; “Gin Lane”

Answer 11

William Hogarth

Question 12

German-born astronomer who discovered Uranus in 1871

Answer 12

William Herschel

Question 13

Became youngest Prime Minister at 24 in 1783

Answer 13

William Pitt