Which portrait and landscape painter's (1727-88) works include 'Mr and Mrs Andrews' and 'The Blue Boy'?
Which Victorian is the only man to have been Prime Minister four times?
'The Revenge' fought 53 Spanish ships alone for twelve hours at Flores (Azores) in 1591. Who was her Captain and Vice-Admiral?
Which Major-General was killed at the siege of Khartoum during the Mahdist War in 1885?
Who was the RAF Wing Commander 1918-44 who led 617 Squadron in the 'Dambusters' raid in Germany 1943?
Which 'rags to riches' actress 1650-87 became mistress to Charles II bearing two him sons?
Which Victorian author of society divisions wrote the novels 'Mary Barton', 'Cranford' and 'North and South'?
Which author 1904–1991 wrote the novels 'The Power and the Glory', 'The Third Man' and 'Our Man in Havana'?
Which poet and novelist 1895-1985 wrote 'Good-Bye to All That', 'I, Claudius' and 'King Jesus'?
Which Elizabethan mariner 1539-83 was half-brother of Walter Raleigh and a pioneer of the settlement of North America?
What name is commonly given to the King of England killed at the Battle of Hastings 1066?
40 editions of which anatomist and surgeon's book 'Anatomy' have been published since the first in 1858?
Who was the uncrowned 'nine day queen' of England 1553 and executed 1554?
Who wrote 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' published in six volumes 1776-88?
Which novelist wrote 'Lord of the Flies' and 'Rites of Passage', the first book of his sea trilogy 'To the Ends of the Earth'?
Which Prime Minister of the UK 1830-34 has a variety of tea named after him?
Who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan to write comic operas such as 'HMS Pinafore' and 'The Pirates of Penzance'?
Which actor 1914-2000 appeared in the films 'The Bridge on the River Kwai', 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Star Wars'?
Which mostly stage actor and theatre director 1904-2000 was famous for his portrayal of 'Hamlet' and knighted in 1953?
Who was the notorious and hated favourite of Edward II captured and executed by the Earl of Lancaster in 1312?
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