Famous Brits

Question 1

John Logie Baird

Answer 1

television

Question 2

Robert Watson Watt

Answer 2

radar

Question 3

Bernard Lovell

Answer 3

astronomy

Question 4

Alan Turing

Answer 4

Turing machine

Question 5

John Macleod

Answer 5

insulin

Question 6

Francis Crick

Answer 6

DNA molecular structure

Question 7

Frank Whittle

Answer 7

jet engine

Question 8

Christopher Cockerell

Answer 8

hovercraft

Question 9

James Goodfellow

Answer 9

ATMs

Question 10

Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

Answer 10

IVF

Question 11

Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell

Answer 11

cloning

Question 12

Peter Mansfield

Answer 12

MRI

Question 13

Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 13

WWW

Question 14

Mary Peters

Answer 14

olympian for pentathlon

Question 15

Dylan Thomas

Answer 15

poet and writer. Under Milkwood and Do Not Go Gentle

Question 16

Richard Butler

Answer 16

Education Act. Free secondary school.

Question 17

William Beveridge

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economist and social reformer. 1942 Beveridge report.

Question 18

Alexander Fleming

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penicillin

Question 19

Ernest Rutherford

Answer 19

first to split the atom

Question 20

George and Robert Stephenson

Answer 20

railway engine

Question 21

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Answer 21

engineer

Question 22

Richard Ackwright

Answer 22

carding machine for textiles

Question 23

Francis Drake

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admiral in Spanish Armada and Golden Hind

Question 24

Henry Purcell

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an organist at Westminster Abbey

Question 25

George Frederick Handel

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Composer. Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

Question 26

Gustav Holst

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composer. The Planets

Question 27

Edward Elgar

Answer 27

composer. Pomp and Circumstance.

Question 28

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Answer 28

composer. traditional english folk

Question 29

William Walton

Answer 29

composer. film scores to opera. wrote marches for the coronation of King George VI and Elizabeth II. Facade and Belshazzar's Feast.

Question 30

Benjamin Britten

Answer 30

composer. operas. Peter Grime and Billy Budd. Founded the Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk.