True Brits

1 Who, born in Bedfordshire, was taught to stammer by Glenn Mervyn, a skill he used to great effect in a popular TV sitcom?

2 Who, born in Bedfordshire, founded a brewery whilst serving as an MP, a brewery that still operates in the present day?

3 Who, born in Berkshire, is the youngest ever actress to be nominated for four Academy awards, receiving her fourth nomination at the age of 29?

4 Who, born in Berkshire, recorded the albums QE2 AND Earth Moving?

5 Who, born in Buckinghamshire, pens the Discworld series of sci-fi novels?

6 Who, born in Buckinghamshire, with the middle names of Miles Bindon was knighted in 1994?

7 Who, born in Cambridgeshire, sang Long Live Love representing the UK in Eurovision?

8 Who, born in Cambridgeshire, narrated the 2005 film version of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

9 Who, born in Cheshire, has a statue in Llandudno of a white rabbit dedicated to his memory?

10 Who, born in Cheshire, became the youngest player in 2002 to captain England’s soccer international team since Bobby Moore?

11 Who, born in Cornwall, was cast adrift by his mutinous crew on the HMS Bounty?

12 Who, born in Cornwall, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983?

13 Who, born in Cumbria, had the real name of Arthur Stanley Jefferson?

14 Who, born in Cumbria, penned the poem Tintern Abbey?

15 Who, born in Derbyshire, voiced the Mr Men cartoons on TV?

16 Who, born in Derbyshire, co-starred with his first wife Cheryl Hall in the TV comedy Citizen Smith?

17 Who, born in Devon, penned several novels under the nom de plume of Mary Westmacott?

18 Who, born in Devon, was buried at sea in 1596 in a lead coffin off the coast of Panama?

19 Who, born in Dorset, was knighted on December 31, 2004 for his services to rowing?

20 Who, born in Dorset, had his ashes buried at Westminster Abbey and his heart buried in the village of Stinsford?

21 Who, born in Durham, attended Jarrow Grammar School and had a 1974 hit with The Jarrow Song?

22 Who, born in Durham, has on TV played the wife of Geoffrey Palmer, the wife of Richard Coleman and the mother of Nicholas Lyndhurst?

23 Who, born in Essex, has played Simon in Eastenders, Nick in Heartbeat and Mike in Harbour Lights?

24 Who, born in Essex, cancelled his TV show after a participant called Michael Lush was killed in a bungee jump stunt?

25 Who, born in Hampshire, topped the charts in 1971 with a song that featured a horse called Trigger?

26 Who, born in Hampshire, was the first man to feature on the front cover of Playboy magazine?

27 Who, born in Kent, is a chart topping artist who once confessed that he preferred a nice cup of tea to sex?

28 Who, born in Kent, was named as the father of an illegitimate child born to Brazilian TV personality Luciana Gimenez in 1999?

29 Who, born in Lancashire, embarked on a UK tour known as Mum Wants a Bungalow Tour?

30 Who, born in Lancashire, is a knighted actor who co-founded the gay rights lobby group Stonewall?

31 Who, born in Leicestershire, won the Golden Boot award at the 1986 soccer World Cup?

32 Who, born in Leicestershire, played King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

33 Who, born in Lincolnshire, was a famous scientist and noted cat lover credited with inventing the cat flap?

34 Who, born in Lincolnshire, was once described by Ronald Reagan as “The best man in England”?

35 Who, born in Norfolk, enjoyed an infamous illicit affair with the wife of diplomat Sir William Hamilton?

36 Who, born in Norfolk, co-founded the Association for the Improvement of Female Prisoners?

37 Who, born in Northamptonshire, died horseless at Bosworth Field?

38 Who, born in Northamptonshire, was famed for his research into DNA structure and became the subject of a statue in Northampton in 2005?

39 Who, born in Northumberland, connects the TV shows Casualty, Soldier Soldier and Rhinoceros?

40 Who, born in Northumberland, had her first novel entitled Kate Hannigan published in 1950?

41 Who, born in Nottinghamshire, once described EM Forster as “The greatest, imaginative novelist of our generation”?

42 Who, born in Nottinghamshire, died whilst filming the TV sitcom Bloomers?

43 Who, born in Oxfordshire, was stripped of his OBE in 1987 after receiving a jail term for tax evasion?

44 Who, born in Oxfordshire, competed in the University Boat Race in 1980 and went on to become a well known actor?

45 Who, born in Shropshire, was the first footballer to be capped 100 times for England?

46 Who, born in Shropshire, penned a volume of books entitled Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle?

47 Who, born in Staffordshire, recorded the 2005 album Intensive Care?

48 Who, born in Staffordshire, wrote the book The Compleat Angler?

49 Who, born in Suffolk, was a knighted actor who married Aileen Raymond and Mary Hayley Bell?

50 Who, born in Suffolk, painted The Blue Boy?

51 Who, born in Surrey, narrated Roobarb and Custard?

52 Who, born in Surrey, shocked her legion of fans by appearing topless in the film S.O.B?

53 Who, born in Sussex, penned the autobiography I Don’t Mean to be Rude But…?

54 Who, born in Sussex, created the comic characters of Loadsamoney and Bugger-All- Money?

55 Who, born in Warwickshire, connects the TV shows Solo and Rosemary and Thyme?

56 Who, born in Warwickshire, was a famous poet that died in 1915 and is the subject of a statue in the town of Rugby?

57 Who, born in Wiltshire, was appointed President of the Royal Society in 1680?

58 Who, born in Wiltshire, played the girlfriend of Orlando Bloom in the film The Calcium Kid?

59 Who, born in Yorkshire, starred in the film Sexy Beast and received a knighthood in 2001?

60 Who, born in Yorkshire, is the mother of the actress Finty Williams?

Answers to True Brits

1 Ronnie Barker
2 Samuel Whitbread
3 Kate Winslet
4 Mike Oldfield
5 Terry Pratchett
6 Tim Rice
7 Olivia Newton John
8 Stephen Fry
9 Lewis Carroll
10 Michael Owen
11 William Bligh
12 William Golding
13 Stan Laurel
14 William Wordsworth
15 Arthur Lowe
16 Robert Lindsay
17 Agatha Christie
18 Francis Drake
19 Matthew Pinsent
20 Thomas Hardy
21 Alan Price
22 Wendy Craig
23 Nick Berry
24 Noel Edmonds
25 Benny Hill
26 Peter Sellers
27 Boy George
28 Mick Jagger
29 Peter Kay
30 Ian McKellen
31 Gary Lineker
32 Graham Chapman
33 Isaac Newton
34 Margaret Thatcher
35 Horatio Nelson
36 Elizabeth Fry
37 Richard III
38 Francis Crick
39 Robson Green
40 Catherine Cookson
41 DH Lawrence
42 Richard Beckinsale
43 Lester Piggott
44 Hugh Laurie
45 Billy Wright
46 Charles Darwin
47 Robbie Williams
48 Izaak Walton
49 John Mills
50 Thomas Gainsborough
51 Richard Briers
52 Julie Andrews
53 Simon Cowell
54 Harry Enfield
55 Felicity Kendal
56 Rupert Brooke
57 Christopher Wren
58 Billie Piper
59 Ben Kingsley
60 Judi Dench