Name a famous British inventor or engineer
Our answer book holds 67 answers to “Name a famous British inventor or engineer”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. Most people go straight for James Watt, Alexander Graham Bell or Isambard Kingdom Brunel, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 10 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Your own interests are a good place to look: the odd thing you still remember is often rarer than you would guess. You will find it in stage 9, “Bright Sparks”, of the History mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- James Watt
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- George Stephenson
- Tim Berners-Lee
- John Logie Baird
- James Dyson
- Charles Babbage
- Alan Turing
- Michael Faraday
- Robert Stephenson
- Frank Whittle
- Richard Arkwright
- John Boyd Dunlop
- Ada Lovelace
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 67 we know. They score the least. The other 52, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 67 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 10 |
| THE CROWD | 15 |
| SOME | 19 |
| A FEW | 13 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 8 |
| ONLY YOU | 2 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.