QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

1. In Which London Street did the Great Fire of London break out in 1666?
Pudding Lane
2. In which building is the Kohinoor (pron. Co – E – Nor) Diamond kept?
The Tower of London
3. What London borough hosts an annual flower show?
Chelsea
4. What area of London did Jack the Ripper frequent?
Whitechapel
5. Which London museum is named after a Queen and her cousin?
Victoria and Albert museum
6. For which London building was the Marble Arch originally designed as a gateway?
Buckingham Palace
7. Which London Park would you be in to ride along Rotten Row?
Hyde Park
8. Which was the first main railway terminus to open in London?
Euston
9. What is the name of the London home of the Prince of Wales?
St James Palace
10. In which building in London will you find “The Whispering Gallery”?
St Paul’s Cathedral
11. In 1912, a statue of which J.M. Barrie hero was unveiled in London’s Kensington Gardens?
Peter Pan
12. Where in London will you find gates named after Margaret Thatcher?
Downing Street
13. In which London borough is the Royal Albert Hall?
Kensington
14. What is London’s most frequently stolen road sign?
Abbey Road
15. Outside which London railway station will you find an eight foot statue of Sherlock Holmes?
Baker Street underground railway station
16. Whose official residence is Fulham Palace?
Bishop of London
17. Which is the only London mainline rail terminus to share its name with a bridge over the Thames?
Waterloo
18. What London theatre boasted during WWII "We never closed"?
The Windmill
19. Name the only Bascule bridge in London?
Tower Bridge
20. Which TV character lived at 3 Stable Mews in the City of London?
John Steed in the Avengers

21. What is the name of the nearest forest to London?
Epping Forest
22. which London born actor played a boy adopted by Indians in the film the last of the Mohicans?
Daniel day Lewis
23. South Mimms and Clacket Lane are service areas on which British motorway?
M25 or London Orbital
24. What mode of transport ran in London for the last time in 1962?
The trolleybus
25. Born in London in 1947, how is the singer / actor David Albert Cook better known?
David Essex – his first single reached 3/1973 – ‘Rock on’)
26. Who founded his first “Mission For The Destitute” in London’s East End in 1867?
Thomas Barnado
27. Which motorway connects London to Winchester?
M3
28. Mincing Lane in London was traditionally the home of what trade?
Tea
29. Which 1981 film featured an isolated inn called The Slaughtered Lamb?
An American Werewolf In London
30. The Trolley Song by Ron Goodwin is the theme to the television coverage of which sporting event, held every April?
The London Marathon
31. According to the song, in which London thoroughfare did a Nightingale sing?
Berkeley Square
32. Where would you find the Lutine Bell?
Lloyds of London
33. In 1848, The London Daily News carried the worlds fist what?
Weather report
34. Which Hollywood star is now artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London?
Kevin Spacey
35. 51 what were destroyed by the Great fire of London?
Churches
36. Which area of London got its name from a hunting call?
Soho
37. The De Beaumont centre in London specialises in what sport?
Fencing
38. The first branch of which supermarket chain was a small dairy in London’s Drury Lane, opened in 1864?
Sainsbury’s
39. What took place on London’s Serpentine for the first time on 16th June 1930?
Mixed Bathing
40. In London what are The Cavalry, Marlborough and Savile?
Private Members Clubs