The London Quiz - with Learning Links

The Romans established London. When?
(BC = before Christ. AD = Anno Domini "in the year of our Lord." Years are counted from the traditional date of the birth of Christ])
1. AD43
2. 43BC
3. 34BC
4. AD34
What did the Romans call London?
1. Londres
2. Londinium
3. Themisis
4. Thameside
When did the Normans arrive?
1. 1565
2. 1165
3. 966
4. 1066
What's the name of the castle or fort the Normans built in London?
1. Tour Eiffel
2. Tower of London
3. Windsor Castle
4. London Eye
What was the year of the Great Plague, the disease that killed 1000's of Londoners?
1. 1665
2. 1666
3. 1555
4. 1999
What was the year of the Fire of London, which destroyed most of the city and eliminated the plague?
1. 1556
2. 1666
3. 1655
4. 2008
Which monument or building commemorates the Fire of London?
1. Monument
2. Nelson's Column
3. The Cenotaph
4. Mansion House
Who was Samuel Pepys?
1. a Prime Minister
2. a revolutionary
3. a diarist
4. a lexicographer
Who was Dick Whittington?
1. King of England
2. Lord Mayor of London
3. An anti-monarchist who was imprisoned in the Tower
4. A randy actor from the Globe Theatre
Who was Christopher Wren?
1. a political prisoner in the Tower
2. Lord Mayor of London
3. an architect
4. a diarist
What year was the Great Exhibition held, which had been conceived by Prince Albert?
1. 1800
2. 1851
3. 1823
4. 1900
If you visited "Number One, London", where would you be?
1. Buckingham Palace
2. National Gallery
3. Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly
4. Apsley House
What was "The Great Stink"?
1. a disgusting smell of sewerage from the river Thames in the 19th century
2. the name of a famous pub near Westminster Bridge
3. an ancient organisation whose members refused to wash more than once a year
4. the smell from the back of restaurants in London.
The world's first TV broadcast was made from Alexander Palace. Which year?
1. 1911
2. 1936, a few years before the Second World War
3. 1945, just after the Second World War
4. 1959
Who built St. Paul's Cathedral?
1. Christopher Wren
2. Samuel Pepys
3. Dick Whittington
4. Gordon Brown
There is a small statue of a child who never grew up in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park. What's his name?
1. Christopher Robin
2. Peter Pan
3. Adrian Mole
4. Harry Potter
Which London Square has statues of both Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln?
1. Trafalgar Square
2. Piccadilly Circus
3. Parliament Square
4. Leicester Square
A famous but unpopular Duke is on top of a very tall column just off the Mall. Who is he?
1. Duke of Edinburgh
2. Geoff Duke
3. Duke of York
4. Duke of Argyll
Approximately how many tourists stand in front of Buckingham Palace every day?
1. fewer than 100
2. more than one million
3. 200,000
4. 600,000
Where is the Cenotaph, Britain's National War Memorial?
1. Embankment
2. Piccadilly Circus
3. Whitehall
4. Sloane Square
Which bridge over the Thames was pulled down in 1970 and transported, piece by piece, to Arizona in the United States?
1. Chelsea Bridge
2. Tower Bridge
3. Putney Bridge
4. London Bridge
What is the name of the church in Covent Garden Piazza, often associated with Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl in George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion", and later in the musical film, "My Fair Lady"?
1. St Barthomew's
2. St Gabriel's
3. St Paul's
4. St Edwin's
Where can you see a statue of Charlie Chaplin, the famous actor born in East London, who became famous in the United States?
1. Piccadilly Circus
2. Leicester Square
3. East Street
4. West Street
What is the name of the famous ship now permanently docked in Greenwich which mysteriously caught fire in May 2007?
1. Cutty Sark
2. Thermoplylae
3. Queen Elizabeth
4. Britannia
On the South Bank of the River Thames is Battersea Power Station. Who designed it?
Clue: the same person also designed Britain's famous red telephone box!
1. Gordon Brown
2. Robert Adam
3. Christopher Wren
4. Charles Gilbert Scott
There is a famous World War II battleship permanently moored on the River Thames, near Tower Bridge. What is its name?
1. Bismark
2. Belfast
3. Arc Royal
4. Belgrano
The MI6 Building, which houses Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is next to which London bridge?
1. Vauxhall
2. Chelsea
3. Westminster
4. Hammersmith
Which Palace on the south bank of the Thames is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
1. Greenwich
2. Buckingham
3. Hampton Court
4. Lambeth
Off the Strand, which beautiful building, once a palace and now a museum, hosts public Ice Skating from late November to January every year?
1. Buckingham Palace
2. Somerset House
3. Tower of London
4. Savoy Hotel
What's the name of the world's most famous bascule bridge, designed by Sir John Wolfe Barry?
1. Golden Gate
2. Tower Bridge
3. London Eye
4. QE2 Bridge

The London Quiz - with Learning Links

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