Download 6. Quiz 1. Which famous playwright killed an actor in a duel in

6. Quiz
1. Which famous playwright killed an actor in a duel in Hoxton in 1589?
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. William Shakespeare
c. Ben Johnson
2. What number London bus does Cliff Richard drive across Europe in the full-colour
film musical Summer Holiday?
a. 9 to Piccadilly
b. 35 to Clapham
c. 8 to Bow
3. Which of the following is a piece of classical music by the Australian composer Percy
Grainger?
a. Brahms in Bloomsbury
b. Handel in the Strand
c. Mozart in Mayfair
4. Which London theatre was built on a difficult site that included an underground
river?
a. Lyric Hammersmith
b. Sadler’s Wells
c. The Garrick
5. What stood on the site of St. James Palace in Pall Mall before Henry VIII built a new
royal residence there in the 1530s?
a. A home for penitent prostitutes
b. A leper hospital
c. An abbey church
6. What kind of ghost allegedly once haunted the streets of Ladbroke Grove?
a. A phantom red bus
b. A ghostly bear
c. An Egyptian mummy
7. Since 1820, what has a sailor done each Good Friday at the Widow’s Son pub in Bow?
a. Rung the Bow Bell which is kept behind the bar
b. Blown a candle out to commemorate the crucifixion
c. Placed a hot cross bun in a basket hanging from the ceiling
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8. According to a survey, what percentage of the capital’s teenagers went to church each
week during the war?
a. One
b. Ten
c. Fifty
9. Which famous French writer’s stay in London is commemorated by a plaque in
Maiden Lane?
a. Arthur Rimbaud
b. Voltaire
c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
10. Where in London can Sir Paul Pindar’s house be found?
a. Holborn
b. South Kensington
c. Bishopsgate
11. The Thames Tunnel was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Where did it run?
a. From Wapping to Rotherhithe
b. From Rotherhithe to Limehouse
c. From Pimlico to Vauxhall
12. What was the name of Mary Quant’s first boutique on the King’s Road?
a. Bizarre
b. Bazaar
c. Chelsea Girl
13. In the monument to John Stow in the church of St. Andrew Undershaft what does
the sixteenth-century historian of London hold in his right hand?
a. A quill pen
b. A Bible
c. A cross
14. At which London station did Queen Victoria arrive on her first train journey in
1842?
a. Victoria
b. Baker Street
c. Paddington
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15. In the 1830s, which classic London square was initially designed by the Jewish-born
architect George Basevi?
a. Belgrave Square
b. Berkeley Square
c. Brunswick Square
16. What ‘first’ opened in Portman Square in 1810?
a. The first department store
b. The first theatre to be lit by gaslight
c. The first Indian restaurant in London
17. Which department store in Holborn, now closed, was known as ‘The People’s
Popular Emporium’?
a. Swan & Edgar
b. Bon Marché
c. Gamages
18. Which famous actress is depicted in a statue on the south side of Paddington Green
facing the Marylebone flyover?
a. Sarah Siddons
b. Ellen Terry
c. Edith Evans
19. What was the so-called ‘Fatal Vespers’ that occurred in Blackfriars on 5 November
1623?
a. An accident in the French ambassador’s house that killed ninety-five Catholics
b. A sword fight between Catholics and Protestants in which several people were killed
c. A fire in the Blackfriars Theatre which resulted in the deaths of two actors
20. For what type of artwork was Mortlake famous in the seventeenth century?
a. Pottery
b. Tapestry
c. Miniature painting
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