London Calling
1 In which London cemetery is Karl Marx buried?
2 What CC is traditionally considered to be the location of the centre of London?
3 In the 70th anniversary London edition of the board game Monopoly what replaced the four railway stations?
4 Which London power station is depicted on the front cover of the Pink Floyd album, Animals?
5 Which building opened in London in 1997 and became the first thatched roofed building to be permitted in London since the Great Fire of 1666?
6 Who penned the autobiographical novel Martin Eden?
7 What do London cabbies refer to as, the gasworks?
8 How many capsules are there on the London Eye?
9 Which author recounted his experiences living as a vagrant in the book Down and Out in Paris and London?
10 Which London attraction was sub-divided into zones including Body, Work, Journey, Faith and Talk?
11 Who said, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”?
12 Which car manufacturer shares its name with a London bridge?
13 What did the Great Fire of London destroy 87 of?
14 Which royal residence was built in the Mall in the 1820s?
15 What are the names of the eight royal parks of London?
Which London buildings are found at the following addresses?
1 1 Canada Square
2 60 Cleveland Street, Camden
3 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge
4 No 1 London
5 Argyll Street, WIV 1AD
6 St Johns Wood, grid reference TQ 268827
7 Threadneedle Street, EC2R 8AH
8 Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
9 30 St Mary Axe
10 Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ
Answers
1 Highgate
2 Charing Cross
3 London’s four airports
4 Battersea Power Station
5 The Modern Globe Theatre
6 Jack London
7 Houses of Parliament
8 32
9 George Orwell
10 Millennium Dome
11 Samuel Johnson
12 Vauxhall
13 Parish churches
14 Clarence House
15 Green, St James’s, Hyde, Kensington Gardens, Regents, Greenwich, Richmond,
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Answers to addresses
1 Canary Wharf Tower
2 BT Tower
3 Harrods
4 Apsley House
5 London Palladium
6 Lord’s
7 Bank of England
8 Victoria & Albert Museum
9 Swiss Re Tower also known as the Gherkin
10 Imperial War Museum