Spring 2018

OFAS SPRING 2018 QUIZ
How much do you know
about our capital city?
Answer these questions and email your answers to
alan@ofas.org.uk for a chance to win a £50.00 store
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1 What colour will you get if you mix the Circle Line with the
Piccadily Line?
2 How many lions guard Nelson’s Column?
3 Where in London were the first escalators installed in 1898?
4 Who said ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life: for
there is in London all that life can afford’?
5 Which is the busiest London Underground Station?
6 Fenchurch Street, Liverpool Street, Kings Cross,... what
completes this set?
7 What starts at 21:53 every night?
8 Which author gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great
Ormond Street Hospital?
9 Who did Michael Fagan famously wake up in London in July
1982?
10 The London skyscraper called 30 St Mary Axe is also known by
which nickname?
11 Which famous architect designed the glass covering of The
Great Court in the British Museum?
12 What tube line is Grange Hill station on?
13 Which famous woman was born at 17 Bruton Street, W1?
14 Which famous 18th century London writer had a cat called
“Hodge”?
15 One of the capital’s most infamous figures is Jack the Ripper. In
which decade did he carry out his murders?
16 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, is another world-famous Londoner.
But how many biological children does he have?
17 In cabbie lingo, what is a “Churchill”?
18 This south London memorial commemorates which event of
1988?
19 Where in London were the conspirators of ‘The Babbington Plot’
hung, drawn and quartered?
20 Out of the 287 underground stations, which one doesn’t have
any letters from the word ‘mackerel’ in it?
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