97 London Trivia Questions For Those Who Love The English

1. Which of these is a major road junction in south London?

2. Westfield shopping center in Shephered Bush was opened in which year?

3. Which river runs through the city of London, England?

4. How long does it take for the London Eye to rotate?

5. In which county can one find London Luton Airport?

6. Borough Market was opened in which year?

1. Marble Arch underpass has how many exits?

2. What are you entering in London if you drive over a large C in a circle on the road?

3. Which street in London takes its name from a croquet like game once played by Charles I ?

4. In 1936 which organization established its headquarters at London's Alexandra Palace?

5. How many people per year visit the London Eye?

6. From the 1660s to the 1960s, what sort of wholesale market was situated at Covent Garden in London?

1. In 1991, which London building was fired at and damaged by 3 IRA mortar bombs?

2. Which part of London would you most associate with opera?

3. In which direction does the M2 motorway go from London?

4. In 18th century London, what were 'mohocks'?

5. Lambeth Palace was built in which year?

6. In what year did Waterloo Bridge first open?

1. In Cockney rhyming slang, which part of your body is your 'Barnet'?

2. What famous London address is located at postcode SW1A 2AA?

3. What street does the Prime Minister live?

4. In which London Park is Round Pond situated?

5. When were the Houses of Parliament rebuilt in London?

6. What decade did the last execution at Tower of London take place?

1. In what year did Vauxhall Bridge first open?

2. In relation to London, where does Stansted Airport lie?

3. What London Borough is the smallest in terms of size?

4. At which London palace will the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge set up home?

5. In which area of London does a Caribbean carnival take place every August?

6. The Thames Barrier was built in which year?

1. Which London street does one associate with the 1960s fashion scene?

2. Which of the phone numbers is not a London code?

3. What is unique about the new bridge in London that is proposed to open in 2016?

4. In what year did London get the 0203 dialling code, as it has run out of the previous codes?

5. At which London palace was Henry VIII born?

6. Which of these London districts lies furthest north?

1. Which London museum should you visit if you want to see the life size Diplodocus dinosaur cast?

2. On which Tube line is Mornington Crescent?

3. Back in the 1700s, who was the first tenant of 25 Brook Street, London?

4. Which of these is a London landmark?

5. Which London tourist attraction was ravaged by a fire in May 2007?

6. On which London street is The Ritz Hotel?

1. How any Kilometers does the London Tube network stretch too?

2. What bridge is next to the Houses of Parliament?

3. What color is the Victoria line on the London Underground?

4. Which London landmark was described in 1893 as 'a striking contrast to the dull ugliness of our street sculpture'?

5. What is the final stop on the Piccadilly Tube Line travelling east?

6. Hamley's Toy Store was opened to the public in which year?

1. What bridge leads to The Houses of Parliament?

2. What was London's Millennium Dome renamed to?

3. Buckingham Palace was opened to the public in which year?

4. How many times did Ken Livingstone get elected as Mayor of London?

5. Which district of London is so named because it was once the site of a forge?

6. The Great Plague of London occured over which years?

1. Which of these is NOT in London?

2. What's the name of the police tactic that was controversially used at the G20 protests in London in 2009?

3. In which London location was the first Monsoon store opened in the 1970s?

4. Leicester Square was built in what year?

5. Which London Underground Station used to be called Great Central?

6. Which word was used to describe London, as epitomised in Carnaby Street, in the 1960s?

1. In 2011, it was calculated that the US Embassy owed how much in unpaid Congestion Zone charges?

2. What color is the Jubilee Line on the tube map?

3. Charlie Chaplin was born in London in which year?

4. Which international road race held a stage between London and Canterbury in July 2007?

5. In 1990, which 'Tory tax' provoked the worst rioting in London for a century?

6. Who did Londoners elect in 2007 to stand for the Tory party at the 2008 London Mayoral elections?

1. In what year did Southwark Bridge first open?

2. Which of these London landmarks is situated on the South Bank of the Thames?

3. The Tate Modern was opened in which year?

4. Where in London is Nelson´s column?

5. In which park is London Zoo situated?

6. How many faces has the clock on Big Ben's tower?

1. Which London airport has 5 terminals?

2. What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730?

3. Which museum's collection was founded on that of Sir Hans Sloane?

4. In London, along which edge of St.James' Park does Birdcage Walk run?

5. What color is the District Line on a London Underground map?

6. Who designed the iconic London Tube Map?

1. In what year did the Notting Hill Carnival first take place?

2. In December 1962, what was responsible for the death of 60 Londoners in just 3 days?

3. In what year was The Strand Tube Station closed?

4. What is the nickname given to the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament?

5. In what year did the Great Plague srike London?

6. Which of these a London Underground line?

1. Where in London is the Royal Opera House?

2. Which government department has its own HQ in Queen Anne's Gate?

3. Until 1529, what was the main London residence of the Kings of England?

4. How many years did it take to build The Shard in London?

5. In 1970s London, Balcombe Street and the Spaghetti House in Knightsbridge, were in the news as locations for what?

6. In London, which bridge over the Thames does the A301 run over?

1. What's the colloquial name for London's Underground system?

2. What's the name of the famous children's hospital that opened in London in 1852?

3. Dying in London in 2006, whose last words were 'The bastards got me but they won't get everybody'?

4. Which 'street' in London takes its name from the ornamental collars once made by the  17th century tailor Robert Baker?

5. What color are all of London's buses?

6. In Cockney rhyming slang, what are 'mince pies'?

1. In what year was Brompton Road Tube Station closed?