London Characters

1. Street artist Banksy is widely associated with London, but where is his home town?

Clydebank

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Poole

Bristol

2. The following line would often appear in the Spectator to account for their absentee journalist, who was usually recovering from an epic Soho drinking session. The line was later used as the title of a play by Keith Waterhouse.

Fill in the blank: "Jeffrey Bernard is______"

Away

Unwell

Hungover

Sozzled

3. Which comedic Londoner gave his name to a local park (where he is buried), and is the subject of an annual sermon populated by clowns?

Dan Leno

Joseph Grimaldi

Edward Lear

Spike Milligan

4. Charles Byrne was famous for what physical attribute, which caused John Hunter to go to extreme lengths in acquiring his skeleton for display (still visible in the Hunterian Museum)?

Four arms

Extremely tall

Extremely short

Clawed hands

5. Where can you see the embalmed remains of philosopher, economist and general man-of-letters Jeremy Bentham?

Guy's Hospital

An alcove beneath Southwark Bridge

In the basement of Tate Britain

UCL cloisters

6. Phyllis Pearsall is celebrated as the creator of the A-Z map. What unusual method did she supposedly use to compile her street atlas of 23,000 streets?

'Borrowed' street plans from the walls of town halls

Personally walked every street