London At War

1. The Florence Nightingale Museum can be found at St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth. In which was did the Lady of the Lamp make her name?

First Anglo-Afghan War

Boer War

Crimean War

War of the Roses

2. Which Tube station suffered a fatal crush, killing 173 people, in 1943?

Bethnal Green

Heathrow Terminal 5

Bank

Tooting Broadway

3. How was the top secret transatlantic telephone room, from which Churchill made many calls to Roosevelt, disguised? (It can now be seen in the Churchill War Rooms.)

As a multifaith prayer room

As a police call box

As Churchill's private cigar store

As Churchill's private toilet

4. The first attack on London took place around 60 AD, when Queen Boudicca torched the nascent Roman city. Which of these ludicrous places is often touted as a potential burial site of the warrior queen?

Beneath Platform 10 of King's Cross Station

Beneath the BT Tower

Beneath the centre spot at Arsenal's former ground, Highbury

Beneath the aviary at London Zoo

5. What was the original purpose of the building now housing the Imperial War Museum, in Lambeth?

A banjo shop

The Royal Barracks

Private house of the Churchill family

Bedlam Hospital

6. The Napoleonic Wars never directly touched London. But where can you see Napoleon Bonaparte's toothbrush?

Apsley House

In a glass panel beneath the statue of Wellington, at Bank

Wellcome Collection

Eastman Dental Hospital

7. In 1642, Charles I marched on London in an attempt to regain the capital from Parliamentary forces. At which West London battle was he repulsed, with barely a shot being fired?

The Battle of Richmond

The Battle of Turnham Green

The Battle of Twickenham

The Battle of Stamford Bridge