London Politics

1. Margaret Thatcher represented which London constituency from 1959 to 1992?

Islington North

Westminster North

Twickenham

Finchley

2. What is Mayor Boris Johnson's full name?

Boris Herbert Morrison Johnson

Lucas Boris Hemplemann Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

Boris Munchausen Mickele Johnson

3. City Hall, the headquarters of the Greater London Authority and seat of the Mayor of London, near Tower Bridge was designed by which architect?

Norman Foster

Zaha Hadid

Richard Rogers

Nicholas Grimshaw

4. Not including the City of London, which has autonomic status, how many London Boroughs are there?

25

40

28

32

5. Westminster Bridge is painted green to reflect the nearby House of Commons. But which bridge is painted red, in honour of the Lords?

Waterloo

Lambeth

Vauxhall

Hungerford

6. Big Ben and its clock tower celebrated which anniversary last year?

200 years

100 years

150 years

300 years

7. Who went to the polls as Tory candidate in the first London Mayoral election in 2000?

Jeffrey Archer

Steven Norris

David Davis

Boris Johnson

8. Which popular mock elections, regularly held in Wandsworth in the 18th Century, attracted such candidates as Sir George Comefirst, Lord Twankum and Squire Blowmedown?

The Garrat elections

The Tyburn elections

The Bromley Hustings

The Edgware mayordom

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrat_Elections

Explanation

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrat_Elections

9. Which notorious parliamentarian is immortalised in statue (said to be London's only cross-eyed statue) on Fetter Lane.

Charles James Fox

John Wilkes

Lord George Gordon

Edmund Burke

10. After the destruction of the Commons Chamber by enemy action in 1941, where did the House of Commons meet until the chamber was rebuilt in 1950?

Westminster Hall

House of Lords Chamber

Methodist Central Hall

Westminster School