London Science

1. Which famous London scientist has a monument at the centre of the Elephant and Castle roundabout?

Michael Faraday

Humphry Davy

Rosalind Franklin

Charles Darwin

2. As well being among the most important scientists ever, Sir Isaac Newton also found time to serve in a very Londony role. What was it?

Chief Warden of Bedlam

Master of the Royal Mint

Bishop of London

Lord Mayor of London

3. Name the building that, among other institutions, contains the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Linnean Society and the Royal Geological Society.

Burlington House

Bush House

Fenton House

Somerset House

4. Benjamin Franklin is famous as both a scientist and a politician. Which of these mainline stations is closest to his old town house, now a museum?

Charing Cross

Liverpool Street

Waterloo

London Bridge

5. Which famous scientist recently gave up the role of head of the Royal Institution in Mayfair under acrimonious circumstances?

Lord Robert Winston

Prof. Monica Grady

Baroness Susan Greenfield

Prof. Brian cox

6. Name the scholar whose botanical specimens eventually formed the foundation for the Natural History Museum; who also invented milk chocolate; is featured on the Museum Tavern's pub sign; and whose name was also adopted by an area of London and its Tube station. (What a guy!)

Sir Michael Morden

Sir Malcolm Wembley

Sir Hans Sloane

Sir Hubert Kew

7. Sir Martin Rees is the current head of the Royal Society. What other prestigious scientific role does he play?

Chair of the Nobel Committee

Government's Chief Scientific Advisor

Lucasian Chair of Mathematics (Newton's former title)

Astronomer Royal

8. Which technology was first publicly demonstrated in the upstairs room of what is now Bar Italia on Frith Street?

Electric guitar

Holograms

Loudspeakers

Television

9. The Royal Society aren't the only ones celebrating a big birthday. How old was the Science Museum last year (the signs are still up)?

100

150

50

25

10. And a tough one to finish...physicist Leó Szilárd had a eureka moment while crossing the corner of Southampton Row and Russell Square. Which world-changing technology did his reverie lead to?

The microprocessor

The mobile telephone

The atom bomb

The contraceptive pill