Supernatural London

1. According to folklore, the eventual loss of which birds, kept at the Tower, will auger the downfall of London?

Emus

Ravens

Rooks

Magpies

2. Which devilish apparition, with incredible leaping powers and fierce red eyes, terrorised credulous Londoners in the mid-19th Century?

Leapfrog Sally

Jumping Jack Flash

The Bob Beamon Beast

Spring-heeled Jack

3. What improbable apparition is said to haunt the corner of St Mark's Road and Cambridge Gardens in Ladbroke Grove?

A spectral double-decker bus

The shade of Henry VIII

Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens

Jack the Ripper

4. If you were to dine at the Savoy in a group of 13, what prop would the superstitious serving staff place in the 14th chair?

The riding crop of Field Marshall Haig

Tony Hadley's Fabergé pineapple

A mirror with seven sides

A wooden cat named Kaspar

5. The ghost of which statesman is said to haunt Red Lion Square in Holborn?

Winston Churchill

Oliver Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell

James Purnell

6. Which cemetery gained a reputation for harbouring a vampire in the 1970s?

Kensal Green

Abney Park

Nunhead

Highgate

7. Which possibly Druidic item can be seen in a small grill set into a former bank on Cannon Street?

London Stone

The Head of Bran

The Eye of Thundera

The Sword of Brutus

8. Sir Francis Bacon, a 17th Century scientist-philosopher, once tried to stuff an animal with snow to demonstrate that food could be thus preserved. He subsequently died of pneumonia. Oddly, it's not his ghost that haunts Pond Square in Highgate, where the fatal experiment took place, but that of the stuffed animal. What type of creature was it?

A cat

A chicken

A lemming

A carp