Top London Quizzes & Trivia

When it comes to history there are few cities in the world that come anywhere near close matching London. Whether it’s theater in the West End, the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, the wealth of historic buildings or its legendary sporting venues, London has it all.

It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to asking you questions. Can you tell us which sport you’d be watching if you supported the Hammers? In which year was the World Cup Final held at Wembley Stadium? When was Buckingham Palace built?

Who was responsible for the designing of Westminster Abbey and who’s that politician with the terrible hair who is the Mayor of London? We’re sure you will love taking our quizzes about the city of London. So if you know your Marble Arch from your Strand, can work out which underground line you need to get to Wood Green or follow one of the many sporting teams in the city, it’s time to test your knowledge.

London Questions and Answers

Statues of which mythical beasts guard the boundary of the City of London?

Dragons

Unicorns

Borribles

Giants

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Who sang about a bench in Soho Square, and is now commemorated with just that - a bench in Soho Square?

Kirsty MacColl

Nat King Cole

Ella Fitzgerald

Dick van Dyke

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Which unusual item of street furniture is commemorated in the names of five West End pubs?

The Crimson Mailbox

The Red Rails

The Blue Posts

The Tartan Pillar Box

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Whose house in Lincolns Inn Fields contains paintings by Hogarth and Canaletto, the sarcophagus of Seti I and countless other curiosities?

Nicholas Soames

Hans Sloane

John Soane

Joss Stone

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On the other side of Lincolns Inn, youll find the Hunterian Museum. What is its focus?

Surgical history

Mathematical apparatus

The history of gamekeeping

Artefacts from the legal professions

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London contains any number of small, niche museums. Which of the following is NOT to be found in the capital.

A dog-collar museum

A museum of sewing machines

A fan museum

A museum of garden history

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Which popular animal died in The Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street in 1926, prompting worldwide obituaries in over 200 newspapers?

Felix the 'mesmeric' cat

Rizzo the Victorian rat

Polly the 'foul-mouthed' parrot

Marx the 'communist' rabbit

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The Blue Posts is a name shared by no fewer than five West End pubs. To what does the name refer?

In Georgian London, places where one could hire a sedan chair. A bit like a modern taxi rank.

Sites of Victorian water pumps.

Boundary markers of the original Soho hunting grounds.

Popular meeting points for Tories under the second Peel administration.

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Which famous man connected with the film industry owns the Punch Bowl pub in Mayfair?

Jude Law

Richard Curtis

Guy Ritchie

Woody Allen

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The first manned balloon flight in England, by Vincenzo Lunardi on 15 September 1784, took off from which London location?

Greenwich Park

The grounds of Buckingham House (now Palace)

The artillery ground in Moorfields (now the Honourable Artillery Company)

Primrose Hill

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Who painted this sky-filled canvas of Westminster and Lambeth?

Canaletto

Constable

Turner

Hogarth

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In what year did the Queen open the first passenger terminal at Heathrow Airport?

1955

1957

1959

1961

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