London - Quiz
London
  • 1. What is London the seat of?
A) The Government of the United Kingdom
B) The Welsh Government
C) The Scottish Parliament
D) The Parliament of France
  • 2. Where is the prime minister's residence located?
A) The Palace of Westminster
B) 15 Whitehall
C) Buckingham Palace
D) 10 Downing Street
  • 3. Near which palace are many government departments and the prime minister's residence based?
A) Kensington Palace
B) The Palace of Westminster
C) St James's Palace
D) Hampton Court Palace
  • 4. Along which street are many government departments particularly based?
A) Downing Street
B) Oxford Street
C) Whitehall
D) Fleet Street
  • 5. How many members of Parliament are from London?
A) 75
B) 65
C) 82
D) 59
  • 6. How many MPs from London were from the Labour Party as of June 2024?
A) 6
B) 59
C) 75
D) 9
  • 7. How many London MPs were Conservatives as of June 2024?
A) 59
B) 1
C) 6
D) 9
  • 8. How many London MPs were Liberal Democrats as of June 2024?
A) 9
B) 59
C) 6
D) 1
  • 9. In what year was the ministerial post of Minister for London created?
A) 1984
B) 2004
C) 1974
D) 1994
  • 10. What is the status of the ministerial post of Minister for London since July 2024?
A) Filled by the Prime Minister
B) Held by an independent MP
C) Abolished permanently
D) Vacant
  • 11. Greater London is one of how many regions of England?
A) Seven
B) Twelve
C) Five
D) Nine
  • 12. What body resisted attempts to amalgamate the City of London with its suburbs?
A) The Corporation of London
B) The London Post Town
C) The Metropolitan Green Belt
D) The Greater London Authority
  • 13. What percentage of Greater London is covered by the London post town?
A) Seventy-five per cent
B) Fifty per cent
C) Forty per cent
D) Twenty-five per cent
  • 14. What is the London telephone area code?
A) 0121
B) 0161
C) 020
D) 0113
  • 15. How far does the London linked-number area extend around Kings Cross?
A) 25 miles
B) 30 miles
C) 10 miles
D) 18 miles
  • 16. Which motorway has the Greater London boundary been aligned to in places?
A) The M4
B) The M1
C) The M11
D) The M25
  • 17. What prevents urban expansion beyond London in places?
A) The M25 motorway
B) The River Thames
C) The London commuter belt
D) The Metropolitan Green Belt
  • 18. What is produced when the built-up area extends beyond the Greater London boundary?
A) The Inner London zone
B) The ceremonial county of Middlesex
C) The London post town
D) A separately defined Greater London Urban Area
  • 19. What lies beyond the Greater London Urban Area?
A) The Metropolitan Green Belt
B) The London commuter belt
C) The prime meridian
D) The historic counties
  • 20. Into what two main parts is Greater London split by the River Thames?
A) City and Suburbs
B) North and South
C) Inner and Outer
D) East and West
  • 21. What is traditionally considered the nominal centre of London?
A) The original Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross
B) The Tower of London
C) 10 Downing Street
D) St Paul's Cathedral
  • 22. Near which junction is the nominal centre of London located?
A) Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street
B) Trafalgar Square and Whitehall
C) Oxford Circus and Bond Street
D) Parliament Square and Westminster Bridge
  • 23. What are the approximate coordinates of the nominal centre of London?
A) 52°10′00″N 00°15′00″E
B) 51°00′00″N 00°00′00″E
C) 50°20′10″N 01°00′00″W
D) 51°30′26″N 00°07′39″W
  • 24. Which specific settlements within London have city status?
A) Inner London and Outer London
B) The City of London and the City of Westminster
C) Middlesex and Surrey
D) Greenwich and Kew
  • 25. Which areas are ceremonial counties?
A) The North and South of the River Thames
B) The City of London and the remainder of Greater London
C) The City of Westminster and Greenwich
D) Inner London and Outer London
  • 26. Greater London includes parts of which historic county starting with M?
A) Merionethshire
B) Monmouthshire
C) Middlesex
D) Montgomeryshire
  • 27. Greater London includes parts of which historic county starting with K?
A) Kincardineshire
B) Kent
C) Kinross-shire
D) Kirkcudbrightshire
  • 28. Greater London includes parts of which historic county starting with S?
A) Shropshire
B) Surrey
C) Sussex
D) Staffordshire
  • 29. Greater London includes parts of which historic county starting with E?
A) East Riding
B) Edinburghshire
C) East Lothian
D) Essex
  • 30. Greater London includes parts of which historic county starting with H?
A) Herefordshire
B) Huntingdonshire
C) Hampshire
D) Hertfordshire
  • 31. What is London the capital of, by convention?
A) The United Kingdom and of England
B) Great Britain only
C) The British Empire
D) England only
  • 32. From which city was the capital of England moved?
A) Oxford
B) York
C) Canterbury
D) Winchester
  • 33. During which centuries did the Palace of Westminster develop into the home of the royal court?
A) The 14th and 15th centuries
B) The 12th and 13th centuries
C) The 16th and 17th centuries
D) The 10th and 11th centuries
  • 34. How many World Heritage Sites does London have?
A) Five
B) Four
C) Three
D) Two
  • 35. Which of the following is one of London's World Heritage Sites?
A) Hyde Park
B) Kew Gardens
C) Buckingham Palace
D) St Paul's Cathedral
  • 36. Which historic London site is a World Heritage Site containing the Royal Observatory?
A) Greenwich
B) Westminster
C) Charing Cross
D) Whitehall
  • 37. What defines the prime meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time?
A) The Corporation of London
B) The Eleanor Cross
C) The Royal Observatory
D) The Palace of Westminster
  • 38. Which church is featured alongside the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey in a World Heritage Site?
A) The Church of St Margaret
B) St Paul's Cathedral
C) St Martin-in-the-Fields
D) St Mary-le-Bow
  • 39. How many tiers form the administration of London?
A) Three tiers
B) Two tiers
C) Four tiers
D) One tier
  • 40. How many local administrations are in London's local tier?
A) 33
B) 32
C) 34
D) 30
  • 41. What is a power of the London Assembly regarding the mayor's budget?
A) Write the annual budget proposals
B) Accept or reject the annual budget proposals
C) Collect taxes for the budget
D) Ignore the budget proposals
  • 42. Who has been the mayor of London since 2016?
A) Ken Livingstone
B) Boris Johnson
C) Sadiq Khan
D) Keir Starmer
  • 43. Which political party does mayor Sadiq Khan belong to?
A) Green Party
B) Conservative Party
C) Liberal Democrats
D) Labour Party
  • 44. How many London borough councils are there?
A) 35
B) 32
C) 30
D) 33
  • 45. Who is responsible for local services like schools and libraries?
A) The Greater London Authority
B) The London Fire Brigade
C) The Transport for London
D) The local authorities
  • 46. How much was the revenue expenditure by London councils and the GLA in 2009–2010?
A) Just over £22 billion
B) Just over £30 billion
C) Just over £14.7 billion
D) Just over £7.4 billion
  • 47. How much of the 2009–2010 revenue expenditure was spent by the boroughs?
A) £10.2 billion
B) £7.4 billion
C) £14.7 billion
D) £22 billion
  • 48. Between which locations does the Port of London Authority's jurisdiction on the River Thames extend?
A) Tower Bridge to Greenwich
B) Teddington Lock to the sea
C) Westminster to the sea
D) London Bridge to the estuary
  • 49. What is the common name for the police force that provides policing in Greater London (excluding the City of London)?
A) The Met
B) The London Constabulary
C) The City Police
D) Scotland Yard
  • 50. Which police force is responsible for services on the London Underground and Docklands Light Railway?
A) The Metropolitan Police
B) The British Transport Police
C) The City of London Police
D) The Ministry of Defence Police
  • 51. Where was Harding, Howell & Co., one of the first department stores, located?
A) Pall Mall
B) Carnaby Street
C) Whitehall
D) Piccadilly
  • 52. In what year did Lyons open their first chain of teashops in Piccadilly?
A) 1831
B) 1905
C) 1894
D) 1951
  • 53. Which movement found tearooms to be popular meeting places?
A) Suffrage movement
B) Punk movement
C) Swinging London movement
D) Industrial movement
  • 54. Who bombed London during the First World War?
A) The French
B) The Provisional Irish Republican Army
C) The Germans
D) The Commonwealth
  • 55. When was the tomb of the Unknown Warrior created in Westminster Abbey?
A) 11 November 1918
B) 1 January 2000
C) 7 July 2005
D) 11 November 1920
  • 56. From which decade did London become home to many immigrants primarily from Commonwealth countries?
A) 2000s
B) 1980s
C) 1960s
D) 1940s
  • 57. What act of legislation was led by the Great Smog of 1952?
A) Metropolitan Act
B) Greater London Act
C) Clean Air Act 1956
D) Industrial Revolution Act
  • 58. What nickname did London earn due to its 'pea soup fogs'?
A) The 'Swinging City'
B) The 'Alpha++ City'
C) The 'Big Smoke'
D) The 'Global Capital'
  • 59. Which organization began bomb attacks in London in 1973 during the Troubles?
A) Commonwealth forces
B) Suffragettes
C) Germans
D) Provisional Irish Republican Army
  • 60. What was the starting event of the bomb attacks by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in London?
A) Old Bailey bombing
B) The 2005 bombings
C) The suffragette bombing
D) The Blitz
  • 61. In what year was the Greater London Council abolished?
A) 1965
B) 2000
C) 1986
D) 1956
  • 62. When was the Greater London Authority created?
A) 2000
B) 1965
C) 1951
D) 1986
  • 63. Which magazine hailed London as one of the world's three most influential global cities in 2008?
A) Time
B) The Economist
C) Newsweek
D) Forbes
  • 64. Who began building Westminster Hall in 1097?
A) George III
B) William II
C) William I
D) Edward I
  • 65. Which disease caused London to lose nearly a third of its population in the mid-14th century?
A) The Great Plague
B) Cholera
C) Influenza
D) The Black Death
  • 66. London was the focus of which revolt in 1381?
A) Second Barons' War
B) Gunpowder Plot
C) English Civil War
D) Peasants' Revolt
  • 67. Who expelled England's Jewish population from London in 1290?
A) William I
B) James I
C) Charles I
D) Edward I
  • 68. In what year did violence against Jews occur after rumours regarding Richard I's coronation?
A) 1381
B) 1290
C) 1190
D) 1264
  • 69. During which conflict did Simon de Montfort's rebels kill 500 Jews in 1264?
A) English Civil War
B) Battle of Hastings
C) Peasants' Revolt
D) Second Barons' War
  • 70. What religious shift was produced by the Reformation?
A) Puritanism
B) Catholicism
C) Calvinism
D) Protestantism
  • 71. When did the Hanseatic League set up a trading base in London?
A) 1599
B) 1603
C) 1475
D) 1565
  • 72. What type of cloth was shipped undyed from 14th- and 15th-century London?
A) Woollen cloth
B) Silk cloth
C) Cotton cloth
D) Linen cloth
  • 73. Who built the Globe Theatre in Southwark in 1599?
A) William Blake
B) Shakespeare
C) Christopher Wren
D) Robert Hooke
  • 74. What was the name of London's oldest theatre that opened in 1663?
A) Drury Lane
B) The Globe Theatre
C) Westminster Hall
D) The Royal Exchange
  • 75. What did the Corporation make in 1637 when Charles I's government attempted to reform London's administration?
A) The Great Fire
B) The Restoration
C) The Great Refusal
D) The Great Plague
  • 76. Which side did most Londoners support in the English Civil War?
A) The New Model Army
B) The Roundheads
C) The Hanseatic League
D) The Cavaliers
  • 77. Who supervised the rebuilding of the wooden-built city after the Great Fire of 1666?
A) Robert Hooke
B) Shakespeare
C) Christopher Wren
D) William Blake
  • 78. Whose masterpiece St Paul's Cathedral was completed in 1710?
A) Simon de Montfort
B) William Blake
C) Robert Hooke
D) Christopher Wren
  • 79. Which poet's 1789 poem 'Holy Thursday' mentions 'the high dome of Pauls'?
A) William Blake
B) Christopher Wren
C) Shakespeare
D) Robert Hooke
  • 80. Which new district was formed in the west during the Georgian era?
A) Southwark
B) Mayfair
C) Bow Street
D) Fleet Street
  • 81. Who acquired Buckingham House in 1762?
A) William II
B) Charles I
C) James I
D) George III
  • 82. When were the Bow Street Runners established as a professional police force?
A) 1844
B) 1817
C) 1750
D) 1762
  • 83. In what year was the first London international issue arranged?
A) 1838
B) 1817
C) 1846
D) 1750
  • 84. In what year was the Royal Exchange rebuilt following a fire?
A) 1844
B) 1663
C) 1838
D) 1710
  • 85. The repeal of which laws in 1846 enabled London to overtake Amsterdam as the leading international financial centre?
A) The Corn Laws
B) The Poor Laws
C) The Navigation Acts
D) The Reform Acts
  • 86. On which river does London stand?
A) River Trent
B) River Thames
C) River Ouse
D) River Severn
  • 87. By whom was the City of London founded?
A) The Romans
B) The Vikings
C) The Normans
D) The Greeks
  • 88. What was the original Roman name for the City of London?
A) Londiniumm
B) Augusta
C) Lunden
D) Londinium
  • 89. In which century did London grow rapidly to become the world's largest city?
A) 18th century
B) 20th century
C) 17th century
D) 19th century
  • 90. Since what year has London largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London?
A) 1975
B) 1980
C) 1965
D) 1950
  • 91. How many Summer Olympic Games has London hosted?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Three
D) One
  • 92. What type of city airport system does London have?
A) The world's busiest
B) The world's largest
C) The world's newest
D) The world's oldest
  • 93. What was the most likely lost Celtic form of the name London?
A) *Lundenwic
B) *Londinium
C) *Brittania
D) *Londonjon
  • 94. Until what year did the name 'London' apply officially only to the City of London?
A) 1886
B) 1889
C) 1993
D) 1000
  • 95. In what year were the remains of a Bronze Age bridge found on the south River Thames foreshore?
A) 4800 BC
B) 1889
C) 1993
D) 2010
  • 96. In what year were foundations of a large timber structure found on the Thames' south foreshore?
A) 2010
B) 680
C) 1889
D) 1993
  • 97. To what date were the foundations of the large timber structure found in 2010 dated?
A) 11th century
B) 1750–1285 BC
C) 4800–4500 BC
D) AD 47–61
  • 98. Around what year did the Romans found their first major settlement in the London area?
A) AD 100
B) AD 47
C) AD 61
D) AD 43
  • 99. Who led the Iceni tribe in storming and burning Roman London to the ground around AD 61?
A) King Edward
B) Frank Stenton
C) Alfred
D) Queen Boudica
  • 100. What was the name of the Anglo-Saxon settlement that developed slightly west of the old Roman city from about 500?
A) Lundenwic
B) Llundein
C) Londinium
D) Winchester
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