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LONDON
- What in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon was the world's first?
Underground railway
- Which cross stands almost directly opposite the Royal Festival Hall on the far North bank of the river?
Charing
- In Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities which is the other?
Paris
- Praed St has a reputation as a red-light district and is the address of which station?
Paddington
- Shepherd Market lies just north of which major thoroughfare?
Picadilly
- Which royal park was the setting for the first performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks?
Green
- What used to link the newspaper industry and punishment for debtors?
The Fleet - street and prison
- Who wrote A London Symphony (NOT the London symphonies, which are Haydn's)?
Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Which rock opera character had a track record from London down to Brighton?
The Pinball Wizard
- Which other record label name is directly linked to the London label?
Decca
- Who was known as the London Bach?
JC Bach
- Who composed verses Upon Westminster Bridge?
William Wordsworth
- Which World War II cruiser is moored in the Thames?
HMS Belfast
- What, in spite of fire damage, links Robert Burns to Greenwich?
Cutty Sark - the clipper ship, recently fire-damaged in its Greenwich drydock, is named after a character in Burns' Tam O'Shanter
- What links John Flamsteed to Greenwich?
Founder of the Greenwich Observatory and then first astronomer royal
- What is the Dogget's badge?
Thomas Dogget, an Irish comedian, founded a race for Thames watermen to be raced on 1st August (accession of George I) but now raced (between London Bridge and Chelsea) towards the end of July. It was first contested in 1715 or 1716, and the race's winner is rewarded with a scarlet coat and a silver badge.
- Who wrote a fictional account of the Plague of London entitled A Journal of the Plague Year?
Daniel Defoe
- Which London entertainment institution claimed never to close?
The Windmill
- A market garden bought in 1907 and known as Billy Williams' cabbage patch became what in London sport?
Twickenham stadium
- Where is the newspaper collection of the British Library?
Colindale (Colindale Avenue NW9)
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