London Quiz

LONDON QUIZ

1. Find the Rosetta Stone? Why is it so important? The Rosetta Stone is an Egyptian artefact that was instrumental to advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing . It’s important because it let to translate codes and languages of the old age.
2. What’s the most popular food in London? Fish and chips
3. What time do pubs close? What happens when the bell rings in a pub? They close at eleven o’clock, and when the bell rings all people have to go away.
4. What’s an ale? It’s a beer.
5. Name six of the most common ingredients in a traditional English breakfast
- Sausages
- Eggs
- Bacon
- Potatoes
- Toast
- Marmalade
6. THE GLOBE THEATRE: Is it the same theatre where Shakespeare used to perform his plays? What happened? This theatre is associated with the Shakespeare. It was destroyed by fire in 1613
7. What’s the real name of “China Town” street? Soho area of the City of Westminister.
8. Why are there so many ravens kept in the Tower of London? What do they do to them so as they don’t escape? Because Charles II was told that if the ravens left the tower, the empire would fail. Their wings are clipped, so they can't fly away
9. Have you seen any Beefeaters? What do they do? What’s their real name? Where does the name Beefeater originate from? No. Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London. They looked for prisoners of the tower.
10. Can you buy a living animal in Harrods? Which one? Exotics animals
11. What is one of Harrods most important customer? Mike Irvin
12. Establish the relationship between Diana and the owner of Harrods
13. Where do Londoners celebrate the welcoming of the New Year? In the London eye.
14. Who was Nelson? Where can you find his statue? Was an admiral. We can find his statue in the heart of London, in Trafalgar square
15. Find a Greek God in Picadilly Circus. What’s his name? as Eros after the mythical
16. Name at least four wax figures you can see in Madame Tussaud’s.
17. What’s the other name given to the London underground? The Tube
18. Where was Sherlock Holmes supposed to live? at 221b Baker Street along with Dr Watson and Mrs. Hudson
19. What are the London Dungeons? What did Londoners use them for? is a tourist attraction, based in Tooley Street, London, near London bridge about various tortures from the Medieval age.
20. What is the newest bridge across the Thames called? Who designed it? Millennium bridge of Norman Foster
21. Where does the Big Ben take its name? What is it? Nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London. The nickname is often also used to refer to the clock and the clock tower. This is the world's largest four-faced, chiming clock and the third largest free-standing clock tower in the world.
22. Find all about the Union Jack
The Union Flag, popularly known as the Union Jack, is the national flag of the United Kingdom flag
It is called the Union Flag because it symbolises the administrative union of the countries of the United Kingdom. It is made up up of the individual Flags of three of the Kingdom's countries all united under one Sovereign - the countries of england, of Scotland and of 'Northern Ireland' (since 1921 only Northern Ireland has been part of the United Kingdom). As Wales was not a Kingdom but a Principality it could not be included on the flag.
The following pages will tell you how the Union Flag (Union Jack) came to be the UK's national flag and the making of the United Kingdom.

23. What does the Monument represent ?
24. Find the Serpentine in Hyde Park, what is it? Here they play games of frisbee throught
25. Add three of your own discoveries.