London Characters

1. Street artist Banksy is widely associated with London, but where is his home town?

Clydebank

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Poole

Bristol

2. The following line would often appear in the Spectator to account for their absentee journalist, who was usually recovering from an epic Soho drinking session. The line was later used as the title of a play by Keith Waterhouse.

Fill in the blank: "Jeffrey Bernard is______"

Away

Unwell

Hungover

Sozzled

3. Which comedic Londoner gave his name to a local park (where he is buried), and is the subject of an annual sermon populated by clowns?

Dan Leno

Joseph Grimaldi

Edward Lear

Spike Milligan

4. Charles Byrne was famous for what physical attribute, which caused John Hunter to go to extreme lengths in acquiring his skeleton for display (still visible in the Hunterian Museum)?

Four arms

Extremely tall

Extremely short

Clawed hands

5. Where can you see the embalmed remains of philosopher, economist and general man-of-letters Jeremy Bentham?

Guy's Hospital

An alcove beneath Southwark Bridge

In the basement of Tate Britain

UCL cloisters

6. Phyllis Pearsall is celebrated as the creator of the A-Z map. What unusual method did she supposedly use to compile her street atlas of 23,000 streets?

'Borrowed' street plans from the walls of town halls

Personally walked every street

Employed a gang of street children to do the research

Traced over aerial photography taken by helium balloon

7. In what year did Brian Haw start his epic peace protest in Parliament Square?

2005

2004

2001

1999

8. Stanley Green (1915-1993) was famous for walking the streets of the West End campaigning against what?

Smoking pre-rolled cigarettes

Drinking hot beverages

Eating protein

Wearing hemp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green

Explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green

9. Mother Red Cap, the 'old shrew of Kentish Town', supposedly presided over a famous hostelry on the site of which current Camden pub?

The World's End

The Hawley Arms

The Dublin Castle

Quinn's

10. Jack Sheppard was a notorious 18th Century thief. Why does he continue to make it into the history books?

Improbable feats of escapology and jail-breaking

Stealing the crown jewels

Surviving public hanging on three occasions

He was a monkey