London Street Furniture

1. Which busy junction received a 'Japanese-style' cross-shaped crossing last year?

Piccadilly Circus

Holborn Circus

Ludgate Circus

Oxford Circus

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

Dragons

Unicorns

Borribles

Giants

3. 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

4. Where, in 1868, were the world's first red/green traffic lights installed?

Whitechapel Road

Hampstead Heath

Peckham High Street

Parliament Square

5. An original police call box, well known as the form of Dr Who's TARDIS, can still be found outside which Tube station?

Earl's Court

Holborn

West Ham

Colliers Wood

6. 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

7. Which London-born novelist is often credited with introducing the red postbox?

Jerome K Jerome

Wilkie Collins

Anthony Trollope

Daphne Du Maurier

8. How many decorated pachyderms were placed around London for the 2010 Elephant Parade?

58

158

258

358

9. Which part of town includes street bollards designed by Antony Gormley?

Hampstead

Cricklewood

Peckham

Dagenham

10. What object marks the official centre of London?

Wherever the Queen happens to be

Nelson's Column

Marble Arch

Statue of Charles I