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If you know the answers to more than one of the following, you've probably already been assimilated.

1.

How many people visit London's Oxford Street each year?

a) 2 million
b) 20 million
c) 200 million

2.

Who wrote: 'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'?

a) Samuel Johnson
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Charles Dickens

3.

Which London neighbourhood has a spelling mistake in its name?

a) Holborn
b) Covent Garden
c) Elephant and Castle

4.

The 202-foot-high Monument in the City of London was erected to commemorate:

a)The execution of King Charles I
b)The Battle of Britain
c)The Great Fire of 1666

5.

Where was King Charles I beheaded?

a) The Tower of London
b) Westminster
c) Greenwich

6.

The Serpentine in Hyde Park was formed by damming which London river?

a) The Tyburn
b) The Westbourne
c) The Thames

7.

Which line on the London underground connects with every other line?

a) The Circle Line
b) The Piccadilly Line
c) The Jubilee Line

8.

As a young man, the poet John Keats worked in:

a) Guy's Hospital dissecting room
b) Marshalsea Prison
c) Borough Market

9.

Which former Eastenders actress appeared as Eliza Dolittle in a West End production of My Fair Lady?

a) Michelle Collins
b) Daniella Westbrook
c) Martine McCutcheon

10.

Fill in the missing lines to the music hall song:

I'm Burlington Bertie
I rise at ten-thirty
And saunter along like a toff.
I walk down...

a) ... Regent Street
With my spats on my feet ...

b) ... The Strand
With my gloves on my hand ...

c) ... Leicester Square
With blue bows in my hair ...

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