London QUIZ

1. Find the Rosetta Stone? Why is it so important?
We have found it in the British Museum. It is important because it helped to understand a hieroglyphic and to know more about Egyptian culture.

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?
About 12 o'clock on the night. The bell rings to advice that you can buy the last drink. It's a quarter to close.


4. What’s an ale? It is a kind of beer brewed by warm fermentation.

5. Name six of the most common ingredients in a traditional English breakfast.
Muesli, eggs, bacon, sausages, beans on toasts, jam, coffee, juice and tea.

6. The Globe theatre: it’s the same theatre where Shakespeare used to perform his plays? What happened?
Exactly, it is not the same because the real one burned on the fire of London 400 years ago, approximately.

7. What’s the real name of “China Town” street?Gerard Street

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 many year ago there was a lot of people dead there and the ravens went to eat them. There is a legend which says that if the ravens escape, the Tower of London will crumble in a disaster.
Ravens are a tourist attraction, and the experts cut their wings because they can’t escape.

9. Have you seen any Beefeaters? What do they do? What’s their real name? Where does the name Beefeater originate from?-
- Yes, we see one.
- They talk the history of the Tower of London, are a ceremonial guardians of it. - Their real name is: The Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London. - Beef+eater mean "someone who eats beef". Many years ago they were paid with a ration of beef from the King's table sometimes.

10. Can you buy a living animal in Harrods? Which one?
We didn't see any animal there but we know that it is possible.

11. What is one of Harrods most important customer?
Paris Hilton?

12. Establish the relationship between Diana and the owner of Harrods?
Diana had a relationship with Dodi, the son of the owner of Harrods. They were killed in a car crash together in 1997.
They have a writing to remember them in one of the stairs in Harrods.

13. Where do Londoners celebrate the welcoming of the New Year?
In front of the Big Ben.

14. Who was Nelson? Where can you find his statue?
Nelson's Column was an Almiral and he has a monument in Trafalgar Square. He died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

15. Find a Greek God in Piccadilly Circus. What’s his name?
Eros, an angel of love.

16. Name at least four wax figures you can see in Madame Tussaud’s
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bob Marley, Beyoncé, Elvis Presley…

17. What’s the other name given to the London underground? The Tube (subway).
18. Where was Sherlock Holmes supposed to live? 221b Baker Street, London

19. What are the London Dungeons? What did Londoners use them for?
The London Dungeon was like a prison and now is a tourist attraction that is based in Tooley Street. It shows tortures from the Medieval Age, horrible tortures.

20. What is the newest bridge across the Thames called? Who designed it?Millennium Bridge that was built by Norman Foster.

21. Where does the Big Ben take its name? What is it?
We call Big Ben all the tower but really Big Ben is the nickname of the bell of the clock on the tower’s top.

22. Find all about the Union Jack.
It is a Flag. Is the national flag of the United Kingdom, a mixture of Great Britain, Ireland and Scotland.

23. What does the Monument represent?
It represents the Great Fire of London.

24. Find the Serpentine in Hyde Park, what is it?
It's the river that divides the Park.

25. Add three of you own discoveries.
Some English people are quiet disagreeable.
They don't cook with oil because it's too expensive there, they cook with butter.
There are a lot of Art of the Renaissance.
There’s a street called Montague.