Q 01/05

What did Parliament rename the structure that houses Big Ben in 2012, to mark a Diamond Jubilee?

A) St Stephen's Tower

B) Elizabeth Tower

C) Jubilee Tower

D) Windsor Tower

Answer · why

B) Elizabeth Tower

Elizabeth Tower had simply been 'the Clock Tower' since the 1850s; 'St Stephen's Tower' was only ever a nickname that Victorian journalists gave it.

Q 02/05

The Monument to the Great Fire stands 202 feet tall because that is exactly its distance from what?

A) Old St Paul's Cathedral

B) The Tower of London

C) Thomas Farriner's bakery

D) Old London Bridge

Answer · why

C) Thomas Farriner's bakery

Thomas Farriner's bakery, where the 1666 blaze began, lay 202 feet from the column; an inscription on its base blamed Catholics for the fire until the...

Q 03/05

Which Bankside footbridge closed two days after opening because crowds made it sway?

A) Hungerford Bridge

B) Blackfriars Bridge

C) Southwark Bridge

D) Millennium Bridge

Answer · why

D) Millennium Bridge

Millennium Bridge earned the nickname 'Wobbly Bridge' when walkers fell into step with its sideways sway and made it worse; it reopened in February 20...

Q 04/05

Which City tower's concave glass scorched parked cars with reflected sunlight in 2013?

A) The Gherkin

B) The Cheesegrater

C) The Walkie-Talkie

D) The Scalpel

Answer · why

C) The Walkie-Talkie

The Walkie-Talkie's concave glass worked like a curved mirror, melting panels on a parked Jaguar; a permanent sunshade was fitted to the tower in 2014...

Q 05/05

The granite of the 1831 London Bridge was shipped in 1968 to a new lakeside town in which US state?

A) Arizona

B) Nevada

C) Texas

D) Florida

Answer · why

A) Arizona

Arizona's Lake Havasu City got the bridge for $2.46 million from chainsaw magnate Robert McCulloch, who always denied the rumour that he thought he wa...