Ten Ways to See London Trivia Quiz

Answer: Western

The majority of Tube lines are named with reference to the areas of London that they serve. Others include the District Line (which links the eastern and western suburbs) and the Victoria Line (which has a major intersection at Victoria rail station). The Jubilee Line was named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977, and opened two years later, in 1979.

Answer: Boris bikes

Boris Johnson, a keen cyclist himself, was the mayor in question. The hire scheme was sponsored by Barclays Bank, who had presumably been lured into stumping up the cash in the expectation that the scheme would quickly become known as "Barclays bikes".

Answer: false

No, the picture shows a New York cab. Most licensed London taxis are black. In order to obtain a license to drive a London taxi, drivers have to pass a test known as "The Knowledge", which requires them to memorise the road network in Central London within six miles of Charing Cross, and the main routes in the suburbs.

Answer: The trains have no drivers

The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) was designed to serve the new business and residential developments on the Isle of Dogs in the late 1980s. The first section opened in 1987, but as the docklands development expanded so did the DLR, adding extensions to Lewisham, Beckton and Woolwich, as well as to Bank in the City of London itself.

The trains are controlled by a central computer, although they do carry a staff member on board in case of emergencies.

Answer: Damien Hirst

The Hirst boat is named the Hurricane, and was given the special livery to advertise the special riverboat service between the Tate Britain Art Gallery in Pimlico, and its companion, Tate Modern, on the South Bank.

Various companies have tried in recent years to run commuter services on the River Thames, as a viable alternative to trains and tubes. Thames Clipper, which has been doing so since 1999, is the first company to really make a success of it.

Answer: St Paul's Cathedral

The Millennium footbridge was originally opened in 2000, to mark the start of the new Millennium. It was very quickly found to sway uncomfortably, and was closed after less than a week while the architects sought to eliminate the excessive movement. It reopened in 2002, and has since become a popular means of crossing the Thames.

Answer: Rotten Row

The Household Cavalry, based at Hyde Park Barracks, uses Rotten Row to exercise its mounts, and there is a commercial stable nearby where the public can hire horses or arrange riding lessons. The Metropolitan Police also has a Mounted Branch, which is employed on a range of duties from routine patrols to crowd control at demonstrations and sporting events.

Answer: Tram

Electric trams used to be common in London during the first half of the 20th Century, before being phased out and replaced by buses. The new South London Tramlink was opened in 2000, providing a useful east/west transport link.

For any real anoraks out there, the train in the picture is sporting what is known as the "second livery" paint scheme. By 2009, all the trams had been re-liveried in green.

Answer: It is amphibious

The vehicle shown is operated by London Duck Tours, which uses refurbished World War II amphibious landing vehicles to provide a tour round London, culminating in a short ducking in the River Thames.

The vehicles are named after female characters from Shakespeare's plays. Allegedly, one of them was originally christened Ophelia, until just in time someone remembered what fate was suffered by that unfortunate lady.

Answer: Routemaster

Visitors to London are often disappointed to discover that the majority of Routemaster buses have been withdrawn from service, on the grounds that they were inaccessible to wheelchairs. Many of them were replaced by so-called "bendy buses", which were twice as long, meaning that they had problems navigating many of London's winding streets, and had a tendency to catch fire for no apparent reason.

During the 2007 election campaign for London's Mayor, candidate Boris Johnson promised to scrap the "bendy buses" and introduce a new version of the Routemaster. The first of these new buses were due to enter service in 2012, just in time for the London Olympics.