We Like You Trivia Quiz

Answer: Handel and Jimi Hendrix

25 Brook Street was the home of Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759, The property is now the Handel House Museum. This was opened in 2001 and has two floors of rooms restored to how they would have looked in the 1700s.
Handel was a great favourite with the Royal Court and wrote, among other things, "Music for the Royal Fireworks".

23 Brook Street was the home of Jimi Hendrix for a short while. At one stage he was more popular here and in Europe than in the USA, and he made London his base for recording. His early recordings were all done in London under the auspices of Chas. Chandler, ex member of The Animals.
Jimi Hendrix played guitar in a somewhat different manner. Sometimes he played with his teeth, or behind his head, and often set fire to his guitar at the end of his act.

Answer: Charlie Chaplin

Born in 1889 Chaplin rose to fame and fortune from very poor roots. At one stage he and his brother were temporarily placed in a workhouse when his mother was in hospital. He rose to become the most famous film performer of his era. His most memorable on screen character was The Little Tramp. The plaque was placed on his childhood home by The Dead Comics Society.

Answer: Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan was working in the music halls of London by the time he was 10. In 1915 he joined the Army and fought in France during World War I. At the end of the war he went back into entertainment. He gained huge popularity as part of Flanagan and Allen and as part of the Crazy Gang. He wrote and recorded the theme tune to "Dad's Army" especially for the programme.

Hanbury Street is also famous for being the scene of one of the Ripper murders, which took place at number 29. Bud Flanagan was born only eight years after these murders terrorised that part of London.

Answer: Hattie Jacques

Comic actress Hattie Jacques starred in several "Carry On" films, often appearing as a battle axe type character with a hopeless crush on the character played by Kenneth Williams. She also played Eric Sykes' sister in a long running television series. She was married to actor John Le Mesurier.

In addition to the plaque on her home at Eardley Crescent there is also a memorial plaque to her in St Paul's Church, Covent Garden.

Answer: Billy Fury

Billy Fury shot to fame in the late 1950s/early 1960s with a string of hit records. Unfortunately his performing career was cut short due to severe heart disease caused by him having rheumatic fever as a child. Heart surgery in 1972 and 1976 meant he had to abandon touring. Financial problems forced him back into performing, which possibly contributed to his early death. In January 1983 he returned home after a performing session. During the night he collapsed and died later that day. He was only 42.

Answer: Bob Marley

Born in Jamaica in 1945, Bob Marley is credited with spreading Ska and Reggae music to a wider audience. He spent two years in London from 1976 to 1978. During his time in London he recorded the album "Exodus" which stayed on the British Album Chart for 56 consecutive weeks.

Answer: The Marquee Club

The Marquee Club started life in Oxford Street, and while it was at this location it was the site of the first ever live performance by The Rolling Stones. In 1964 it moved to Wardour Street, and for the next 25 years virtually every major rock band in the UK performed there. The Yardbirds, Led Zepplin, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, King Crimson and Pink Floyd all had residencies there in the late 1960s.

Keith Moon was drummer for "The Who". Often referred to as Moon The Loon his excesses in trashing hotel rooms became legendary. He was notorious for putting explosives into hotel toilets and detonating them, and once drove a Cadillac into a hotel swimming pool.

Answer: Boris Karloff

Born in East Dulwich, London in 1887, Boris Karloff found fame as the star of horror movies. He was particularly known for his role as Frankenstein's monster, which he portrayed in three films in the 1930s.

What is not well known is that his maternal grandmother was a sister to Anna Leonowens, whose story was told in "The King and I".

Answer: Spike Milligan

Comedian and author Spike Milligan was born in India, his father was a Captain in the British Indian Army. He came to fame as a member of the BBC Radio comedy programme, "The Goon Show", both as performer and main writer. He was dogged with ill health, suffering from severe bipolar disorder and suffering at least ten severe mental breakdowns.

The Comic Heritage blue plaque is sited on Camden Palace Theatre, where many of "The Goon Shows" were recorded.

Answer: Edith Evans

Edith Evans made the role of Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" her own, playing it both on stage and in the 1952 film. Her utterance, in tones of complete disbelief, of the line "a handbag?" has been often imitated but never bettered. Ebury Street was home to not only Edith Evans, but, at various times, Vita Sackville-West, Ian Fleming, Terence Stamp and Michael Caine, who shared a flat here for a while, and Mozart.