Fun Facts on London Trivia Quiz

Answer: James I

You won't find an elephant in the park today, but it's still a home to over 1,000 birds and waterfoul. The best known are probably pelicans living on Duck Island.

Answer: Millenium Dome

Other parts of the movie were shot on the Thames, in a Motorola factory in Swindon and near the picturesque Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland.

Answer: a statue of a boy

The Fat Boy statue, once painted in colours, marks the spot where the Great Fire stopped on the corner of Cock Lane. Beneath the figure there used to be an inscription (now obliterated) that read: "This boy is in memory put up of the late Fire of London, occasioned by the sin of gluttony, 1666". I guess that must have had something to do with the names of the places where the fire started (Pudding Lane) and ended (Pie Corner)...

Answer: SW1A 1AA

The Buckingham Palace is located between St James' and Westminster (codes starting with SW1), at the junction of St James' Park and Green Park where The Mall meets Constitution Hill.

Answer: 35,000

However, on the first day of January sales the number is 300,000.
Founded in 1849, with seven floors and three hundred departments, Harrods is an institution of its own.

Answer: 1766

The sale took place on 5th December in Pall Mall. It included, among many other items, two chamber pots, a pair of sheets and four irons.
The full name of the famous auction house today is Christie, Manson and Woods.

Answer: 152

Thomas Parr. Modern research indicates that he was likely only around 70 when he died.

Answer: Michael Fagan

Early in the morning, on Friday, 9 July, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II woke up in her state bedroom only to find a strange man sitting at the other end of her bed. Her calls for help went unanswered, but she remained calm and engaged the intruder into a conversation on family matters.

After about ten minutes a chambermaid came in and screaming woke up the footman who seized the man. The British public were outraged when they heard about the incident and called for tighter security around their Queen.

Answer: 1215

The newly elected Lord Mayor must make his way from Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice to swear an oath of loyalty to the Queen. He used to ride a horse (the last time in 1756), but nowadays he travel in the famous gilded State Coach. The parade is followed by fireworks display later in the evening.

Answer: Royal Albert Hall

She said that while visiting the Hall a few days before its completion in December 1870. The official opening ceremony took place on 29 March 1871. Since that day the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences (its full name) has been the host of plenty of different events, including classical and rock concerts, ballet and opera performances, conferences, a circus, tennis, wrestling and boxing matches, thus earning the nickname of "The Nation's Village Hall".