Which Station am I? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Baker Street

When Baker Street Station first opened the only line to run through it was the Metropolitan Line. It was the first underground railway line to be opened in the world.

Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, lived at 221b Baker Street, which is a fictitious address. However the Sherlock Holmes Museum purports to be at that address as it was given permission to use it by the City of Westminster. It is really located at 237-241 Baker Street (www.wikipedia.org).

Answer: Covent Garden

Covent Garden Station was opened on 11 April 1907. The name is a corruption of Convent Garden, as which it was recorded in 1491. The market itself is also a tradition, dating back to a fruit market recorded in 1661.

According to www.wikipedia.org, the ghost of William Terriss, an actor, haunts the station.

Also according to www.wikipedia.org, if one were to take a £4 tube fare from Covent Garden to Leicester Square, it would work out at £24.84 per mile!

Answer: Elephant and Castle

Although the Elephant and Castle pub was destroyed in 1959, the crest which showed the elephant and the castle was preserved. It can now be found in the shopping centre in Elephant and Castle.

The first baby to be born on the Tube was Marie Cordery in 1924, and she was born at Elephant and Castle Station.

Answer: Waterloo

The battle of Waterloo took place in France in 1815 in Belgium. There were really two armies against the French - the Anglo-Allied army, which was led by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army which was led by Gebhard von Blucher. The Anglo/Prussian victory restored Louis XVIII to the throne after he had been exiled for 100 days.

Answer: Temple

Temple is on the Circle and District Lines, and opens onto the Embankment. Temple Church itself is located in the Middle Temple, and has survived for approximately 800 years nearly intact. The Temple and the Knights Templar feature in "The da Vinci Code", which suggests that the Knights Templar was an order which was set up to protect a secret surrounding the Holy Grail.

Answer: Holborn

The station was originally called Holborn-Kingsway, Kingsway being the name of the cross-street onto which it opens (the other street being High Holborn). Kingsway itself was a street which was created in 1901 to clear the slums around the area, which is hard to believe looking at the lovely area now!

Answer: Charing Cross

Charing Cross is so-named because King Edward I set up a stone cross in the area to mark the last resting place of the cortege of his wife, Queen Eleanor. The pictures painted on the walls of the station depict the cortege.

The Charing part comes from the Anglo-Saxon village, which was called Cyrringe.

The film referred to above is "84 Charing Cross Road".

Answer: Hammersmith

Hammersmith was recorded as Hammersmyth in 1294, and as Hammersmith in 1675. Although there is some doubt about the name - some people believe that it means village (ham) on the river (hythe) - it is generally accepted that it refers to the blacksmith trade.

Answer: Barking

Phil on EastEnders used to regularly use the phrase "gone to Dagenham", meaning gone crazy, as Dagenham is three stops short of Barking on the District Line (though Phil for some reason always said it was two stops short of Barking. Perhaps he'd gone to Dagenham himself!).

Barking was originally an overground station, but was converted to a Tube station in 1902.

Answer: Shadwell

Heather Graham played Felicity Shagwell in "Austin Power: The Spy Who Shagged Me", which always makes me snigger when I go past Shadwell on the Tube! The area has been called a variation of Shadwell since 1233, when it was recorded in the Domesday Book as Shadewell.