I found this quiz easier than the Australia one, which means I've been living in the UK for far too long. I'm really enjoying these A-Z quizzes, though.
Presumably the tube station labelled on the map as "Angel" is located in the borough of Islington. I got that one right thanks to a stab in the dark based on Monopoly...
I scored 19 and was thinking the same thing, until I realized I only received one point, so I guess it's not so good. I was sort of close on some, though - Isling instead of Islington, Galway instead of Gatwick, and Strand and Shand instead of Shard.
A bit late, but the Queen’s (or rather, the King’s) official residence is Buckingham Palace, but it’s widely known that the late Queen referred to it as ‘the office.’ She mainly resided in Windsor Castle, whilst conducting official business and engagements (including weekly audiences with the PM) at ‘Buck House.’
Just spent a weekend where I ended up at the Angel tube station every day but I didn't know that's where Islington was... the place I was going to started with an E.
As a driver it is where you have to wait for longer than usual for idiots to walk across the road in single file. There's usually 4 of them at a time. Frustrating.
I guess they choose it so americans had a bigger chance of guessing it? otherwise they might have thought, crosswalk does not start with a z and neither does trafficlight. or perhaps even think of things like deer crossing, if the question was merely "type of crossing"
Handel’s opera ‘Xerxes’ was first performed in London in 1738. It only ran for 5 performances and was an unmitigated disaster. Xerxes wasn’t heard for another 200 years, but has since become Handel’s most popular opera, and they’ve kept his house at 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, open as a museum commemorating him. Two x’s there for the price of one!
I live in Australia, I have never left Queensland but love London by what I've heard, I wanna travel to London one day and witness life, I have the perception that the football culture would be like green street hooligans which is daunting, anyone living in London wanna take me under there wing?
Miss k, l, o, s, v And only Shard I could ve gotten I think. (other sound vaguely familiar, but so vaguely, I wouldnt have come up with it myself). Still, pleased enough with the 20/25 I got. (though I suspect the results are a bit skewed, I only beat 40% with that, so I think a lot of people avoided this quiz and it is mainly British people that took the quiz.)
btw (but hard to implement maybe) but i think it would be awesome if you could see in a quiz the percentages of nationalities that took a quiz. (Even better if it is per answer, but that would clutter everything up)
Never been to London, unfortunately, and didn't know the "Angel tube station locale." Suddenly, my fingers just typed out the correct answer. Very weird. Still not sure what happened there.
I know I am being a pedant, but Gatwick is not in London, albeit it calls itself London Gatwick for commercial and logistical reason. It is around 10 miles from the southern border of Greater London.
I wouldn’t call it pedantry. Those of us who are natives of Southend-on-Sea usually take umbrage at our airport being called ‘London Southend,’ given that they’re totally separate cities, about 45 miles away from each other!
It's been nineteen years since I lived in London, before the Shard was built, but I still got all but the cricket arena right. Just can't learn sport facts, I guess. :)
London, born and raised!
You are correct Buckingham Palace is the main Palace where the queen lives.
See here on Wikipedia for a list of each royals' (many) residences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_royal_residences
btw (but hard to implement maybe) but i think it would be awesome if you could see in a quiz the percentages of nationalities that took a quiz. (Even better if it is per answer, but that would clutter everything up)