Chris Heathcote’s London-based quiz, 58 London Things, is fiendishly difficult. I’m claiming about 14 so far, and I daren’t even submit those to Chris for fear of learning that they’re all wrong anyway. Even if you know London; even if you wander around with with your head tilted upward at the buildings, eating it with your eyes, camera permanently poised, it’ll be tricky.
London Quiz
Chris Heathcote’s London-based quiz, 58 London Things, is fiendishly difficult. I’m claiming about 14 so far, and I daren’t even submit those to Chris for fear of learning that they’re all wrong anyway. Even if you know London; even if you wander around with with your head tilted upward at the buildings, eating it with…
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Heh. Send me your answers! Someone has got 20-22 (depending on how lenient I am) – but I expected him to get the highest score. 14 would be very good!
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OK, dear readers, I hang my head in shame. I got 11, depending on leniency (I hedged bets on Liberty’s possibly being”that block of shops at High Holborn … or Liberty’s”. It was Liberty’s).
My answers:
1. That block of shops at High Holborn (or Liberty’s, but I th1. That block of shops at High Holborn (or Liberty’s, but I think it’s the Holborn shops) [er Liberty’s was right!]
2. Sanderson Hotel [right]
4. Old hospital just off top of Wigmore Street (Regent St. end), Chandos Street? [wrong]
6. London College of Fashion, off Oxford St? [right]
8. Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street [wrong]
11. Queen Elizabeth Hall perhaps? I think it’s South Bank [right]
12. Numbers on some pomo-styled columns and service piping, on a building on London Wall heading towards the Museum of London roundabout. [wrong]
13. Oscar Niemayer pavillion in Hyde Park, by Serpentine Gallery. [right]
17. Barbican [right]
22. London Wall? [wrong]
24. Ikea chimneys, Valley Park, Croydon [right]
30. Jubilee Line escalator [wrong]
32. GLA building [wrong]
36. Bishopsgate arches [wrong]
38. Croydon tramlink [right]
39. Geffrye Museum [right]
43. Fitzroy Square [right]
44. Barbican concert hall foyer [wrong]
48. Millennium Bridge [right]
49. Museum of London [wrong]
53. Either Central St. Martins, or Farringdon Road heading toward Blackfriars Bridge [right, on the second guess]
58. Old Hat Factory, Soho [wrong]
The rest I didn’t know. Can’t believe I didn’t get the Gherkin tho!
Oh and I suspect Chris wouldn’t give me a bonus point for this, tho:
9. Do I get a bonus point for knowing it’s a Russian T34 (introduced to the Russian forces in the middle of WW2 in time to swing the major tank battles at Kursk and almost single-handedly begin to turn the tide against the German assault on Russia due to its superior speed, manoeuverability, and ease of construction?LikeLike
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