LONDON QUIZ

Travis Elborough, Nick Rennison
Price £9.99
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How well do you know London? Here are 400 provocative, curious and humorous questions to enlighten and entertain.

Even the most devoted Londoner will learn something new from these fun and wide-ranging trivia questions about London's history, monuments, architecture, famous residents, place-names, notable events, and more. A delightful way to explore the city, this fun book is a perfect stocking filler, with history ranging from obscure lore to facts and fascinating, often humorous histories.

Where is the only cross-eyed statue in London and who does it depict?

a) Next to the Royal Exchange in the City of London; George Peabody, the nineteenth-century American-born philanthropist

b) At the point where Fetter Lane and New Fetter Lane converge; John Wilkes, the eighteenth-century politician

c) Islington Green; Sir Hugh Myddleton, the seventeenth-century entrepreneur

Answer: b) John Wilkes really did have a severe squint, as reproduced in the statue, but despite his looks, he was a legendary and eloquent womanizer who once said that, when meeting an attractive woman, it took him only ten minutes "to talk away his face."

 

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Format:
Format Trade Paperback 240 Pages
ISBN:
ISBN 9780711236066
Size:
Size5.08 in x 7.80 in / 129.00 mm x 198.00 mm
Published:
Published Date June 5th, 2014
Travis Elborough
Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now. His book include The Bus We Loved, a history of the Routemaster bus;The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records; and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. Elborough is a regular contributor to the Observer and the Guardian but has written for the Times, Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Oldie, TATE etc., BBC History magazine and Kinfolk among others and frequently appears on BBC Radio 4 and Five Live.
Nick Rennison
A former bookseller and Web-site editor, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, and cultural commentator for the last decade. His books include The Bus We Loved: London's Affair with the Routemaster and The Vinyl Countdown. Nick Rennison has worked as a writer, editor, and bookseller for more than twenty years. His London Blue Plaque Guide has been through three editions in the last decade and he has also published The Book of London Lists, described by the London Evening Standard as a book that "can teach even the most die-hard Londoner something they didn't know." Both of them live in London.
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