General Knowledge Questions
OUR Weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Miss G. Pitt, 8 Wyndhain
Crescent, N. 19, for the following :— _
• Questions on London
1. At what place in London is curfew still rung ? 2. Where was Holywifil Street and when was it demolished ? .
3. What is the connexion between London and Thomas Hardy's Isle of Slingers " ?
4. What famous London 'thoroughfare is still lit with gas ? • 5. Who were the architects of :---(a) the Albert Memorial, (a) the Monument, (c) the London County Hall, (d) Gieenwich Hospita•
(e) the Adelphi ? •
6. What character in fiction was " fond of wandering about the
• Adelphi " ?
7. (a) " Madrigal in stone " .• (b) AflO4 upon ethereal tides . . above the city rides." What London" churches are referred to, and by what poets ?
8. Where is Crooked Usage, and what is the origin of the name`? • 9. In which London park is there a cemetery for dogs ? •
10. What- popular London institution celebrates its cententu* this year ? 11. Where are (a) Lavender Pond, (b) Marygold Stairs ? 12: Where was Tyburn, and when was the-last. execution.therel 13. Why are there bars at the entrance to the passage between Lansdowne House and Devonshire -House ?
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