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1. Who in London wears a bobbing hat? the Metropolitan Police the fish porters at Billingsgate ladies at the Ascot races the Yeomen Warders of the Tower

2. Who was the first English Prime Minister to live in number 10 Downing Street ? Sir Robert Walpole Gladstone Hugh Walpole Disraeli

3. Traditionally the Prime Minister lives in number 10, Downing Street. Who in that tradition then gets number 11, Downing Street as his or her residence ? the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Government's Chief Whip of the Foreign Secretary the wife of the Prime Minister

4. Some streetnames in the City of London point to the economic activities typical of certain streets.Which of these names was (literally) the 'Shopping Street' of medieval London? Cheapside Bread Street Poultry Lane Milk Street

5. Which of these street names refers to the presence of foreign bankers in medieval London? Threadneedle Street Gresham Street Lloyds Avenue Lombard Street

6. What's the name of the lake in Hyde Park? the Serpentine Little Venice the Lido the Round Pond

7. What religious symbols can be seen on the Cenotaph in Whitehall? Turkish half moon and Christian cross the Latin-Greek cross and the Greek-Orthodox cross a Jewish menorah and a Christian cross none

8. Which of these London streetmarkets, is, in its full version, held on Sundays only? Which of these London street markets takes place on Sundays only? Petticoat Lane Portobello Market Berwick Street Leather Lane

9. Soho is the foreign-looking 'island' bounded by Shaftesbury Avenue, Oxford Street and Regent Street. Who were the first 'immigrants' who gave this area a foreign flavour? Flemish weavers Huguenot refugees from France Italians fleeing from fascist Italy Poles who did not want to return to their homecountry after World War II

10. Which of these was London's most important wholesale vegetable and fruit market till that market moved to Nine Elms south of the Thames? Covent Garden Smithfield Billingsgate Camden Town