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1. According to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from which London Pub did the Pilgrims gather to start their Pilgrimage?
2. One of the very few London Pubs to survive the Great Fire in 1666 this hostelry graces Fleet Street today. It still retains the original oak beams and atmosphere of a London Chop House. Graced by Johnson, Galsworthy, Boswell, Dickens, Tennyson and many other literay giants of the past. Still open for service today. Called what?
3. Built in 1623 in Rose Street Covent Garden, it was once known as the "Bucket of Blood" but was renamed in the 17th century. It is one of the few wooden-framed buildings to survive in central London.
4. This Inn takes its name from Nathaniel Bentley, a well-known Dandy of his day, whose fiancée died on the eve of their wedding. He locked up the dining room complete with the wedding breakfast and spent the rest of his life in squalor. Not surprisingly, the Inn which now stands on this site is called?
5. Still in Fleet Street, the names of the proprietors of this now renamed pub in 1817 are listed as Robert Gray and Moses Pickwick and Co. It was Moses' surname that inspired Dickens to write his serialised literary classic 'The Pickwick Papers'. This pub later became famous for being the first out of Ireland to sell draught Guinness. What is its name today?
6. This Tavern itself was originally called The Crown and Sugarloaf. It is situated in Fleet Street, a stone's throw from Ludgate Circus, and St Paul's Cathedral. It was on these premises in 1841 that a very famous literary and satirical magazine was created. This pub has since been filled with memorabilia connected with the character after whom both the pub and magazine were named. What is the pub called today?
7. Legend has it that the highwayman Dick Turpin was born here on 21 September, 1705. This Inn was built around 1585 and gets its name from the fact that it was the country retreat of the Spanish Ambassador to James I of England and VI of Scotland.
8. This Pub was built in 1520 it started life as the Devils' Tavern and was popular with smugglers. Its famous clients were reputedly Dickens, Pepys and Whistler. What name is it known by today?
9. This Inn is the only galleried coaching inn left in London and is in Borough High Street.
10. Which King of England decreed that Inns in London were to be called "The White Hart".
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