General Knowledge Questions
Tun Editor awards the prize of one guinea, offered weekly for the best General Knowledge paper (with answers), to Mr. M. Dane for the following :-
What Do You Know of London?
1. In what street did the houses first bear numbers ?
2. Where are : Domesday Book, Shakespeare's will, the Essex Ring, the Portland Vase, John Wesley's teapot ? 3. What West-end thoroughfare has no lamp-posts ? 4. Where are the following : Old Vic, New Bedford, Old Change, and 'The Old Bull and Bush' ?
5. In which Squares are to be seen : (1) The metal standard measure ; (2) Trees which provide annually a basket of mulberries for the Lord Mayor ?
6. Where is the inscription : " When ye search the city round, This is still the highest ground " ?
7. After whom were the following named :—Duke Street, W.C. 2 ; Catherine Street, W.C. 2 ; Carmelite Street ; Harley Street ; Hans Place ?
8. What is the present use of the following :—St. John's Gate, Road)
Cros ? by Hall, Canonbury Tower, Geffrye Almshouses (Kingsbmd 9. Who made and named the Serpentine ? 10. What three women have been commemorated by statues during the present century in London ?
11. Where is " Postman's Park "
12. On what sites took place the execution (1) of a King of Eng- land ; (2) of a Queen ?
. 13. For whose benefit were legacies left for the annual provision of the Baddeley Cake and of Doggett's Coat and Badge
Answers will be found on page 300.
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