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Know London

There’s plenty you might not know about your city.  We bring you the quirky, unusual, thought provoking and sometimes, the downright disturbing.
Think you Know London?  Find out…

London’s history is overflowing with bizarre facts, so how well do you know the city?

Below are 3 questions, each with 3 possible answers, only one is correct. Do you know the right answers?

The answers can be seen by highlighting the space next to “Answer” using your mouse.

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini so enjoyed the song ‘The Lambeth walk’ from 1937 musical Me and My Girl that he…

A - Engaged a London girl to travel to Italy to teach it to him.
B - Broke his collarbone after falling over during a raucous rendition at the British Embassy in Rome.
C - Would regularly hold Cockney inspired extravaganzas at his home reciting cockney rhyming slang.

Answer – A

It is law that all London Black cabs should carry…

A - A long bow for quick and ready defence of the city.
B - A bale of hay and oats - Hackney carriages were originally horse drawn and regulations stated that no horse should go hungry.
C - A bowler hat - the passenger compartment in all black cabs must be high enough that a bowler-hatted passenger can sit in comfort.

Answer – B

What is the chicken run?

A - A corridor in the Royal Courts of Justice – the origin of the nickname not being hard to deduce!
B - A route passing through Cheapside and over London Bridge where Freemen are allowed to transport chickens without having to pay a toll.
C - An annual Easter themed event around Hyde Park hatched to raise money to re-home commercial laying hens.

Answer - A