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Exploring the City of London: A Quiz on Its Unique Features

Test your knowledge about the City of London with this engaging quiz that covers its unique features, history, and governance.

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1 Of the 354 English districts, it is the second smallest by population, after the ________, and the smallest by area.

2 What is the postcode of City of London?

3 What type of subdivision is City of London?

4 The local authority for the City, the ________, is unique in the United Kingdom, and has some unusual responsibilities for a local authority in Britain, such as being the police authority for the City.

5 How many metres above sea level is City of London?

6 ________ and Middle Temple (which neighbour each other) are two of the few remaining liberties, an old name for a geographic division.

7 What is the motto of City of London?

8 What is the leader of City of London called?

9 What timezone is City of London in?

10 Who of the following is/was the leader of City of London?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the City & South London Railway, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark.
  • the Temple Bar marks the western edge of the City of London.
  • the practice of stacking dead bodies and covering them with soil instead of digging graves has left Postman's Park, a former burial ground in the City of London, elevated above street level.
  • until the 19th century, Blackwell Hall in the City of London controlled England's main commercial activity—the cloth trade.
  • the parish church of James Parkinson, after whom Parkinson's disease is named, was St Leonard's, Shoreditch, a church just outside the City of London and most famous for being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons".
  • St Martin Orgar, a church in the City of London most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons, was all but destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
  • Old St Paul's Cathedral (pictured) in the City of London, destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London, had one of the tallest spires in the world.
  • Robert Brandon, goldsmith to Queen Elizabeth I and later Chamberlain of London, was the father-in-law of the artist Nicholas Hilliard and of Captain John Martin of the Jamestown Colony.
  • Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London's last remaining lollipop lady since 1990.
  • Sir James Shaw established the right of the Lord Mayor of London to take precedence in processions in The City of London over all except the reigning monarch.
  • Montfichet's Tower was a fortress in central London first mentioned around 1136.
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