Rare Entries Quiz VIII: London

[GuyBarry]

There are no such things as "better" answers with these quizzes. All you are doing is picking a choice that you hope no one else has. And as they're all going to be bluffing and double-bluffing when choosing, there isn't much scope for skill in this.

Isn't that the skill of the game though? I thought the idea was to try to pick an answer so obscure that no one else was likely to think of it. The more time you have to research the answers, the better your chance of doing so.

[The Orange One]

The game isn't skilled as such. Imagine you were asked to provide a London Overground Station. You go for Battersea Park because that's not on the Overground map and is such less well known - but as Battersea Park is not on the Overground map and is such less well known everyone picks it! You're best going for something like Wapping.

[GuyBarry]

The game isn't skilled as such. Imagine you were asked to provide a London Overground Station. You go for Battersea Park because that's not on the Overground map and is such less well known - but as Battersea Park is not on the Overground map and is such less well known everyone picks it! You're best going for something like Wapping.

Well, that's assuming that all the other competitors know about Battersea Park. As people on this forum are likely to be highly knowledgeable about that particular subject there's a good chance that they will, but I'd have thought that on most subjects it would be possible to outwit the other players by picking an answer they hadn't thought of.

If that's not the aim, then (as someone commented in the last quiz) the questions might as well all be "pick a random number from 1 to 6".

[The Orange One]

That's a fair point - I'm just saying it's not possible all the time, especially on this quiz (any self-respecting Tube Challenger would know a lot about London!), which is something to bear in mind.

[tractakid]

These quizzes work best with a fairly limited choice of correct answers. Yes, there can sometimes be skill in finding a very obscure answer- but unless it's really not obvious, don't count on nobody else noticing it.

I have one fairly obscure answer for this quiz, but I think the question it was for will be a low scoring one anyway with far too many possible answers.

[GuyBarry]

Well if there's as little skill as people suggest, there's even less reason for letting the submission period drag on. Just send in the first list of answers you think of.

In fact that's just given me an idea...

[tubeguru]

In fact that's just given me an idea...

God ...

[The Raven]

Right, apologizes been on holiday and I promised that I would keep the quiz open until Trackakid had give me the answers. I'm working on them, be patient!

[GuyBarry]

Right, apologizes been on holiday and I promised that I would keep the quiz open until Trackakid had give me the answers. I'm working on them, be patient!

Sorry, I didn't realize you'd been on holiday. Looking forward to the results!

[The Raven]

1. Name a Greater London borough

Anonymous - Sutton
Sam - Sutton
GuyBarry - Bexley
jamesthegill - Barnet
The Orange One - Hammersmith and Fulham
Urzzz1871 - Newham
al - Bromley
greatkingrat - Hillingdon
Going Undergound - Hounslow
nozzacook - Hackney
kateyay - Havering
Laxmeesh - Merton
Trackakid - Ealing

2. Name a bridge over the river Thames that was completed in or before 1900

Anonymous - London Bridge
Sam - Hungerford
GuyBarry - Maidenhead
jamesthegill - Hungerford
The Orange One - Hungerford
Urzzz1871 - Moulsford Railway
al - Hammersmith
greatkingrat - Castle Eaton
Going Undergound - Windsor
nozzacook - Wellington Street
kateyay - Battersea
Laxmeesh - Blackfriars

Incorrect Trackakid - Midland and South Western Junction Railway

3. Name a professional football team who in the 2013/14 season, play in Greater London

Anonymous - Millwall
Sam - Brentford
GuyBarry - Wimbledon
jamesthegill - Wimbledon
Urzzz1871 - Brentford
al - QPR
greatkingrat - Brentford
Going Undergound - Chelsea
nozzacook - Wimbledon
kateyay - Fulham
Trackakid - Crystal Palace

Incorrect The Orange One - Welling United
Incorrect Laxmeesh - Sutton United

4. Name one of the original London Underground stations that opened on 10th January 1863

Anonymous - Baker Street
GuyBarry - Gower Street
jamesthegill - Bishop's Road
The Orange One - Portland Road
Urzzz1871 - Edgware Road
al - Finchley Road
greatkingrat - Edgware Road
Going Undergound - Baker Street
nozzacook - Gower Street
Laxmeesh - Gower Street
Trackakid - Baker Street

Incorrect Sam - No Answer
Incorrect kateyay - Aldersgate

5. Name a road in London that appears on the standard UK Monopoly board
Anonymous - Old Kent Road
Sam - Whitechapel Road
GuyBarry - Fenchurch Street
jamesthegill - Vine Street
The Orange One - Bow Street
Urzzz1871 - Bow Street
al - Regent Street
greatkingrat - Fleet Street
nozzacook - Pentonville road
kateyay - Piccadilly
Laxmeesh - Whitechapel Road
Trackakid - Coventry Street

Incorrect Going Underground - Bow Road

6. Name a city that the Greater London Area is officially twinned with

Anonymous - Paris
Sam - Moscow
jamesthegill - Moscow
The Orange One - Moscow
greatkingrat - Moscow
nozzacook - Moscow
Trackakid - Tokyo

Incorrect GuyBarry - Kuala Lumpur
Incorrect Urzzz1871 - Rome
Incorrect al - Pontypandy
Incorrect Going Undergound - Melun
Incorrect kateyay - Bogota
Incorrect Laxmeesh - Richmond

7. Name an island in Greater London in the River Thames
GuyBarry - Raven's Ait
jamesthegill - Eel Pie Island
The Orange One - Chiswick Eyot
Urzzz1871 - Platt's Eyot
al - Isle of Dogs
greatkingrat - Steven's Eyot
Going Undergound - Eel Pie Island
nozzacook - Raven's Ait
kateyay - Chiswick Eyot
Laxmeesh - Eel Pie Island
Trackakid - Frog Island

Incorrect Anonymous - Heaven's Ait
Incorrect Sam - Isle of Sheppey

8. Name a building or structure in Greater London over 600ft tall
Anonymous - Tower 42
Sam - 1 Canada Square
GuyBarry - Crystal Palace transmitter
The Orange One - Crystal Palace transmitter
Urzzz1871 - 8 Canada Square
al - The Shard
greatkingrat - 8 Canada Square
Going Undergound - The Shard
nozzacook - Crystal palace transmitter
kateyay - The Shard
Laxmeesh - 8 Canada Square
Trackakid - Leadenhall Buildng

Incorrect jamesthegill - 30 St Mary Axe

9. Name a tfl bus route number you can catch from London Paddington station
Anonymous - 36
Sam - 205
GuyBarry - N7
jamesthegill - 27
The Orange One - 159
Urzzz1871 - 159
greatkingrat - 36
Going Undergound - 27
nozzacook - 205
kateyay - 36
Laxmeesh - 332
Trackakid - 7

Incorrect al - 15

10. Name a Royal Park in Greater London
Anonymous - Bushy Park
Sam - Richmond Park
GuyBarry - Bushy Park
jamesthegill - Green Park
The Orange One - Richmond Park
Urzzz1871 - Kensington Gardens
al - Hyde Park
greatkingrat - Green Park
Going Undergound - Richmond Park
nozzacook - Bushy Park
kateyay - Greenwich Park
Laxmeesh - Bushy Park
Trackakid - Bushy Park

Scores
Trackakid - 90
Anonymous - 540
greatkingrat - 540
Urzzz1871 - 720
kateyay - 1080
al - 1080
The Orange One - 2160
GuyBarry - 2700
nozzacook - 2700
jamesthegill - 3240
Going Undergound - 4320
Laxmeesh - 16200
Sam - 25920

[GuyBarry]

Well done tractakid! Entering late has clearly paid off.

Just a query on question 6 - Wikipedia is under the impression that the Greater London Authority has a twinning arrangement with Kuala Lumpur, but I can't find any official list of twin towns on the GLA's site. What's your source?

[tubeguru]

Well done tractakid! Entering late has clearly paid off.

I maintain that I could have entered within minutes of the quiz starting and still chosen the same answers as him. So long as you know all the possible answers, the "skill" is in the choosing.

[GuyBarry]

Well done tractakid! Entering late has clearly paid off.

I maintain that I could have entered within minutes of the quiz starting and still chosen the same answers as him.

Well you didn't. So we shall never know.

[The Orange One]

Gahh... Moscow! It seems my random selector is very similar to everyone else's...

[tubeguru]

Well done tractakid! Entering late has clearly paid off.

I maintain that I could have entered within minutes of the quiz starting and still chosen the same answers as him.

Well you didn't. So we shall never know.

My previous performance in these quizzes suggests that I am roughly right, as I generally enter towards the start, and generally do well.