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1. In the new London gallery, depicting London when the population could fit on a double decker bus, and hippos and elephants roamed Trafalgar Square, what would you NOT be able to see?
A River Wall     Postage Stamps    a 2,500 year-old bronze dagger    
Status symbols of wealth and power

2What was the Roman name for London?
Londonwick     Londonwide     Leyton     Londinium     

3. Most of us, whether we realise it or not, have seen 17th century pictures of
London painted by which Czech artist?
Rembrandt     Rubens     Wenceslaus Hollar     Picasso

4. A skull of a giant auroch, ritual objects, and a facial reconstruction of the earliest know Londoner can be found in which Museum gallery?
Prehistoric London    Ancient London     Early London  
 London Before London

5. The Museum of London is situated on a road that has a famous Roman connections.
What is it called?
Wide Road     Roman Road     Big Road     London Wall

6. Until the second half of the 19th century, Londoners were still drinking water from the very same portions of the Thames that the open sewers were discharging into. Several outbreaks of cholera followed, and the stench of the Thames caused Parliament to recess. What was this period infamously known as?
1858 Cholera Epidemic     The Great Stink     The Great Sewer  
The Big Smell

7. In the World City galleries you will find an evocative street with shops, offices and workshops with many types of businesses and shops recreated, including a pharmacy,
a bank and a stationer. What sort of products did the tobacconist sell?
Smoking accessories    bed linen     clothing     sweets

8. What real London Treasure was recently unearthed at Plantation Place in the City of London?
a statue of Eros    The Crown Jewels    a hoard of Roman gold coins
London Wall

9.In about AD50, the Romans set up a trading post on the north bank of the Thames
that was to become Londinium. The remains of an important structure from that time
can still be seen from the Roman gallery window. What is it?
remains of the city wall    a well     a bridge     a fishing boat

10. Which celebrated London diarist's achievements can be explored on the
300th anniversary of his death?
Samuel Johnson    Oliver Cromwell     Samuel Pepys     John Pepys

11. Through the numerous and detailed journal entries that Pepys left behind,
he revealed the social life of Londoners during the Restoration, when the capital
rose from the ashes. What devastating event had recently taken place?
Great Fire of London     the storming of the Bastille     the Great Flood  
smallpox epidemic

12. On health: "…there dying 1,089 of the plague this week. My lady Carteret did this
day give me a bottle of plague-water [to take] home with me." July 1665.
Who wrote this?
Daniel Defoe     Samuel Pepys     Samuel Johnson    John Pepys

13. Only approximately one tenth of the Museum of London's collections of over a million objects are displayed at any one time. Where is the reserve collection housed?
Mortimer Store     Mortimer Wheeler House    Hackney Marshes
Canary Wharf

14. The Lord Mayor's coach is one of the Museum of London's most memorable exhibits. It was built in 1757 at a cost of £860. For which annual parade is this magnificent coach taken through the streets of the City of London?
Coin Street Festival     River Festival     Lord Mayor of London Show
Harvest Festival

15. The new Museum in Docklands (opens 24 May, 2003) will tell the story of London's River, Port and People. Where is it?
West Ham     West End     West India Quay     West Africa Quay

16. What momentous event in the 17th century is recreated in the Fire Experience?
the Black Death     Great Fire of London     the Frost Fair
the discovery of fire

17. Discovered in 1912, what does the Cheapside Hoard consist of?
Jewellery     Coins     Postage Stamps     Writing tools

18. Artifacts from which of King Henry Vlll's palaces can be seen at the Museum?
Buckingham Palace     Hampton Court     Greenwich Palace    
Nonsuch Palace

19. What is the name of the famous Panorama that captures the City of London
in remarkable detail before the arrival of trains caused the massive urban sprawl?
London Panorama    Rhinebeck Panorama     Rhine Panorama  
Thames Panorama

20. In what year did the Museum of London open?
1976     2000    1901    1873     

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