Around the globe in 10 mins quiz

The Tower Subway went between Tower Hill (on the North Bank) and .... off Tooley Street

• Vine Lane

• Old Station Close

• Bodmin Road

• Tower Lane

When the Tower Subway first opened in 1870 it was a narrow gauge railway that used what method of transport?

• Steam Engines

• An early form of electric train that used the left over waste from nearby linen manufactuers to power them

• Cable-hauled wooden carriages

• Condensing engines

The railway turned out to be uneconomic and so it reopened as a foot tunnel. In the first year how many passangers crossed through it?

• 500,000

• 1.1 million

• 1 million

• 400,000

A few years later Tower Bridge opened and this was toll free meaning the use of Tower Subway declined unti they closed it in 1898. It was then sold to the London Hydraulic Company who used it to

• Housed mains electrics cables inside it.

• Abandoned it.

• Used it as a tempory meeting place during the Plague

• Reopned it again as a foot tunnel but this time for free

In what year in a bid to get people to pay more tax, the government introduced a tax on all buildings that had more than 10 windows, called window tax. Hint William the 3rd was on the throne.

• 1696

• 1660

• 1701

• 1830

Answer explanation

The law-makers at the time thought it was only fair that those living in big houses paid more tax as they were deemed to be better off. For this reason this new act became known as the “tax on light and air” and although it is not recorded it is widely thought that the saying “Daylight robbery” originates from the introduction of this Act.

Cardiff has a river running through it named the....

• Afon Rheidol

• Trent

• Taff

• Severn

Cardiff is regarded as having the most .... in the world

• Stray cats

• Castles

• Sheep

• Trees

Answer explanation

Cardiff is widely regarded as being the city with the most castles in the world. The most famous amongst these is Cardiff Castle, which has stood for nearly 2,000 years at the heart of the city.

Coventry once had the only ..... outside London

• unfortified royal palace

• Stately House

• Castle

• Police force

True or False, Edinburgh Castle is actually built on an extinct volcano.

• False

• True

The Royal Mile in Edinburgh is actually how long?

• 1 mile, 107 yards

• 1 mile, 200 yards

• 10 miles

• 1595 metres