The 2014 London Reconnections Xmas Quiz Is Here!

Deck the halls, it is that time of year again! Twenty-one questions to test your transport knowledge with the promise of prizes for those who do best!

Right now those prizes include the usual selection of transport books to spread around the top scoring entrants, but also some special items for those scoring highest.

Thanks to Crossrail we once again have something rather unique – a couple of DVD copies of the BBC documentary The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, part of a very small limited edition run that were produced at time of broadcast.

We also have two of Corgi’s finest limited edition 1:120 scale models from their Railway Legends series to give away:

BR 4-6-2 Britannia Class ‘Robin Hood’ 70038

BR 4-6-2 A3 Class ‘Prince of Wales’ 60054

Our prize-scrounging is not over yet either, and hopefully we can drum up some more interesting prizes as well.

How to enter and rules

To enter send your answers to [email protected] with the word “quiz” in the subject line somewhere on or before 30th December 2014. Answers and winners will be posted on 31st December 2014.

Please be aware that by entering you are giving us permission to at least print your initials if you win a prize. If you’d prefer to by known by a pseudonym, just let us know in your entry email instead.

To try and keep things fair, please resist the urge to to post answers in the comments – although clues may be permitted (at our discretion).

Finally, before we begin, a quick reminder that we’ll be out for our Christmas drinks this Thursday at the Blue Posts. As always everyone is welcome and if you’re after clues then, with our normal selection of knowledgeable regulars and drunk editorial staff in attendance, that is definitely the place to be.

Special thanks this year to those individuals at both Crossrail and TfL who have now become almost as adept at spotting a good Xmas quiz question as we are, and for being forthcoming with some very obscure photos when asked.

Thanks also, from all of us here at London Reconnections, to all of you out there for reading, commenting and spotting throughout the year. Without you LR wouldn’t be one tenth as interesting or as useful as it is.

Merry Christmas everyone!

The LR Team
December 2014

And now onto the questions…

Question 1

Easy warm up question Whose bright idea is this?

Question 2

Frank Pick only received one state honour in his life. What was it?

Question 3

This lady is something of a Christmas Quiz regular. Who is she and where will you find this particular statue of her?

Question 4

What links Sunbury and Hampton with California, aquatically speaking?

Question 5

Where is this? (n.b. the question is where not what)? Who designed this poster?

Question 6

The District Line can boast something unique – a fictional Underground station inside a fictional Underground station. What are they both called, and how did they get their names?

Question 7

What links this rather spectacular piece of heraldry to a London terminus – and which one?

Question 8

Where are we now? Where were we in 1981?

Question 9

You can change for international travel at various points on the TfL network, but where is the only UK Border and Customs facility on TfL’s premises?

Question 10

Which passengers won’t have to wait much longer to catch a train from here?

Question 11

What is the most westerly Transport for London bus stop in regular use? For a bonus, which unusual route serves it and what description of it on the stop is unique?

Question 12

What particular part of the TfL Empire now occupies the space below?

Question 13

What connection is there between this picture and the London Overground? In particular which station could you associate with it?

Question 14

What went from Penge Station to Lordship Lane Station and can now be found not far from the Strand in central London?

Question 15

Where are we? And apart from the station sign, what is missing from this picture?

Question 16

If you’re at St Pancras and find yourself in need of a rest you might sit here, but why are these benches so distinctive?

Question 17

“Good lord!” Said a businessman on the Tube at Baker Street to the passenger opposite him one day, “Do people ever tell you that you are the spitting image of [redacted]?”

“Frequently.” Deadpanned his fellow traveller with a slightly abashed smile.

Which post-war British Prime Minister and frequent Underground user had the businessman bumped into without realising it?