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92 Cards in this Set
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Who founded the Bank of England?
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William Paterson [in 1694].
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Who was the architect of St Mary Woolnoth?
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Nicholas Hawksmoor [built 1716-27].
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Where is there a “noon mark” in the City?
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Paternoster Square [sundial sculpture on the London Stock Exchange].
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Where did the first bomb fall on the City in World War II?
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Fore Street [Moorgate].
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Where will you find a pulpit in the City that cannot be approached from the church itself?
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All Hallows London Wall [George Dance the Younger, built 1765-67].
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How many Sheriffs are there in the City?
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Two.
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In which church will you find a monument to Inigo Jones?
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St Benet Paul’s Wharf [Queen Victoria Street].
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Which is the oldest elected office in the City?
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Sherriff of London.
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What marks the City boundary?
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Heraldic dragons [the City’s emblem].
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How many wards are there in the City?
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Twenty-five.
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Who was the architect of Smithfield Meat Market?
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Sir Horace Jones [built 1866-68].
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How many horses are used to pull the Lord Mayor’s coach?
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Six.
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Where is there a street named in honour of the joust?
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Giltspur Street, Knightrider Street.
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Where do you find statues of Agriculture, Art, Commerce and Science?
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Holborn Viaduct.
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Which is the oldest Livery Company by charter?
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Weavers [1155].
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What is the date of the oldest livery company’s charter?
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1155 [Weavers].
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Which is the senior Livery Company of the Great Twelve?
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Mercers [established 1394].
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Name the sculptor of the HSBC Gates on Peter’s Hill.
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Sir Anthony Caro.
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In which City church is there a statue of Charles I?
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St Katherine Cree [Leadenhall Street].
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In which church was the C19 poet John Keats baptised?
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St Botolph Bishopsgate.
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Who carved the relief on the Monument?
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Caius Gabriel Cibber.
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What is the weathervane of St Nicholas Cole Abbey?
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Ship / galleon.
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Which gate was added to the City in the Middle Ages?
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Moorgate.
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Where is the London Stock Exchange?
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Paternoster Square.
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Which livery companies may be at sixes and sevens?
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Merchant Taylors and Skinners [exchange sixth and seventh place every year].
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Which livery companies are involved in swan upping?
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Vintners and Dyers.
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What offices must a Lord Mayor have held in order to be elected?
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Sheriff and Alderman.
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Where is there a plaque to Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City movement?
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Moor House, London Wall.
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Who was the only signatory of Magna Carta who was not a Baron or Bishop?
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Mayor of London, William Hardel.
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For what might we know Peter de Colechurch?
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Built first stone London Bridge [built 1176-1209].
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In which church will you find the Newgate Prison execution bell?
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St Sepulchre without Newgate [Holborn Viaduct].
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Who occupied the site of present Cutlers’ Hall?
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Royal College of Physicians [1674-1825].
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What is the gold/silver hallmark for London?
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Leopard’s head.
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Which clock in London was the first to have a minute hand?
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St Dunstan in the West [Fleet Street – clock dates from 1671].
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Which City church has a station underneath it?
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St Mary Woolnoth [Bank station].
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Who is the architect of the Guildhall Art Gallery?
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Richard Gilbert Scott [opened 1999].
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What is the weathervane of St Mary le Bow?
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Dragon [flying dragon on golden ball].
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In what year was the Bank of England founded?
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1694 [by William Paterson].
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In which street is there a bust of Charles Lamb, the early-C19 essayist?
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Giltspur Street.
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Who lives in the Old Deanery?
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Bishop of London [Dean’s Yard, just south-west of St Paul’s].
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With which church do you associate Rahere?
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St Bartholomew the Great [Rahere founded it 1123].
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Who was William Wallace, to whom there is a plaque in Smithfield?
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C13 Scottish patriot.
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Which livery hall displays the dagger that is said to have killed Wat Tyler?
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Fishmongers’ Hall [Mayor William Walworth was member of the Fishmongers’ Guild].
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Which livery company has its hall at the north end of London Bridge?
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Fishmongers.
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Which livery company has its hall at the north end of Southwark Bridge?
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Vintners.
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Who founded the London penny post?
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William Dockwra [in 1680].
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Where is Hogarth’s The Good Samaritan to be seen?
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St Bartholomew’s Hospital [Great Hall Staircase].
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What is the Silent Change?
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Admission of new Lord Mayor [at Guildhall on Friday before Lord Mayor’s Show].
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Who painted the panels on the Lord Mayor’s coach?
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani.
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Why does the Lord Mayor’s procession stop at St Paul’s Cathedral?
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To receive blessing of Dean of St Paul’s.
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Who designed Mansion House?
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George Dance the Elder [built 1739-52].
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Who was the sculptor of the water feature at Lloyd’s Register of Shipping?
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William Pye.
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Where is Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress to be seen?
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Sir John Soane’s Museum, [Lincoln’s Inn Fields].
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Which is the 108th livery company?
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Security Professionals [Feb 2008].
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With which church is the Butterworth Charity linked?
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St Bartholomew the Great [distribution of hot cross buns on Good Friday].
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Which livery company gathers to listen to the Bubble Sermon?
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Stationers.
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Who endowed the City of London School in 1442?
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John Carpenter [town clerk of London].
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Which four livery companies have their coats of arms around the central area of St Paul’s?
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Mercers, Grocers, Goldsmiths, Merchant Taylors.
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After which queen is Queenhythe named?
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Matilda, wife of Henry I.
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Where is the heart of Queen Eleanor of Provence (wife of Henry III) buried?
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Greyfriars [aka Christ Church, Newgate Street].
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Which years are covered by Pepys’s diaries?
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1660 to 1669 [1 January 1660 to 3 May 1696].
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Who designed All Hallows London Wall?
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George Dance the Younger [built 1765-67].
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From which church tower did Samuel Pepys watch the progress of the Great Fire in September 1666?
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Tower of All Hallows by the Tower [aka All Hallows Barking].
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Where is the Egyptian Hall?
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Mansion House [George Dance the Elder, built 1739-52].
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In which street is there an outdoor statue of Mary, Queen of Scots?
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Fleet Street [Queen of Scots House, 143-4 Fleet Street].
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Why are there at least three churches dedicated to St Botolph?
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Patron saint of travellers.
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Where can you see the face of Sir Winston Churchill in the centre of the signs of the Zodiac?
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Bracken House, Cannon Street [astrological clock/calendar].
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With which church do you associate the Samaritans?
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St Stephen Walbrook [rector Chad Varah founded Samaritans 1953].
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Where in the City is there a street signed East Street?
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Finsbury Circus.
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What is the destination of the Lord Mayor’s Show?
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Royal Courts of Justice.
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Who was the first Mayor of London?
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Henry FitzAilwyn [in 1189].
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What is the name of the passage under the north end of Southwark Bridge?
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Fruiterers’ Passage.
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Why is Restitutus considered the first Bishop of London?
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Attended Council of Arles in 314.
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Who was Mellitus?
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C7 Bishop of London.
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When was the last Lord Mayor’s procession using livery company barges on the Thames?
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1856
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Who is the Admiral of the Port of London?
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Lord Mayor.
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Which livery company is commemorated on John Stow’s tomb?
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Merchant Taylors.
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What is the name of the only fire station in the City?
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Dowgate Fire Station [Upper Thames Street].
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Who was Anne Mowbray, whose coffin was discovered in Minories in the 1960s?
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Wife of Duke of York [she lived 1472-81].
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Where was the Armada Thanksgiving Service held, attended by Elizabeth I?
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St Paul’s Cathedral [in December 1588].
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Where are two mice to be seen eating cheese?
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Philpot Lane [between Fenchurch Street and Eastcheap].
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With what trade do you connect the name Staple, as in Staple Inn?
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The wool trade.
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Where is there a memorial to John Stow, the C16 chronicler?
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St Andrew Undershaft [St Mary Axe].
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Who supplies the horses that pull the Lord Mayor’s coach?
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Waldburgs.
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Where are the graves of Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan and William Blake?
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Bunhill Fields [off City Road between Old Street and Moorgate].
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Whose statue stands in front of St Paul’s Cathedral?
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Queen Anne.
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Where was Isaak Walton’s Compleat Angler published in 1653?
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St Dunstan in the West [Fleet Street].
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Where did the Dominicans have their headquarters in London?
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Blackfriars.
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Which is the only Nicholas Hawksmoor church in the City?
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St Mary Woolnoth [Lombard Street / King William Street].
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Name the four busts in the covered way to the Guildhall Art Gallery.
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Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys, William Shakespeare, Christopher Wren.
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When is the Lord Mayor elected?
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Michaelmas Day / 29 September.
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Who is the only person who takes precedence over the Lord Mayor in the City?
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Sovereign / monarch.
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