Hampstead - Quiz
Hampstead
  • 1. Which museum is located at 20 Maresfield Gardens?
A) Fenton House
B) Keats House Museum
C) Burgh House
D) Freud Museum
  • 2. Where is the Catto Gallery located?
A) 28 Heath Street
B) 100 Heath Street
C) 20 Maresfield Gardens
D) 1 Perrin's Court
  • 3. Which highwayman is said to have taken refuge at the Spaniard's Inn?
A) William IV
B) Jack Straw
C) Dick Turpin
D) Philip Jackson
  • 4. What has Jack Straw's Castle been converted into?
A) An art gallery
B) Residential flats
C) A cinema
D) A museum
  • 5. In what year did McDonald's close in Hampstead?
A) 2010
B) 1986
C) 1992
D) 2013
  • 6. Which street food vendor in Hampstead is often visited by celebrities?
A) Bagel Street
B) La Creperie de Hampstead
C) Gail's
D) Giraffe World Kitchen
  • 7. Where is the Pentameters Theatre located?
A) 28 Heath Street
B) Eton Avenue
C) 5 Holly Bush Vale
D) 14 Flask Walk
  • 8. Which of these cafes/restaurants became a successful chain after testing in Hampstead?
A) Giraffe World Kitchen
B) The Wells Tavern
C) The Holly Bush
D) McDonald's
  • 9. Which pub was known for being gas-lit until recently?
A) The Holly Bush
B) The Garden Gate
C) The Magdala
D) The Flask
  • 10. What is the address of the Keats House Museum?
A) New End Square
B) Hampstead Grove
C) Hampstead Lane
D) Keats Grove
  • 11. Which artist has NOT been represented by the Catto Gallery?
A) Jack Straw
B) Philip Jackson
C) Chuck Elliott
D) Ian Berry
  • 12. What is the former name of The Horseshoe?
A) Ye Olde White Bear
B) The Three Horseshoes
C) The Old Bull and Bush
D) Jack Straw's Castle
  • 13. Where is the Hampstead Theatre situated?
A) New End Square
B) Eton Avenue
C) Heath Street
D) Holly Bush Vale
  • 14. In what year was the Catto Gallery established in Hampstead?
A) 1992
B) 1986
C) 1998
D) 2013
  • 15. Which pub is also known as KW4?
A) The Duke of Hamilton
B) The Magdala
C) The Wells Tavern
D) King William IV
  • 16. Which area is separated from Hampstead by Hampstead Heath?
A) Camden Town
B) Highgate
C) Golders Green
D) Islington
  • 17. Where can the legally protected view of the London skyline be found?
A) Lawn Road
B) Parliament Hill
C) Hampstead Square
D) Kenwood House
  • 18. What were the swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath originally used for?
A) Industrial waste
B) Irrigation
C) Fish farming
D) Drinking water reservoirs
  • 19. The swimming ponds on the Heath are the sources of which river?
A) River Wandle
B) River Lea
C) River Fleet
D) River Thames
  • 20. What is the local name for the bridge built in anticipation of residential building on the Heath?
A) The Green Viaduct
B) The Red Arches
C) The Hampstead Span
D) The London Bridge
  • 21. Where are open-air concerts held on summer Saturday evenings?
A) On Pond Street
B) Near the Isokon building
C) At Fenton House
D) Below Kenwood House
  • 22. Which house hosts period harpsichord recitals?
A) The Isokon building
B) Fenton House
C) Kenwood House
D) Holly Place
  • 23. What is the largest employer in Hampstead?
A) Notting Hill Housing Trust
B) AIR recording studios
C) Royal Free Hospital
D) Hampstead Scientific Society
  • 24. Who founded the AIR recording studios in Lyndhurst Road?
A) Jim Henson
B) Walter Gropius
C) George Martin
D) Agatha Christie
  • 25. Where did Jim Henson's Creature Shop relocate after leaving Hampstead?
A) California
B) London City Centre
C) New York
D) Texas
  • 26. Which building is a Grade I listed experiment in collective housing?
A) The Village Shul
B) The Isokon building
C) Kenwood House
D) Fenton House
  • 27. Which famous author once lived in the Isokon building?
A) George Orwell
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Agatha Christie
D) Charles Dickens
  • 28. Who restored the Isokon building?
A) The Royal Free Hospital
B) Notting Hill Housing Trust
C) The City of London
D) The Hampstead Scientific Society
  • 29. Which architect originally built St Stephen's, Rosslyn Hill in 1869?
A) Walter Gropius
B) George Martin
C) Henry Moore
D) Samuel Sanders Teulon
  • 30. Where is the Village Shul located?
A) Hampstead Square
B) Frognal Lane
C) 27 New End
D) 4 Holly Place
  • 31. What is St Stephen's, Rosslyn Hill currently described as?
A) An active synagogue
B) A recording studio
C) A residential housing block
D) A deconsecrated church
  • 32. Which party has held the Hampstead seat since 1992?
A) Conservative
B) Liberal Democrat
C) Labour
D) Green Party
  • 33. Who is the current representative for the Hampstead and Highgate constituency?
A) Michael Idov
B) Mrs Dutt-Pauker
C) Tulip Siddiq
D) Peter Simple
  • 34. Who satirised the 'Hampstead Liberal' character in the 1960s?
A) Michael Idov
B) Nikolai Bukharin
C) Tulip Siddiq
D) Peter Simple
  • 35. What unusual item was allegedly on display at Marxmount House?
A) Bukharin's false teeth
B) A Ming statue
C) Stalin's glasses
D) A neo-constructivist crown
  • 36. How did Michael Idov describe the Hampstead community?
A) The center of British industry
B) A poor working-class district
C) Citadel of the moneyed liberal intelligentsia
D) A stuffy aristocratic enclave
  • 37. How many Conservative councillors does Frognal ward elect?
A) Two
B) One
C) Zero
D) Three
  • 38. Which party holds three council seats in Belsize ward?
A) Green Party
B) Conservative
C) Labour
D) Liberal Democrat
  • 39. Which political parties share representation in Hampstead Town ward?
A) Liberal Democrat and Conservative
B) Green and Labour
C) Labour and Conservative
D) Labour and Liberal Democrat
  • 40. Which ward is described as a safe Conservative ward?
A) South Hampstead
B) Hampstead Town
C) Frognal
D) Belsize
  • 41. What percentage of voters in the London Borough of Camden voted to remain in the 2016 EU referendum?
A) 50%
B) 60%
C) 85%
D) 75%
  • 42. Which northern towns were contrasted with Hampstead regarding the 2016 referendum result?
A) Sheffield and Newcastle
B) Hartlepool and Hull
C) York and Durham
D) Manchester and Leeds
  • 43. Is the term 'Hampstead Liberal' synonymous with 'champagne socialist'?
A) Only in the 1960s
B) No
C) Yes, officially
D) Yes
  • 44. When was Hampstead Underground station opened?
A) 1964
B) 1932
C) 1899
D) 1907
  • 45. In what year was the Isokon building completed?
A) 1907
B) 1964
C) 1938
D) 1932
  • 46. When was the Swiss Cottage Central Library built?
A) 1980
B) 1932
C) 1964
D) 1975
  • 47. During which decade was the Royal Free Hospital built?
A) Mid-1970s
B) 1980s
C) 1950s
D) 1960s
  • 48. On what date did Hampstead enter the UK Weather Records for rainfall?
A) 12 July 1964
B) 14 August 1975
C) 20 November 2008
D) 15 August 1980
  • 49. How much rain fell in Hampstead during the record-breaking rainfall event in 1975?
A) 190 mm
B) 169 mm
C) 155 mm
D) 140 mm
  • 50. What was the average property price in Hampstead in 2018?
A) £2 million
B) £500,000
C) £1 million
D) £1.5 million
  • 51. In what year did Hampstead become part of the County of London?
A) 1889
B) 1907
C) 1965
D) 1899
  • 52. When was the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead formed?
A) 1899
B) 1932
C) 1889
D) 1965
  • 53. What else was located at the Town Hall on Haverstock Hill?
A) Museum
B) Police Station
C) Register Office
D) Central Library
  • 54. In what year was the metropolitan borough of Hampstead abolished?
A) 1999
B) 1989
C) 1965
D) 1975
  • 55. How far is Hampstead from Charing Cross?
A) 2 miles
B) 10 miles
C) 4 miles
D) 6 miles
  • 56. Which London borough contains the majority of Hampstead?
A) Camden
B) Westminster
C) Islington
D) Barnet
  • 57. What does the name Hampstead mean in Modern English?
A) Hidden valley
B) High place
C) Holy stone
D) Homestead
  • 58. When were the medicinal qualities of Hampstead's chalybeate waters first advertised?
A) 1650
B) 1700
C) 1800
D) 1750
  • 59. What kind of mineral is impregnated in chalybeate water?
A) Magnesium
B) Sulfur
C) Iron
D) Calcium
  • 60. What evidence of a hunter-gatherer community around 7000 BCE was found at Hampstead Heath?
A) Mesolithic flint tools
B) Iron swords
C) Viking ships
D) Gold coins
  • 61. Which king granted Hampstead to the monastery of St. Peter's at Westminster in 986 AD?
A) William the Conqueror
B) Edward the Confessor
C) Alfred the Great
D) Ethelred the Unready
  • 62. What historic book refers to Hampstead as being in the Middlesex hundred of Ossulstone?
A) Magna Carta
B) The Doomsday Register
C) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
D) Domesday Book
  • 63. In what year was the Hampstead spa demolished?
A) 1882
B) 1750
C) 1900
D) 1800
  • 64. Which area borders Hampstead to the south?
A) Golders Green
B) Belsize Park
C) Highgate
D) Barnet
  • 65. Where is the kidnap sequence of The Collector (1965) set?
A) Haverstock Hill
B) Well Walk
C) Mount Vernon
D) Parliament Hill
  • 66. Which movie features the 'Cruella de Vil Mansion' (Sarum Chase) on West Heath Road?
A) The Wedding Date
B) Notting Hill
C) Notes on a Scandal
D) 101 Dalmatians
  • 67. In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025), who is Bridget's late husband?
A) Daniel Cleaver
B) Colin Firth
C) Mark Darcy
D) Jack Qwant
  • 68. What percentage of the Hampstead Town ward population was identified as white in the 2021 census?
A) 77.7%
B) 70.3%
C) 65.5%
D) 82.1%
  • 69. What was the largest non-white ethnic group in Hampstead Town according to the 2021 census?
A) Black
B) Mixed
C) Asian
D) Arab
  • 70. What percentage of the population in Hampstead Town was reported as irreligious in the 2021 census?
A) 32.6%
B) 37.9%
C) 11.0%
D) 28.5%
  • 71. Which underground line serves Hampstead station?
A) Jubilee Line
B) Victoria Line
C) Metropolitan Line
D) Northern Line
  • 72. Which London Overground line runs through Hampstead Heath and Finchley Road & Frognal?
A) Mildmay line
B) Lioness line
C) Suffragette line
D) Windrush line
  • 73. In what year was the railway project from Swiss Cottage to Hampstead cancelled?
A) 1917
B) 1860
C) 1870
D) 1930
  • 74. What was the name of the proposed cycle route intended to connect Swiss Cottage to the West End?
A) CS1
B) CS24
C) CS46
D) CS11
  • 75. Which road links Hampstead directly to Marylebone and Oxford Street?
A) A502/Hampstead High Street
B) Well Walk
C) Flask Walk
D) A41/Finchley Road
  • 76. Approximately how many English Heritage blue plaques are in Hampstead?
A) Fewer than 20
B) Over 200
C) Exactly 100
D) At least 60
  • 77. Which magazine based in Hampstead is described as left-wing?
A) Country Life
B) Tribune
C) Camden New Journal
D) Hampstead Village Voice
  • 78. What major motorway is accessible by traveling northbound on the A41/Finchley Road?
A) M1
B) M4
C) M11
D) M25
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