Well done to everyone who has played along with the Hatton Garden Easter Quiz over the past two weeks - we were seriously impressed with your local and historical knowledge!
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We're sharing the
full question and answer list here - so you can have a go if you missed them the first time around, or share them will your office colleagues to see how they score.
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Happy Quizzing!
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THE QUESTIONS
A. Russia and Angola
B. Namibia and the DRC
C. India and South Africa
5. Which Leather Lane cafe was named ‘the best coffee shop in London’ by Time Out in 2020?
6. Hatton Garden takes its name from Elizabethan Chancellor Sir Christopher Hatton, but which special skill was this nobleman famous for?
A. Hunting
B. Dancing
C. Gold-smithing
7. Leather Lane is named after the boot and bag sellers who used to sell their wares on the street: True or False?
8. The architect who created the majestic Waterhouse Building (see image below) at the south end of Leather Lane also designed which famous London building?
A. The Shard
B. King’s Cross Station
C. The Natural History Museum
9. What do these words have in common, and what links them to Hatton Garden?
A. Strong
B. Gent
C. Ginger
D. Old
E. Tall
F. Montana
10. How many jewellery workshops and retailers currently call Hatton Garden home?
A. 300-400
B. 400-500
C. 500+
THE ANSWERS
1. Glen Barrett 2. Because it used to be a school, and the boy and girl figurines represent school pupils 3. Punch magazine 4. Russia and Angola 5. Prufrock 6. Dancing 7. False (it's thought to be a derivation of the name of a local merchant - Le Vrunelane) 8. The Natural History Museum 9. They were the nicknames of the perpetrators of the Hatton Garden Heist 10. 300-400