How London Are You? | Comments

Is the "Tower" question, a catch-question?

Th e tallest tower in London is The Shard, the tallest in the City is The Heron. But the ONLY tower on that list that is in the CITY (which is what the question asked) is the Nat West Tower (which isn't even called that anymore).

I'm 60, 100% Londoner and NEVER heard of Red Rockin'.

I live in the suburbs and say that I'm goibng "into London". (Going "into town" always meant Croydon, or Enfield or Wood Green or wherever I was living).

And "North" is anything North of Birmingham (which is Midlands).

I suspect whoever made the quiz is NOT a Londoner & possibly not even British.

Most of the answers are correct, but not the tallest building in the City of London, which was Heron Tower and is now the Cheese Grater/Walkie Talkie. Most of the buildings on the list aren't in the City proper, but east or west of it. Also, making up your own rhyming slang - Red Rockin' - is just pathetic. There is no original rhyming slang for tomato sauce (ketchup), but sauce is 'dead horse'. This quiz smells like a raspberry tart.

The options for shopping were rubbish! Who goes shopping in the city! There was no option for the West End! Whoever wrote this is clearly not a Londoner! Been here 13 years and as you didn't provide correct options for answers I got 71%! Another stupid question was you're in the West End and want to catch the Central Line to the City, what destination should your train have yet the closest station East on the Central Line was Holborn! That's not the City. Should have had Liverpool St!!!!!

As most of the people living in London now are foreign who for various reasons (rich Arabs/benefits claimants/happy to live in overcrowded conditions)can afford to live there, then it probably WAS written by somebody LIVING in London but as the daughter of a cockney, brought up in Hammersmith - they are not Londoners!

As most of the people living in London now are foreign who for various reasons (rich Arabs/benefits claimants/happy to live in overcrowded conditions)can afford to live there, then it probably WAS written by somebody LIVING in London but as the daughter of a cockney, brought up in Hammersmith - they are not Londoners!

Global001. I think you've missed the point(s)here.

1) Londoner's don't say they are going shopping in the "West End", they go "Up West" shopping.

2) The destination station of a Central line train from the West End to the City is not Holborn, it's Hainault. The end of the Central Line.

This would be more useful if the 'correct' answers appeared with the result. I only scored 30% and am shocked. But I am sure the quiz was not written by a Londoner. In fact, I think he or she is an American, as we do not write birth dates like month-day-year in London :-)

Whoever designed this quiz can't be a Londoner! Didn't have the right options for an answer in some of them! Ridiculous....... I've lived here all my life and only got 46% never heard anything so stupid. Since when has Holborn been in the city?!?!?!?!

The Shard is not in the city. It is south of the river in Southwark. The Heron tower is the tallest in the city if you include the 28 metre pole stuck on top of it. The cheesegrater is 23m taller than the Heron if you don't include it.

You are 88% London!

Were you born within the sound of Bow Bells or what? You know your plates from your boat, you're a native.

So what has Danny Baker got to do with it ? He's from Deptford which is south of the water and therefore Kent.

My parents are both born and from london. They helped me with this quiz and I still got 88%.

Danny Baker's question is unfair- he has nothing to do with London. Very few of the questions had to do with London.

Surely real Londoners would say they were 'going up the smoke'? In my time London has always been 'the smoke'. I'm not a pure Londoner but I lived 20 miles out of London until I was in my 40s.

The tallest building at present on London is not the Heron, it is the Shard. The Heron is currently the THIRD tallest building.

dronk, don't get lemon mate. You are joking aren't you?

Global001.. .92 percenter is correct.. you completely misunderstood the questions. Thirteen years obviously ain't long enough.

From Mr 100%

It says I didn't answer all the questions, but I did (guessed some!) where are the answers? I'm curious!

No- one truly goes "up West" . This is a myth made up by Eastenders writers. The correct answer is "up town" if you are not from the East End, and "the other end" if you are

The tallest building in the City is the Heron Tower which wasn't even on the list.

14%? Well I've only been to London once. And no I'm not trying to prove a point, quite frankly I'd love to live there.

Well..62% isn't too bad for a guy who was born in Washington, DC. And who has lived all of his life in it or its' suburbs. Yes, that's outside the M25.

Bulls---. I'm a londoner and it gave me 66%...fact is no true Londoner steps foot in the west end for a night out and would go shopping in kings road!

bloody years sorry ! not bloody eleven

yeah i got 40% i mean iv only lived there FOR BLOODY ELEVEN(-7 MONTHS IN PAKISTAN) .well i dont use underground so i guess theirs that,

my London skills aint to sharp bearing in mind i lived in London for about a third of my life

LOL. I'm from London but screwed up on this quiz. :)

94% ??? what did I get wrong?