TARA Quiz

20 questions to test your local knowledge…

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From famous faces to foreign lands, find out how well you know your neighbourhood with the TARA Quiz. All answers are correct-ish as of November 2025.

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1. Here's an easy one to start you off. Which zone is Nine Elms tube station in?

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2. Everyone knows this. Which Absolutely Fabulous star lives in Albert Square?

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3. Walberswick (as in Walberswick Street) is...

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4. Who is your MP? (Specifically: who is the Member of Parliament for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green?)

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5. Near the war memorial in Stockwell Memorial Garden stands a 10ft high bronze statue of a woman. What is she holding?

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6. The Tate South Lambeth Library is named after its benefactor, Sir Henry Tate. Tate made his fortune from a patented machine which made cubes out of what?

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7. Which of these local pubs is the only one situated on the corner of Trenchold Street, SW8?

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8. Which James Bond lived in Albert Square as a boy?

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9. Here's a 50/50 for you. Which building is taller? The St George Wharf Tower or the BT Tower?

 

 

 

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10. When gay nightlife drifted from Soho to SW8 around 2010, by what four-letter soubriquet did gay Vauxhall briefly become known?

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11. Much of the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette was shot on Wilcox Road. The character of Johnny Burfoot was played by which multiple Best Actor Oscar winner?

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12. What’s the name of the woman who works in Madeira Só Peixe (the fish shop)?

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13. "Bloated hoodlum trash" is an anagram of which four-word TARA street?

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14. Where did John Tradescant keep his famous museum of curiosities in South Lambeth?

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15. Each Victoria line station platform’s tiles are based on a local theme. For example, Brixton has bricks as shown in this photograph. But what is the motif on Stockwell's platform?

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16. True or False? The motor manufacturer Vauxhall Motors is so named because it was once based in Vauxhall.

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17. Although the area is often referred to as 'Little Portunal' a large proportion of the Portuguese speakers in the area are not from mainland Portugal but from an island. Which one? .

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18. In which language is ‘Vauxhall’ roughly the word for ‘railway station’ ?

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19. Francophone means ‘French-speaking’, but what is the word for ‘Portuguese speaking’?

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20. Which organization’s Vauxhall offices have the mysterious postal address:
PO Box 1300, London SE1 1BD?

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