TARA Quiz – Tradescant Area Residents Association

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?

1. Zone 1

2. Zone 2

3. Zone 3

4. Zones 1/2

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

1. Joanna Lumley

2. Jennifer Saunders

3. Julia Sawalha

4. Jane Horrocks

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

1. A disease of sheep

2. A village in Suffolk

3. An old term for a candle-maker

4. Another name for a codpiece

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

1. Kate Hoey

2. Florence Eshalomi

3. Floella Benjamin

4. Laurence Fox

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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?

1. A Greggs sausage roll

2. A can of Red Stripe

3. An iPhone

4. A baby

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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?

1. Ice

2. Sugar

3. Salt

4. Tofu

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

1. The Canton Arms

2. The Griffin Belle

3. Nolan's

4. Fentiman Arms

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

1. Sean Connery

2. George Lazenby

3. Roger Moore

4. Timothy Dalton

5. Pierce Brosnan

6. Daniel Craig

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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?

1. The Tower at St George Wharf

2. 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?

1. SoSo

2. FoMo

3. YoYo

4. VoHo

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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?

1. Michael Caine

2. Daniel Day-Lewis

3. Sean Penn

4. Gordon Warnecke

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

1. Ana

2. Madalena

3. Maria

4. Fatima

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

1. Old South Lambeth Road

2. Heyford Avenue

3. Meadow Place

4. Walberswick Street

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

1. "The Ashmolean"

2. "The Chamber of Secrets"

3. "The Ark"

4. "The Zoo"

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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?

1. Stocks

2. Wells

3. Swans

4. Parakeets

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

1. True

2. False

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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? .

1. The Azores

2. São Miguel

3. Porto Santo

4. Madeira

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

1. Russian

2. Portuguese

3. Greek

4. Hindi

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

1. Iberophone

2. Lusophone

3. Portophone

4. Portaloo

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

1. British Interplanetary Society

2. Lambeth Council

3. MI6

4. National Crime Agency

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