So now you know

And so it came to pass that yesterday evening saw teams assembled by Onion Bag Blog, Stockwell News, Lurking About SE11 (and yours truly) pile into the Wheatsheaf to compete against each other in that hostelry's regular Thursday pub quiz.

A big thanks to everyone who turned up to battle it out and - the main purpose - to give a send-off to Mr Onion Bag himself (and his missus) who are foregoing the further pleasures of life in Dorset Road and moving to Wivenhoe any day now. We wish them luck.

Stockwell News, led by Bathsheba herself, took an early lead and no-one else got much of a look in. Even my fiendishly clever local history quiz round (below) caused them hardly a stumble and they romped home to finish first and secure the prize of a £100 bar tab.

I keep telling myself (a) himself they had an unfair advantage, having a clearly more knowledgable team and (b) that it wasn't the winning that mattered but the taking part and - particularly - getting to finally meet some of the local bloggers and tweeps. And that was brilliant. Thank you all for coming. Thanks to Shaun at the Wheatsheaf for letting us take over half of the pub and a quarter of the quiz.

We'll hopefully do it again some time soon if he let's us.

Anyway, even if you weren't there you can still test yourself in the local knowledge round as the questions are here and the answers at the bottom (if any of them are wrong, I don't want to know).

1. What is the only South London tube station named after a pub?
2. St Mark's Church to the south of Kennington Park was the site of the Surrey gallows . The last person to be executed there was William Badger in 1799 or 1802 depending on which source you read. What was his crime?
3. In 1890 the first deep tube underground railway - the City & South London Railway - opened. It allowed passengers to travel from Stockwell to which underground station in the City which closed 10 years later?
4. There have been three “Brixton Riots”. Name the years. (A point for each correct answer).
5. In April 2001, Channel 4's Time Team archaeologists spent three days in Vauxhall investigating the site of what might have been the first London Bridge. In what year was it probably built? (To within 200 years)
6. What is represented in the design of Hans Unger's tiles on the walls of the Brixton tube platforms?
7. What was the only building retained when clearing the Waterloo site for the Festival of Britain in 1951? (Since demolished to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall)
8. At which museum can you find the remains of Captain William Bligh of Mutiny On The Bounty fame?
9. What creature is featured in the emblem on a Vauxhall car?
10. What was the name of the Brixton Academy when it originally opened in 1929.

1. Elephant & Castle 2. Forgery 3. King William Street 4. 1981, 1985, 1995 5. 1500 BC 6. Bricks 7. The shot tower 8. The Garden Museum (or Museum of Garden History or St Mary-at-Lambeth Parish Church) 9. Griffin 10. Astoria