Ever wish you were a bird — or Jason Hawkes — so you could soar high above London? Well, the next best thing is surveying the topography via Google Maps. Question is: how much of London do you recognise from up here?
1. Easy peasy...
2. Slightly trickier, still pretty easy
3. And you'll ace this one...
4. Clue: it's not a swimming pool
5. Clue: it is a swimming pool... BUT WHICH ONE?
6. It's very famous... just not from this angle
7. We're not in Kansas central London anymore...
8. Whoever designed those gardens was expecting an aerial photographer...
9. There are 17 clues in this one...
10. Zero points for saying "bridge"
11. There's a good chance you've eaten here before...
Answers
1. London Eye
2. Tower of London
3. All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (we'll accept Wimbledon)
4. British Museum
5. Tooting Bec Lido
6. Harrods
7. No. 1 Croydon (we'll also accept NLA Tower, 50p Building, the Weddingcake, the Threepenny bit or the Bandersnatch Building).
8. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir/Neasden Temple
9. Stockwell Bus Garage
10. Hammersmith Bridge
11. Spitalfields Market
How did you do?
1 or less: never took off
2-3: fall from grace
4-6: you may believe you can fly, but no one else does
7-8: eagle-eyed
9-10: high flyer
11: you are clearly an actual bird
