Famous Residences

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1. What noted figure lived in Chartwell, a country house in Kent, England? Winston Churchill Robin Hood Lady Diana Margaret Thatcher

2. What estate was the setting of the novel 'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier? Waverly Manderley Ivycroft Hastings

3. What famous poet inhabited an estate called Abbotsford? William Shakespeare Sir Walter Scott Robert Burns Robert Browning

4. What's the name of the former estate of American tycoon John D. Rockefeller, located in Tarrytown, New York? The Elms Brentwood Beechwood Kykuit

5. What American President inhabited Lawnfield in Mentor, Ohio? William Taft James Garfield Rutherford Hayes Andrew Johnson

6. What famous author named his Hollywood mansion Ozcot? Somerset Maugham L. Frank Baum Ernest Hemingway John Steinbeck

7. What was the fictional estate of Charles Foster Kane, the main charcater of the film 'Citizen Kane'? Kanewood Shangri-La Xanadu El Dorado

8. What US President's estate was Sagamore Hill on Long Island, New York? Dwight Eisenhower Theodore Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge Woodrow Wilson

9. Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wisconsin, was the home of what famous American? Charles Lindbergh Orville Wright Eugene McCarthy Frank Lloyd Wright

10. What American assassin lived in an estate called Tudor Hall? Lee Harvey Oswald John Wilkes Booth Jack Ruby Charles Guiteau

11. A manor called Bramblehurst was the setting of what famous English novel? 'Wuthering Heights' '1984' 'The Invisible Man' 'The Pickwick Papers'

12. What US President called his California estate La Casa Pacifica? Ronald Reagan Bill Clinton Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon

13. What's the name of Thomas Edison's New Jersey estate? Glenmont Manor House Woodhaven Glenwood

14. Highland Farms, the Doylestown, Pennsylvania estate of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, is now a Museum Music school Private hospital Bed and Breakfast

15. What celebrity inhabited a bizarre California estate called Neverland? Geena Davis Michael Jackson Robert Redford Johnny Carson

16. In what English novel is Gateshead Hall the childhood home of the main character? 'Brideshead Revisited' 'Madame Bovary' 'The Count of Monte Cristo' 'Jane Eyre'

17. What American President called The Hermitage home? William Henry Harrison Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson James Madison

18. What was the name of the Beverly Hills mansion built by early movie stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks? Pickfair Fairpick Pickford Springdale

19. Hildene, a mansion in Manchester, Vermont, was the summer home of the son of what US President? Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt Ulysses Grant James Madison

20. Stan Hywet Hall, a Tudor mansion in Akron, Ohio, was the estate of Frank Seiberling. He got rich by co-founding what company? Goodyear Tire and Rubber General Electric Proctor and Gamble US Steel