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? Robert Browning William Shakespeare Sir Walter Scott Robert Burns

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

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? L. Frank Baum Ernest Hemingway Somerset Maugham John Steinbeck

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

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

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? John Wilkes Booth Jack Ruby Lee Harvey Oswald Charles Guiteau

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

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

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

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

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

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? Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson James Madison William Henry Harrison

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

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

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