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Introduction:
"This quiz is about famous places to live (manors, estates, etc.) in history and literature."


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


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


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?
    James Garfield
    Rutherford Hayes
    William Taft
    Andrew Johnson


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


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?
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Calvin Coolidge
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Woodrow Wilson


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


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


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


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


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


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 inhabits a bizarre California estate called Neverland?
    Michael Jackson
    Robert Redford
    Geena Davis
    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?
    Abraham Lincoln
    William Henry Harrison
    James Madison
    Andrew Jackson


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


19. Hildene, a mansion in Manchester, Vermont, was the summer home of the son of what US President?
    Ulysses Grant
    Abraham Lincoln
    Theodore Roosevelt
    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?
    US Steel
    Proctor and Gamble
    Goodyear Tire and Rubber
    General Electric


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