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Houses that Never Really Were, Door #2 Quiz

Do imaginary friends live only in imaginary houses? Do dream houses exist only in dreams? How many of these fictional, made-up, pretend houses can you sort?

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
FatherSteve

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
388,791

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
428

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. In a highly-successful British ITV series, where do the Crawley family and their household staff reside?
Hint

Totleigh Towers

Blandings Castle

Downton Abbey

Pemberly

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Question 2 of 10

2. In this Edgar Allan Poe short story, the homeowner sinks into madness while the house disintegrates around him. Name the house. Hint

The House of the Seven Gables

Hill House

Northanger Abbey

The House of Usher

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Question 3 of 10

3. On the American television horror soap opera "Dark Shadows," what was the Collins family residence? Hint

Collinwood Mansion

Ocean Crest

Joshua House

Barnabas Manor

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which song, popular in the Fifties and again in the Eighties, describes a family residence which has fallen into disrepair? Hint

Homeward Bound

This Ole House

Ain't Got No Home

House Where Nobody Lives

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Question 5 of 10

5. Set in Okinawa just after the end of WWII, which novel/play/movie/Broadway musical depicts the U.S. Army's attempt to Americanise the people and economy? Hint

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Tea House of the August Moon

The House of the Moon

The Little House

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Question 6 of 10

6. In which 1989 American movie does Patrick Swayze play a cooler -- a sort of bouncer -- in a new bar in Jasper, Missouri, under siege by a local extortionist? Hint

The Ale House

The Draught House

Road House

Tap House

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Question 7 of 10

7. In Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936), what is the name of the antebellum plantation which is the home of the O'Hara family? Hint

Tara

Butler House

Twelve Oaks

Talmadge Farms

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Question 8 of 10

8. Misselthwaite Manor is the setting of which English children's novel published in 1911? Hint

The Secret Garden

Mary Poppins

Doctor Dolittle

The Wind in the Willows

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which satirical novel, written by a psychiatrist under a pseudonym, exposed and lampooned medical residency training at a Jewish hospital in the 1970s? Hint

The House of God

The House of Asaph

House, M.D.

Sefer Refuot House

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which 1953 Vincent Price horror film describes a disfigured sculptor who becomes homicidal? Hint

House on Haunted Hill

House of Wax

The Legend of Hell House

House of the Long Shadows

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In a highly-successful British ITV series, where do the Crawley family and their household staff reside?

Answer: Downton Abbey

Aired in Britain beginning in 2010 and in the US (on PBS) beginning in 2011, "Downton Abbey" follows the life of the Crawleys and their staff from 1912 to 1926. The programme was filmed mostly at Highclere Castle in north Hampshire.

2. In this Edgar Allan Poe short story, the homeowner sinks into madness while the house disintegrates around him. Name the house.

Answer: The House of Usher

The psychological horror novel had not yet been invented in 1839 but, if it had, "The Fall of the House of Usher" would have been recognized in the genre. Roderick Usher falls ill, as does his sibling, as his ancestral home decomposes around him, beginning with a crack in the roof. Spooky decline follows.

3. On the American television horror soap opera "Dark Shadows," what was the Collins family residence?

Answer: Collinwood Mansion

"Dark Shadows" (1966-1971) was innovative among American soap operas in that it combined the daytime serial drama format with a horror story. The Collins family built Collinwood Mansion in 1795 in Collinsport, Maine, overlooking the ocean. The TV series shot the exterior of the Carey Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, for the house.

4. Which song, popular in the Fifties and again in the Eighties, describes a family residence which has fallen into disrepair?

Answer: This Ole House

Stuart Hamblen wrote "This Ole House" to describe the parallel between a longtime family home degenerating into dilapidation and desuetude and the owner's advanced old age. "Ain't gonna need this house no longer; I'm getting ready to meet the saints." Rosemary Clooney recorded it in 1954, Shakin' Stevens in 1981 and Brian Setzer in 1998.

5. Set in Okinawa just after the end of WWII, which novel/play/movie/Broadway musical depicts the U.S. Army's attempt to Americanise the people and economy?

Answer: The Tea House of the August Moon

Vern Sneider wrote the novel in 1951, which was adapted into the play by John Patrick in 1953, which was made into the movie with Glenn Ford and Marlon Brando in 1956, and thence into the musical "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" in 1970. It is a stretch to accept Brando in yellow-face make-up playing Sakini, the Okinawan interpreter assigned to the U.S. Army officer played by Ford.

6. In which 1989 American movie does Patrick Swayze play a cooler -- a sort of bouncer -- in a new bar in Jasper, Missouri, under siege by a local extortionist?

Answer: Road House

Patrick Swayze (the dance instructor in "Dirty Dancing") plays a tough but smart fellow brought in to provide security for a new bar which a local bad guy (Ben Gazzara) seeks to shake down. Swayze's character gets so beat up so often that he develops a relationship with Dr. Elizabeth "Doc" Clay (played by Kelly Lynch) which blossoms into love.

7. In Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936), what is the name of the antebellum plantation which is the home of the O'Hara family?

Answer: Tara

Tara, named after the Hill of Tara, the home of a king in ancient Ireland, is the name of the O'Hara home. It is fictional, but the setting (near Jonesboro in Clayton County, Georgia) is real. The exterior of the house shot in the 1939 movie was a facade constructed for filming. Mitchell was upset because it looked nothing like what she had imagined.

8. Misselthwaite Manor is the setting of which English children's novel published in 1911?

Answer: The Secret Garden

In "The Secret Garden," Mary Lennox is orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India and sent back to England to live with an uncle, Archibald Craven, in his home: Misselthwaite Manor. The story was serialized in an American magazine a year before it was published as a book in Britain.

9. Which satirical novel, written by a psychiatrist under a pseudonym, exposed and lampooned medical residency training at a Jewish hospital in the 1970s?

Answer: The House of God

Dr. Stephen Bergman, using the name Samuel Shem, wrote "The House of God" which follows interns undergoing residency at a fictionalized Beth Israel Hospital. The novel was, at first, considered to be somewhat scandalous but is now appreciated for its look at the psychology of residency and the damage it does/did to doctors' humanity.

10. Which 1953 Vincent Price horror film describes a disfigured sculptor who becomes homicidal?

Answer: House of Wax

Vincent Price plays a sculptor who is horribly disfigured in an attempt on his life by arson in which his museum of wax figures is destroyed. He sets out to replace his creations by sealing the bodies of his murder victims in wax. The film was made in colour 3-D.

Source: Author FatherSteve

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