FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Quiz about Houses that Never Really Were Door 2
Quiz about Houses that Never Really Were Door 2

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.
  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. General Knowledge Trivia
  6. »
  7. Thematic Fun
  8. »
  9. Thematic Places

Author
FatherSteve
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
388,791
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
433
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
- -
Question 1 of 10
1. In a highly-successful British ITV series, where do the Crawley family and their household staff reside?
Hint


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

Question 3 of 10
3. On the American television horror soap opera "Dark Shadows," what was the Collins family residence? Hint


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

Question 8 of 10
8. Misselthwaite Manor is the setting of which English children's novel published in 1911? Hint


NEXT>

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


NEXT>

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



(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

arrow Select a User ID:
arrow Choose a Password:
arrow Your Email:




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

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor trident before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
Related Quizzes
This quiz is part of series That Never Really Were:

This is an odd collection of quizzes about stuff (people, places or things) which are fictional and drawn from an exceptionally wide variety of sources.

  1. Aircraft that Never Really Were -- Part 1 Average
  2. Aircraft that Never Really Were -- Part 2 Average
  3. Automobiles that Never Really Were, 1st Gear Average
  4. Automobiles that Never Really Were, 2nd Gear Easier
  5. Bears That Never Really Were Average
  6. Birds That Never Really Were, 1st Flight Easier
  7. Birds That Never Really Were, 2nd Flight Average
  8. Birds That Never Really Were, 3rd Flight Easier
  9. Birds That Never Really Were, 4th Flight Average
  10. Birds That Never Really Were, 5th Flight Easier
  11. Butlers That Never Really Were, 1st Course Average
  12. Butlers That Never Really Were, 2nd Course Average

Referenced Topics
Television   Movies   General   People   General Knowledge Thematic Fun   English   England   Psychology   Thematic Places   Names   Ireland   India   English People   Moons   Islands   Murders   U.S. Army   Missouri   Israel  

Other Destinations
  Explore Other Quizzes by FatherSteve

  Go to Thematic Fun Quizzes

  More Thematic Places Quizzes

  FunTrivia Homepage

11/22/2024, Copyright 2024 FunTrivia, Inc. - Report an Error / Contact Us