Houses that Never Really Were, Door #4 Quiz

Answer: Wayne Manor

Bruce Wayne lives in his family's mansion: Wayne Manor. It is usually depicted (in comic books and films) as a large late-Victorian house. In the 1960s television series, the announcer (who was William Dozier, the executive producer) refers invariantly to it as "stately Wayne Manor."

Answer: Wuthering Heights

The farmhouse Wuthering Heights begins in the hands of the Earnshaw family but ends up in the possession of Heathcliff. The farmhouse sits on the north of a hilltop where it is exposed to stormy weather. The estate includes several outbuildings: e.g. a barn and stables. Over the entrance to the main room, there are carved griffins and cherubs which are grotesque more than lovely.

Answer: Dr. Gregory House

Hugh Laurie, perhaps best known as a comedic actor, excelled in his portrayal of Dr. Greg House in the Fox-TV series. In the programme, House leads a team of doctors who deal with the most challenging cases at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The show won multiple Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, People's Choice Awards and a Peabody Award.

Answer: Our House

Graham Nash was living with singer Joni Mitchell in her Laurel Canyon home. Joni bought a vase in an antique shop on Ventura and, once home, put flowers in it while David built a fire. He sat down at her piano and wrote the song in an hour: "Our house is a very, very fine house, with two cats in the yard."

Answer: Maxwell House

The Maxwell House brand was created in 1892 and grew to be the largest-selling brand of coffee in the United States in the 1980s. The brand is now owned by Kraft-Heinz. The company claimed (in the 1930s) that President Teddy Roosevelt originated the phrase "Good to the last drop" after having a cup of Maxwell House coffee at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in 1907.

Answer: Xanadu

The leading character Charles Foster Kane was partially based on William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's San Simeon property was a type of Kane's Xanadu in Florida. The estate's name is derived from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" which refers to a "stately pleasure-dome" in the city of Xanadu.

Answer: The Cider House Rules

"The Summerhouse" was written by Jude Deveraux in 2002. "To the Lighthouse" was written by Virginia Woolf in 1927. "A Painted House" was written by John Grisham in 2001. John Irving wrote "The Cider House Rules" in 1985.

Answer: a cloistered Benedictine abbey

Diana Rigg played Philippa Talbot, a highly-successful businesswoman, in the CBS production of "In this House of Brede." She joins a community of Benedictine nuns in which she becomes a leader. Godden wrote an earlier novel, "Black Narcissus" (1939), about a group of Anglican nuns attempting to build a convent school in the Himalayas.

Answer: Totleigh Towers

Poor Bertie Wooster has been engaged to Madeline Bassett more than once. The stories involving the pair include "The Code of the Woosters" (1938), "The Mating Season" (1949), "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" (1963) and "Much Obliged, Jeeves" (1971) ... although not all of these novels are set in Totleigh Towers.

Answer: The "smial" of Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee

Bungo Baggins built Bag End as a wedding gift to his wife Belladonna Took. Their son Bilbo inherited the smial. It was built atop The Hill on the northern side of Hobbiton.