Quiz: English Country Houses in Film and TV

1.      Which house in Surrey is used as the location for the BBC Comedy series, Ghosts?

2.      A sport is named after the famous country pile featured as the fictional home of the Horniman family Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen serialised on Amazon Prime in 2024

3.      Brideshead Revisited was adapted for ITV in the 1981 with Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder. Which house did they use for the location?

4.      Highclere Castle in Hampshire was used to represent which palatial house in the 1990s Jeeves and Wooster adaptation featuring Hugh Lawrie and Stephen Fry?

5.      Ranger’s House, Blackheath, London features as which house in the Bridgerton series on Netflix?

6.      Which house in Derbyshire which stood in for Pemberley in both the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice and the 2005 Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice?

7.      In the 2005 Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice the scene where Lizzy Bennet rejects Mr Darcy’s proposal of marriage is filmed in which famous gardens?

8.      Which famous house already mentioned in this quiz is used as the setting for Downton Abbey?

9.      Which country house featured as the eponymous Gosford Park in the 2001 comedy mystery featuring Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Kristen Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon and other Great British Actors?

10. In Notting Hill (1999) Hugh Grant’s character William visits Julia Roberts’ character Anna Scott on location where she is filming a period drama in which house?

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