Famous Addresses
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40 free Famous Addresses trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Some addresses are as famous as the people who live at them. A house number and a street name can call up a detective, a cartoon household, a head of government or a haunted house before anyone says who lives there. This quiz covers the best-known addresses in the world, real and invented: homes from novels, sitcoms and comic books, seats of power in London and Washington, recording studios, stadiums and skyscrapers, plus a few ZIP codes and postcodes that became famous in their own right. Each answer comes with a short explanation of the story behind the door. It is written for pub quiz fans, trivia night hosts and anyone who has ever wondered whether a fictional address really exists.
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Q 01In Finding Nemo, a diver's mask marked 42 Wallaby Way sends Marlin and Dory to which Australian city?
Sydney
Sydney is where the dentist Philip Sherman keeps Nemo in a fish tank. Dory reads the address on the mask by the glow of an anglerfish that is hunting her and Marlin.
Q 02Which detective lodges at 221B Baker Street, a number that did not exist when the stories were published?
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes received so much real mail that the Abbey National building society, whose premises later covered the site, employed a full-time secretary to answer it.
Q 03Which London address has a famous black front door that cannot be opened from the outside?
10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street always has someone inside to grant entry. Its bricks are really yellow: two centuries of pollution turned the house black.
Q 04Which Washington landmark at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was rebuilt after British troops burned it in 1814?
The White House
The White House has been home to every US president since John Adams in 1800. The 1814 fire destroyed the interior and charred much of the exterior.
Q 05Which animated family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace, a street named after the creator's childhood road in Portland?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons were given several other house numbers in early seasons before 742 stuck. Matt Groening grew up on an Evergreen Terrace in Oregon.
Q 06Which New York skyscraper at 350 Fifth Avenue is so large that it was assigned its own ZIP code, 10118?
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building got the code in 1980, when Manhattan rolled out 63 new postal codes. Tenants still enter through its Art Deco lobby on Fifth Avenue.
Q 07Which wealthy California city did a 1990s teen drama make famous through its ZIP code, 90210?
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills has five ZIP codes, and 90210 is only one of them. The drama's high school was really filmed in Torrance, in the 90501 ZIP code.
Q 08Canada Post answers letters sent to the postal code H0H 0H0, which belongs to which famous figure?
Santa Claus
Santa Claus got an official reply programme in 1983, after Montreal postal staff noticed in 1974 that his letters were being treated as undeliverable.
Q 09Which American public-service mascot received so many letters that he was given his own ZIP code, 20252?
Smokey Bear
Smokey Bear was getting more than 13,000 letters a week when the Postal Service gave him the code in 1964. It is still in use.
Q 10Which family raises Harry Potter at 4 Privet Drive in the fictional Surrey town of Little Whinging?
The Dursleys
The Dursleys are Harry's aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon. Their house in the first film was a real one, at 12 Picket Post Close in Bracknell.
Q 11Which DC superhero's alter ego traditionally lives in Apartment 3D at 344 Clinton Street?
Superman
Superman's civilian flat is usually placed in midtown Metropolis, where Clark Kent writes for the Daily Planet. In the earliest stories his paper was The Daily Star.
Q 12Which sitcom household lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane in the fictional city of Mockingbird Heights?
The Munsters
The Munsters are a Transylvanian-American family, and a 2012 reboot pilot was titled Mockingbird Lane after their address.
Q 13Which horror villain stalks the dreams of the teenagers at 1428 Elm Street in Springwood, Ohio?
Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger is finally lured through a series of booby traps inside the house after Nancy Thompson drags him out of her nightmares.
Q 21Which children's character do the Browns take home to 32 Windsor Gardens, a fictional address near Notting Hill?
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear's street is fictitious: a real Windsor Gardens lies off Harrow Road nearby, but it does not resemble the road in the books.
Q 22Which magical nanny is blown by the east wind to the Banks household at 17 Cherry Tree Lane?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins arrives with her carpet bag after the children's previous nanny, Katie Nanna, storms out in a huff.
Q 23Which superhero team is based in a mansion at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Westchester County, New York?
The X-Men
The X-Men train in a mansion that has belonged to Charles Xavier's family for ten generations and opened as Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
Q 14Which American official's residence is Number One Observatory Circle, built in 1893 for an observatory superintendent?
The Vice President
The Vice President got the house in 1974, after the Navy's top admiral had liked it so much that he took it for himself in 1923.
Q 15Which rock guitarist lived at 23 Brook Street in Mayfair, next door to a house once rented by Handel?
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix's neighbour across the centuries, Handel, rented number 25 from 1723 until his death there in 1759. One museum now covers both homes.
Q 16Which sitcom's lead lives in apartment 5A at 129 West 81st Street in New York City?
Seinfeld
Seinfeld faked its New York exterior: the building shown as Jerry's home actually stands at 757 South New Hampshire Avenue in Los Angeles.
Q 17Which New York apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street was John Lennon's home on the Upper West Side?
The Dakota
The Dakota, completed in 1884, is the oldest remaining luxury apartment building in New York City. It was not even given its name until 1882.
Q 18Which TV drama follows the women of Wisteria Lane after a neighbour takes her own life in the pilot?
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives sets Wisteria Lane in the fictional town of Fairview, in the equally fictional Eagle State.
Q 19Which royal residence, whose East Front faces The Mall, has the London postcode SW1A 1AA?
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace holds the primary code of the SW1A district. Behind that postcode are 775 rooms and the largest private garden in London.
Q 20Which character leaves Harry Potter the house at 12 Grimmauld Place, later donated to the Order of the Phoenix?
Sirius Black
Sirius Black was Harry's godfather, and the house had long been the London home of his family.
Q 24Which Marvel sorcerer's Sanctum Sanctorum is a three-story townhouse at 177A Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village?
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange's address is a nod to a real apartment once shared by the Marvel writers Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich.
Q 25Which Marvel hero grew up at 20 Ingram Street in Forest Hills, Queens?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man's alter ego, Peter Parker, was taken in by May and Ben Parker after the death of his parents.
Q 26Which diarist hid from Nazi persecution in a secret annex behind Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam?
Anne Frank
Anne Frank's father, Otto, had moved the spice and gelling companies he worked for into the canal house in 1940. The museum there opened in 1960.
Q 27Which thinker lived for 47 years at Berggasse 19 in Vienna, where a museum now marks his rooms?
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud took his famous couch along when he fled to London in 1938, so the Vienna museum has to do without it.
Q 28Which general's Apsley House was nicknamed Number One, London, as the first house past the Knightsbridge toll gates?
Duke of Wellington
The Duke of Wellington bought the house from his cash-strapped elder brother in 1817, wanting a London base for his new career in politics.
Q 29Which James Joyce work gives Leopold Bloom a home at 7 Eccles Street, a Dublin house that stood empty in 1904?
Ulysses
Ulysses could borrow the address because the real house was unoccupied that year. It was demolished in 1967 and a private hospital now covers the site.
Q 30In which city does Graceland stand at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard, a segment of U.S. Route 51?
Memphis
Memphis has welcomed visitors to the mansion since 1982, when it opened to the public as a house museum.