Celebrate January with a quiz.

This month's theme involves places to live. Here are some of the many possibilities.

1. After World War II, many UK ex-servicemen and their families lived in these. Airey houses.
2. Two houses connected with a breezeway: Dogtrot.
3. Buckminster Fuller liked these: Geodesic domes.
4. Overpriced house for pretentious Americans: McMansion.
5. They used to sell these in the Sears catalogue: Prefabricated houses.
6. All the rooms are in a line in a: Shotgun house.
7. In the 1940s UK, a low-cost concrete house might be called a: Wimpey house.
8. If you move to Mongolia, you might shop for a: yurt.
9. Join the Iroquois, and put your whole family in a: Longhouse.
10. It's a flat, but you own it: Condominium.

Let's face it: who wouldn't want to live in a yurt? Of course, if your Mongolian tent village went condo...

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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