Static GK Quiz: Famous Buildings and Official Residences of the World

The Elysee Palace in Paris has been the official residence and working office of the President of the French Republic since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the French Prime Minister, who is the head of government, works separately from the Hotel Matignon.

Number 10 Downing Street has been the London house and the working office of the British Prime Minister since the eighteenth century, and the cabinet meets in it.

The Pentagon stands at Arlington in Virginia, across the Potomac river from Washington D.C., and houses the American defence department along with the headquarters of its armed services.

Lutyens was the chief architect of imperial New Delhi and designed the Viceroy's House, built between 1912 and 1929 on Raisina Hill.

Casa Rosada, the Pink House, stands on the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and is the office and ceremonial seat of the President of Argentina.

This large hall on the western side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing is where the National People's Congress, China's legislature, holds its sessions, and where state ceremonies and receptions for visiting leaders are held.

Big Ben is strictly the name of the large bell hung in the clock tower at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster.

The Danish architect Jorn Utzon won the competition for the Sydney Opera House, whose shell shaped roofs stand on Bennelong Point in Sydney harbour.

The Potala Palace rises above Lhasa, the chief city of Tibet, and was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from the seventeenth century.

Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence of the President of Bangladesh. The name itself carries the clue, since Banga is the old name of the Bengal region, and the building served earlier as the residence of the governor of East Bengal.