What is a run-down apartment house called?

A royal observatory was founded in which London borough in 1675? Which royal-sounding January 6 holiday shares its name with a 1999 George Clooney film? A royalist uprising in Paris was crushed by which young general in 1795? A rum smuggler is the central character in which author's 1937 novel "To Have and Have Not"? What word names a runner's rate or a popular brand of salsa? Which Chicago Bears running back wore No. 34? A Russian Blue is which type of animal? Which Russian chess grandmaster lost a match to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997?