July/August 2017 Imaginary and Fictional Places Quiz by Rod Hunt


Each clue leads to an imaginary or fictional place or realm in folklore, legend, literature, TV, animation, film or song. A spot of Googling may be required!


1 King Arthur’s kingdom


2 Gulliver discovered this island with six inch high people 3 Where Enid Blyton’s Noddy lived 4 Village where The Archers is set


5 City of gold and precious stones in Pilgrim’s Progress 6


Batman’s city


Place of cigarette trees and hens laying soft boiled eggs 7 Island of Lost Boys in Peter Pan by J.M Barrie


8 Land created by the lion Aslan in C.S Lewis’s chronicles 9


10 Street setting for Australian ‘soap’ Neighbours 11 Home planet of ‘Superman’ which he left as a youth 12 School attended by Harry Potter


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13 ‘In X----- did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree’ ________________________________ 14 The land where Dorothy ‘followed the yellow brick road’ ________________________________ 15 Mythical city of gold between Amazon and Peru 16 Thomas Moore’s perfect society of ideal citizenship 17 Thomas Hardy’s southern England in and around Dorset


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18 Scottish village that appears every 100 years (Lerner musical)_______________________________ 19 Legendary isle where King Arthur received Excalibur


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20 RL Stevenson’s story of Jim Hawkins Long John Silver et al ________________________________ 21 Tolkien’s land of men, elves, dwarves, hobbits & wizards ________________________________ 22 Flora Thompson’s fictional village L- R- to Candleford


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23 The great hall where Odin receives the souls of fallen heroes ________________________________ 24 The land where ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ lived 25 Dylan Thomas’s village in Under Milk Wood 26 The land we all go to when we fall asleep


27 New Orleans house - the ruin of many a poor boy (song)


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28 Mystical utopian land in novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton________________________________ 29 The square in TV’s Eastenders 30 Where Alice had her adventures


31 Town where TV series Dad’s Army is set


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32 George Eliot’s novel of a provincial, midland town from1829________________________________ 33 Town where Fred and Betty Flintstone live (TV animation) ________________________________ 34 Mythical land where Twelfth Night is set


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35 ‘They sailed away for a year and a day to the ---.’ Edward Lear ______________________________ 36 Fictional village of Noel Edmond’s House Party (1990sTV) ________________________________ 37 Plato’s island of perfection that sank beneath the sea


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38 Village and stately home of Julian Fellowes’ Grantham family_______________________________ 39 Samuel Butler’s satirical novel of a seemingly utopian society _______________________________ 40 Town where The Simpsons live (TV animation) 41 Bottom of the sea where drowned sailors are consigned 42 Planet where Dr Who comes from


43 Village were Agatha Christie set the Miss Marple novels 44 Shire where Camberwick Green is located 45 Cathedral town of Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles


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