Name the Fictional Place Flashcards

1
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The mystical valley in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon

A

Shangri-La

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2
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The island nation of the little people at war with Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

A

Lilliput

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3
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The fictional Ontario town of Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders

A

Deptford

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4
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The village in which Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle lives

A

Puddleby-on-the-Marsh

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5
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The forest inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the stories by A.A. Milne

A

The Hundred Acre Wood

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6
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The hometown of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

A

Macondo

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7
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The address of the Dursleys in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series

A

4 Privet Drive

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8
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Island on which Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is set

A

Isla Nublar

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9
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The lost city in the South Pacific that is the prison of Cthullu in the stories by H.P. Lovecraft

A

R’lyeh

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10
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Fictional island in the South Atlantic created by Sir Thomas More in his political satire

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Utopia

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11
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Country estate in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca

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Manderley

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12
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The capital of the kingdom of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings

A

Minas Tirith

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13
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A fictional South Seas country originating in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

A

Patusan

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14
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Prince Edward Island town where Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is set

A

Avonlea

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15
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Captain Nemo’s submarine in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Nautilus

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16
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The archipelago surrounded by an uncharted ocean in the works of Ursula K. Le Guin

A

Earthsea

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17
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The only all-wizarding village in Britain in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series

A

Hogsmeade

18
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The authoritarian dictatorship of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series

A

Panem

19
Q

Fictional country created by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner of Zenda (now usually invoked as a placeholder name in academic discussions)

A

Ruritania

20
Q

The totalitarian state of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

A

Gilead

21
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Duchy created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared

A

Grand Fenwick

22
Q

“New money” town of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

A

West Egg

23
Q

The fictional Derbyshire estate owned by Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

A

Pemberley

24
Q

The fictional castle where the Kings and Queens of Narnia rule in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.

A

Cair Paravel

25
Q

The planet that is the capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series

A

Trantor

26
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The fictional island home of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan

A

Neverland

27
Q

The island setting for the Reverend Awdry’s Thomas the Tank Engine railway series

A

Sodor

28
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The address of the flat shared by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson

A

221B Baker Street

29
Q

The island country created by Samuel Butler to satirize Victorian society

A

Erewhon

30
Q

Whaling ship commanded by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick

A

Pequod

31
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Fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

A

Mariposa

32
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The city-state ruled by the Patrician in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series

A

Ankh-Morpork

33
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The Welsh name for Britain, used used by Lloyd Alexander as the name for the realm in his fantasy book series

A

Prydain

34
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London gentlemen’s club of which Bertie Wooster is a member in the stories by P.G. Wodehouse

A

Drones Club

35
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The kingdom setting of William Golding’s The Princess Bride

A

Florin

36
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The land of the giants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

A

Brobdingnag

37
Q

University in Arkham in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft

A

Miskatonic University

38
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The torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984

A

Room 101

39
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Capital of the Land of Oz in the stories by L. Frank Baum

A

Emerald City

40
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Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner

A

Yoknapatawpha County