Name the Fictional Place Flashcards
The mystical valley in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon
Shangri-La
The island nation of the little people at war with Blefuscu in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Lilliput
The fictional Ontario town of Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders
Deptford
The village in which Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle lives
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh
The forest inhabited by Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the stories by A.A. Milne
The Hundred Acre Wood
The hometown of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude
Macondo
The address of the Dursleys in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
4 Privet Drive
Island on which Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is set
Isla Nublar
The lost city in the South Pacific that is the prison of Cthullu in the stories by H.P. Lovecraft
R’lyeh
Fictional island in the South Atlantic created by Sir Thomas More in his political satire
Utopia
Country estate in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca
Manderley
The capital of the kingdom of Gondor in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings
Minas Tirith
A fictional South Seas country originating in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Patusan
Prince Edward Island town where Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is set
Avonlea
Captain Nemo’s submarine in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Nautilus
The archipelago surrounded by an uncharted ocean in the works of Ursula K. Le Guin
Earthsea
The only all-wizarding village in Britain in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
Hogsmeade
The authoritarian dictatorship of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series
Panem
Fictional country created by Anthony Hope in The Prisoner of Zenda (now usually invoked as a placeholder name in academic discussions)
Ruritania
The totalitarian state of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Gilead
Duchy created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared
Grand Fenwick
“New money” town of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
West Egg
The fictional Derbyshire estate owned by Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Pemberley
The fictional castle where the Kings and Queens of Narnia rule in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.
Cair Paravel
The planet that is the capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series
Trantor
The fictional island home of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan
Neverland
The island setting for the Reverend Awdry’s Thomas the Tank Engine railway series
Sodor
The address of the flat shared by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson
221B Baker Street
The island country created by Samuel Butler to satirize Victorian society
Erewhon
Whaling ship commanded by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Pequod
Fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Mariposa
The city-state ruled by the Patrician in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
Ankh-Morpork
The Welsh name for Britain, used used by Lloyd Alexander as the name for the realm in his fantasy book series
Prydain
London gentlemen’s club of which Bertie Wooster is a member in the stories by P.G. Wodehouse
Drones Club
The kingdom setting of William Golding’s The Princess Bride
Florin
The land of the giants in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Brobdingnag
University in Arkham in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Miskatonic University
The torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984
Room 101
Capital of the Land of Oz in the stories by L. Frank Baum
Emerald City
Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha County
