Name the Fictional Place Flashcards

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The mystical valley in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon

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Shangri-La

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

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Lilliput

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

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Deptford

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The village in which Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle lives

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Puddleby-on-the-Marsh

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

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The Hundred Acre Wood

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

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Macondo

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

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4 Privet Drive

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Island on which Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park is set

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Isla Nublar

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

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R’lyeh

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

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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

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Patusan

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

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Avonlea

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

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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

18
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The authoritarian dictatorship of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series

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

20
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The totalitarian state of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

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

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Grand Fenwick

22
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“New money” town of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

23
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The fictional Derbyshire estate owned by Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

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

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Cair Paravel

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The planet that is the capital of the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Trantor
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The fictional island home of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
Neverland
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The island setting for the Reverend Awdry's Thomas the Tank Engine railway series
Sodor
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The address of the flat shared by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson
221B Baker Street
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The island country created by Samuel Butler to satirize Victorian society
Erewhon
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Whaling ship commanded by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Pequod
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Fictional Canadian town created by Stephen Leacock as the setting for Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Mariposa
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The city-state ruled by the Patrician in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Ankh-Morpork
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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
Prydain
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London gentlemen's club of which Bertie Wooster is a member in the stories by P.G. Wodehouse
Drones Club
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The kingdom setting of William Golding's The Princess Bride
Florin
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The land of the giants in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Brobdingnag
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University in Arkham in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Miskatonic University
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The torture chamber in George Orwell's 1984
Room 101
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Capital of the Land of Oz in the stories by L. Frank Baum
Emerald City
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Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha County