TV, Movie, & Book Settings
The Harry Potter series is set in this country.
Answer: What is United Kingdom (or England or Britain)?
The movies are filmed across the United Kingdom.
In 1982, Michael Jackson released his album that contained the title song with a voiceover and haunting laugh by Vincent Price.
Answer: What is Thriller?
The Library of Congress considers the “Thriller” single’s video the most famous video of all time. It was the first music video the library placed in its registry.
John Denver got this mountain high.
Answer: What is rocky?
“Rocky Mountain High” is the tune.
In 1960, Lipton introduced this boxed soup that is most often used as a dip.
Answer: What is onion?
You just add a package to sour cream, and voila… you have French onion dip. It’s best to refrigerate it for a few hours to plump the onion.
In 1992, America’s largest mall opened in this state.
Answer: What is Minnesota? Mall of America opened with 330 stores. The mall was opened by the Canadian firm Triple Five Worldwide.
Thomas Magnum lives and works in this state.
Answer: What is Hawaii?
The show is Magnum, P.I., and Magnum (Tom Selleck) lives in the guesthouse on the estate of Robin Masters (John Hillerman). The show won two Emmys.
In 1982, this Disney property opened in Orlando.
Answer: What is Epcot? It’s located close to Disney World, but the focus of Epcot is on science and discovery rather than Disney characters and thrilling rides.
The Monkees sing about the last train to this Tennessee city.
Answer: What is Clarksville?
“Last Train to Clarksville” is the tune.
This egg-based pie saw its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s.
Answer: What is quiche?
Sales dropped off the charts after the book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche was published, but quiche is making a comeback.
In 1989, this wall in Germany came down.
Answer: What is Berlin?
The wall fell two years after President Ronald Reagan’s “tear down that wall” speech.
You’ve Got Mail is set in this large city.
Answer: What is New York City?
The film stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, whose romance builds through an email conversation.
In 1985, the ruins of this famous British ship were found south of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean.
Answer: What is (RMS) Titanic?
The search for the Titanic was cover for a U.S. Navy operation to locate and recover two sunken submarines.
Do you know the way to this California city (a tune by Dionne Warwick)?
Answer: What is San Jose? The tune is “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”
Seafood and meat, otherwise known as this, made its debut in restaurants in the 1960s.
Answer: What is surf and turf?
The most popular combination is lobster and steak.
In 1971, broadcast advertising of this vice was banned in the United States.
Answer: What is cigarette?
Advertisers moved to print media.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are sleepless in this city.
Answer: What is Seattle?
The film is Sleepless in Seattle, and it preceded You’ve Got Mail.
Pope John Paul II suffered two gunshot wounds during an assassination attempt in this place.
Answer: What is Vatican?
He was in St. Peter’s Square when the attempt took place. Do you remember the glass-top automobile he used after the attempt? It was called the Popemobile.
The midnight train left for this southern state, a tune by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Answer: What is Georgia?
The tune is “Midnight Train to Georgia.”
Seafood and meat, otherwise known as this, made its debut in restaurants in the 1960s.
Answer: What is surf and turf?
The most popular combination is lobster and steak.
In 1983, this radio and TV company introduced the first mobile phone.
Answer: What is Motorola?
Google bought the mobile phone division. The company also created the first two-way pager.
Forrest Gump is set in this southern state.
Answer: What is Alabama?
Tom Hanks plays Forrest Gump, a man with an IQ of 75.
In 1980, the World Health Organization declared this disease to be eradicated, a disease for which we were vaccinated.
Answer: What is smallpox?
The vaccine contained a live virus of a poxvirus less harmful than smallpox.
Arlo Guthrie performs a tune about a train named after the city of Mardi Gras.
Answer: What is New Orleans?
The tune is “The City of New Orleans.”
In the 1970s, these thin, filled pancakes became all the rage thanks to restaurants such as the Magic Pan.
Answer: What are crepes?
Prior to the 1970s, you could find dessert crepes on the menu, but the Magic Pan added a variety of savory crepes. The Magic Pan restaurants today are using some of the original recipes, but they are not part of the original chain.
This 1980s computer is listed in the Guinness Book of World records as the highest-selling computer.
Answer: What is Commodore (65)? At the time, it sold more than 10 million units. It was an eight-bit computer. Today’s PCs are 64-bit computers.