Fictional places range from whole worlds, like C.S. Lewis’ Narnia or J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, to countries such as those visited by the protagonist in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. There are also towns like George Elliot’s Middlemarch, or just buildings, for example The Admiral Benbow Inn in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Some are magical places, whilst others are just mundane and ordinary.
This is the first of three quizzes on fictional places found, not only in literature but also in film, radio and television programmes. You may think that some of the questions are therefore ‘trespassing' in this section which, strictly speaking, is all about ‘Books’. Our excuse is that there are a whole host of villages, countries, planets and establishments which have entered our cultural consciousness, and a mine of fascinating questions about them which are just too good to be overlooked! Have a go at this quiz and see how many of the fictional locations you can remember.
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Shelbyville is Springfield's nearest neighbour and rival
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A Touch of Frost based on the novels by R. D. Wingfield
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Anthony Hope wrote the novel in 1894
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Thomas the Tank Engine appears in the Railway Series of books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher
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The Archers has been broadcast on Radio 4 since 1951 and it has more than 5 million regular listeners
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There are a total of six novels in The Chronicles of Barsetshire
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1900
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According to the opening title, he gets five years
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TV stars Ant and Dec were in Byker Grove as children
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The Lilliputians are tiny people about one-twelfth the height of ordinary humans. Two factions of Lilliputians have fought wars over the correct way to break an egg!
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