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Famous Film Locations

Real steps, real islands, real deserts: the places where movie magic touched the ground. Pack your bag and see how many famous filming spots you can find on the map.

🎬 Movies medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • This predator terrorised the fictional Amity Island in Jaws (1975). On which real island was the film shot?
  • The Sound of Music (1965) was filmed largely in and around which Austrian city?
  • In Rocky (1976), Sylvester Stallone runs up the steps of which Philadelphia building?
  • Mamma Mia! (2008) was filmed mainly on which Greek island?
  • The Hobbiton set from The Lord of the Rings can be visited on a farm near Matamata, in New Zealand.
  • In which city was Lost in Translation (2003) set and filmed, with its two leads staying at the Park Hyatt hotel?
  • In Before Sunrise (1995), two young strangers spend one night wandering which European city?
  • Select ALL of these films that shot scenes in Iceland.
  • Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) ends with a chase across which American monument?
  • Did Stanley Kubrick use Oregon's Timberline Lodge for the outside of the hotel in The Shining (1980)?
  • Which Scottish railway viaduct does the Hogwarts Express cross in the Harry Potter films?
  • The alien mothership lands beside which Wyoming rock tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)?
  • The desert planet Tatooine in the original Star Wars (1977) was filmed in Morocco.
  • Order these filming locations from north to south.
  • In Roman Holiday (1953), Gregory Peck fakes losing his hand in the Mouth of Truth. Where in Rome is it?
  • Select ALL of these films that were shot mainly in New Zealand.
  • In Amélie (2001), the heroine waits tables at a real café in Montmartre. What is it called?
  • The Ghostbusters headquarters in the 1984 film is a real New York fire station in which neighbourhood?
  • Which desert valley in Jordan stood in for the surface of Mars in The Martian (2015)?
  • In what year was the Hollywood sign first put up, originally reading 'Hollywoodland'?