Shot on Location Trivia Quiz

Answer: Devil's Tower

In 1906, Devil's Tower was the first place in the United States named a national monument. President Theodore Roosevelt made the proclamation. The Native American origin myth for the mountain is that giant bears clawed the sides in their attempt to reach a beautiful princess on the top. The geological explanation is that it is an igneous intrusion of magma up into a sort of sedimentary-rock "mold" which mold then eroded away. Tourists travel to Northeast Wyoming to visit Devil's Tower National Monument; there is a visitors' center with pictures from the movie.

Answer: Kaua'i

The Coco Palms Resort was built on the east coast of Kaua'i at Wailua with only 24 rooms in 1953 and grew to 416 rooms by the 1970s. The evening torch-lighting ceremony and the wedding in "Blue Hawaii" were both shot at the resort, which created a huge demand for tourist weddings at Coco Palms.

The hotel was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki in September, 1992. Elvis played a tour guide who was himself a local attraction.

Answer: Wales

The premise of the film is that the initial wolf bite occurs on the Yorkshire Moors; the area around the Black Mountains in Wales was substituted. The village which the two Americans visit is East Proctor; the Welsh village of Crickadarn was substituted.

The Slaughtered Lamb is actually the Black Swan, Martyr's Green, Surrey; the interior of this pub was also shown in the TV series "Inspector Morse."

Answer: a houseboat on Lake Union

Not only were the Seattle scenes (including the houseboat at 640 Westlake Avenue North, on the west shore of Lake Union, near the University of Washington, just north of downtown) shot in Seattle, but also some of the Chicago and New York interiors and even some of the Baltimore exteriors. The photography of this film is remarkable; cinematographer Sven Nykvist was a collaborator with Ingmar Bergman.

Answer: Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon

Stanley Kubrick built complete hotel interiors on the sound stages of Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. This set was partly destroyed by a fire and had to be rebuilt. It was based on the interiors of the actual Ahwahnee Hotel (now called the Majestic Yosemite Hotel) in Yosemite Park, California. Timberline Lodge, an hour's drive east of Portland, Oregon. It was built between 1936 and 1938 as one of President Roosevelt's WPA projects. It has no maze, such as that seen in the film, so one was constructed at MGM Borehamwood Studios, near Elstree.

Answer: Westward Beach, Malibu, California

The wrecked remnants of the Statue of Liberty disclose that the whole adventure in Franklin Schaffner's film occurred on Planet Earth. Filmmakers constructed the ape village on the Fox Ranch in Malibu Creek State Park on Las Virgenes Road northwest of Los Angeles.

The beach where Taylor finds the statue is Westward Beach, a small and out-of-the-way beach, between Zuma Beach and Point Dume in Malibu.

Answer: Long Beach, Los Angeles, California

Special effects master Ray Harryhausen used stop-action cinematography to produce much of this motion picture on sets in Hollywood. The exteriors where the Rhedosaurus comes ashore from the East River at the Fulton Fish Market and where he romps around the Financial District of Manhattan were filmed in New York City. Director Eugene Lourié chose the old Amusement Park in Long Beach to film the destruction of Coney Island and of the monster, which is shot in the neck with a radioactive rifle grenade.

Answer: Astoria, Oregon

Steven Spielberg produced "The Goonies" about a gang of kids living in a waterfront area of Astoria in a neighbourhood which they called "The Goondocks." The Flavel House Museum, located at 441 8th Street, appears in the film. It was constructed in 1885 for Captain George Flavel, a river bar pilot.

The building was restored to its Victorian beauty to serve as a modern museum. Astoria is where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean and where Lewis and Clark completed The Voyage of Discovery.

Answer: Massachusetts

The original intent was to film this motion picture in Little Compton, Rhode Island. That village had a perfect white-steeple church and a civic green which would have suited nicely. But there was great controversy over whether the Congregational Church should be associated with a film about the Devil (Jack Nicholson) and three sexy single women (Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer). So the shoot was relocated to Cohasset, Massachusetts, which had its own picturesque New England white church built in 1746 and owned by the Unitarian-Universalists who were a bit less scrupulous.

Answer: Oakley Court, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Oakley Court was built in Berkshire in 1859 as the residence of Sir Richard Hall-Say. Hammer Films acquired it in 1949 and it was used in many horror films including "The Brides of Dracula" (1962), "The Old Dark House" (1963), "The Plague of the Zombies" (1966), "And Now the Screaming Starts!" (1973) and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975). Frank-N-Furter's mansion was in ill repair during the shooting.

It has since been renovated and reopened as the posh Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road.