Places You Won't Find on Earth Quiz

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Cloud-Cuckoo-Land was a city in the clouds, built by the birds to rule over mankind and to deny the Olympic gods to interfere with the world below. But of course the gods were not amused.

According to Jonathan Swift, the sailor Lemuel Gulliver sailed over the seven seas and visited various fictive places, beginning in Lilliput(where every inhabitant was about a thumb tall). Later, Gulliver would visit Bobdringnag (where an average farmer was about 72 feet or 22 meters tall). Furthermore there was the floating island of Laputa and the land of the Houynhnhnms (super-intelligent horses).

Gallifrey was a remote planet. Some of the young citizens from the upper classes were chosen to study for Time Doctor - a kind of ambassador to other worlds. Gallifreyans had an anthropomorphic body, but with two hearts and with the ability of regenerating at least twelve times. Time and again Gallifrey was destroyed, only to be rescued by the Doctor manipulating time and space.

"Star Trek" told the story of a federation established on Earth to equip starships and "to boldly go where no man has gone before". The starship crews met several other civilizations, among others the aggressive Klingons, who inhabited an Empire with their capital on the planet Qo'nos (also known as Kling or as Kronos).

In the "Star Wars" movie series, thousands of planetary systems (each acting as a city-state) were assembled in a Federal Republic ruled on a democratic basis and assisted by Jedi masters, creatures who fully mastered the Force - a mysterious force connecting all that exists. Mastery of the force gave the Jedi supernatural forces, including telepathy and telekinesis. But the Jedi were opposed by the Sith, who mastered also the dark side of the Force. One of the planets involved was Tatooine (home to the future Sith Darth Vader and to the future Jedi Master Luke Skywalker).

Mel Brooks directed a spoof of "Star Wars" and titled it "Spaceballs". In this movie Druidia was a peaceful planet prospering with a fully functioning atmosphere, whereas the planet Spaceball had lost almost all of its atmosphere and its population was thus condemned to extinction. The leader of the Spaceballs, called Dark Helmet, then devised a scheme to steal Druidia's atmosphere by kidnapping the Druish princess Vespa. But the plot was thwarted by the mercenary Lone Starr.

The song "Xanadu" was the title song of the soundtrack of the eponymous movie, later transformed into a Broadway musical. The movie and musical told how a clumsy art director and a mysterious young girl on roller skates opened a nightclub named Xanadu. Then the mysterious girl revealed herself as the Greek muse Terpsichore .

The English band Pink Floyd recorded "The Dark Side of the Moon", an LP without a song of the same name. The album reached multiple platinum sales in many countries: the USA, the UK, Australia, New-Zealand, etcetera.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the famous computer game producer, developed the land of Hyrule for the game series "Legend of Zelda". The three main characters living in Hyrule were the princess Zelda, the young boy Link and Ganon - the hybrid creature who acted as main antagonist.

"Warcraft" is a video game series (also distributed as board games) set mostly on the fictive planet Azeroth. The planet was vaguely terrestrial, with four main continents in a large ocean. The planet was inhabited by humans and dwarves, constantly at war with orcs and trolls. And there were many more races.