Georgia TV On My Mind Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Walking Dead

Officially incorporated in 1866, Senoia residents pronounce the town name "see-noy". In 2010, nearly 3,300 people called the town home. As of the 2020 census, over 5,000 people lived in the city limits. The show filmed throughout the geographic area, including shooting scenes in Hampton and Griffin.

Answer: Ozark

The Alhonna Resort property served as inspiration for the setting of the show. Production then built a set based on the resort in Georgia to use for filming. Regardless, Lake of the Ozarks has seen an economic increase and a huge rise in annual visitors since the show got popular.

Answer: The Dukes of Hazzard

The series was developed from the 1975 film "Moonrunners" which was created in collaboration with a former moonshiner. Although the show has many similarities and same names, it was much cruder than the family-friendly TV show. The movie follows cousins Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg who run bootleg liquor for their Uncle Jesse.

The cousins drive a 1955 Chevy stock car named "Traveller" after General Robert E. Lee's horse.

Answer: Being Mary Jane

The series premiere drew more than four million viewers, debuting as BET's highest-rated show. However, in 2016, Gabby Union sued BET alleging breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation for trying to film more than the contracted amount of episodes.

Answer: Rectify

Ray McKinnon, the creator and showrunner of this series, is also a Georgia native from the small town of Adel.

Doc Holiday was born in Griffin, Georgia.

Answer: Drop Dead Diva

This show ran from 2009 to 2014 and hosted numerous guest stars, including Clay Aiken, Wanda Sykes, and Joan Rivers.

Peachtree City is located in Fayette County, Georgia, and local representatives believe hosting Drop Dead Diva helped UK-based Pinewood Studios choose Fayette as the location for Pinewood's first soundstages in America. The US-based Pinewood's first production was Marvel's Ant-Man that released in 2015. The studio later changed its name to Trilith Studios in 2020.

Answer: The Vampire Diaries

Mystic Grill offers a small but delicious menu for customers who can find photos upstairs signed by the various celebrities who have eaten there, including members of the "Vampire Diaries" cast as well as those from other Georgia productions. A small museum for the show is in the gift shop below the Mystic Grill, and there are several other tourist stops for fans in town. Emory's Oxford campus which hosted the set for Whitmore College is only a short drive from Covington.

Answer: Stranger Things

"Stranger Things" filmed all over metro-Atlanta, including locations at the Georgia Mental Health Institute, Bellwood Quarry (which is also used in the Walking Dead), Emory University's Atlanta campus, and Stone Mountain Park. Towns and cities such as Douglasville, Conyers, East Point, Fayetteville, Palmetto, Winston, and Jackson also hosted locations used in the show.

Patrick Henry High School (formerly home to the Stockbridge High School Tigers) was an alternative school until 2015. The school was also used as a set for scenes in "Candy" (2022 mini-series) and "Brightburn" (2019 film). However, in 2022, the Henry County Board of Education voted to demolish the building to make way for a new STEM-focused high school.

Answer: Teen Wolf

The show creator Jeff Davis now uses the same Atlanta studio facilities and part of the backstage crew to film his new series "Wolf Pack" (based on the 2004 book of the same name written by Edo van Belkom). However, he's stated that the two fictional universes are completely separate and the mythology and creatures involved are different.

The movie continuation that released in January 2023, returned to film in Georgia.

Answer: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Marvel mainly uses Trilith Studios in Fayette County, but other Georgia locations for this specific series included Savannah, Skidaway Island, and Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta.