Islands that Never Really Were, 1st Archipelago Quiz

Answer: Fantasy Island

"Fantasy Island" aired from 1977 to 1984. It followed "The Love Boat" (which was also produced by Aaron Spelling) on Saturday nights. Villechaize was released at the end of the 1982-3 season for unstated reasons. The scenes of tropical splendor were filmed on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, along the Na Pali Coast and near Wailua Falls.

Answer: Isla Cruces

Davy Jones put his heart in the Dead Man's Chest and buried it on Isla Cruces (Crosses Island). The island is apparently deserted after a plague caused people to abandon the colony there. There are the ruins of a church; a priest was the last to die.

After burying all the dead, he hung himself. The scenes in the film which purported to be Isla Cruces were shot in Dominica and Great Exuma in the Bahamas.

Answer: The name of the island is never given

The name of the remote Pacific island on which the boys crash is not given in the novel nor in either of movie adaptations (1963, 1990). In a sense this is appropriate because Golding's themes are not at all limited by nor produced by locale but are instead are universal in his thinking.

Answer: Goon Island

In the 1938 cartoon "Goonland", Popeye learns that his father, Poopdeck Pappy, is imprisoned on Goon Island. Pappy, who has not seen his son since infancy, at first denies that this is his offspring. Popeye is captured by the Goons. Pappy eats a can of Popeye's spinach and rescues his son. The two look identical.

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Walter Scott wrote "The Pirate" in 1822. Daniel Defoe wrote "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719. Jonathan Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels" in 1726.

Answer: Avalon

The name "Avalon" probably derives from the Welsh word for apple. It describes the legendary island connected with King Arthur since the 12th century. Several locations are suggested; one is near Glastonbury in a lake which is no longer filled with water.

The canonical place of Avalon is firmed up by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's (1809-1892) cycle of poems "The Idylls of the King" (1859-1885).

Answer: Easter Island

The planet Damogran is located in the fashionable Eastern Side of the Galaxy. It is the home of both the Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and the Damogranian Pom-Pom Squid. The Heart of Gold was secretly built there. The spaceport is located on Easter Island.

The name of the island has nothing to do with the Christian religion but is rather a term in Galacticspeke meaning "small, flat and light brown."

Answer: Hedeby Island

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is the first novel in the "Millennium" series by Stieg Larsson (1954-2004). Harriet Vanger disappears from a family gathering at the family estate on Hebedy Island. The town of Hedestad in the movie versions of the novels is actually Gnesta. There is no Hebedy Island; there is no Hedestad.

Answer: Saint Honoré

Agatha Christe sets this murder on the Caribbean island of Saint Honoré. The BBC adapted the story for television and set it on Barbados. Perhaps BBC made up for this change by siting the mystery series "Death in Paradise" (2011- ) on the fictional island of Saint Honoré. One English critic described "A Caribbean Mystery" as "unputdownable."

Answer: Waponi Woo

Joe and his love interest (played by Meg Ryan) were entertained by Chief Tobi, the most Jewish Polynesian tribal chief in the history of cinema. Legend required that a human be sacrificed to the volcano once every hundred years. As is the rule in all Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movies, everything works out happily in the end.