Famous Places That Never Existed Quiz

Answer: Lilliput

It's the small men island depicted by J. Swift in his "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). Everything is on a small scale in Lilliput: for instance, the capital, Mildendo, has walls two and half feet high. Westmannaeyar is a real archipelago in Iceland, while Lineland is a country shaped like a straight line from Edwin A. Abbott's book "Flatland".

Answer: Ogygia

Very easy, if you know a bit of "The Odyssey". In this case, you are aware that Circe and Nausicaa were two other admirers of Ulysses, and Ithaca his home country, where his wife was waiting.

Answer: Mordor

The Evil place in Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Mentioned also in Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On". It's a barren land in Middle Earth, east of Rohan and Gondor, surrounded by mountains. If you want to visit the place, you can choose between two passes - Cirith Gorgor or Cirith Ungol. Or you can sail the Sea of Nurnen.

Answer: Oz

According to Frank Baum, the country is divided into four small countries: Munchkin (east), Winkie (west), Quadling (south), Gillikin (north). All countries have a dominant colour: blue, yellow, red and purple. The whole country is incredibly detailed in the books Baum wrote: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", "The Marvelous Land of Oz", "Ozma of Oz"," Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz", "The Road to Oz", "The Emerald City of Oz", "The Patchwork City of Oz". On top of all that, we also had to stomach "Over the Rainbow".

Answer: Duchy of Grand Fenwick

Grand Fenwick was invented by Irish writer Leonard Wibberley in 1955. He wrote a series of satirical books starting with "The Mouse that Roared", followed by "Beware of the Mouse" (1958), "The Mouse on the Moon" (1962), "The Mouse on Wall Street" (1969), and "The Mouse that Saved the West" (1981). You can find Ruritania in "The Prisoner of Zenda", Pontevedro in "The Merry Widow" operetta and Freedonia in Marx Bros' "Duck Soup".

Answer: Isla Nublar

According to Michael Crichton, the island lies not far from Costa Rica, and it's often hidden in a dense fog: hence the name that in Spanish means "to cloud". For "Isla Bonita", ask Madonna. "Haunted Island" was imagined by Algernon Blackwood, an English author, in 1906. Houyhnhms Island is another discovery of Gulliver, inhabited by horses and Yahoos (a very mean race of humans).

Answer: Hogwarts

Do you need me to tell you that Muggles are non-wizards or non-witches? Or that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are other schools mentioned in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?" Or that the Burrow is the Weasley family's house? No, you don't.

Answer: Jules Verne

"Voyage au Centre de la Terre", or "Voyage to the Centre of the Earth", 1864.

Answer: Ruach

An interesting phenomenon is that when Ruach's inhabitants die, they fart: the men loudly, the women softly. All the other names are places imagined by Rabelais in "Le quart livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel". A friend just informed me that Ruach is the Hebrew word for wind.

Answer: Dracula

Bram Stoker's "Dracula", was published in 1897. Manfred is the landlord of Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto". Titus is the main character in the stories written by Mervyn Peake between 1946 and 1959, all taking place in Gormenghast Castle: "Titus Groan", "Gormenghast" and "Titus Alone". Maxim De Winter is the owner of Manderley, the mansion where Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca" takes place.

The quiz is over and still no sign of Never Never Land? Sorry, but I've always detested Peter Pan.