Global Places in Movie Titles Trivia Quiz

Answer: Albania

"Taken 2" is an action-thriller film starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. It is the second film in the "Taken" trilogy. At the funeral of his son in Tropoje, Albania, the Albanian freelance terrorist Murad Hoxha seeks vengeance on his son's killer and chooses to kidnap Bryan Mills (played by Neeson) and his wife Lenore (played by Janssen). Bryan's daughter Kim (played by Grace) manages to avoid being kidnapped and escapes.

She is the only hope in saving her parents from certain death.

Answer: Bolivia

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is an American Western film that was the top grossing film in the US in 1969 making over $100 million. Butch (played by Paul Newman) and Sundance (played by Robert Redford) are leaders of an outlaw gang called the "Hole-In-The-Wall Gang".

After completing a train robbery, they are pursued by law enforcement and make a plan to escape to Bolivia. Continuing with a life of robbery and crime while in Bolivia, the film ends with a gun battle and Butch suggesting that their next destination should be Australia.

Answer: Croatia

An award winning photojournalist named Harrison Lloyd (played by David Strathairn) contemplates changing jobs as the one he currently has is becoming too stressful. His last assignment takes place in the former Yugoslavia during the Croatian War of Independence.

While on assignment he goes missing and his wife Sarah Lloyd (played by Andie MacDowell) refusing to believe he is dead goes searching for him.

Answer: Eritrea

This documentary film takes a look at the HIV and AIDS crisis that was pummeling the nation of Eritrea spanning more than 20 years. The documentary contains various interviews of government officials, prostitutes, health care workers and more telling the stories related to the statistics and struggles that have plagued the nation. Directors Diane Griffin and Tobi Solvang begin their documentary journey at a tourist residence aptly named the "White Hotel".

Answer: Estonia

"Baltic Storm" is a film loosely based on the MS Estonia disaster in 1994 in which a Swedish-Estonian ferry sank in the Baltic Sea killing over 850 passengers. Julia Reuter (an investigative journalist played by Greta Schacchi) is looking into black market arms trafficking coming from Russia and she is led to the city of Tallinn, Estonia.

As she misses the ferry by minutes, a vehicle on board the ship is carrying a load of high-tech weapons.

Answer: Ireland

An Irish immigrant named Eilis Lacey (played by Saoirse Ronan) moves to Brooklyn, New York from her homeland of Ireland in search of employment and greater ambitions. She meets a man named Tony Fiorello (played by Emory Cohen) and they secretly get married.

After her sister dies, she returns to Ireland and works as a bookkeeper while waiting for her best friend's wedding. It appears that everyone is trying to prevent Eilis from returning to the United States. A former employer of Eilis's reveals that she knows about her secret wedding leaving Eilis to make a decision; return to New York or remain in Ireland.

Answer: Jamaica

"Cool Runnings" was a comedy film loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsled team to the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta Canada. After a series of misfortunes, three Jamaican 100 meter runners fail to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games.

They look into starting a bobsledding team and search down a washed out bobsled coach Irv Blitzer (played by John Candy) who has settled in Jamaica to help them learn and train. After qualifying for the games, it is learned that Blitzer had cheated at a previous Olympic game and was relieved of his medals.

As the judges become strict on the Jamaican team after learning of Blitzer's coaching, they overcome various odds and are successful in their initial runs down the track. On their final run, one of the sled blades breaks off and the Jamaicans crash.

They carry the sled across the finish line to the cheering of the crowd.

Answer: Somalia

"Black Hawk Down" is an American war film based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden. The film is about the near disastrous 1993 war mission in which 100 US Army Rangers were brought to Somalia to capture two lieutenants of a Somalian warlord.

The result of this mission became an all out gunfight between hundreds of Somali gunmen, US Special Forces and the Army Rangers. It focused on the heroic efforts of the rangers in trying to get to two downed Black Hawk helicopters.

Answer: Ukraine

"Chernobyl Diaries" is an American horror film starring Jesse McCartney and Olivia Taylor Dudley. While traveling across Europe, a group of friends decide to go on an "extreme tour" of the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine; the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

After meeting a tour guide and being rejected entry by the Ukrainian military, they enter the city via an alternate entrance. The film focuses on the group's attempts to survive mutant creatures attempting to take their lives. Only one survives the attacks and is brought to a local hospital only to be thrown into a dark cell with patients (who are determined to be those hostile mutant creatures).

Answer: Vietnam

A young soldier named Chris Taylor (played by Charlie Sheen) volunteers to go to South Vietnam. Upon his arrival, he begins to realize that the war is not what he thought it was going to be. As Taylor is a rookie soldier, he is considered to be insignificant to the other experienced soldiers. With two commanding officers who do not get along, a dividing line is made between many of the soldiers and the two commanding officers following an illegal killing during a village raid. Taylor soon has a psychological breakdown and realizes that he is not only at conflict with the Viet Cong enemy but with members of his own unit as well.