On Location Trivia Quiz

Answer: Amadeus

"Amadeus", the Milos Forman-directed Best Picture, starred F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce as Salieri and Mozart, respectively. The movie follows a heavily fictionalized version of the rivalry between the two composers - Salieri as the dogged intellectual and Mozart as the natural, inspired genius.

There are many opera scenes shown in the movie, including scenes of "Don Giovanni", shot in this beautiful and historic location of the Estates Theater.

Answer: The Princess Bride

"The Princess Bride" is the movie which features The Cliffs of Insanity as an obstacle of a location where the giant Fezzik has to out climb The Man in Black. Ultimately, the story follows Princess Buttercup throughout her tumultuous romance with the presumed-dead Wesley, which forces her to evade a planned wedding with the cruel Prince Humperdinck.

Answer: Rocky

"Rocky", the Best Picture winner from 1976 about the down-and-out boxer Rocky Balboa who ends up with a shot at the title if he fights champion Apollo Creed, featured a famous training montage where Rocky runs up the stairs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the song "Gonna Fly Now".

This scene is so famous that a statue of Rocky has been placed here to commemorate the film and this particular moment.

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" features Devils Tower as the landing place of the alien mothership, which comes in at the climax of a plotline where trackers have to solve the mystery of alien abductions and the elusive information traces they leave behind.

The 5-tone musical code sent by the aliens actually turns out to be coordinates to the location of this beautiful natural monument.

Answer: The Exorcist

Spoiler alert! "The Exorcist" features the death of Karras by falling down these stairs, and Georgetown charged people to watch the performance of the stunt as he did two takes falling down the (rubber-coated for the occasion) stairs.

Answer: Robin Hood (2010)

The 2010 "Robin Hood" film starring Russell Crowe featured a kind of backstory for Robin and his Merry Men, which included them fighting at the poorly strategized battle at this castle, which turns them off monarchy in general and their leaders in particular. Bourne Wood's mock castle has also been used for "Gladiator" battle scenes and other film sets.

Answer: The King's Speech

"The King's Speech", the Best Picture from 2010, featured many sumptuous locations in and around the royal quarters that form the setting of George VI's life. In particular, this building served as the filming location before and after George's title speech.

The film itself features the arc as the Duke of York not only ascends the throne after his brother's abdication, but gains the confidence to address his people during wartime, despite a lifelong stutter.

Answer: The Shining

"The Shining" is a Steven King adaptation starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and this story about Jack Torrance, who loses his mind while caretaker of the haunted Overlook, became a horror classic. This hotel's exterior is likely recognizable from the film, but the interior shots were done elsewhere.

Answer: "Hamlet" (Branagh)

"Hamlet", the classic Shakespeare tragedy of the young Prince's revenge for his father's death, takes place in Elsinore Castle, and Kenneth Branagh's massive, star-studded adaptation from 1996 used this beautiful facade to represent the setting. (Olivier's Elsinore was a darker more medieval-looking place.)

Answer: 12 Years a Slave

"12 Years a Slave" follows the true story of Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped from his life as a free man in New York into slavery. He is forced into the deep South, to the plantation of the wildly cruel Edwin Epps, before finally being saved by people from his life in New York. This building here is used as one of the masters' homes in the film.