Movie Settings Quiz - MSN Encarta

"The Sound of Music" (1965), starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, took place in what picturesque European city?

Geneva, Switzerland

Lake Como, Italy

Salzburg, Austria

Aix-en-Provence, France

In "Finding Nemo" (2003), a clownfish named Marlin searches for his son Nemo with the help of a regal tang named Dory in and around which oceanside city:

San Diego, Calif.

Sydney, Australia

Bora-Bora, French Polynesia

Hamilton, Bermuda

"Field of Dreams" (1989), a film about an American farmer's mystical encounter with major league baseball players, is set in which state:

Oklahoma

Iowa

Missouri

Nebraska

"Lost in Translation" (2003) is director Sofia Coppola's story about an unlikely friendship between a middle-aged American movie star and a lonely photographer's wife. What metropolis does it take place in?

Seoul

Hong Kong

Manila

Tokyo

Director Roman Polanski's "Chinatown" (1974), starring Jack Nicholson as a detective uncovering a major political scandal, took place in which urban setting:

New York City

Chicago

Los Angeles

Las Vegas

At the end of the film "Sleepless in Seattle" (1993), where do the two love-struck main characters meet and seal their fates?

Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

Top of the Space Needle (Seattle)

By the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus (London)

Empire State Building (New York City)

In "The English Patient" (1996) -- a motion picture based on the 1992 Booker Prize novel by Michael Ondaatje -- four people live in a ruined hill town villa at the end of World War II. Which country is this villa in?

Spain

Italy

Greece

Turkey

Director David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" (2007) -- starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts -- is set in which city?

London

Warsaw

Dublin

Prague

In Gus Van Sant's "Good Will Hunting" (1997), at what prestigious university does mathematical genius Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) work as a janitor?

M.I.T. (Cambridge, Mass.)

Yale (New Haven, Conn.)

Princeton (Princeton, N.J.)

Columbia (New York City)

The 2006 film "The Last King of Scotland" is set in which country? (Hint: The story is a fictional account of a young Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician of dictator Idi Amin.)

Scotland

Uganda

Pakistan

South Africa