Pop culture · October 20, 2026

Puzzle #12 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #12, and the story behind each one.

01
Film
James Cameron's 1997 epic recreates the night an ocean liner sank at this spot after hitting an iceberg.
Wreck of RMS Titanic, North Atlantic Ocean
Francis Godolphin Osbourne Stuart · Public domain
RMS Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. About 1,500 of the 2,208 people aboard died.
41.733, -49.947
02
TV
The deadly games of the Korean series Squid Game were filmed on this small island off South Korea's west coast.
Seongap-do, South Korea
Seongap-do is an island in South Korea used as a filming location for Squid Game, the survival drama created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk.
37.094, 126.079
03
Books
In Les Misérables, the street urchin Gavroche sleeps inside a giant plaster statue of an animal that stood here.
Elephant of the Bastille, Paris, France
Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain
The Elephant of the Bastille was a 24 m plaster model of a planned bronze monument conceived by Napoleon, standing in Paris from 1813 to 1846. Victor Hugo made it Gavroche's home.
48.853, 2.369
04
Film
Edoras, the hilltop capital of Rohan in The Two Towers, was built on this isolated hill in New Zealand's South Island.
Mount Sunday, Canterbury, New Zealand
Experience Mid Canterbury · CC BY 4.0
Mount Sunday is an isolated hill in inland Canterbury chosen for the settlement of Edoras in The Lord of the Rings films. It has since become a tourist attraction.
-43.548, 170.893
05
Film
Black Panther (2018) used this Ugandan national park, home to Africa's third-highest peak, as a filming location.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda
Manuel Werner, Germany(Wikipedia-Kontakt: de:Benutzer:Werner, Deutschland) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Rwenzori Mountains National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of almost 1,000 km² in Uganda. It appears among the filming locations of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018).
0.400, 29.950

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Puzzle #12 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #12, and the story behind each one.

Film

James Cameron's 1997 epic recreates the night an ocean liner sank at this spot after hitting an iceberg.

Wreck of RMS Titanic, North Atlantic Ocean

RMS Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. About 1,500 of the 2,208 people aboard died.

41.733, -49.947

The deadly games of the Korean series Squid Game were filmed on this small island off South Korea's west coast.

Seongap-do, South Korea

Seongap-do is an island in South Korea used as a filming location for Squid Game, the survival drama created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk.

37.094, 126.079

Books

In Les Misérables, the street urchin Gavroche sleeps inside a giant plaster statue of an animal that stood here.

Elephant of the Bastille, Paris, France

The Elephant of the Bastille was a 24 m plaster model of a planned bronze monument conceived by Napoleon, standing in Paris from 1813 to 1846. Victor Hugo made it Gavroche's home.

48.853, 2.369

Film

Edoras, the hilltop capital of Rohan in The Two Towers, was built on this isolated hill in New Zealand's South Island.

Mount Sunday, Canterbury, New Zealand

Mount Sunday is an isolated hill in inland Canterbury chosen for the settlement of Edoras in The Lord of the Rings films. It has since become a tourist attraction.

-43.548, 170.893

Film

Black Panther (2018) used this Ugandan national park, home to Africa's third-highest peak, as a filming location.

Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda

Rwenzori Mountains National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of almost 1,000 km² in Uganda. It appears among the filming locations of Ryan Coogler's Black Panther (2018).

0.400, 29.950

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