Pop culture · October 22, 2026

Puzzle #14 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #14, and the story behind each one.

1. 01

   TV

   Michael Scofield breaks his brother out of a prison played by this real penitentiary, closed in 2002.

   Joliet Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, USA

   

   Prison Break filmed at the former Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois, which held inmates from 1858 to 2002. Numerous films and TV shows have used it as a setting.

   41.547, -88.074

2. 02

   Music

   Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix all recorded at this independent studio in south-west London.

   Olympic Studios, Barnes, London, UK

   

   Olympic Studios on Church Road in Barnes recorded artists from the late 1960s onwards, including Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie and Queen.

   51.475, -0.241

4. 03

   Film

   Danny Boyle filmed parts of Slumdog Millionaire in this coastal suburb of Mumbai known for its long beach.

   Juhu, Mumbai, India

   

   Juhu is a coastal suburb on the western coast of Salsette Island in Mumbai, known for Juhu Beach. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008) was partly filmed there.

   19.100, 72.830

5. 04

   TV

   Wisteria Lane in Desperate Housewives isn't a real suburb: it's this street set on a Hollywood studio backlot.

   Colonial Street, Universal Studios Lot, California, USA

   

   Colonial Street is a backlot street set at the Universal Studios Lot in Universal City with over 60 years of film and TV use. From 2004 to 2012 it played Wisteria Lane.

   34.139, -118.345

6. 05

   Film

   Trainee agent Clarice Starling is training here when she is sent to interview Hannibal Lecter.

   FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia, USA

   

   The FBI Academy, the FBI's training centre near Quantico, Virginia, appears in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathan Demme's film starring Jodie Foster as trainee Clarice Starling.

   38.530, -77.446