Pop culture · October 27, 2026

Puzzle #19 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #19, and the story behind each one.

1. 01

   Music

   Brothers Max and Igor Cavalera formed the heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 in this Brazilian city.

   Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

   

   Sepultura, Portuguese for 'grave', formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984 and became a major force in thrash and groove metal. Belo Horizonte is Brazil's sixth-largest city.

   -19.928, -43.942

2. 02

   Books

   A Jewish teenager wrote her famous wartime diary while hiding for two years in the secret annex of this canal-side house.

   Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands

   

   The Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank, whose diary records the two years she spent in hiding there with her family during the Second World War.

   52.375, 4.884

4. 03

   Anime

   Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of Spirited Away, was born in this city in 1941.

   Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan

   

   Hayao Miyazaki was born on 5 January 1941 in Bunkyō, a special ward in the middle of Tokyo known as a residential and educational centre. He co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985.

   35.708, 139.752

5. 04

   TV

   West Beverly Hills High in the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 was really this 1917 school south of Los Angeles.

   Torrance High School, Torrance, California, USA

   

   Torrance High School, founded in 1917, is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California. It played West Beverly Hills High in Aaron Spelling's Beverly Hills, 90210.

   33.829, -118.321

6. 05

   Film

   In Schindler's List, Oskar Schindler saves his Jewish workers by moving them to a factory at this camp in occupied Czechoslovakia.

   Brünnlitz labour camp, Brněnec, Czech Republic

   

   The Brünnlitz labour camp was set up in 1944 just outside Brněnec (Brünnlitz) in the occupied Sudetenland. Oskar Schindler moved his factory and his Jewish workers there, as Spielberg's 1993 film shows.

   49.627, 16.524