Pop culture · October 12, 2026

Puzzle #4 answers

The five places from Where Was It? Pop culture #4, and the story behind each one.

1. 01

   Film

   Maria and the von Trapp children sing 'Do-Re-Mi' around this baroque garden's fountain.

   Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg, Austria

   

   The Sound of Music (1965) filmed around Salzburg. The Pegasus fountain and the steps of Mirabell Gardens feature in the finale of 'Do-Re-Mi'.

   47.806, 13.042

2. 02

   Music

   Farrokh Bulsara, later Queen's frontman, was born in 1946 on this spice island off the East African coast.

   Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

   

   Freddie Mercury was born in Stone Town to Parsi parents and spent his early childhood there before school in India and a move to England.

   -6.163, 39.189

4. 03

   TV

   The waterfall in the opening credits of a 1990 cult mystery series about a murdered homecoming queen.

   Snoqualmie Falls, Washington, USA

   

   Twin Peaks' opening shows Snoqualmie Falls and the Salish Lodge perched above it, which played the Great Northern Hotel.

   47.542, -121.838

5. 04

   Film

   Tom Cruise's final cliff-top showdown in Mission: Impossible – Fallout was shot on this flat rock 600 m above a fjord.

   Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock), Norway

   

   The 2018 film presents Preikestolen as Kashmir. The plateau towers over the Lysefjord near Stavanger.

   58.986, 6.190

6. 05

   Anime

   Taki and Mitsuha finally meet on a staircase in Your Name. Fans flock to the real stairs in this city.

   Suga Shrine stairs, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan

   

   Makoto Shinkai's 2016 film made the red-railed stairs of Suga Shrine one of Japan's most popular anime pilgrimage spots.

   35.686, 139.722