1. Popular period drama Poldark, a fixture on UK TV screens between 2015-2019, helped make a star of a stunning Cornish beach and its iconic Gull Rocks. Can you tell us which one?
2. Martin Clunes as the grumpy village doctor Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin delighted audiences for 14 long years. And in doing so, the show placed one seaside village firmly on the map. Can you tell us its name?
3. Starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, Ladies in Lavender was set in 1930s Cornwall anyway – so picking a filming location was surely a no-brainer. Do you know where their cottage was set?
4. Everyone knows part of the Bond film Die Another Day was filmed at the Eden Project… But some of our beaches also masqueraded as the coast of North Korea. Such is the magic of cinema that, as Bond is surfing his way to a fortified beach in North Korea, Pierce Brosnan is in fact in Hawaii. When he lands, he is on a north coast beach. Can you tell us which one?
5. How on earth director Mel Gibson managed to use scenes from Cornwall to vividly recreate the Mayan homeland of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico in the 16th century is anyone’s guess. There isn’t a hint of Cornwall in the 2006 film, as you’d expect, but the hero runs exhausted onto a beach at the end. Do you know which one?
6. In 2015 Sam Neil, Charles Dance and Aidan Turner were bobbing around in a boat to shoot scenes for an adaptation of the Agatha Christie mystery murder, And Then There Were None. What beach provided the perfect creepy backdrop on a typically Cornish misty day?
7. Areas around which coastal town were transformed in 2017 for major motion picture, The Kid Who Would Be King, starring Patrick Stewart?
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