Answer: Women's prison
'Orange is the New Black' started in 2013 and ran for seven seasons, with the seventh season released in 2019. It is based on the 2010 memoir 'Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison' by Piper Kerman and a dramatised version of Piper is played by Taylor Schilling in the show. The show centres on the lives of the inmates and officers at the fictional Litchfield Penitentiary.
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Answer: Flags
"Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun with Flags" first appeared in the fourteenth episode of season five. His girlfriend Amy also appears in the podcast as his assistant.
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Answer: Downton Abbey
'Downton Abbey' was created by the British screenwriter Julian Fellowes. The first series aired in 2010 on ITV in the UK and in 2011 in the USA on PBS. The show ran for 52 episodes across six seasons with the final series being shown in the UK in 2015. A film based on the series was released in cinemas in 2019. The show is set in the early 20th Century and focuses on the Crawley family and their domestic servants. The actor Hugh Bonneville played Robert Crawley, the head of the family.
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Answer: World War One
Everybody does their part to help the war effort. Cora and Isobel turn "Downton Abbey" into an officer's hospital, while Sybil becomes a nurse. Matthew and William join the fight, and Thomas joins as a medic.
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Answer: Chernobyl
'Chernobyl' is a historical drama that tells the story of the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the clean up in the immediate aftermath. The series consisted of five episodes and was shown in the US and UK in 2019. The show was a joint production between the HBO network in the US and Sky TV in the UK.
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Answer: American Horror Story
Each season of "American Horror Story" has a whole new plot and a whole new set of characters. But, the cast typically stays the same with the opportunity to portray the opposite of what they did the season before. Though the seasons are set in different locations and time periods, they are all connected one way or another.
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Answer: Prohibition
'Boardwalk Empire' was first shown in 2010 and ran until 2014 for a total of five seasons. The show is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1920s during prohibition, a time in the US when it was forbidden to sell alcohol. 'Boardwalk Empire' focuses on the character of Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson a corrupt politician who is also a gangster and effectively controls Atlantic City. The movie director Martin Scorsese was involved in the production of the show as one of the executive producers and directed the pilot episode.
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Answer: Shelley Long
Shelley Long may be best known for playing Diane Chambers on the beloved show, "Cheers". She was also in such movies as "The Brady Bunch Movie", "The Money Pit", and "Troop Beverly Hills".
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Answer: Call the Midwife
'Call the Midwife' first aired in the UK in 2012. The series is based around the work of the nuns of the fictional order of St Raymond Nonnatus and the community midwives who work and live alongside them. The first series was set in 1957 and later series have moved forward in time, so that by the 10th series the setting was 1966. By moving forward through time 'Call the Midwife' has shown medical developments that happened during the period. Originally the series was based on a series of memoirs by former nurse and midwife Jennifer Worth who had worked as a midwife with an order of nuns in London's East End in the 1950s, although as the series has continued it has moved away from the source material with new characters being introduced who did not feature in Worth's books.
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Answer: His 3rd grade teacher
Judith was born in the third season of the show. She was delivered by cesarean and her mother Lori Grimes did not survive the birth.
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Answer: Big Little Lies
'Big Little Lies' is based on Liane Moriarty's 2014 novel with the same title. The show was originally intended to be a stand alone seven episode miniseries but due to its success a second season was commissioned which was broadcast in 2019. 'Big Little Lies' is about a group of five women who are involved in a murder investigation.
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Answer: Jaime Lannister
Joffrey's biological father is also his uncle. The biological brother to his mother Cersei Lannister.
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Answer: Birmingham
'Peaky Blinders' was first shown in the UK in 2013 and was available on Netflix in the US from 2014. The show is set in the period after the First World War and focuses on the exploits of the Shelby family who are involved in organised crime in the city of Birmingham in England.
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Answer: Norma Romano
Norma Romano is sucked into a cult by Guru Mack and enters a polygamous marriage with him. Years later, she is the only one that has stuck around and Guru Mack is facing charges of fraud. After Guru Mack insults Norma, she pushes him off a cliff.
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Answer: Fear the Walking Dead
'Fear the Walking Dead' was first shown in 2015 and was a spin-off to the show 'The Walking Dead,' which started in 2010. Both 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead' are based on the comic book series 'The Walking Dead' which was published between 2003 and 2019.
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Answer: Breaking Bad
Saul Goodman is not Bob Odenkirk's character's real name. As we find out in the spin-off series "Better Call Saul", his real name is James "Jimmy" McGill.
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Answer: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' aired between 2013 and 2020 and consisted of seven seasons. The show sees Clark Gregg continue in his role of Phil Coulson which he played in a number of films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The show originally tied into the MCU movies with action from the movies being referenced in the show however in later seasons the show aligned less with the movies of the MCU.
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Answer: 17
When Cookie is released from prison she is set on taking back half the recording label from her ex-husband Lucious Lyon. Taraji P. Henson portrays Cookie Lyon on "Empire".
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Answer: George R.R. Martin
The TV show 'Game of Thrones' is based on the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series of books by George R.R. Martin. The show is named after the title of the first novel in the series 'A Game of Thrones' which was first published in 1996. The show ran for eight seasons between 2011 and 2019 and contained several story arcs focusing on a number of characters in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos.
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Answer: Jennifer Morrison
"Once Upon a Time" has brought all our favorite classic and modern fairy tales characters together into one story line. After the popularity of the show, a spin-off series was created "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland". But, it did not prove to be capable of the same success and was cancelled after one season.
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