Small Town USA
Washington Court House, Versailles, Gambier
Ohio
This comedian published his autobiography, “Born a Crime,” in 2016.
Trevor Noah
They're America's Team
Dallas Cowboys
Marge's body wash
Estee Lauder
Nelson Algren describes his hometown in 1951:
“You can live your whole life out somewhere between Goose Island and Bronzeville without once feeling that, the week after you move, the neighbors are going to miss your place.”
Chicago
Madrid, Gallup, Truth-or-Consequences
New Mexico
The 2011 book, “Happy Accidents,” describes the chance events that led this actress to her breakout role in Glee.
Jane Lynch
The Minnesota Vikings defensive line of the 1960s and 70s had this nickname.
Purple People Eaters
“This book doesn’t have any answers in it,” Homer says while frantically turning the pages. To which book is he referring?
The Bible
Kurt Vonnegut, in 1969, wrote, "the doorways framed the loveliest city that most of the Americans had ever seen… The skyline was intricate and voluptuous and enchanted and absurd. It looked like a Sunday school picture of Heaven to Billy Pilgrim.”
Dresden, Germany
Breezewood, York, Hollidaysburg
Pennsylvania
This person wrote about their childhood in Tibet in a 1991 book titled, “Freedom in Exile.”
Dalai Lama
A section of bleachers at Cleveland Browns games where the rowdiest fans sit
The Dawg Pound
The surnames of Lenny and Carl
Leonard and Carlson
John Berendt writes, of this city, in 1994: “[it] was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone.”
Savannah, Georgia
Menomonie, Sturgeon Bay, Stevens Point
This author writes about growing up mixed-race, the loss of her mother, and her love of Korean food in her 2021 autobiography, “Crying in H Mart.”
Michelle Zauner
Fans of French national sporting teams are often called this- a reference to their commonly worn jersey color.
Les Bleus
In “The Strong Arms of the Ma,” Marge decides to start a gym for average women called this.
Shapes
Ernest Hemingway, in 1964: “If you are lucky enough to have lived [there] as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you… [it] is a moveable feast.”
Paris
Beaufort, Georgetown, Edisto Island
South Carolina
The profits from her 2013 memoir, “Waiting to be Heard,” went towards paying legal fees to her Italian lawyers.
Amanda Knox
Unofficial supporters group of the US men's and women's soccer teams.
American Outlaws
Nuclear Safety Inspector
Truman Capote, 1966:
“The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveller reaches them.
Holcomb, KS