THE THIRD WORLD
Latin American country supplying 90% of the world's emeralds and 70% of the US's illegal drugs
Its second act features a magic carpet, "A Whole New World" & a reprise of "Arabian Nights"
ALADDIN
The name of this city near Los Angeles is from the German for "home" on the Santa "Ana" River
ANAHEIM
A 2018 cheating scandal rocked the wine world, causing 23 people to lose the title "master" this wine steward
SOMMELIER
Checkpoint Charlie was a heavily guarded crossing on this symbolic & physical barrier
THE BERLIN WALL
Nearly 99% of the people in this most populous Arab country are compressed into some 4% of the land
EGYPT
This musical featuring the hero Jean Valjean was adapted from a 1,200-page novel
LES MISERABLES
AKA "The Rock", this island is a prime stop on your San Francisco tour schedule
ALCATRAZ
This filmmaker has a line of wines called Director's Cut
(FRANCIS FORD) COPPOLA
In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes
A U-2
Today, only 5% of forestland remains in this ravaged country that shares Hispaniola
HAITI
Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells played Elders Cunningham and Price when this musical opened in 2011
THE BOOK OF MORMON
This street intersects with Haight Street to create the name of a San Francisco neighborhood
ASHBURY
You say shiraz, I say this French name for a red wine & a red wine grape from the Rhone region of France
SYRAH
The situation where neither side will start a war because of the cost to itself is mutual assured this, MAD for short
DESTRUCTION
On May 30, 1967, this state declared independence from Nigeria, but surrendered 2 1/2 years later
BIAFRA
It's the word & the musical set at Rydell High in the 1950s
GREASE
This Spanish word refers to a deep gully & precedes "Grande" in the name of a cute village on the Central Coast
ARROYO
Kathryn Borel's wine trip memoir is titled this, a term for wine that has the taint of the stopper
CORKED
The brief anti-communist period of liberalization in this country in 1968 was called the Prague Spring
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Until recently, the fourteen families dominated the economy of this smallest mainland New World republic
EL SALVADOR
We want you to "state" this musical set in Indian territory; it was Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration
OKLAHOMA!
It's paired with Oakland in the name of a coliseum in the Bay Area
ALAMEDA
A type of glass is named for this white wine-making French region near Germany whose name rhymes with "glass"
ALSACE
Soviet leader Gorbachev initiated policies in the 1980s of glasnost, "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring"
PERESTROIKA