PLAYING THE VILLIAN
Played with cackling excellence by Ian McDiarmid, this character returned from the dead in Star Wars: Episode IX
Emperor Palpatine
System of exchanging goods or services without using money
Barter
Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River
Green Bay
I want something else to get me through this 1997 hit by Third Eye Blind
Semi-Charmed Life
China says this island is part of their land; the island says otherwise, functioning as a capitalist society with its own democratically elected leader
Taiwan
We rooted for him in Get Out and Queen and Slim, but not when he made life miserable for the title women in Widows
Daniel Kaluuya
This duo had a smash hit in 2006 with their song "Crazy"
Gnarls Barkley
A Southern California city & a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name
Orange
With hits like 3am, Push, and Unwell, the lead singer of this band had a very successful solo career as well
Matchbox 20
Influenced by its time as a Portuguese colony, this "semi-autonomous administrative region" is also the gambling capital of all of Asia (and to some, the world)
Macau
Dennis Hopper won a Best Villain MTV Movie Award for menacing a bus in this film
Speed
Tanzania gets part of its name from this island
Zanzibar
Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation
Baton Rouge
One of the 90s' many one hit wonders, Deep Blue Something referenced this classic novel turned film in their biggest hit
Breakfast at Tiffany's
A British colony for 156 years, this area was finally conceded back to China in 1997, but designated an "semi-autonomous administrative region"
Hong Kong
John Malkovich is a menace in the skies as the felon Cyrus the Virus in this 1997 thriller
Con Air
In reinforced concrete it's what does the reinforcing
Rebar
This ville is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros
Brownsville
The Cranberries, a 90s alt pop/rock group, hailed from this European country
Ireland
Sharing shores with the Phillipines, Vietnam, and others, this body of water is home to a lot of human made Chinese "islands"
South China Sea
As this character in 1982, Ricardo Montalban says "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you."
Khan
You eat the red stalks of this plant; the green leaves are toxic
This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital
Golden
The Spin Doctor's hit 1991 song referenced two of this type of royalty
Princes
China shares a border with this country in the Southwest, but disagreements about areas such as Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and others makes this border quite the topic of debate
India