The Balkans
The Balkans are located on this continent.
What is Europe?
As seen on the show "The Queen's Gambit", a type of chess opening is named after this ethnic group, who inhabit a Southern island of Italy.
What is Sicilian?
This unofficial but starkly defined socioeconomic and racial border of St. Louis neighborhoods has become infamously known by this alliterative title.
What is the Delmar Divide?
This part of a guitar is referred to as the fretboard.
What is the neck?
I identify as this, which is the name of the demographic of Jews who left Spain and settled in the Balkans following the Spanish Inquisition.
What is Sephardic?
These 7 countries make up the former Yugoslavia.
What is Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and North Macedonia?
On Schitt's Creek, two of the actors play characters with a familial relationship, and happen to have this same familial relationship in real life.
What are father and son?
Some guess that the St. Louis Arch is taller than it is wide, and some guess it is wider than it is tall; but in reality, the Arch is this.
Exactly the same width and height—630 feet!
Capoeira is a martial-art accompanied by singing in Portuguese, acrobatics, and sparring, and it originates from this country.
What is Brazil?
I named my mom's dog Georgie after one of her favorite musicians, George Gershwin. The other Gershwin brother's name is this, and not as fitting for a dog.
What is Ira?
This red Teletubby's name is coincidentally the same way you say "yes" in Albanian.
What is "po"?
On the show "Outlander", Claire, an English woman, is affectionately called "Sassenach" by the Scottish lad Jamie, which translates to this.
What is "outlander"?
Before gaining its monopoly on the Kosher deli sector of St. Louis, Kohn's used to have competition in this now-shuttered deli, formerly located on North and South in U City.
What is Diamond's?
You can propagate this type of delicious fruit by peeling its seed, wrapping it in a wet paper towel, putting it inside a sandwich baggie, and forgetting about it.
What is an avocado?
I once worked on a Netflix show filmed in Rochester, New York on the grounds of a mostly-abandoned industrial factory, due to the fact that this once-booming photography business failed to capitalize on digital photography.
What is Kodak?