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David Simon, who created the series, spent more than a decade in what job before he wrote for television? | — |
Co-creator Ed Burns held which two jobs before he began writing for television? | — |
Season four turns its attention to which Baltimore institution? | — |
Every season opens with a different recording of the same Tom Waits song. Which song is it? | — |
Before this series, David Simon and Ed Burns adapted their non-fiction book about a west Baltimore drug market into which HBO miniseries? | — |
Despite its critical standing, the show was famously snubbed by the Emmys, earning a total of just how many nominations in five seasons? | — |
Three well-known crime novelists were brought in to write episodes. Which trio? | — |
Which gospel group's recording of the theme was used over the season-one opening titles? | — |
Which musician both recorded the fifth-season version of the theme and appeared on screen as Bubbles' Narcotics Anonymous sponsor? | — |
A former mayor of Baltimore appeared on the show playing the city's health commissioner. Which one? | — |
Dominic West and Aidan Gillen, two of the show's principal cast, had what in common off screen? | — |
The network cut the order for the fifth and final season. How many episodes did it run? | — |
Every hour of the show opens with an on-screen quotation. Where do those words come from? | — |
Stringer Bell's American accent was convincing enough that viewers were often surprised to learn the actor had grown up where? | — |
A real Baltimore stick-up man who helped inspire the character of Omar Little later turned up on screen as a member of Omar's crew. Who was he? | — |
In a much-discussed first-season sequence, McNulty and Bunk rework an old murder scene using almost no vocabulary at all. What do they say instead? | — |
In the first season, D'Angelo Barksdale uses a chess board to explain what to Bodie and Wallace? | — |
Which US president has repeatedly called this his favorite television show and named Omar Little his favorite character? | — |
Michael K. Williams carried a long facial scar that became part of his best-known role's look. How did he get it? | — |
In the final season, McNulty invents a threat that does not exist in order to force money back to the police department. What does he fake? | — |
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