Round 10: Tossup 2

Two regions of this country were sardonically referred to as the “valley of the clueless” (10[1])because they were outside of the signal range of ARD TV broadcasts. Concerts by the Beatles in a [emphasize] neighboring country precipitated a 1965 youth-led “Beat Revolt” against authorities in this country. A walking figure wearing a straw hat known as the “little light man” first appeared (10[1])on this country’s pedestrian signals. People in this country waited up to (10[1])10 years to acquire a loudly-backfiring plastic car called the Trabant. A famous piece of graffiti showed a leader of this country, Erich Honecker, sharing (10[1])a fraternal kiss with Leonid Brezhnev. For 10 points, ostalgie romanticizes the culture of what former Communist country, whose citizens were heavily surveilled by the Stasi? ■END■

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