(CNN) -- "L.A. Law" had buzz right from the moment it premiered in 1986.

Co-created by Steven Bochco, hot off his success with "Hill Street Blues," the series was set at the high-priced Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak.

The cast was glossy and diverse, including Jimmy Smits, Blair Underwood, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Susan Dey, Richard Dysart, Alan Rachins and Corbin Bernsen.

Most of all, it pushed the boundaries of the legal show the way "Hill Street" did with cop shows.

"L.A. Law's" principals argued cases involving rape, capital punishment, big business, child molestation, AIDS and medical malpractice at a time when such subjects were seldom mentioned on prime-time television, and certainly not in such detail. This was no "Perry Mason," or even "The Defenders."

Bochco being Bochco, the hard stuff was paired with moments of silly humor and steamy sex (or silly sex and steamy humor), making for a high-wire balance of drama and comedy.

One first-season episode got people talking about a fictional sex act called the "Venus Butterfly"; later, the show actually killed off a character by dropping her down an elevator shaft.

The big hair and big-shouldered suits of the '80s may be gone, but the show remains influential. David E. Kelley, a real-life lawyer who later created "Picket Fences," "The Practice" and "Ally McBeal," got his television start as a writer on "L.A. Law."

The show's first season is finally out on DVD, with the second expected to follow in a few months. CNN spoke to Smits, now a star of "Sons of Anarchy" who played idealistic Hispanic attorney Victor Sifuentes, and Alan Rachins, who played bottom-line-oriented partner Douglas Brackman Jr. and later starred on "Dharma and Greg," about the show and its impact. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what are some of the topics of cases argued on L.A. Law?
2. what was the show a balance of?
3. is it available on DVD?
4. when did it premiere?
5. who is one of the creators?
6. what other show did he create?
7. who were a couple of the cast members?
8. what was the name of the law firm on the show?
9. did the show push boundaries?
10. how did one of the characters on the show die?
11. when is the second season available on DVD?
12. who did Jimmy Smits play on the show?
13. and what show is he on now?
14. who played Douglas Brackman Jr.?
15. where did he end up?
Answer: 1. rape, capital punishment, big business
2. drama and comedy
3. the first season is
4. 1986
5. Steven Bochco
6. "Hill Street Blues"
7. Jimmy Smits, Blair Underwood, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker
8. McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak
9. yes
10. she fell down an elevator shaft
11. in a few months
12. Victor Sifuentes
13. "Sons of Anarchy"
14. Alan Rachins
15. "Dharma and Greg"

question: Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States. The state is the tenth largest by area, the least populous and the second least densely populated state in the country. Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho. The state population was estimated at 586,107 in 2015, which is less than 31 of the largest U.S. cities including neighboring Denver. Cheyenne is the capital and the most populous city, with population estimated at 63,335 in 2015.

The western two-thirds of the state is covered mostly by the mountain ranges and rangelands of the Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie called the High Plains. Almost half of the land in Wyoming is owned by the U.S. government, leading Wyoming to rank sixth by area and fifth by proportion of a state's land owned by the federal government. Federal lands include two national parksGrand Teton and Yellowstonetwo national recreation areas, two national monuments, several national forests, historic sites, fish hatcheries, and wildlife refuges.

Original inhabitants of the region include the Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone. Southwestern Wyoming was in the Spanish Empire and then Mexican territory until it was ceded to the United States in 1848 at the end of the MexicanAmerican War. The region acquired the name "Wyoming" when a bill was introduced to the U.S. Congress in 1865 to provide a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming". The name was used earlier for the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, and is derived from the Munsee word "", meaning "at the big river flat".
1. Which region Wyoming is in?
2. Who were the original inhabitants there?
3. Which part of it went under an Empire?
4. Which empire?
5. After that what it became?
6. Which year it became part of US?
7. Which war led that?
8. What is its rank by area?
9. How about population?
10. How many states border it?
11. Can you name two of them?
12. Which state is to its north?
13. And south?
14. What is Wyoming's population?
15. When the it was named Wyoming?
16. Which state had a similarly named place?
17. What Wyoming means?
18. Is the state mountainous?
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answer:
1. western United States
2. Crow, Arapaho, Lakota, and Shoshone
3. Southwestern Wyoming
4. Spanish
5. Wyoming
6. 1848
7. MexicanAmerican War.
8. tenth
9. second least densely
10. Six
11. South Dakota and Nebraska
12. Montana
13. Colorado
14. 586,107
15. 1865
16. Pennsylvania
17. at the big river flat
18. yes