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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
Here's an exchange from the latest season of "Downton Abbey" that referenced a scandal in U.S. history.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SERIES, "DOWNTON ABBEY")
PENELOPE WILTON: (as Isobel Crawley) Is it really called the Teapot Dome Scandal? Seems so unlikely. What's it about?
MAGGIE SMITH: (as Lady Violet Crawley) What is it always about? Bribery and corruption. Taking money to allow private companies to drill for oil on government land.
BLOCK: That real scandal from the 1920s was about a place in Wyoming, the Teapot Dome oilfield.