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1.	We frankly lost track of whether or not a certain celeb was ultimately banned from the Hope for Haiti Telethon. Which star was rumored to be persona non grata at the event?
		Brett Michaels
		Boy George
		Adam Lambert
		Kanye West

2.	It was announced this week that in addition to making lame jokes on the Tonight Show again, Jay Leno has been tapped to make equally lame jokes as the host of ________.
		White House Correspondents Dinner
		The Tony Awards
		The ESPYs
		Conan O'Brien's Roast

3.	Tori Spelling does it. So does Heidi Klum. Apparently it's all the rage these days to decorate celebrity bathrooms with:
		Ice sculptures
		Maps of the world labeled with various current ecological crises
		Naked pictures of themselves
		Wallpaper made from shredded dollar bills

4.	This oft-requested classic rock staple played a key role in Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show appearance:
		Free Bird
		Stairway to Heaven
		Honkey Tonk Woman
		Layla

5.	Which you star turned heads with this eye-catching green number on the red carpet of the Screen Actors Guild Awards?
		Lea Michele
		Evangeline Lily
		Ellen Page
		AnnaLynne McCord

6.	We approve of the Screen Actors Guild bestowing upon the large cast of this film the Best Ensemble award:
		The Hurt Locker
		Inglourious Basterds
		Up in the Air
		Precious

7.	Of the four acting awards handed out by SAG and the Golden Globes the week before, which of these is true?
		Mo'nique was upset by Anna Kendrick
		Christoph Waltz was the only person to win both a SAG and Globe
		Meryl Streep won the award over Sandra Bullock
		All four Globe winners won the SAG award

8.	Another guild, another award. Just like the Academy Awards, the Producers Guild also nominated 10 films for its top prize. While Avatar may have a Golden Globe and nearly enough money to buy the actual globe we call Earth, it lost the PGA for best film to:
		Up in the Air
		Inglorious Basterds
		The Hurt Locker
		Star Trek

9.	Which blonde actress has been seen trying out some indefinable shade of red, which we hope she realizes, really doesn't work for her?
		Kristen Bell
		Reese Witherspoon
		Hayden Panettiere
		Kirsten Dunst

10.	In a move that we're almost 100% sure will backfire, the cast of which hit show turned down the network's contract renegotiation, as they hold out for more money?
		Glee
		Jersey Shore
		Ghost Whisperer
		Melrose Place

11.	Men Behaving Badly, Part I: This troubled and troubling comedian was arrested on two counts of sexual abuse in West Virginia:
		Andy Dick
		Michael Richards
		Carrot Top
		Lewis Black

12.	Men Behaving Badly, Part II: Which former child star was was arrested on domestic violence in Utah on Saturday?
		Emmanuel Lewis
		Brian Bonsall
		Rick Schroder
		Gary Coleman

13.	Sticking it further to fans of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which two entertainment-related giants merged this week?
		Sony and Paramount
		NBC and Comcast
		Disney and Fox
		Ticketmaster and Live Nation

14.	"[She] sees herself as the new Marilyn Monroe; she sees the need for a new blonde starlet in Hollywood and she wants to fill that void." These words come from Dr. Frank Ryan, the plastic surgeon behind the current version of which celeb?
		Courtney Love
		Lisa Kudrow
		Heidi Montag
		Tara Reid

15.	You know your film is in trouble when its star walks out of a screening. Which actress couldn't sit through the presentation of her brutally violent flick The Killer Inside Me at Sundance?
		Jessica Alba
		Liv Tyler
		Elisha Cuthbert
		Jeri Ryan

16.	Her show won a notable honor at the SAG awards, and she announced plans to marry her girlfriend come May. All in all a pretty darned good week for this prime-time actress:
		Mad Men's January Jones
		30 Rock's Jane Krakowski
		Glee's Jane Lynch
		United States of Tara's Toni Collette

17.	Sigh. Another week, another celebrity duped in a scam involving cattle. Which prime-time star was taken in a cow-related scheme?
		Gary Sinise
		Christian Slater
		Kiefer Sutherland
		Hugh Laurie

18.	Which music star made news during her guest judge appearance on American Idol, verbally sparring with fellow panelist Kara DioGuardi for being too nice, then threatening to throw a drink in her face?
		Britney Spears
		Katy Perry
		Ke$sha
		Michelle Branch

19.	Heroes' Adrian Pasdar was arrested this week for DUI, while driving his Ford F150 doing 94 mph. This could be the basis for a country song, so it's a good thing Pasdar is married to a member of which country act?
		Sugarland
		Dixie Chicks
		Lady Antebellum
		The Judds

20.	In between reality show hosting gigs, this person brought you the CBS inspirational special Live For The Moment on Thursday night:
		Julie Chen
		Jeff Probst
		Padma Lakshmi
		Gordon Ramsay

21.	It's curtains for this ABC show. The Alphabet served noticed that it was trimming the season order for this show, and that the program won't continue past the current season:
		The Forgotten
		Ugly Betty
		V
		Private Practice

22.	RIP Zelda Rubinstein, dead at age 76. While the diminutive actress wasn't a household name, she felt an indelible impression on fans of this horror movie of the 1980s:
		Friday the 13th
		The Fog
		When a Stranger Calls
		Poltergeist

23.	The sad end to Brittany Murphy's life gets sadder, as we learned this week that Simon Monjack, Murphy's husband, is filing a wrongful death suit. What is peculiar is that he is suing:
		Her estranged parents
		A movie studio
		A tabloid
		A cable TV entertainment news show

24.	For a cool $71 grand, you could have procured a marriage certificate between these two famous people this week:
		Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
		Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
		Liza Minelli and David Gest
		Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley

25.	The week ended with news that the man who had written this classic of modern American fiction had died:
		A Separate Peace
		The Catcher in the Rye
		Ironweed
		Slaughterhouse-Five