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Appearing on 60 Minutes this week, Simon Cowell claimed that he was responsible for selling more records than what music legend?
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Bob Dylan
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Bruce Springsteen
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The Beatles
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Michael Jackson
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The female lead in the forth Indiana Jones movie has reportedly been offered to which Oscar winner?
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Nicole Kidman
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Helen Mirren
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Marissa Tomei
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Cate Blanchett
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All-around groovy chick Amanda-oh alerted us to trouble for the prospects for the fourth iteration of The Simple Life, in which Nicole and Paris were supposed to work as camp counselors. The trouble stems from the fact that the two refused to:
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Submit to a drug test
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Refrain from using profanity
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Refrain from offering sex advice to the children
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Sign a contract for an additional two seasons of the reality show
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Something unusual happened on Jeopardy on Friday. In fact, Alex Trebek claimed that it had never happened before during the show's run. What was this odd occurance?
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All three players finished Double Jeopardy in the red, so none could play Final Jeopardy
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A player collapsed during Double Jeopardy and couldn't complete the game
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The players all finished tied with the same amount of money
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An inebriated Sean Connery stormed the set and tasered Trebek
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Large trained rats played a pivotal role in this week's episode of which reality show?
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The Amazing Race
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Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader
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American Idol
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Survivor
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A small storm of controversy surrounded billboard ads for an upcoming film. The ads, decried as too graphic, were quickly removed. What is the film in question?
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Shrek the Third
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Captivity
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Saw IV
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Grindhouse
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Potter fans were up in arms this week as rumors circulated that which of the films' stars might not return to the screen for the final two episodes?
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Emma Watson
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Rupert Grint
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Maggie Smith
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Robbie Coltrane
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Dancing With the Stars returned this week. You can tell all your friends until you are blue in the face that you don't watch the show, but we both know that you spend a good part of each week cursing the judges, known by each of the following names, except for:
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Bruno
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Len
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Tibor
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Carrie Anne
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A reclining Evangeline Lilly graces the cover of this week's TV Guide, which bears which title?
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The Get-Over-Yourself Issue
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The Sexy Issue
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The Hot Issue
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The Stars-with-Issues Issue
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What was the theme for the songs on this week's American Idol?
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Motown
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Country
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The Good Charlotte Songbook
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1960's British Pop
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New to the airwaves this week is Til Death Do Us Part, a weekly anthology series on Court TV. The host of said show is this oddball film director:
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Spike Jonze
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John Waters
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Michel Gondry
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Tim Burton
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A paparazzo was grazed by a vehicle under the operation of this celeb:
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Keanu Reeves
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Bruce Willis
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Sandra Bullock
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Don Cheadle
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This sports figure had a front-row seat at a papal appearance on Wednesday
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Terrell Owens
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Pete Rose
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John McEnroe
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Don King
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This week we had to bid farewell to a longtime contributor to David Letterman's show. RIP Calvert DeForest, who you might know better as
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Larry "Bud" Melman
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Biff Henderson
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Paul Schaeffer
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Hal Gurney
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Speaking of Letterman, when Dave suddenly took ill on Tuesday, this comic stood in as a guest host:
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David Spade
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Jim Carrey
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Adam Sandler
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Bernie Mac
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Scarlett Johansson stated that she likes this person so much that she would happily 'sew their pants'. Who's lucky to have her trying to bust their seams?
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Woody Allen
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Josh Hartnett
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Jared Leto
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Justin Timberlake
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US Magazine's latest issue claims that Tom Cruise recently called this person 18 times in an hour. Who was the lucky (?) recipient of his attention?
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J.J. Abrams
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David Beckham
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Victoria Beckham
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Brooke Shields
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The convicted assassin who killed U.S. District Judge John H. Wood passed away this week. He was the father of which actor?
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Chris Cooper
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Woody Harrelson
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Tom Sizemore
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Billy Bob Thornton
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This popular videogame's makers signed a deal to make it the next great (read: non-Uwe Boll directed) game-to-movie adaptation.
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Crackdown
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Gears of War
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God of War
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Katamari Damacy
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This multi-millionaire athlete created a stir when he attempted to sell his $3,000 grill on eBay. The bidding was up to $99,999,999.00 before eBay removed the listing.
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Roger Federer
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Pac-Man Jones
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Scot Pollard
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Manny Ramirez
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