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How Well Do You Know: 5/4/07-5/10/07
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1. As a rule, we don't like to waste precious quiz space over the generally useless and overexposed, but the Paris Hilton jail story was too omnipresent for us not to mention. What was the charge that has earned Ms. Hilton a trip to the Big House?
Tax evasion
Assaulting an officer of the law
Driving with a suspended license
Slander
 
2. Paris's antics over the years might make a little more sense in light of her mother's wacko behavior during Paris's hearing. What is Momma Hilton's first name?
Amanda
Kathy
Sasha
Brooke
 
3. "Parts that I really want aren't going to me..... Like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I don't want to say that there's nothing I love that I can have. But there's still the occasional script that the director doesn't want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls." Elle magazine's June issue quotes this actress, noted more for her looks than acting chops:
Jessica Alba
Elisha Cuthbert
Jessica Biel
Lacey Chabert
 
4. Collect 'em all! The May 11th issue of Entertainment Weekly bears no less than five different covers, each showing a few cast members of this show:
Friday Night Lights
CSI
Lost
Heroes
 
5. The producers of Lost this week announced an end-date for the series. So there's now a finite amount of episodes in which they can cram meandering dead-end plot lines and mysterious tidbits they never intend on answering. The show will end at the end of the ___________ season.
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
 
6. Speaking of overblown and going nowhere, while NBC this series has not been officially cancelled yet, the sets for the show were reportedly dismantled. The death knell in this case is for:
Friday Night Lights
Studio 60
Medium
Deal or No Deal
 
7. "I made an error in judgment. We all make mistakes, however this is about accountability." Which reality TV star apologized thusly this week after being arrested on a DUI charge?
Paula Abdul
Ty Pennington
Phil Keoghan
Tim Gunn
 
8. There were a couple of big sporting events over the weekend. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. had a good day on Saturday. What did he win?
A horse race
A car race
A golf tournament
A boxing match
 
9. You know else who had a good day on Saturday? Calvin Borel, that's who. What did our man Calvin win?
A horse race
A car race
A golf tournament
A boxing match
 
10. Just in time for Mother's Day, this performer basically fired his/her mom as his/her manager, though all sides agree (wink, wink) that it was an amicable (nudge, nudge) arrangement:
Bjork
Fantasia
Usher
Ciara
 
11. USA Today this week ran an interview with John Lehr. You wouldn't recognize the name, but Mr. Lehr is the actor behind this popular advertising icon:
The Geico Caveman
The Geico Gecko
The creepy Burger King
Erin from Esurance
 
12. The Amazing Race: All Stars concluded this week, and we were generally pleased with the outcome of the race, especially given the three teams vying for the title. The race originally started in Miami. Where did it end?
Miami
Las Vegas
Knoxville
San Francisco
 
13. During the course of 10 nights, various bands are working their way through their way through the 500 greatest songs of all time, as determined some time ago by Rolling Stone. This event, generating funds for charity, is taking place in a bar in:
London
New York
Atlanta
Seattle
 
14. After leaving school one course shy, this celeb graduated this week from the university he/she is closely associated with:
Nick Lachey
Ashley Judd
The Rock
Matthew McConaughey
 
15. Spider-Man 3 was huge at the box office over the weekend, setting the mark for all-time openers. Yet the film opened to more than a good amount of criticism. Which noted filmmaker ravaged the project, saying: "It's a silly movie"?
George Lucas
Martin Scorsese
Stephen Spielberg
Kevin Smith
 
16. A noticeable uproar occurred this week over a Chicago law firm's billboard, which read "Life is Short....."
Shoot somebody
Get a Divorce
Sue somebody
We'll Get You Off
 
17. This season, The Office has featured a number of big-shots taking turns behind the camera to direct individual episode. Thursday's episode "Beach Games" was directed by:
Woody Allen
Harold Ramis
James Cameron
Michel Gondry
 
18. Documentarian Michael Moore finds himself once again in trouble with The Man. The Treasury Department is probing Mr. Moore over a trip, in conjunction with his upcoming film, to which country?
Canada
Mexico
Vietnam
Cuba
 
19. Young Sebastian Alexander Morgan was born this week, son to the woman who used to play ___________________ on The Facts of Life:
Tootie
Blair
Jo
Natalie
 
20. The MPAA announced this week that it will consider on-screen depiction of which act in its determination of a film's rating?
Domestic Violence
Mental Illness
Terrorism
Smoking
 




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