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1.	Before we get to all of the television-related news of the week, we start with this: Which of the following women entered suddenly into motherhood, as she adopted a two-week old baby boy?
		Courtney Love
		Sheryl Crowe
		Bjork
		Kelly Clarkson

2.	In a story we should have run last week, the recuperating Roger Ebert received a bouquet of flowers, along with an apparently gracious and touching note, from a certain star. The upshot is that the flowers were from this actor, whose films Ebert has routinely eviscerated:
		Adam Sandler
		David Spade
		Eddie Murphy
		Rob Schneider

3.	Figures resembling the Addams Family currently appear in a commercial for the dark chocolate version of this candy:
		M&Ms
		Reese's Pieces
		Snickers
		Milky Way

4.	Who currently appears in a quirky television ad spot, playing the piano and singing "Hungry Like the Wolf"?
		Woody Allen
		Bruce Campbell
		Robert Goulet
		James Caan

5.	So Last Week editors just love "legitimate the-atre", so we're always on pins and needles at the announcement of the Tony awards. Which of the following led all productions with 11 nominations?
		Summer of 4 Ft. 2
		Spring Awakening
		O Streetcar!
		An Evening with Jimbo

6.	The Academy of Country Music held its awards this week. Kenny Chesney won Entertainer of the Year for a third consecutive year. The awards show was held in this city, one that you would not necessarily associate with country music:
		New York
		Miami
		Las Vegas
		Nome

7.	The ACM awards remind us again of the staying power of country music and its ability to speak for the hopes and struggle of the common American. Which is nice. But yowza, who is this hottie, shown on the red carpet?
		Kellie Pickler
		Carrie Underwood
		Faith Hill
		Reba McIntyre

8.	Lloyd's of London has insured the smile of this actress, whose grin appears in a signature shot on a television series, for $10 million:
		Tina Fey
		Ellen Pompeo
		America Ferrera
		Jennifer Love Hewitt

9.	So Last Week editors tried to get press credentials to the Cannes Film Festival, but were denied. Sure, we sent those inappropriate photos to Charlize, and didn't take to the resulting restraining order as maturely as we should have. Whatever. Anyway, it's a shame we couldn't go, as the festival is celebrating this milestone anniversary:
		25
		50
		60
		75

10.	In a deal to allow the franchise to continue, producers of the Law & Order franchise agreed to ship its Criminal Intent version to the following network:
		CourtTV
		Spike
		USA
		Lifetime

11.	I've been working on a theory lately that the world is running dangerously short of hot women. This gloomy outlook seemed to be proven correct this week, as Maxim chose this nutjob as the hottest of its Hot 100?
		Britney Spears
		Tara Reid
		Lindsay Lohan
		Kim Kardashian

12.	NY Post Page Six quotes the following beacon of light and wisdom as saying: "My greatest competition is, well, me . . . I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now."
		R. Kelly
		Bobby Brown
		Fred Durst
		Flavor Flav

13.	A stroke struck one of our favorite music icons this week. Get well soon to this axe man, who we hope to see both a-pickin' and a-grinnin' real soon?
		Bo Didley
		Eric Clapton
		Carlos Santana
		Bob Dylan

14.	Which of the following did not have its season finale this week?
		Heroes
		How I Met Your Mother
		Grey's Anatomy
		Ugly Betty

15.	The big television news of the week was the network up-front presentations, during which we learned the fates of current shows and the prospect for new ones. Three of the following, left off their respective networks' fall schedules, were cancelled. Which received a stay of execution and will be back to offer us countless hours of entertainment?
		Jericho
		Veronica Mars
		Close to Home
		How I Met Your Mother

16.	Also among the casualties of the new network schedule was the show featuring this man, who remarked upon learning that his project was cancelled, "TV just became really, really white again."
		Chris Rock
		George Lopez
		Jim Belushi
		Isaiah Washington

17.	One of the higher-profile new shows announced for the fall was Lipstick Jungle, a project from Candace Bushnell, the creator of what previous ground-breaking television show?
		Will and Grace
		The Cosby Show
		Entourage
		Sex and the City

18.	Networks will continue to go to the reality show well in the fall. Three of the following are descriptions for reality projects that the networks have included on their schedule. Which did we make up?
		A comedic reality series designed to help one farm boy find the city girl of his dreams
		40 kids will have 40 days to build a new world - in a ghost town that died in the 19th Century
		A show that challenges contestants to accurately sing the lyrics to popular song
		Celebrities take turns wrestling progressively larger and more deadly animals

19.	According to reports that we originally thought might be a prank, but unforunately were true, which star of The Office suffered a broken back at the network up-fronts this week?
		Brian Baumgartner
		John Krasinski
		Jenna Fischer
		Rainn Wilson

20.	This game show host is going out with a bang, as CBS ran two nights of specials to cover his 50 years in television:
		Pat Sajak
		Alex Trebek
		Wink Martindale
		Bob Barker