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1. Whose tenure came to an unexpected and premature end on Friday?
Rosie O'Donnell as host of The View
Paula Abdul as judge on American Idol
Tom Cruise as head of United Artists
Matt Damon as star of future Jason Bourne films
 
2. The average joe may or may not have heard of Dario Franchitti, the driver who won the Indianapolis 500 over Memorial day. Dario's actress wife, though, is much more recognizable. She is:
Ellen Barkin
Naomi Watts
Ashley Judd
Nicole Kidman
 
3. A new Miss Universe was crowned on Monday night, so we now have a new representative in all galactic and inter-galactic matters. Which is the correct combination of the nation that hosted the planet, and the country which the winner represents?
England-France
Argentina-Poland
Italy-Italy
Mexico-Japan
 
4. Miss USA finished fifth in the pageant. While that would normally be respectable, viewers know that she shouldn't have made it into the top five, as during the evening gown competition she:
Tripped
Accidentally flashed a gang sign
Mis-translated a Spanish phrase, resulting in an obscenity
Had a wardrobe malfunction, exposing her 'amber waves of grain,' if you know what we mean
 
5. Which was the main event with pop culture significance that occurred in beautiful Vancouver, Canada on May 28th?
Paris Hilton was arrested after fleeing the US
The Police began their reunion tour
Tupac Shakur was sighted
The film version of The Hobbit began filming
 
6. Never shy about filming staged train wrecks, MTV this week reunited the cast of which season of The Real World?
San Francisco
New York (original season)
New York (Back to New York)
Las Vegas
 
7. The ABC Television Network now wants you to get advice on your love life from D-List celebrity divorcees. Which of the following is not one of the hosts of The Ex-Wives Club?
Marla Maples
Angie Everhart
Kate Hudson
Shar Jackson
 
8. Its pre-launch saturation bombing ad campaign now mercifully complete, USA began its series The Starter Wife this week. Unless you successfully lined the inside of your skull with tin, you know that its star is the actress previously associated with which program?
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Will and Grace
Grey's Anatomy
Frasier
 
9. A woman ponied up a cool $350,000 at an AIDS charity auction. The item she bid on? A kiss from this member of the upcoming Ocean's 13:
Don Cheadle
Brad Pitt
Elliot Gould
George Clooney
 
10. Meanwhile, doing promotional work for Ocean's 13, Clooney jokingly referred to this woman as a "horrible, ugly" person:
Angelina Jolie
Julia Roberts
Laura Bush
Paula Abdul
 
11. E! reunited best friends-turned blood enemies-turned best friends Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton again for another edition of The Simple Life. This season finds the two working as (God help us):
Legal secretaries
Camp counselors
911 call center operators
Movie theatre ushers
 
12. The TV Guide sitting in my mailbox this week exclaims "Brenda's Back!" The star of which series, returning this summer, graces the cover accompanying this phrase?
Rescue Me
Eureka
The Closer
The 4400
 
13. One of the great American competitions was held this week, culminating by crowning its champion on Thursday. What was the contest?
The Betty Crocker Cook-Off
The Bassmaster Classic
The US Scrabble Championship
The National Spelling Bee
 
14. Natalie Portman - smart, beautiful, talented. But even she has woes. We learned this week that which of the following upset her?
She was turned down for the role of Kate on Lost
She was not invited to the 30th anniversary Star Wars festivities
A man accused of stalking her was found not guilty of harassment in court
Both Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christensen were named to the cast of her new film
 
15. "I wasn't comfortable at all," confided this actress during a press conference, referring to her first on-screen sex scene with Joaquin Phoenix, noting that proceedings went more smoothly once she had a vodka & OJ:
Charlize Theron
Thora Birch
Jessica Biel
Eva Mendes
 
16. This week in Lohan! Which of the following was not true about the past seven days in the troubled life of young Lindsay:
Her father claimed she was addicted to painkillers
She checked into rehab
She lost $100,000 gambling in Vegas
Vodka company Svedka pulled out as a sponsor of her 21st birthday party
 
17. The words "I'm here to shoot a pilot" got a certain director in hot water this week, when an official at LAX misunderstood the meaning. Whose intent was not to harm an airline employee, but rather to film a TV show?
Roman Polanski
Mike Figgis
Steven Soderbergh
Ang Lee
 
18. He was an accomplished stage actor and director, yet he'll always be remembered as one of the preeminent game show figures in TV history. He died this week. RIP:
Gene Rayburn
Charles Nelson Reilly
Wink Martindale
John Davidson
 
19. Universal Orlando this week announced plans to open a theme park based on which book/film franchise?
The Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter
The Lord of the Rings
His Dark Materials
 
20. Finally this week: Arnold is governing and Kristanna is painkilling, so we need someone to fill the shoes of a cyborg for the fourth Terminator movie. This week a male model was named the new terminator. That means 1) crap, we have to think of the names of 4 male models, and 2) the role went to:
Tyson Beckford
Marcus Schenkenberg
James King - he's a dude, right?
ummm... Fabio?
 




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