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1. The major pop culture news this week was of a tragic nature, as Ryan Dunn, a member of this TV franchise, killed himself and his passenger while driving drunk:
Jackass
Survivor
The Real World
Hell's Kitchen
 
2. This media figure kicked over a hornet's nest tweeting, in response to Dunn's death: "Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive."
Oprah
Geraldo Rivera
Ryan Seacrest
Roger Ebert
 
3. In news that's more life-affirming, let's all breakdance in honor or the new Miss USA.

Redhead pageant winner Alyssa Campanella represents this state:
Colorado
Michigan
Texas
California
 
4. In your Weird Media Story of the Week, we read that OJ Simpson might or might not be about to confess murder to this well-known figure:
Katie Couric
Oprah Winfrey
Larry King
David Letterman
 
5. This artist, with a penchant for lampooning pop music, released a video called "Perform This Way," a spoof on Lady Gaga's Born This Way:
Blink-182
Weird Al Yankovich
Beastie Boys
They Might Be Giants
By way of explanation.....
Dig:
 
6. Actress (and Princess Leia mother) Debbie Reynolds turned quite the profit this week. She sold what iconic film prop/clothing for $4.6 million?
Marilyn Monroe's white dress from The Seven Year Itch
The Psycho shower curtain
The Maltese Falcon's.....um, Maltese falcon
Indiana Jones' fedora and jacket
By way of explanation.....
To make it even more impressive, she reportedly only paid $200 orignially for the dress.
 
7. Which 80s/90s one-hit (maybe two-hit) wonder was arrested this week on felony domestic violence charges?
Tone Loc
Lou Bega
Vanilla Ice
Those Macarena guys
 
8. From the "Nobody to blame but yourself" file: Michael Bay told GQ that Megan Fox was fired from the Transformers sequel for her public comparison of Bay to Hitler. Who told Bay to fire her?
Steven Spielberg
Shia LeBouf
Anti-Defamation League
Nobody. It was Bay's decision
 
9. Here's a unique take on advertising....Which horror movie maven takes a different approach to getting whites their whitest in his commercial for Woolite?
Wes Craven
Eli Roth
John Carpenter
Rob Zombie
By way of explanation.....
I'm never doin' laundry again:
 
10. Calling this formerly-Rehabbed singer 'troubled' is an understatement but his/her week hit a low when several European shows were canceled following a disastrous performance?
Amy Winehouse
Whitney Houston
David Hasselhoff
Whichever one of the Backstreet Boys that went to rehab
 
11. It was a bad week for shows displaying a comedic take on sports, as this network axed both The Sports Show with Norm MacDonald and The Onion SportsDome:
Spike
TNT
Comedy Central
ESPN 8, The Ocho
 
12. The folks at Esquire want to make sure that you're aware of this comely lass, whom they have dubbed their Woman of Summer:
Brooklyn Decker
Malin Ackerman
Kate Upton
Kaley Cuoco
 
13. This actress, who got her start on the small screen, is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work on the big screen, even though her film career isn't exactly top drawer:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Aniston
Sarah Jessica Parker
Helen Hunt
 
14. SLW pours one out for beloved E Street Band member Clarence Clemons, having died this week following complications from a stroke. Bruce Springsteen's popular sax player was known by this nickname:
The Real Deal
The Horse
Brass
The Big Man
 
15. Be prepared for a collective "EWWWWW!!!!" Which Green Mile actor (who is 51 years old) got married this week in Vegas to a 16-year-old aspiring country singer?
David Morse
Michael Clark Duncan
Doug Hutchison
Sam Rockwell
By way of explanation.....
Unbelievably, the parents of the girl (yes, we said 'girl') allowed this to happen with their full endorsement.
 
16.
Katy Perry brings her unique brand of subtle sexuality ("Katy's Kisses"....brilliant!) to the cover of which magazine?
Time
Rolling Stone
People
Maxim
 
17. Ladies's hearts will all atwitter this week at the announcement that his famously good-looking dude has broken up with his long-time girlfriend and is available once more:
George Clooney
Brad Pitt
Vin Diesel
Keanu Reeves
 
18. With only a few weeks before the release of the 27th and final Harry Potter movie, JK Rowling delighted fans with news of an interactive website for all things Potter related. What is the name of the new venture?
Potterfest
Pottersprawl
Potterquest
Pottermore
 
19. It's just more of the same for Lindsay Lohan. While still under house arrest, she failed a random test for _____ and has to reappear before a judge to discuss yet another probation violation.
Cocaine
Marijuana
Alcohol
Good judgment
 
20.
The trailer for the remake of which 80s movie hit the web this week (the above is from the new poster for said remake)?
Red Dawn
Back to School
Bachelor Party
Footloose
 




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