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| 1. | With a shoutout to nubby: In publishing his paper "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," which rock guitarist completed his doctorate in astrophysics 30 years after he began it? | ||
| The Rolling Stones' Ron Wood | |||
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Queen's Brian May | ||
| Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page | |||
| The Who's Pete Townsend | |||
| 2. | One of our favorite actors apparently attempted suicide over the weekend, and shortly thereafter dropped out of a film project to which he was attached. Here's hoping things start looking up for: | ||
| Matthew McConaughey | |||
| Don Cheadle | |||
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Owen Wilson | ||
| Zach Braff | |||
| 3. | Which of the following were not among the winners in the Teen Choice Awards held over the weekend? | ||
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Choice Movie: Action Adventure - 300 | ||
| Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller - Disturbia | |||
| Choice Movie: Breakout Female - Sophia Bush | |||
| Choice TV: Reality/Variety Show - American Idol | |||
| 4. | The son of this reality TV star was injured in a car accident, which reported occurred as a result of an ill-advised road race: | ||
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Hulk Hogan | ||
| Gene Simmons | |||
| Jeff Probst | |||
| Gary Busey | |||
| 5. | Millions of US Americans found time in their busy schedules to decry the somewhat curiously worded answer given by a contestant in the Miss Teen USA. We propose that everyone is being a little harsh on the sweetie-pie, and should give a break to Miss Teen: | ||
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South Carolina | ||
| California | |||
| Missouri | |||
| Nevada | |||
| 6. | Allegations from former security guards state that Siegfried and Roy buried the body of what in a housing development? | ||
| Rival magicians | |||
| A Los Angeles Times entertainment critic | |||
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An elephant | ||
| A rare white tiger | |||
| 7. | For the time being, Richard Roeper and guest critics on At the Movies will no longer assigning Thumbs Up or Down to films they review. Why? | ||
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Roger Ebert is withholding permission to use the famous designations during his contract talks | ||
| Producers of the show decided to assign letter grades instead | |||
| Production of At the Movies is shutting down | |||
| To raise awareness of rheumatoid arthritis | |||
| 8. | We learned this week that which knighted entertainment personality makes a point of ripping out "anti-gay" pages from any bible he comes across? | ||
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Ian McKellan | ||
| Sean Connery | |||
| Paul McCartney | |||
| Michael Caine | |||
| 9. | Following George Takei, who will be the second Star Trek alum to appear in episodes of Heroes, as announced this week? | ||
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Nichelle Nicholls | ||
| Leonard Nimoy | |||
| William Shatner | |||
| Jonathan Frakes | |||
| 10. | The SLW staff are polishing up our Boyfriend Resumes, now that comely Elisha Cuthbert is back on the market. Our Lishy is recently single, having split from Sean Avery, an athlete from this professional sport: | ||
| American football | |||
| Soccer | |||
| Baseball | |||
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Hockey | ||
| 11. | Which anti-fur rock star has threatened to sue a company for using her name to promote leather handbags? | ||
| Jewell | |||
| Liz Phair | |||
| Shirley Manson | |||
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Chrissie Hynde | ||
| 12. | Leona Helmsley resented the "queen of mean" moniker assigned to her. It appears we were all waaaaay off. While two of her grandchildren received nothing from her estate, the recently deceased hotelier bequeathed $12 million to: | ||
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Her dog | ||
| The Republican party | |||
| Paris Hilton | |||
| Halliburton Energy Services | |||
| 13. | Former American Idol contestants Clay Aiken and Kellie Pickler will appear this fall on a celebrity version of which game show? | ||
| Deal or No Deal | |||
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Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader | ||
| The Power of 10 | |||
| The Singing Bee | |||
| 14. | The culinary claws have come out, as this Food Network personality has warned Martha Stewart keep away from her husband: | ||
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Nigella Lawson | ||
| Paula Deen | |||
| Giada De Laurentiis | |||
| Rachel Ray | |||
| 15. | The MPAA branded Lust, Caution the upcoming film from this Oscar-winning director, with the dreaded NC-17 rating: | ||
| Martin Scorsese | |||
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Ang Lee | ||
| Clint Eastwood | |||
| Peter Jackson | |||
| 16. | Recently deceased entertainment maven Merv Griffin "deserved to die." Who made this eyebrow-raising statement, explaining that Griffin did not seek to treat his prostrate cancer? | ||
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Jerry Lewis | ||
| Ed McMahon | |||
| Andy Griffith | |||
| Peter O'Toole | |||
| 17. | Pop star Pink sang the opening theme for NBC's Sunday Night Football. This year those duties will fall to which country artist? | ||
| Tim McGraw | |||
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Faith Hill | ||
| Carrie Underwood | |||
| Martina McBride | |||
| 18. | An Oscar nominated actor credited knowing how to save a reporter's life from watching Mrs. Doubtfire. Our friend Diva suggests the story would have been better if the actor in question had had to extinguish someone's flaming rubber bosoms. Instead, the life-saving Heimlich maneuver was applied by Mr. | ||
| Heath Ledger | |||
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Terrence Howard | ||
| Joaquin Phoenix | |||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | |||
| 19. | Which film star has reportedly signed a deal to host her own cooking show on PBS? | ||
| Judi Dench | |||
| Helen Mirren | |||
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Gwyneth Paltrow | ||
| Sienna Miller | |||
| 20. | Watership Down, The Wizard of Oz, and Watchmen are some of the titles examined by a "book club" featured on Washington Post web site's Celebritology blog. The source of material for the book club are titles having been featured in or mentioned on episodes of which TV series? | ||
| Heroes | |||
| Grey's Anatomy | |||
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Lost | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | |||
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