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1.	Emmy Awards, Part 1: Emmys put 'Family' first at this week's ceremony. Along with best comedy, two of the show's actors won. Which is the correct pairing of winners?





2.	Emmy Awards, Part 2: While Mad Men predictably won for Best Drama, its star Jon Hamm lost out to which guy for Best Actor?
		Michael C. Hall for Dexter
		Hugh Laurie for House
		Kyle Chandler for Friday Night Lights
		Timothy Olyphant for Justified

3.	Emmy Uproar, Part 1: This nominee's recorded bit was nixed because of joke about NewsCorp's (which is the parent company of Fox who aired the awards) phone hacking scandal. Who was it?
		Alec Baldwin
		Steve Carell
		Jim Parsons
		Louis C.K.

4.	Emmy Uproar, Part 2: You can't have an 'In Memoriam' segment without controversy over omissions. Which of these was left out of Emmy's salute to the departed? Which of these recently departed was NOT included in the montage?
		Happy Days' Tom Bosley
		Columbo's Peter Falk
		Jackass' Ryan Dunn
		Taxi's Jeff Conaway

5.	Two and a Half Men tuned in for a Sheenless-premiere, waiting to see how Chuck Lorre would dispatch of the character Charlie Harper. Well, how'd Charlie die in Paris?
		Fell from the Eiffel Tower
		Choked on escargot
		Drown in a Chunnel collapse
		Fell off the platform in a Paris subway

6.	With an impressive 28.7 million viewers, the retooled Two and a Half Men made news because:





7.	We promise this is the last question tangentially related to Charlie Sheen. The Comedy Central Roast of Sheen drew an equally impressive 6.4 million viewers. That's almost 1.5 million more than saw highly-publicized premiere of this network show:
		Castle
		2 Broke Girls
		The Playboy Club
		The New Girl
		*By way of explanation.....* Despite coherent appearances at the Emmys and the Roast, Jackass' Steve-O has said that he doesn't believe Sheen is sober.

8.	In other premiere news, we learned that the set of ____________ was the scene of sexual harassment, as a crew member was fired after smacking the butt of series star _______.
		Charlie's Angels / Minka Kelly
		The New Girl / Zooey Deschenel
		Unforgettable / Popp Montgomery
		2 Broke Girls / Kat Dennings

9.	This Week in Celebrity Breasts, Part I: This young actress told Fitness magazine that she got breast implants earlier this year - but then, just months later, had them removed:
		Amanda Seyfried
		Kristen Bell
		Heather Morris
		Jennifer Lawrence

10.	This Week in Celebrity Breasts, Part II: Appearing on Conan O'Brien's show wielding ample cleavage this star of a fall TV series caught Conan staring at her breasts, which prompted an animated reaction from the host:
		Revenge' Emily VanCamp
		X-Factor's Nicole Scherzinger
		How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders
		Hart of Dixie's Rachel Bilson

11.	As a precursor to his bizarre prize fight, when asked to name his favorite film ever, boxer Floyd Mayweather stated that this chick flick totally TKOed his heart:
		The Notebook
		Ghost
		Dirty Dancing
		Love Story

12.	The Biggest Loser mixed things up with two new trainers joining Bob Harper. Which recognizable female athlete is one of said trainers on the new season?
		Hope Solo
		Mia Hamm
		Anna Kournikova
		Kim Clijsters

13.	When faced with a Westboro Baptist Church protest outside a concert in St. Louis, ______ decided to take to a flat bed trailer and perform a pro-gay song directly in front of their protest line.
		Queens of the Stone Age
		Foo Fighters
		Madonna
		Lady Gaga

14.	Some dude on eBay is selling a picture proving, to his mind, that this modern-day actor is a vampire first photographed in the 1870s. *After seeing the shot, which you'll find on the quiz's answer page, you'll agree with us - this is 100% accurate
		Warren Beatty
		Nicolas Cage
		Tom Cruise
		Will Smith
		*By way of explanation.....* Dig:

15.	Which Dancing with the Stars cast member joins David Hasselhoff and Kenny Mayne as "one and done" dancers thanks to the first elimination on Tuesday?
		Chaz Bono
		Chynna Phillips
		Ricki Lake
		Ron Art...sorry...Metta World Peace

16.	In the latest of a head-shaking series of corporate moves, Netflix announced plans to split its services. Netflix will offer streaming, shoving its DVD delivery service onto a new company called:
		TurboFlix
		Discster
		Qwikster
		Eddie

17.	If you were telling yourself, you'd catch ____ the next time they were on tour, sorry for your bad luck. After 30 years, the band announced this week they have officially broken up.




		*By way of explanation.....* Grabbing an REM graphic that included "Out of Time" was ~~purely by accident~~ a stroke of genius, don'tcha think?

18.	As about as controversial of a stance as Clinton saying Democrats are better than Republicans, which Star Trek star took this position: "'Star Wars' is derivative of 'Star Trek' by 10, 15 years, whatever it was. Derivative! Now 'Star Trek' has got even more special effects than 'Star Wars,' so 'Star Wars' has nothing to stand on."
		Leonard Nimoy
		George Takei
		Zachary Quinto
		William Shatner

19.	Which aging celebrity offered an apology/clarification after saying this on The Howard Stern Show on Monday: "Are we the terrorists? Or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don't make a right. They flew the plane in. But we caused it. We were bombing them, and they told us to stop."
		Tony Bennett
		Quincy Jones
		Regis Philbin
		Andy Griffith

20.	Strange bedfellows report: Disney World announced they will be adding an multiple attractions to one of its parks based upon this non-Disney blockbuster movie?
		Avatar
		Transformers
		Smurfs
		The Dark Knight