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1.	TV Series in Jeopardy: Animated Category. Salary demands on behalf of the vocal talent behind this long-running animated TV show may finally bring the curtain down on the program:





2.	TV Series in Jeopardy: Live Action Category. The breakdown of salary negotiations with this show's title character's actor threatens to end the award-winning series.
		House
		Dexter
		The Good Wife
		Tudors

3.	TV Series in Jeopardy: Already Dead Category: We are sorry to report to its dozens of viewers that ________ is the first cancellation of the 2011 Fall TV season:
		The Playboy Club
		Revenge
		Whitney
		Prime Suspect

4.	The Today show must not think much of its audience, as it enlisted the services of this family to co-host the show every day this week:
		Lohan
		Spears
		Osbourne
		Kardashian

5.	Taylor Swift continues her tradition of performing with hometown artists on her current tour. In Atlanta, she was joined onstage by what recently incarcerated hip hop artist?
		T.I.
		Lil Wayne
		The Game
		Flo Rida

6.	If you're a famous dude who wasn't banned from entering Canada this week, please step forward. Not so fast there....
		Russell Crowe
		Brad Pitt
		Russell Brand
		Martin Sheen

7.	Countless tributes over the past days make it clear that few people have influenced both tech and pop cultures like Steve Jobs. You've probably been reminded Jobs' significant influence in the establishment of this movie studio:





8.	The wife of American Pie's Jason Biggs secured the services of something for her husband's recent birthday. But that something certainly wasn't a hooker, right? Right??
		Right. She secured the services of a limo driver
		Right. She secured the services of a charter pilot for an around-the-world flight
		Right. She secured the services of a writer for his biography
		Wrong

9.	Sports-Pop Culture Crossover Question #1: Curious remarks comparing Barack Obama to Hitler has cost this country singer his/her coveted role with a highly-rated prime-time sports program:
		Reba McEntire
		Hank Williams Jr.
		Blake Shelton
		Miranda Lambert
		*By way of explanation.....* Williams was fired by ESPN's Monday Night Football following his Bad Idea Jeans remark

10.	Sports-Pop Culture Crossover Question #2: If you're wondering who will perform the halftime show at next February's Super Bowl, why....it's none other than this recognizable one-named star:
		Fergie
		Madonna
		Ke$ha
		Tiffany

11.	Rappers on film, deceased edition: Various companies (HWDYK.com: not among them) are offering truckloads of money to obtain a purported sex tape featuring this dead rap star:
		Easy E
		Notorious B.I.G.
		Tupac Shakur
		Nate Dogg

12.	Rappers on film, living edition: Meanwhile, look forward to this formerly notorious rap figure to bring his family sitcom to NBC:
		Snoop Dogg
		Dr. Dre
		Eminem
		Suge Knight

13.	This acting superstar had to backpedal quickly after drawing fire comparing having his picture taken with rape:
		Johnny Depp
		Will Smith
		Robert Downey, Jr.
		Harrison Ford

14.	If you were hoping that _______'s current coupling with _______ would get him to finally settle down, keep on dreaming. They broke up this week.
		Leonardo diCaprio / Blake Lively
		George Clooney / Stacy Kiebler
		Ryan Gosling / Eva Mendes
		Justin Timberlake / Jessica Biel

15.	Meanwhile, this long-dating showbiz couple finally tied the knot this week:
		Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
		Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed
		Jesse James and Kat von D
		Danny DeVito and Rhea Pearlman

16.	Having struck gold with the 3D re-release of The Lion King, Disney announced plans to release a slew of films in all three dimensions. Which of the following was NOT one of the films announced this week to get this treatment?





17.	Complaining that the show isn't really about how well they can dance is kinda like calling the latest Dancing with the Stars castoff an actual star. This person is best known from a reality TV show on what network?
		MTV
		E!
		HLN
		TLC

18.	Bring on the crazy: ______ used an interview to rant the following rant about her dead former significant other, _______: "If he came back right now I’d have to kill him, for what he did to us. I’d f—ing kill him. I’d f— him, and then I’d kill him."
		Courtney Love / Kurt Cobain
		Debbie Reynolds / Eddie Fisher
		Winona Ryder / River Phoenix
		Debbie Rowe / Michael Jackson

19.	Congratulations, _______, President Obama has named you to the Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
		Sofia Vergara
		Salma Hayek
		Shakira
		Gloria Estefan

20.	Coming in at #11, this female is the top ranked entertainer on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful women (hint: it's not Oprah, who comes in at #14).
		Katy Perry
		Beyonce
		Lady Gaga
		Oprah! (reading comprehension really isn't your thing, is it?)
		*By way of explanation.....* Some other entertainers on the list: Beyonce (#18), Angelina Jolie (#29), Ellen DeGeneres (#55) and JK Rowling (#61)