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How Well Do You Know: 2012: The Year in Pop Culture, Part 1

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1.	Muppets entered the political fray this year, when GOP not-quite-good-enough presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said he would cut funding to PBS and specifically named this Muppet.



		(because...you know...of their living situation)

2.	There's this supermodel named Kate Upton, see. And she did this dance called the Cat Daddy. The performance proved to be so explosive that it brought about this unusual development:
		The Black Eyed Peas had recorded a song to accompany the dance within two days
		It was incorporated into a Barack Obama re-election ad
		YouTube apologized after initially banning the video, and then restored access to the clip
		Summer Olympics organizers preemptively banned performances of it from athletic events

3.	Disappointingly, celebrity babies were reasonably named this year. For one of the odder ones, add a color to a name of a plant and you'll get this baby born to Beyonce at the beginning of the year:
		Green Rose
		Maroon Lilac
		Yellow Moss
		Blue Ivy

4.	In June, we were treated to a YouTube clip featuring Barack Obama "singing" this omni-present song:
		Somebody That I Used to Know
		Call Me Maybe
		Payphone
		We Are Young
		*By way of explanation.....* Dig the Presidential goodness:

5.	With Charlie Sheen finally jettisoned from the show, Two and a Half Men producers brought this actress in to portray the character's ghost on the season finale:
		Ellen DeGeneres
		Kathy Bates
		Tara Reid
		Roseanne

6.	Three deaths in quick succession on the set of this HBO show brought production to a halt, with the series ultimately being cancelled:





7.	We hope you were able to catch a performance of Undisputed Truth, the one-man/woman Broadway show featuring this pop culture curiosity:
		Mike Tyson
		Mel Gibson
		Axl Rose
		Emilio Estevez

8.	Frequent advertiser ____________ made good on its threats to "kill off" longtime pitchman __________:
		Priceline / William Shatner
		Allstate / Dennis Haysbert
		Nikon / Ashton Kutcher
		GEICO / the Gecko

9.	It looks like Jessica Simpson will both begin and end the year pregnant. In between, she served as this weigh-loss company's spokesman:
		Jenny Craig
		Nutrisystem
		LA Weight Loss
		Weight Watchers

10.	The 2012 fall edition of Survivor featured a former child star from this 80s sitcom:





11.	The heavens sighed, the seventh curtain parted, and this member of the Jersey Shore gang reproduced during the year:
		JWoww
		Snooki
		The Situation
		Paulie

12.	A TV miniseries revisited some of the old-timey a-fussin' and a-fuedin', as these two actors stared in the History Channel's Hatfields & McCoys:
		Dennis Quaid and Jude Law
		Kevin Bacon and Michael Douglas
		Tom Selleck and Daniel Craig
		Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton

13.	Somehow, the career of the creator of this crossing-the-line show wasn't adversely affected when he sent an Emmy mailer referring to award voters as "you bloated, over-privileged Brentwood Jews."





14.	A nation recoiled in horror as, for a brief time this summer, this young parasite romantically attached itself to a member of the Kennedy family:
		Demi Lovato
		Taylor Swift
		Amanda Bynes
		Lindsay Lohan

15.	Hopefully, we're sorry for what we did and will never do it again, as we have suffered through the existence of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. The wretched show is a a spin-off of this similarly controversial show:
		Toddlers & Tiaras
		Jersey Shore
		Keeping Up with the Kardashians
		Deadliest Catch

16.	This judge from The Voice freed up time from his/her chair-turning-around schedule to appear in the fall season of American Horror Story:
		A
		B
		C
		D

17.	The lad's detractors might have approved of this Complex magazine cover featuring a rather bloodied, beaten up young star. Who is it?
		Zac Effron
		Justin Long
		Justin Bieber
		Robert Pattinson

18.	Please identify the name of JK Rowling's 2012 non-Harry Potter novel:
		Nevermore
		Notorious Nineteen
		Cold Days
		The Casual Vacancy

19.	So here's a nice problem to have: This celebrity's annual earnings fell by $125 million vs. the previous year, but s/he still raked in $165 million, good enough to top Forbes' list of highest paid celebrities. Who are we talking about here?
		Tyler Perry
		Oprah
		Steven Spielberg
		Michael Bay
		*By way of explanation.....* The top 10: Oprah ($165 m); Bay ($160 m); Spielberg ($130 m); Jerry Bruckheimer ($115 m); Dr. Dre ($110 m); Perry ($105 m); Howard Stern ($95 m); James Patterson ($94 m); George Lucas ($90 m); Simon Cowell ($90 m)

20.	"Don't Wake Up in a Roadside Ditch" "Don't Drive Into a Pizzeria" "Don't Attend Your Own Funeral" "Don't Have Your House Explode" Such were the lessons at the end of ads aired during the year by this company:
		Allstate Insurance
		Coke
		Ford
		DirecTV