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1.	Lots of celebrities with questionable journalistic or political skills nonetheless flocked to the White House Correspondence Dinner over the weekend. As evidence of the event's lax attendance policy, ___________ even scored an invite:
		The Situation
		Lindsay Lohan
		Courtney Love
		Michael Cera

2.	The world got a little less vapid with rumors that this E! Network reality show will end after this season, so one of its stars can focus on their ACTUAL career.
		Kendra
		Khloe & Lamar
		Keeping up with the Kardashians
		Pretty Wild

3.	Overseas Marvel fans got a jump on the U.S. with the early international release of The Avengers. How it do last weekend?
		It dominated and broke records with more than $175 million.
		It brought in just under $150 million.
		It grossed right at $100 million.
		It bombed with less than $30 million.

4.	This week news came out that which TV star got to play a real life hero by saving a teenager from his overturned car near the actor's home?
		David Boreanz
		Kiefer Sutherland
		Patrick Dempsey
		Thomas Gibson

5.	Thunderdome has been declared at the MTV Movie Awards, with this pair of films each claiming 8 nominations earlier in the week:
		Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadow and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
		Midnight in Paris and The Artist
		The Hunger Games and Bridesmaids
		Thor and Captain America

6.	Congratulatios to long-gestating Jessica Simpson and her fiance Eric Johnson on the birth of their daughter. What unorthodox name did they pick for her, which the girl now shares with a character from Get Smart?
		Chief
		Larramie
		Maxwell
		Ninety-Nine
		*By way of explanation.....* Her full name Maxwell Drew Johnson, which is taken from maiden names on both parents' sides of the family.

7.	If you weren't familiar with the Cat Daddy before this week, we don't blame you. If you still don't know what it is, then you weren't paying attention. Which pop culture star's video performance of said dance took the internet by storm this week?
		Snooki
		Kate Upton
		Simon Cowell
		Rebecca Black

8.	Kate Upton's Cat Daddy dance 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
		Jessica Simpson immediately renamed her daughter from Maxwell to Cat Daddy

9.	In our contractually obligated Tony Awards question for the week, we note that the musical based on this recent film garnered the most nominations this year:





10.	Well, Harry Law's Kathy Bates dropped by CBS this week to guest star as whom?
		A serial killer on Criminal Minds
		Charlie Harper's ghost on Two and a Half Men
		Sheldon's mom on The Big Bang Theory
		The doctor who created a strain of small pox on the Hawaii Five-0 / NCIS: Los Angeles crossover

11.	Smokey Bear says, "Only YOU can prevent movie studio fires!" So, YOU are clearly to blame for the 4-alarm blaze that struck this movie maven's Atlanta film factory:
		Tyler Perry
		Steven Soderbergh
		Steven Spielberg
		Martin Scorsese

12.	One of these very, very famous paintings was sold a auction for a record $119.9 million this week. So congratulations to Daron for his purchase of:





13.	Dear big-time CBS actor ______, Your new online Popchips ad features you as a 'brown-faced' Bollywood producer with a poor, unfunny Indian accent. Consider us offended by this racist ad. Regards, The entire population of India and Indian Americans (Popchips has discontinued the ad in question.)
		Mike & Molly's Melissa McCarthy
		Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg
		Two and a Half Men's Ashton Kutcher
		CSI's Ted Danson

14.	Below is a widely circulated photo of the villain (or at least his hand) from what upcoming summer blockbuster-to-be?
		The Amazing Spider-Man
		Men in Black III
		The Avengers
		Battleship

15.	The image of this Famous Dead Guy, who was part of Pepsi's marketing campaign when he was a Famous Living Guy, will again be used by the soft drink company:
		Michael Jackson
		Elvis Pressley
		Chris Farley
		Tupac