| 1. | Yep, He's Gay! In liberating news this week, which star of a hit network TV show came out as gay. | ||
| Person of Interest's Michael Emerson | |||
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Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons | ||
| Castle's Nathan Fillion | |||
| Two and a Half Men's Jon Cryer | |||
| 2. | You better get Ticketmaster on the phone for a refund if you have tickets to a _______ concert this summer. The shows have been canceled because the band is tired. | ||
| AC/DC | |||
| Aerosmith | |||
| The Rolling Stones | |||
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Van Halen | ||
| 3. | Reality Show winners, Part I. Congratulations, ________. You have won American Idol and have three months until you fade into obscurity. | ||
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Phillip Philllips | ||
| Jessica Sanchez | |||
| Hollie Cavanaugh | |||
| Tony Lucca | |||
| 4. | Reality Show winners, Part II: The 14th season of Dancing with the Stars waltzed into the sunset this week with a ______ being crowned the winner. | ||
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football player | ||
| opera singer | |||
| sitcom star | |||
| soap opera actor | |||
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By way of explanation.....
Donald Driver was the winner and makes the seventh athlete to win this competition. |
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| 5. | More prestige for E! but less so for one Oscar-winning director with the premiere of Mrs. ______ & Company (which follows his wife and family reality TV-style). | ||
| Scorcese | |||
| Spielberg | |||
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Eastwood | ||
| Haggis | |||
| 6. | Connect the dots here, because the next three questions are kind of related. Just weeks before its scheduled release, this big-name summer movie got pushed back....by a full year: | ||
| Prometheus | |||
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation | ||
| Brave | |||
| The Amazing Spider-Man | |||
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The postponement of the new G.I. Joe movie comes as a disappointment to dozens of people, especially the editors of Maxim Magazine, who had gone ahead and featured this star of the movie on its new edition:
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| Jessica Biel | |||
| Cobie Smulders | |||
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Adrianne Palicki | ||
| Minka Kelly | |||
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In more Palicki/Maxim convergence, our girl Adrienne finished in the #10 spot on the new Maxim Hot 100 list. #1 went to this supermodel, who confessed to Conan this week that she just can't seem to be able to get a date:
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| Marisa Miller | |||
| Kate Upton | |||
| Anne V. | |||
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Bar Refaeli | ||
| 9. | During its season finale, Saturday Night Live gave a mock graduation to which long-running cast member? | ||
| Andy Samberg | |||
| Seth Meyers | |||
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Kristin Wiig | ||
| Kenan Thompson | |||
| 10. | The Billboard Music Awards had performers pay tribute to all but one of these musicians that passed away in the last 12 months. Who was left out? | ||
| Whitney Houston | |||
| Donna Summer | |||
| Adam "MCA" Yauch | |||
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Etta James | ||
| 11. | A Celebrity Apprentice was hired this week. Occupationally, which of these is the best way to describe the winner? | ||
| singer | |||
| beauty pageant winner | |||
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talk show host | ||
| actress | |||
| 12. | SLW was shocked to read the headline: "_______ Hit by Car in NYC." Luckily, this fellow associated with This is Spinal Tap only suffered a broken leg. | ||
| Rob Reiner | |||
| Harry Shearer | |||
| Christopher Guest | |||
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Michael McKean | ||
| 13. | SLW was ALSO shocked to read this headline: "________ Named 'Father of the Year'". Luckily, this non-binding or recognized title was bestowed upon him by Esquire magazine. | ||
| Larry Birkhead | |||
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Bruce Jenner | ||
| John Edwards | |||
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | |||
| 14. | News of this cable reality series being canceled is surprising because we didn't know it was still on the air. | ||
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Dog the Bounty Hunter | ||
| Trading Spaces | |||
| Deadliest Catch | |||
| American Pickers | |||
| 15. | The Comanche Nation just got one member stronger with the 'adoption' of this actor who is portraying a Comanche in an upcoming film. | ||
| Leonardo DiCaprio | |||
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Johnny Depp | ||
| Jake Gyllenhaal | |||
| Charlie Sheen | |||
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By way of explanation.....
"The tribe has spoken," indeed. (See what we did there?) |
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