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1. There was an odd juxtaposition of items in the news this week....

First, this lady of noted cleavage appears on the cover of Vogue, and states once and for all that her much-discussed assets are, in fact, real:
Kate Upton
Sofia Vergara
Jessica Simpson
Katy Perry
 
2. On the decidedly other side of the coin:

This Oscar winning actress grabbed headlines and raised breast cancer awareness exponentially by revealing that she recently underwent a preventative double mastectomy:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Angelina Jolie
Julia Roberts
Renee Zellweger
 
3. With Jimmy Fallon moving on up to the Tonight Show, NBC is keeping it all in the network family by giving the Late Night desk to which comedian closely associate with NBC?
Alec Baldwin
Seth Meyers
Joel McHale
Chevy Chase
 
4. Maybe because things are looking up professionally for SNL alum Meyers (hope you got that last one right), ______ announced that he is not returning to SNL next season.
Jay Pharoah
Bill Hader
Kenan Thompson
Jason Sudeikis
 
5. This one-time real news journalist (who has lately been more of a entertainment reporter/interviewer) announced this week that she/he is retiring. Who is it?
Matt Lauer
Julie Chen
Barbara Walters
Kathie Lee Gifford
 
6. RIP to this psychologist, advice giver, game show contestant and pop culture fixture:
Phil Donahue
Dr. Drew
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Dr. Benjamin Spock
 
7. With the fall schedules all announced for...well...fall, you will get to further dive into the world of ______ (first established in films) thanks to ABC's new spinoff series.
Beverly Hills Cop
S.H.I.E.L.D
Die Hard
Friday the 13th (oh wait...that was already tried about 25 years ago)
By way of explanation.....
Beverly Hills Cop was *this* close to becoming a series but the pilot was passed on by CBS. There will also be series retreads..sorry...retellings Alice in Wonderland, Dracula and Sleepy Hollow.
 
8. Going back to the well that served them so...um...well for many seasons, Fox announced that _____ will be returning in 2014 as an 'event series' with the subtitle - "Live Another Day."
24
House, M.D.
Prison Break
The Tick
 
9. Since American Idol is well past its expiration/relevancy date and we don't expect you to recognize the winner by name or face, we will just say congrats to Candice, who is the show's first female winner since ________.
Jordin Sparks
Carrie Underwood
Haley Reinhart
Crystal Bowersox
By way of explanation.....
If you picked Reinhart or Bowersox, then you are even farther removed from the AI machine than we suspected because neither of those ladies won.
 
10. In the least shocking recent public stance ever, this lifetime subscriber to High Times magazine was quote this week saying:"Now, the government is tapped into the biggest cash crop in the world. There's little manufacturing cost. You don't have to do anything except watch it grow and get a couple of hippies to cut it and then put it in a bag. Hemp itself is going to save the world."
Woody Harrelson
Willie Nelson
Matthew McConaughey
Tommy Chong
 
11. Farewell, _____. After nine seasons, thanks for entertaining and satisfying us more times than not.

("That's what she said.")
The Office
CSI
NCIS
How I Met Your Mother
 
12. "How I Met Your Mother" was not the answer in the last question but the show did finally reveal the big mystery of the identity of the 'Mother' in the title. Who was it?
Regular character Robin
Katie Holmes' Slutty Pumpkin
Sarah Chalke's recurring doctor
Someone brand new whose face had never been seen before
 




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