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1.	Keep this Disney company on your radar kids. They just may amount to something. The Mouse House acquired the rights to future films involving this well-known character:
		James Bond
		Indiana Jones
		Jason Bourne
		Ethan Hunt

2.	Public rejecting singer's efforts, Part 1: The new album from _____ debuted this week with only 107,000 copies sold for a fourth-place finish on the Billboard 200. (It’s the weakest opening week of the singer's career.)
		Pink
		Christina Aguilera
		Garth Brooks
		Britney Spears

3.	Public rejecting singer's efforts, Part 2: The Sound of Music redux with Carrie Underwood garnered nice ratings but not-so-nice critical and public response, which prompted Underwood to tweet:"Plain and simple: Mean people need ______. They will be in my prayers tonight ... 1 Peter 2:1-25."
		a life
		Jesus
		to chill out
		to walk a mile in my shoes

4.	It wasn't just the Sound of Music getting a fresh TV treatment this month. This week Lifetime aired a Emile Hirsch-remake of this classic film.
		Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
		Bonnie & Clyde
		Midnight Cowboy
		The Champ

5.	Once again, the HWDYK staff is left unrecognized by the Kennedy Center Honors. The same cannot be said for this rather famous music dude, who received acknowledgements this week:
		Billy Joel
		Eric Clapton
		Bob Dylan
		David Lee Roth

6.	If you happened to also be recognized as Time Magazine's Person of the Year, then you too go by the name _______.
		Nelson Mandela
		Miley Cyrus
		Pope Francis
		Robin Roberts

7.	Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man who sings like a boy. This gem from Pitch Perfect reminds us that the The Sing Off resumed this week. Which notable singer is new to the judging panel on NBC's a capella-palooza?
		Jewel
		Jennifer Hudson
		Rihanna
		Shania Twain

8.	What makes for an overpaid actor/actress? Forbes says that, for every dollar of salary paid, Katherine Heigl brings in the second smallest box office. This fellow tops the list:
		Adam Sandler
		Sylvester Stallone
		Hugh Jackman
		Ashton Kutcher
		*By way of explanation.....* Heigl is #2. The rest of the top 10: Reese Witherspoon, Nicolas Cage, Kevin James, Denzel Washington, Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon and Ryan Reynolds.

9.	A widely circulating photo of ______ breastfeeding her child while a team of people do her hair, makeup and nails garnered both criticism and praise across the Twitterverse this week.
		Gisele Bundchen
		Heidi Klum
		Miranda Kerr
		Chrissy Tiegen

10.	Quite the brouhaha went down this week, when Barron Hilton (Paris' little brother) got quite a severe beatdown at a party. Barron threw out the accusation that it was this tabloid lightning rod that was behind his beating.
		Amanda Bynes
		Lindsay Lohan
		Taylor Momsen
		SHOCKER...his sister Paris

11.	It's time for a little Rocknroll. Literally. Singer Ned Rocknroll welcomed a son into the world this week but we are really only talking about it because the mom is Oscar winner ______.
		Marion Cotillard
		Rachel Weisz
		Kate Winslet
		Hilary Swank

12.	SAG nominees: Which of these buzzed about movies failed to earn a coveted Screen Actors Guild nomination for Ensemble Cast?
		Dallas Buyers Club
		American Hustle
		The Wolf of Wall Street
		12 Years a Slave

13.	Globe nominees: The Hollywood Foreign Press got their heads together and issued the Golden Globe nominations. Leading eh way with seven nods each is 12 Years a Slave, and this film which hasn't been released when the nominations were announced:





14.	After more than a decade of marriage, Broadway darling and voice of Elsa from Disney's Frozen Idina Menzel has split from her husband. Who is her soon-to-be ex-husband/TV star?
		Tim Daly
		Taye Diggs
		Peter Krause
		Blair Underwood