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How Well Do You Know: 2/14/14-2/20/14
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1. RIP Ralph Waite. Damn. More recently playing the father to Mark Harmon's Gibbs on NCIS, Waite came to fame playing the papa on this classic TV series:
The Waltons
Father Knows Best
Green Acres
The Beverly Hillbillies
 
2. Break out your countin' fingers. This many people appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, that came out this week:
4
3
2
Strangely, none
By way of explanation.....
Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Crissy Teigen all landed on the coveted cover shot.
 
3. Having dominated the recent years, Kate Upton did not make the cover of the Swimsuit Issue this year. Instead, Kate appears in the issue in a photo taken in this unusual environment:
Under water
Absolute zero
Atop Mount Everest
Zero G
 
4. Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show debut received a decent enough reception. This famous dude was the show's very first guest, as he and Fallon marked the opening with "the evolution of hip-hop dancing" bit:
Eminem
Hugh Jackman
Will Smith
Mark Wahlberg
 
5. Speaking of the new Tonight Show, which of the people that came onstage in the "$100 bet" segment during Fallon's first night was actually banned from the show by former host Johnny Carson 25 years ago?
Joan Rivers
Robert de Niro
Joe Namath
Rudy Guiliani
 
6. Are We Not Men? Well, you are, but there's one less of you, as Bob Casale, founding member of this pioneering music group died of heart failure this week:
ABBA
The Clash
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Devo
 
7. What is the unlikely profession of Charlie Sheen's new fiancé Brett Rossi?
Preschool teacher
Addiction therapist
Cop
Just kidding...she is totally a porn star, which is not shocking at all.
 
8. The performer who inhabits the film version of X-Men's ______ came out as gay this week because s/he was: "tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years, because I was scared to be out."
Kitty Pryde
Professor X
Wolverine
Ice Man
 
9. Facebook decided to pony up a tidy $19 *b*illion for an app which few people, at least in the US, have ever heard of. So, what is the name of the app?
WhosApp
WhatsApp
WhensApp
WhysApp
By way of explanation.....
I'm repeating my own joke here....if you don't know what the app does, it's clearly spelled out in the file called WhatsApp.doc
 
10. Someone mentioned in this quiz decided to get with the program an launch an Instragram account. In doing so, s/he gained nearly half a million followers in the first 24 hours. Who?
Ellen Page
Jimmy Fallon
Charlie Sheen
Kate Upton
 




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