| 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: | ||
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		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 | |||
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		3 | ||
| 2 | |||
| Strangely, none | |||
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		 By way of explanation..... 
	Nina Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Crissy Teigen all landed on the coveted cover shot.  | 
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| 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 | |||
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		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 | |||
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		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? | ||
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		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 | |||
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		Devo | ||
| 7. | What is the unlikely profession of Charlie Sheen's new fiancé Brett Rossi? | ||
| Preschool teacher | |||
| Addiction therapist | |||
| Cop | |||
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		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:  | 
	
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		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 | |||
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| WhensApp | |||
| WhysApp | |||
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		 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  | 
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| 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 | |||
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		Kate Upton | ||