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1.	One day you're besties with Taylor Swift. And then you're not. And then she writes Bad Blood about you. Which famous lady is purportedly the subject of Swift's scathing song?
		Selena Gozem
		Rihanna
		Kelly Clarkson
		Katy Perry

2.	When she was not being musically knocked by Taylor Swift, Katy was making news in 2015 by performing at the Super Bowl halftime show, accompanied by a pair of imagination-grabbing, dancing:
		Puppies
		Sharks
		Elephants
		Giraffes

3.	Syfy's demands were not met, so the network carried through on its threat to release the third Sharknado film, subtitled:
		The Third One
		Because Sharknado
		Sharks Gonna 'Nado
		Oh Hell No

4.	The world of professional wrestling was shocked and saddened by by passing of this legend, who was sent off to the great turnbuckle in the sky:
		Macho Man Randy Savage
		Bobby The Brain Heenan
		Rowdy Roddy Piper
		The Undertaker

5.	The teenyboppers in your life Freaked. The. F. Out. at the announcement of this band member leaving One Direction:
		Niall
		Zayn
		Liam
		Louis

6.	It pitted Michael Tyson against Terry Crewes. Anne Hathaway threw down against Emily Blunt. Allison Brie showed Will Arnet no mercy. Spike gave audiences what they wanted in Lip Sync Battle, which featured this singer/model duo as its hosts:
		Bruno Mars and Tyra Banks
		Justin Timberlake and Heidi Klum
		Robin Thicke and Brooklyn Decker
		LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen

7.	ABC thrilled and delighted possibly dozens of viewers in the early weeks of 2015 with the tale of this singing, dancing knight and his wacky cohorts:
		Magnificad
		Prospero
		Galavant
		Dave

8.	Pinot Noir, Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne and Xanthippe all helped make Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt one of the years' best television show, even though the show aired on this non-TV entity:
		Hulu
		Netflix
		Amazon
		Youtube

9.	When Caitlyn Jenner was making big news with her highly-publicized gender reassignment, she was trying to dodge criminal charges, stemming from a:
		Home invasion
		Car accident
		Slander/libel incident
		Case of tax fraud

10.	As Jon Stewart's The Daily Show exited the airwaves riding a tidal wave of love, this music legend performed during TDS's final episode
		Eric Clapton
		Elton John
		Bruce Springsteen
		Billy Joel

11.	Readers didn't get quite what they were hoping for with Go Set a Watchman, a much more complex and problematic follow-up to this literary classic:
		The Catcher in the Rye
		To Kill a Mockingbird
		Gone with the Wind
		Lolita

12.	US-Australian relations nearly strained to the breaking point over the ruckus caused by this actor's attempt to illegally import his dogs to that country while on a movie shoot:
		John Travolta
		Nicolas Cage
		Channing Tatum
		Johnny Depp

13.	Fortunately, there was plenty more in the old TV feedbag, but audiences had to bid a fond farewell to three of these shows during 2015. Which is the only one that did not broadcast its final episode during 2015?
		Parks and Recreation
		Mad Men
		Glee
		The Mentalist

14.	E! network's Fashion Police talker Guilana Rancic introduced her foot to her mouth when she made generally borderline racist comments about which young lady's hair on the Academy Awards red carpet?
		Lupita Nyong'o
		Zendaya
		Zoe Saldana
		Quvenzhané Wallis

15.	This year's pop culture war was raged over an article of clothing. Everyone lost their you-know-what bickering over whether a certain dress was:
		Black and green or blue and gold
		Gold and black or white and blue
		White and gold or blue and black
		Blue and red or yellow and green

16.	Meanwhile, viewers could. not. believe. what. just. happened. as The Jinx, a documentary from this network about real estate heir/suspected murderer Robert Durst, delivered a shock during its final moments on Sunday:





17.	America's state-mandated love affair with young Ariana Grande went kablooey when she was photographed licking some of these unpurchased items in a store:
		Donuts
		Cheeses
		Celery stalks
		Coffee beans

18.	For a long time, it was in the future, but now it's in the past. Pop culture fans worldwide got their flux capacitors fluxing at the observance of Back to the Future Day, on which Marty McFly arrived from 1985. Which of the following was Back to the Future Day?
		October 17, 2015
		October 21, 2015
		November 15, 2015
		September 29, 2015

19.	Kids, if you're gonna write a pop song, make sure its title is the same as a car model. Just ask this band, whose tune Renegade became ubiquitous when Jeep purchased it for use in a TV spot:
		Sheppard
		X Ambassadors
		Disclosure
		DNCE

20.	And finally, we hope that during the last calendar year you had a tenth the fun as did a certain New York City rat, whose attempt to make off with this foodstuff was watched online untold millions of times:
		Bagel
		Hot dog
		Pizza
		Pudding