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1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens...and then destroys all the records much like a Death Star or Starkiller Base, except:
Largest worldwide (domestic + international) opening gross
First film to post single-day gross over $100 million
Largest three day weekend debut
Who are kidding, of course, it broke all these records.
By way of explanation.....
The domestic opening of $247 million and international opening of $281 million gives it a global debut of $529 million.
 
2. Oops...Miss Universe host Steve Harvey accidentally "crowned" Miss Colombia the winner of the pageant before realizing he misspoke. The actual winner hails from what country?
Philippines
Russia
Morocco
Venezula
By way of explanation.....
Not being able to catch a break, Harvey then went to Twitter to apologize again and misspelled both countries names: "I want to apologize emphatically to Miss Phillipians and Miss Columbia..."
 
3. Coming to a London stage soon the latest Harry Potter adventure, subtitled "...and the Cursed Child," has its cast. Which of these characters will be played by a black actor?
Ron
Harry
Hermione
Hagrid
 
4. Not exactly living up to the name of his series, Jerry Seinfeld has invited non-comedian _______ to guest star on the season 7 premiere of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”
Hillary Clinton
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Barack Obama
Rhonda Rousey
 
5. Which of these Christmas Day releases got a bit of an earlier release thanks to someone within a Hollywood executive's office leaking a 'screener' to file-sharing sites?
The Hateful Eight
Daddy's Home
The Revenant
Concussion
 
6. If you aren't part of the latest Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame class, then you depressingly have a lot in common with this band.
N.W.A.
Cheap Trick
Chicago
The Cars
By way of explanation.....
But sadly for you, Cars lead singer Ric Ocasek can take solace in the fact that he is still married to the incomparable Paulina Porizkova and you are not.
 
7. If this once-legally troubled actor had a governor's pardon on his/her Christmas list, then Santa delivered early. Who has now got a clean record?
Lindsay Lohan
Jason Mewes
Robert Downey Jr
Joaquin Phoenix
 
8. The entertainment numbercrunchers over at Forbes have counted their beans, and have declared this celebrity to be 2015's most overpaid actor:
Sean Penn
Nicolas Cage
Johnny Depp
Keanu Reeves
 
9. Nicolas Cage was indeed not Forbes' most overpaid actor, but he still made news this week when he was ordered to return a $276 million __________ skull which turned out to be a smuggled artifact:
Panda
Gorilla
Buffalo
Dinosaur
 
10. The boys of Radiohead released a single of what was to be the title theme to this recent hit film, but which was rejected by the movie studio:
Spectre
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part II
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
 




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