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1.	People everywhere were simultaneously bored, thrilled, confounded and enraged by the lineup for the Super Bowl's halftime show, which featured each of the following except.....
		Demi Lovato
		Beyonce
		Bruno Mars
		Coldplay

2.	Once the halftime and the ads and the game itself were in the rearview, we're not sure how many people stuck around for the lead-out program, an installment of this show:
		Hawaii 5-0
		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
		NCIS: New Orleans
		Scorpion

3.	*One big, big, BIG* surprise during the came when CBS used an ad slot to shock everyone that this acclaimed show would be ending after the current season:**
		Criminal Minds
		The Big Bang Theory
		Madame Secretary
		The Good Wife

4.	Pop Culture and Politics, Part 1: We got a chuckle from learning, as the US presidential primaries got underway, the upcoming chapter in this horror movie franchise is subtitled Election Year:
		Insidious
		Paranormal Activity
		The Purge
		Scream

5.	Pop Culture and Politics, Part 2: Meanwhile, this renowned actor is featured as Donald himself in a Funny or Die send-up of presidential hopeful Trump's book The Art of the Deal:
		Johnny Depp
		Kevin Bacon
		Matt Damon
		Jim Carrey

6.	If you happened to collapse in a Yonkers, New York hotel parking lot this week....well, then, you have a surprising amount in common with this well-known rapper:
		Ludacris
		DMX
		Macklemore
		Lil Wayne

7.	If you're like us, you've been a bit too busy lately to keep up with Katy Perry-related goings on....until this week, when we were shocked at the rumors of a possible romance between Katy and this Lord of the Rings actor:
		The one that played Aragorn
		The one that played Bilbo
		The one that played Legolas
		The one that played Gandalf

8.	This band has a track record for wildly creative, entertaining music videos. This is a screenshot from their venture into zero gravity for their Upside Down Inside Out video. Now, name the band:
		Radiohead
		OK Go
		Wilco
		Weezer

9.	Fans of sorta old-schoolish action were excited this week to learn that the next installment of the ______ franchise will feature original series star _________ back in the lead:
		Mad Max / Mel Gibson
		xXx / Vin Diesel
		James Bond / Sean Connery
		Transporter / Jason Statham

10.	Meanwhile, fresh of her butt-kicking performance in Mad Max: Fury Road, the totally awesome Charlize Theron is being bandied about as the main villain in this franchise's next chapter:
		Bourne
		Guardians of the Galaxy
		The Fast and the Furious
		X-Men

11.	You may or may not be familiar with producer/director Duncan Jones, but Jones's announcement this week that he will be a father soon is significant, as the baby would have been the grandson of this recently departed big name:
		David Bowie
		Glenn Fry
		Alan Rickman
		Lemmy Kilmister

12.	Animals in the news (tamer edition): A woman with the last named of this winged creature began her very own Comedy Central show this week:
		Fly
		Bee
		Bat
		Bird

13.	Animals in the news (less tame edition): A video which exploded online Wednesday showed this type of wild animal on the loose and causing all sorts of mayhem at a school in India:
		Leopard
		Mongoose
		White tiger
		Rhino

14.	The revolving door of Colonel Sanderseses continues, with this comedian being the most recent man to take up the mantle of the KFC advertising icon:
		Jim Gaffigan
		Andy Samberg
		Louis CK
		Andy Richter

15.	And in closing, we note that this Oscar winner, not exactly known for controversy, created a whole lotta heat this week with her "We're all Africans" comment:
		Reese Witherspoon
		Meryl Streep
		Natalie Portman
		Sandra Bullock