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How Well Do You Know: 8/19/16-8/25/16
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1. Looking to capitalize on its Olympics audience, NBC squeezed this show into its Friday lineup during the last week of the Games:
America's Got Talent
Blacklist
Chicago Accountants
The Voice
 
2. If you guessed that the Peacock positioned The Voice to be it's Olympics lead-out, you're right. You're even more right if you know this unusual fact about new judge Alicia Keys:
She is not wearing makeup on the show
She once competed on the UK version of the show
She used to date former judge Cee Lo Green
She originally wrote the show's theme music
 
3. And speaking of Rio, holy heck broke out on the set when this TV news figure suggested that partially-disgraced King-of-the-Bros Ryan Lochte lied:
Charlie Rose
Matt Lauer
Al Roker
Barbara Walters
 
4. Fans in the band's native land at _________ flocked to the concert venue or their televisions to enjoy the farewell concert for The Tragically Hip, whose lead singer is dying from brain cancer:
Australia
Canada
England
Germany
 
5. Rats. RIP to one Donna Wold, who was the real-life inspiration for this comic book figure:
Little Orphan Annie
The Peanut's Little Red-Haired Girl
Veronica from the Archie comics
April from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 
6. Props to this former Disney channel star, who came out as bisexual with a post of her kissing her girlfriend:
Zendaya
Bridgit Mendler
Selena Gomez
Bella Thorne
 
7. The BBC thumbed through their rolodexes and contact lists and talked to lots and lots of critics, who collectively declared this to be the greatest movie of the 21st century so far:
Lincoln
Jurassic World
Mulholland Drive
The Dark Knight
 
8. When it's not the BBC, we tend to get all of our entertainment news from Forbes, naturally. The journalism entity crunched the numbers and said that this dude is currently Hollywood's highest paid actor:
The Rock
Brad Pitt
Tom Cruise
Jason Statham
 
9. Meanwhile, among the ladies, she is the highest-earner. Perhaps you have heard of her:
Julia Roberts
Jennifer Lawrence
Angelina Jolie
Scarlett Johansson
 
10. If you think veteran actor Steven Hill looked good for a 94 year old, you're right - until he died this week. You'll most likely remember Hill as a mainstay from:
NCIS
Law and Order
The Office
Everybody Loves Raymond
 




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