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After roughly 67 years in development, Guns N' Roses finally released a new album this week. What was the name?
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Chinese Democracy
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Mexican Taoism
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Guatemelan Oligarchy
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Canadian Communism
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With the release of the GnR album, which soda pop brand made good on its promise to give a free beverage to all?
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Sprite
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Mr. Pibb
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Dr. Pepper
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Mountain Dew
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Cheers to Ashlee Simpson, who gave birth to a baby boy, and named it this NY borough/Disney character combination:
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Bronx Mowgli
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Brooklyn Ariel
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Manhattan Grumpy
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Queens Simba
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As our previous edition was put to bed, SLW editors learned that ABC (bastards!) canceled three of its series. Which of the following did not get the axe?
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Pushing Daisies
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Dirty Sexy Money
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Life on Mars
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Eli Stone
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Twilight performed laps around the competition at the movie box office. In its debut weekend, which record did it set?
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Biggest opening for a November release
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Biggest opening for a film based on a literary work
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Biggest opening for a 2008 release
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Biggest opening for a film by a female director
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The annals of legal precedence will reflect that this was the week that a celebrity settled a lawsuit with a sheik. Who is no longer staring litigation in the face?
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Michael Jackson
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Roseanne
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Gary Busey
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Pink
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"It was like being naked -- I would love to be naked in front of you." Which meathead, during an interview, made a female Newsweek reporter understandably uncomfortable?
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Chuck Norris
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Sylvester Stallone
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Mr. T
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You may not know the name Karolina Kurkova, but you should: E! has named her the World's Sexiest Woman. What does Ms. Kurkova do for a living?
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She's a CBS News foreign correspondence
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She's a Victoria's Secret lingerie model
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Nothing. She's George Clooney's new girlfriend
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She's a member of the US Women's soccer team
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What could possibly have gone wrong??!? This star admitted that her marriage to some named Blake was over:
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Amy Winehouse
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Mariah Carey
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Kate Moss
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Sienna Miller
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The celebirshpere was shocked to learn that this attention-mongering duo apparently eloped:
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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt
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Kim Kardashian & Reggie Bush
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Jessica Simpson & Tony Romo
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
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This week saw the final episode of which long-running cable series?
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The Shield
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Inside the NFL
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Iron Chef America
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Monk
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Good gravy! Which SNL alum dropped 100 pounds recently?
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Tracy Morgan
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Horatio Sanz
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Julia Sweeney
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David Spade
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Which Sex and the City star stripped to her birthday suit as part of a fundraising effort in Britain to keep a Titian masterpiece on public display?
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A
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B
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C
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D
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Huh. Which famous pair of exes reportedly planned to spend Thanksgiving together (with *her* new boyfriend along, no less!)?
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Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt
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Liza Minelli and Gest
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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
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Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora
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Dancing With the Stars crowned its seventh champion this week. What is the correct spelling of the name of the winner?
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Brook Burke
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Brooke Burk
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Brooke Burke
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Warren Sapp
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This week: Buzz Lightyear, Horton (of Dr. Seuss fame) and The Smurfs:
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Were inducted into the Animated Character Hall of Fame
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Will be the subjects of newly greenlit films
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Were featured on new floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
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Defeated the Detroit Lions in the Thanksgiving NFL game
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Which current or former member of The View hosted a variety show that aired on Wednesday night?
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Rosie O'Donnell
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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Barbara Walters
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Whoopie Goldbert
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This 80's cinematic comedy offering will be remade into a new film:
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Back to the Future
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Better Off Dead
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Three Men and a Baby
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Meatballs
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Which sitcom actress, the co-star of a newly pregnant actress, is herself expecting as of this week?
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How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders
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Kath and Kim's Selma Blair
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Gary Unmarried's Paula Marshall
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The Office's Jenna Fischer
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This PBS children's series will be reworked in a new version airing in January:
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Reading Rainbow
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Electric Company
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Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
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321 Contact
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