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			We start the first quiz of the year by saying RIP to Lee Mendelson. You may not know the name, but you're undoubtedly familiar with his work, as he produced this staple of animated television:
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The Simpsons
		
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Frosty the Snowman
		
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Peanuts
		
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
		
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			Having an all-too-close brush with death over the holidays was this actor, who contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection in Papua New Guinea.....
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Haley Joel Osment
		
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Jonah Hill
		
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Aziz Ansari
		
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Zac Efron
		
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			Did you guess Zac Efron in the previous answer? Hopefully! Because his name is in the title of the production he was filming when he got sick. The title, ironically, is:
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The Indestructable Zac Efron
		
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The Tropical Life with Zac Efrom
		
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To Your Health with Zac Efron
		
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Killing Zac Efron
		
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			New on TV this week was a new dating/reality show, which aimed to make love connections through this activity:
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Singing
		
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Dancing
		
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Driving
		
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Cooking
		
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			Finally saying thanks but no thanks - she's already in a long-term relationship - was this actress, whom large parts of the internet tried to match up with hockey player Anthony Beauvillier after he expressed fondness for her:
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Blake Lively
		
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Mindy Kaling
		
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Anna Kendrick
		
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Cara Delevingne
		
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			Having anchored the successful launch of Disney+, The Mandalorian completed its first season run. In the finale, Star Wars fans who locked to the show got their one and only look at the face of the masked bounty hunter, played by this actor:
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
		
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Timothy Olyphant
		
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Armie Hammer
		
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Pedro Pascal
		
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			"I take a freaking nap and this happens?"  ....posted this singer, her account restored after her Twitter had been hijacked by hackers on Tuesday:
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Adele
		
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Miley Cyrus
		
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Billie Eilish
		
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Mariah Carey
		
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			It's now 2020, so of course some couldn't resist posting broadcaster Barbara Walters saying "This is 20/20" over and over. Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper took it a bit further, bringing this SNL alum, famous for her Walters impersonation, onto their NYE program:
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Tiny Fey
		
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Maya Rudolph
		
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Molly Shannon
		
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			If you watched any Fox television in the last few weeks, you were subject to the network's saturation-bombing approach to ads for its new crime drama that debuted Thursday night. That show is:
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Deputy
		
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Marshal
		
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Sheriff
		
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Ranger
		
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			And finally, in Hollywood nuptials, actress Julia Garner, best known from this Netflix show, wed Mark Foster, best known from  his more obviously-titled band Foster the People:
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Ozark
		
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Lost in Space
		
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The Crown
		
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