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1. Now that this prime time star has been named to Time's 100 Most Influential list, he/she will undoubtedly turn up uninvited at PTA meetings, UN Security Council sessions, and NFL instant replay conferences:
Charlie Sheen
Tina Fey
David Caruso
Dennis Haysbert
 
2. We are big fans of celebrity breasts. So too is Access Hollywood, who named this well-endowed actress to the top of its Best Celebrity Breast list:
Drew Barrymore
Alyssa Milano
Salma Hayek
Scarlett Johansson
 
3. NBC announced Monday that is adding four new dramas to its 2009-10 schedule, including a series based on which Ron Howard-directed film?
Parenthood
Splash
EdTV
Backdraft
 
4. Rande Gerber, the business mogul husband of Cindy Crawford, is being sued for sexual harassment by two women who used to work for him. Which Ocean's Eleven star and friend of Gerber has come to his defense?
Julia Roberts
Brad Pitt
Matt Damon
George Clooney
 
5. Geek culture hit an apex this week as the new Star Trek film opened. J.J. Abram's new film is the ______ movie in the Trek franchise:
8th
15th
11th
17th
 
6. Which has-been was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center over the weekend with an alarmingly high blood alcohol content?
Vanilla Ice
Hammer
David Hasselhoff
*NSync's Chris Kirkpatrick
 
7. As you might guess, factoring in the channel's target demographic, what film leads the prestigious MTV Movie Awards with seven nominations?
Slumdog Millionaire
Twilight
The Dark Knight
Pineapple Express
 
8. We hope this surprises no one. The inevitable has happened as a star of The Hills is negotiating to grace the pages of Playboy?
Audrina Patridge
Lauren Conrad
Heidi Montag
Whitney Port
 
9. Speaking of Playboy, which graduate of Hef's empire has signed a multi-year deal to host a talk show with Oprah Winfrey's production company?
Shanna Moakler
Jenny McCarthy
Nikki Ziering
Holly Madison
 
10. Congratulations, you survived us shoehorning Hugh Hefner and Oprah Winfrey into the same question!

Changing gears: Which comic actor, who frequently made appearances in Mel Brooks movies (Pizza the Hutt!), succumbed to a long battle with cancer this week?
Marty Feldman
Madeline Kahn
Dom DeLuise
Gene Wilder
 
11. In other Reaper news, which former American Idol contestant participated in a brain cancer awareness run this weekend, having lost a brother to the disease the night before?
Chris Daughtry
Kimberly Locke
Blake Lewis
David Cook
 
12. The covers of the June issues for both Elle and Esquire feature which actress? (Sample quote: "Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties")
Jessica Biel
Rachel Weisz
Amy Adams
Megan Fox
 
13. Carrie Prejean, the Miss California who offered a controversial answer to a same-sex marriage question in the Miss USA pageant, was in the news again this week. Why?
Topless pictures of her circulated through the internet
She copped to not paying income taxes for the last three years
She was caught with a pirated copy of the Wolverine movie
She made the mistake of tangling with Gracie Lou Freebush
 
14. Despite regular denials, Paula Abdul finally admitted in Ladies' Home Journal what this week? (Which she later denied...again.)
She was addicted to painkillers.
She is leaving American Idol.
She has always lip-synced her performances.
She is a Boston Celtics fan and Arsenio Hall is gay.
 
15. The M*A*S*H unit officially has a gay cast member when this person declared, "I am [gay]. Very proud to be so." Which character's alter ego made this proclamation?
Radar
Winchester
Klinger
Hot Lips
 
16. Which singer, known as much for her physique as for her singing (to say nothing of any acting skill), has just signed a deal to star in her first movie, tentatively titled "Burlesque"?
Paulina Rubio
Kylie Minogue
Duffy
Christina Aguilera
 
17. American Idol tapped a legendary guitarist that is about as far from the show's clean-cut image to be the mentor this week. Which Rock round peg did they push into the square hole that is American Idol?
Guns-N-Roses' Slash
KISS' Ace Frehley
The Offspring's Noodles
AC/DC's Angus Young
 
18. Current L.A. parolee Kiefer Sutherland went all Jack Bauer and headbutted a fashion designer because, according to Sutherland, the designer pushed what celebrity?
Paris Hilton
Brooke Shields
Elisha Cuthbert
Rebecca Romijn
 
19. In what might the first of many, which character from the Wolverine movie has officially been given his own spinoff?
Wraith
Cyclops
Deadpool
Sabretooth
 
20. We wonder what Daniel Craig thinks of all this premature talk. Which African American is petitioning hard to be the first "black Bond" and the producers should pick him because "I think I can guarantee the box office!"?
Denzel Washington
Will Smith
Jamie Foxx
Terence Howard
 
21. Former Bond girl Denise Richard tortured tens of thousands with her rendition of "Take me out to the ballgame." Spectators at which team's home stadium were most likely wishing she could have been taken out OF the ballgame?
Los Angeles Angels
Chicago Cubs
Cleveland Indians
New York Mets
 
22. Maybe they were trying a reenactment of "Who Shot J.R.?" but the maid playing the part of J.R. wasn't up for the role. Which Dallas star is now dealing with a civil case for pulling a gun on said maid?
Patrick Duffy
Victoria Principal
Larry Hagman
Joan Collins (Psst: We know she wasn't even on Dallas.)
 
23. Originally billed as the "series finale," which show's final episode, which aired this week was relabeled as a "season finale," suggesting that the show may return without its lead actor next year?
My Name Is Earl
Scrubs
NCIS
Cupit
 
24. Actor Peter Sarsgaard married this week in romantic Italy. He made an honest woman out of the actress sister of this fellow actor:
Jake Gylenhaal
David Arquette
John Cusack
Jackie Chan
 
25. Bristol Palin got the support of an unlikely bedfellow as what TV star praised her involvement in a town hall meeting on teenage pregnancy prevention for National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day?
America Ferrera
Hayden Panettiere
Miley Cyrus
Jennifer Love Hewitt
 




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