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1. You start to really question a performer's commitment to her craft, when she appears on German TV wearing an outfit made of sewn-together heads of Kermit the Frog dolls:

Who do we expect is mainly in this for the attention?
Lady GaGa
Katy Perry
Bjork1
Mariah Carey
1Dear SLW, please don't lump me in with this nutjob. Love, Bjork
 
2. Following the surprise success earlier in the year of the book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we will soon be treated to a similar novel, called Sense and Sensibility and:
Sea Monsters
Cyclopses
Dracula
Man-Eating Werewolves
 
3. Venerable newsman Walter Cronkite died this week. Much of our audience was born after Crokite left the Evening News desk in 1981, so they'd have to rely on relatives or textbooks the internet to know that he was the anchor for which network?
ABC
CBS
NBC
Fox News
 
4. If you wanted to catch the latest Lindsay Lohan cinematic opus Labor Pains, you'd have to had tuned in to this network:
ABC Family
Nickelodeon
Disney
Lifetime
 
5. Rest in Peace, Frank McCourt, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning:
Angela's Ashes
Angle of Repose
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
No Country for Old Men
 
6. Temporarily setting aside the usual high standards of class displayed in their programming, VH1 started a new reality show centered around which egomaniac figure this week?
Star Jones
Terrell Owens
Rosie O'Donnell
Jeff Probst
 
7. SLW wishes Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys a speedy, full recovery. This week the band announced that their upcoming tour was canceled and album on hold because Yauch has been diagnosed with cancer. What is his stage name?
Ad-Rock
MCA
Mike D
B-Real
 
8. Which canceled animated series will return (yay!) but with all of the major voices for the series recast (boo!)?
King of the Hill
Futurama
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Clone High
 
9. Hermoine Granger is following up her time at Hogwarts by attending an Ivy League university but not one of the 'biggies.' OK, it's really actress Emma Watson that will be going to ____ University in the fall.
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
 
10. You all are familiar with Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, right? Right? We read this week that our girl Padma will be involved in which career-oriented development?
She'll write a tell-all memoir about her marriage to Salman Rushdie
She'll star in a network sitcom
She'll direct an independent film
She'll be a guest judge on the upcoming iteration of American Idol
 
11.
Which singer apparently thought it was a good idea to go into a hair salon and say, "Give me the Britney Spears?"
Alicia Keys
Solange Knowles
Lil Kim
Ciara
 
12. This Burn Notice star got arrested on suspicion of DUI in Miami and said after a field sobriety test, "I really think I'm only borderline and not too drunk....The only mistake I made tonight was drinking Benadryl with three glasses of wine."
Bruce Campbell
Jeffrey Donovan
Gabrielle Anwar
Sharon Gless
 
13. Not content to being a successful singer/husband to Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony will become part owner of what professional sports team?
Florida Marlins
San Diego Padres
San Diego Chargers
Miami Dolphins
 
14. Katherine Heigl keeps making it *really* difficult to like her. Having come || this close to getting axed from Grey's Anatomy, Kat recounted her first day back to the Grey's set to David Letterman this week. In the interview, she wined that:
That she had to work long hours
That the set lighting as all wrong
The food on the craft services tables was sub-standard
She was constantly photographed from her bad side.
 
15. Add Sam Raimi to the list of those who will direct a film based on a video game. The Spider-Man director is attached to a movie based on which title?
Halo
World of Warcraft
Call of Duty
Grand Theft Auto
 
16. Which celeb, known for his feistiness, was undoubtedly happy to learn that he will not face charges for drunkenly headbutting someone earlier this year?
Bobby Brown
Russell Crowe
Kiefer Sutherland
Andy Dick
 
17. Gidget, a canine mascot for this product, has gone to the great Milkbone factory in the sky, dying at the age of 15:
Target stores
Coke
Adidas
Taco Bell
 
18. Which actress appeared on Thursday's So You Think You Can Dance, and added an odd element to the show with a Judy Garland-themed song and dance number?
Katie Holmes
Anne Hathaway
Kate Hudson
Rachel Bilson
 
19. Which star is "making improvements," having emerged from a week-long hospitalization during which she was placed under a psychiatric hold?
Mischa Barton
Jodie Sweetin
Demi Lavato
Vanessa Hudgens
 
20. Brother1, can you spare a dime? Claiming he owes $2.3 million, which of the Baldwin sibling has declared bankruptcy?
Alec
Stephen
William
Daniel
1No, literally
 
21. "Certain journalists have written horrible things, and then they've got cancer, or they've had a tumour, or they’ve died. And it's terrible for them, but they’ve done really evil things. I truly believe things come back around." We read the above comments made by this nutjob, and just decided to back away slowly:
Kathy Griffin
Heather Mills
Perez Hilton
Madonna
 
22. This bankable star took exceptions to jokes made at his expense during Sunday night's Entourage, and has started a war of words with the series creator:
Michael Cera
Seth Rogen
Justin Long
Matthew McConaughey
 
23. Meredith Vieira conducted a prime-time interview with this newsmaker Wednesday night:
Michelle Obama
Susan Boyle
Kate Gosselin
Paris Hilton
 
24. Usually not one to be overconcerned with the welfare of his fellow man, which star made news this week by paying for a new vehicle for a film set employee?
Christian Bale
Jack Nicholson
Russell Crowe
Tom Cruise
 
25. Connecting the dots to make a celebrity pairing so odd that it has to be true, which famous figure claimed this week that Michael Jackson named his daughter after her?
Courtney Love
Kate Moss
Paris Hilton
Oprah Winfrey
 




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