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1.	Late last week after publishing, it was announced that "Captain PR nightmare" Kanye West bailed out on his joint tour with what pop star?
		Lady Gaga
		Pink
		Katy Perry
		Taylor Swift

2.	Hey, speaking of a joint tour, which film director extolled the virtues of weed this week: "I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good . . . What you want to do is what I did, build a movie empire and, at age 38, smoke it all away."
		Woody Allen
		Quentin Tarantino
		Kevin Smith
		Spike Jonze

3.	Dead Celebrity Crime Watch! We learned this week that Which deceased star was once investigated, but never charged, in a murder plot?





4.	David Letterman uses show to acknowledge that someone was attempting to blackmail him because of his dalliances with female staffers. Turns out that the would-be extortionist also works for CBS but on what show?
		Big Bang Theory
		60 Minutes
		48 Hours
		The Good Wife

5.	Time to hop into the Way-Back Machine and return to the 1980s. This week, _______ revisited his/her old ways and ________. Awww, we do love the 80s.
		Robert Downey, Jr. / checked back into rehab
		Bruce Willis / got in an onset fracas with Cybill Shepherd
		Sean Penn / assaulted a photographer
		Elizabeth Taylor / remarried Larry Fortensky

6.	Swine flu strikes primetime? Maybe. "First time in _____ history we are shut down from production. Damn swine flu! That’s gonna cut into Christmas hiatus.” What Thursday night show's producer tweeted this statement?¹
		Bones
		CSI
		The Office
		Grey's Anatomy ¹The show's star later said it wasn't swine-related.

7.	More swine flu fun. Men...rather...boys really are pigs. This week the Backstreet Boys had to cancel shows because which bandmate has contracted the virus?
		A.J. McLean
		Brian Littrell
		Howie Dorough
		Joey Fatone

8.	In what can only be described as taking a step backward, which of this year's Oscar nominees will join General Hospital for a multi-episode story line.
		Josh Brolin
		James Franco
		Frank Langella
		Mickey Rourke

9.	Levi Johnston, toxic side effect of the Sarah Palin vice-presidential run, has managed to broker his rather limited name recognition into a national televised ad campaign for this unusual item:
		Pistachios
		Toothpaste
		Birdseed
		Newsweek magazine

10.	What actor seen here is plumping up for a new role, having gained about 30 pounds, and growing a rather unnecessary Grizzly Adams beard?
		Jim Carrey
		Russell Crowe
		Tom Cruise
		Mel Gibson

11.	After four years of marriage and two babies, Heidi Klum is finally changing her last to husband Seal's legal last name. What is it?
		Samuel
		Seal
		McGillacutty
		Montague

12.	Fill-in-the-blank randomness. _______ told Esquire that "She's a manifester, if there ever was one. ______ makes things happen. The woman is broad...I still love her. But she's retarded, too." Who belongs in the blanks?
		Lindsay Lohan / Samantha Ronson
		Bradly Cooper / Jennifer Aniston
		Guy Ritchie / Madonna
		Rick Solomon / Paris Hilton

13.	The two competitors jettisoned from Dancing With the Stars this week were an actress, Debi Mazar, who was voted out, and also:
		An ex-football player who quit the show
		A politician who withdrew because of medical reasons
		A soap opera actor who left the show for personal reasons
		An Olympic swimmer who was voted out

14.	There are roughly 67 Sexiest Woman Alive lists. The female that tops Esquire Magazine's list, barely ranks in our Top 25. Who is it?
		Keira Knightley
		Natalie Portman
		Kate Beckinsale
		Katherine Heigl

15.	Which celebrity, already having had quite an eventful year, made startling news this week this this tweet alluding to suicide: "I am going to kill myself cuz I don't want to life in a world where its filled with IGNORANCE! which majority of you ARE! & racists!"
		Tila Tequila
		Rihanna
		Whitney Houston
		Nicole Richie

16.	Having found gainful employment in the NFL again, Michael Vick will continue to try to repair his image when he appears in a reality series on:
		ESPN
		BET
		Spike
		Animal Planet

17.	Sean Jay, a music artist we've never heard of, will some day win you hundreds in a bar bet - given that you remember that he accomplished which feat this week?
		Appeared on a soon-to-be infamous cover of Rolling Stone
		Hijacked the Facebook and Twitter accounts of dozens of celebrities on Wednesday
		Revealed that, for three days back in 2007, he was secretly and simultaneously married to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Mischa Barton and Tara Reid
		Broke Black Eyed Peas' record 26 consecutive week run at the top of the Billboard charts

18.	As the film Couples Retreat opens, which of the films stars cast a disparaging eye on yoga instructors: "It was like the instructor was making all these moves and he was basically dry humping the girls. Nobody batted an eye. I felt like I was in 'The Twilight Zone'."
		Kristen Bell
		Jon Favreau
		Justin Bateman
		Vince Vaughn

19.	If you are this lucky person, you reportedly received a text message this week from Katy Perry, containing a picture of her breasts that she snapped:
		The producer of her album
		Hollywood uber producer/director Michael Bay
		Boyfriend Russell Brand
		David Letterman, who Perry wanted to console after his tumultuous week

20.	Much to the dismay of her 2 million-plus followers, which young star deleted her Twitter account this week, citing the influence of her significant other:
		Miley Cyrus
		Taylor Swift
		Kristen Stewart
		Rumer Willis