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1. Which big-into-Halloween celeb, whose costume looks over the years appear here:

posted on MSN's Lifestyles page's that her favorite costume ideas include "Sexy cat," "bumble bee" and "bride of Frankenstein"?
Heidi Klum
Evangeline Lily
Jennifer Garner
Kate Beckinsale
 
2. More Halloween pop culture news! In advance of the holiday, MTV aired an original "Psycho"-licious film based on which of its reality franchises?
The Real World
Next
My Super Sweet Sixteen
Room Raiders
 
3. A female bidder ponied up $140K at a charity auction for the opportunity to kiss which gorgeous actress?
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Angelina Jolie
Charlize Theron
Halle Berry
 
4. Which star, who has previously displayed difficulty differentiating various species, angered PETA with a Twitter from Sea World which read: "Just overcame my fear of sharks by kissing a killer whale!"
Tara Reid
Lindsay Lohan
Britney Spears
Jessica Simpson
 
5. Even if Jessica Simpson wasn't the answer to the previous answer (you know she totally was), the Simpson clan was rocked with more bad news this week when younger sister Ashlee:
Was busted for pot possession
Was axed from her record label
Was dropped from the CW series Melrose Place
Received low marks on her paper on Theoretical Physics at Berkeley
 
6. Which Saturday Night Live alum has defended his appearing in Direct TV ads alongside the image of his deceased SNL collaborator Chris Farley?
Mike Myers
David Spade
Dana Carvey
Jon Lovitz
 
7. Which Oscar-winning director and screenwriter stirred up a hornet's nest when a letter announcing his split with Scientology was published this week?
Paul Haggis
Martin Scorsese
Peter Jackson
Clint Eastwood
 
8. Bad news from rock-and-roll, part 1: The death of this rocker's cousin led him to cancel a Kansas City show this week:
Tom Petty
Lou Reed
Bruce Springsteen
Jason Mraz
 
9. Bad news from rock-and-roll, part 2: Which rock band has pledged $50,000 to aid in the search for 20-year-old fan who went missing after seeing the act's concert in Charlottesville, VA?




 
10. Bad news from rock-and-roll, part 3: Not exactly a rock star, which staple of 1980s music collapsed on stage during a concert and had to be rushed to a hospital this week?
Boy George
Morrissey
George Michael
Simon LeBon
 
11. The Hollywood Foreign Press's Golden Globes ceremony will seem a bit more foreign this year, as the proceedings will be hosted by this Brit:
Ricky Gervais
Russell Brand
Ian McKellan
Mick Jagger
 
12. We just had to work this image into the quiz, but we had a hard time coming up with a question about it.

Just what in the hell are we looking at here?!?
It's a weird screen-grab for an ad for the ABC series V
It's the cover of a certain former American Idol contestant's album
It's an artist's rendering of what Kourtney Kardashian's baby will look like
It's a piece of marking for the upcoming Twilight Saga: New Moon film
 
13. The Lost Boys remains one of our all-time favorite horror movies. Alas, then, that we learned from TMZ that which star of the movie is getting divorced from his wife?
Kiefer Sutherland
Corey Haim
Corey Feldman
Jason Patric
 
14. What notable and well-known vegetarian made a guest appearance on Top Chef?
Alicia Silverstone
Natalie Portman
Paul McCartney
Pamela Anderson
 
15. ~The night the lights went out on Ferguson~..... A freak power outage caused the lights to go out a couple times during a taping of the Late Late Show. One such instance happened while Craig was interviewing ________.
Betty White
Stephen Fry
Alicia Silverstone
Vicki Lawrence
 
16. "TMZ has learned cops received a frantic 911 call around 2:30 this morning -- from neighbors complaining about a screaming _________, who was wailing about shots fired outside her Hollywood pad. When LAPD arrived on the scene, they saw the panicked actress on her balcony, yelling about the alleged gun fire." Yowza. Which batty celeb caused all sorts of ruckus with her panicked call for help?
Courtney Love
Victoria Beckham
Brittany Murphy
Bridget Fonda
 
17. We're frankly surprised at the results of a poll at AOL's JSYK.com, which named this young star as the worst celebrity influence for 2009:
Miley Cyrus
Megan Fox
Kim Kardashian
Kelly Clarkson
 
18. In more young celebrity news, the announcement that this actress, not one deaf and/or blind, will play Helen Keller on Broadway rubbed many the wrong way:
Kristen Stewart
Bryce Dallas Howard
Abigail Breslin
Nikki Reed
 
19. It's not often that, during autumn, a film opens on a Wednesday, but we were treated to such an occurrence this week. The subject of the mid-week opener is:
Horny teen vampires
A dead pop star
The pursuit of an arsonist
A comic book hero
 
20. A birthday party, during which guests were splattered with colorful paint, was thrown this week for a particular celeb. The birthday girl in question, seen here:

is none other than:
Katy Perry
Megan Fox
Courtney Cox
Anne Hathaway
 




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