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Answers:

1. What pop culture occurrence had supermodel Marisa Miller

appearing decked out so tastefully?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
The premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The finale of Project Runway
The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
 
2. In addition to appearing in the Victoria's Secret Fashion show, which so so totally the answer to question #1, Heidi Klum's big week also included:
Being announced as Oprah's final guest in 2011
Graduated from college
Taking the last name of her husband, Seal
Being named Honorary UN Peace Ambassador
 
3. Millions of teens got their vampiric angst quota as The Twilight Saga: New Moon debuted. Along the way, the film notched this achievement:
Most lucrative opening weekend ever
Worst reviewed film of the year at RottenTomatoes.com
Largest per-screen average for a film in 2009
Largest midnight screening ever
 
4. Kids? Hi. Whatever you do, don't position a machine gun near your mouth, even if one of your favorite TV stars did this exact thing for a rather ill-advised photoshoot.

At whom are we looking here?
Kaley Cuoco
Hayden Panettiere
Evangeline Lilly
Jennifer Love Hewitt
 
5. A highway crash claimed the life of a tour bus driver who was part of which pop act's entourage?
Backstreet Boys
Jason Mraz
Kelly Clarkson
Miley Cyrus
 
6. The big pop culture news story of the week was the American Music Awards. Which former music star announced his/her return to relevancy by taking a spill onto his/her keister during a performance?
Janet Jackson
Eminem
Jennifer Lopez
Whitney Houston
 
7. Just under half of all the awards doled out Sunday night were bestowed to one or the other of the following pair:
Taylor Swift or Jay-Z
Michael Jackson or Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon or Green Day
Taylor Swift or Michael Jackson
 
8. This disco-ball-meets-kitchen-countertop-tile number:

was worn by which performer?
Kelly Clarkson
Shakira
Carrie Underwood
Pink
 
9. ABC received more than 1,500 calls objecting to the overtly sexual performance of the following singer.....
Green Day
Janet Jackson
Adam Lambert
Carrie Underwood
 
10. ...which led said performer to see his/her schedule appearance on the following daytime show cancelled:
Good Morning America
Oprah
Live with Regis and Kelly
Dr. Phil
 
11. On Monday, the final episode of this notorious TV series aired:
The Real Housewives
Hell's Kitchen
The George Lopez Show
Jon & Kate Plus Eight
 
12. The Jon Goesselin train wreck continues unabated. Not only did Jon's TV show end on Monday night, but this pop culture villain has leaked telephone tapes of Jon saying not so nice things about....just about everyone:
Omarosa
Octomom
Michael Lohan
Lynn Spears
 
13. To the relief of possibly dozens, the (long-standing? brief?) feud between Rachel Ray and this other television star has come to an end, with the latter apologizing to Rachel for whatever the hell it was:
Martha Stewart
Dr. Phil
Kelly Rippa
Whoopie Goldberg
 
14. From the Good Work Being Done by Famous People File, The Hollywood Reporter states that this famous pair donated more than $6 million to charity in 2008:
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
Will & Jada Pinkett Smith
Warren Beatty & Annette Bening
Diane Lane & Josh Brolin
 
15. W Magazine is up to its neck in Hip-gate. On the heels of questions of whether or not the magazine digitally shaved off the hip of the actress seen in this cover photo:

comes question about whether the magazine photoshopped the entire body of a model over named celeb:
Sharon Stone
Jennifer Aniston
Megan Fox
Demi Moore
 
16. Thanksgiving night, television viewers, strung out on tryptophan and family drama, were treated of a special program highlighting this vapid, ego maniacal performer:
John Mayer
Jessica Simpson
Beyonce
Janet Jackson
 
17. Its star having to leave to attend to a "family matter" briefly shut down production of which show this week?
Ghost Whisperer
NCIS
Cougar Town
CSI: Miami
 
18. If you have some long-standing grudge against Macy's, instead of tuning into the NYC-based parade on NBC and CBS on Thursday, you could have flipped to CBS to see the parade hosted in this city:
Washington, DC
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Miami
 
19. Basketball announcer Marv Albert spent the week denying that he came to blows with which notorious pop culture figure backstage at Jimmy Kimmel's show?
50 Cent
Hulk Hogan
Levi Johnson
Russell Crowe
 
20. Having recently reconciled with his daughter Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight this week declared that which news-maker isn't as good of an actress as Angelina?
Megan Fox
Blake Lively
Kristen Stewart
Hilary Swank
 




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