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1. We start the first quiz of the year by saying RIP to Lee Mendelson. You may not know the name, but you're undoubtedly familiar with his work, as he produced this staple of animated television:
The Simpsons
Frosty the Snowman
Peanuts
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
 
2. Having an all-too-close brush with death over the holidays was this actor, who contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection in Papua New Guinea.....
Haley Joel Osment
Jonah Hill
Aziz Ansari
Zac Efron
 
3. Did you guess Zac Efron in the previous answer? Hopefully! Because his name is in the title of the production he was filming when he got sick. The title, ironically, is:
The Indestructable Zac Efron
The Tropical Life with Zac Efrom
To Your Health with Zac Efron
Killing Zac Efron
 
4. New on TV this week was a new dating/reality show, which aimed to make love connections through this activity:
Singing
Dancing
Driving
Cooking
 
5. Finally saying thanks but no thanks - she's already in a long-term relationship - was this actress, whom large parts of the internet tried to match up with hockey player Anthony Beauvillier after he expressed fondness for her:
Blake Lively
Mindy Kaling
Anna Kendrick
Cara Delevingne
 
6. Having anchored the successful launch of Disney+, The Mandalorian completed its first season run. In the finale, Star Wars fans who locked to the show got their one and only look at the face of the masked bounty hunter, played by this actor:
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Timothy Olyphant
Armie Hammer
Pedro Pascal
 
7. "I take a freaking nap and this happens?" ....posted this singer, her account restored after her Twitter had been hijacked by hackers on Tuesday:
Adele
Miley Cyrus
Billie Eilish
Mariah Carey
 
8. It's now 2020, so of course some couldn't resist posting broadcaster Barbara Walters saying "This is 20/20" over and over. Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper took it a bit further, bringing this SNL alum, famous for her Walters impersonation, onto their NYE program:
Tiny Fey
Cheri Oteri
Maya Rudolph
Molly Shannon
 
9. If you watched any Fox television in the last few weeks, you were subject to the network's saturation-bombing approach to ads for its new crime drama that debuted Thursday night. That show is:
Deputy
Marshal
Sheriff
Ranger
 
10. And finally, in Hollywood nuptials, actress Julia Garner, best known from this Netflix show, wed Mark Foster, best known from his more obviously-titled band Foster the People:
Ozark
Lost in Space
The Crown
Altered Carbon
 




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