2020 Endless Entertainment Lockdown Quiz

Exactly. According to Forbes, these are the five best-paid actresses in 2020: Sofia Vergara ($43 million), Angelina Jolie ($35.5 million), Gal Gadot ($31.5 million), Melissa McCarthy ($25 million), and Meryl Streep ($24 million). The magazine goes further to explain that the shutdown of movie theaters due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made it easier for TV stars such as Vergara and Ellen Pompeo (#8 with $19 million) to rank higher this year.

Jeff Bridges may be best known for his role as the Dude in The Big Lebowski, but his oscar-winning role was as a country musician in 2010’s Crazy Heart. The actor announced on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, that he was diagnosed with lymphoma. Bridges, 70, said he is starting treatment for the condition and that the “prognosis is good.”

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True. JK Rowling’s new Robert Galbraith thriller Troubled Blood sold almost 65,000 copies in just five days, amid widespread criticism of the author’s decision to include a serial killer who dresses in women’s clothing in the novel.

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Yep. Barbie has a YouTube vlog with over 9.7 million subscribers that is maintained by the official brand. This past week, Barbie uploaded a video with her friend Nikki discussing the Black Lives Matter movement, on which they talked about acts of racism that Nikki and other Black people experience daily.

Did this make you like Barbie again?

In November 2020, “Baby Shark,” The wildly popular children’s song,becamee the most viewed clip in YouTube’s history.  The nursery rhyme “Baby Shark” gained international fame after a 10-year-old Korean-American singer, Hope Segoine, recorded a version of it in 2016.

Rainn Wilson created An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change – a comical six-part docu-series on YouTube. ‘I always believed in the science of climate change; I just was never really doing anything about it,’ Wilson explained in an interview with Mashable, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020.

• Watch Rainn Wilson and John Cusack on Utopia (2020)

Judith Sheindlin was a New York family court judge before she became TV’s Judge Judy in 1996. Starting 2021, the 78-year-old tough-talking TV judge is moving her show to Amazon’s IMDbTV ad-supported free streaming platform, available in the US only. US broadcaster CBS will still be showing reruns of the show in the upcoming two years.

 The Walking Dead will end its 11 seasons run in 2022, leaving behind one spin-off plus three in the making. 

Nicole Kidman played the character of Celeste Wright in the HBO hit Big Little Lies. She now reteams with show creator David E. Kelly for yet another limited series based on the best selling novel The Undoing, in which Kidman portrays a successful therapist, wife, and mother who tries to survive a spreading public disaster.

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• Read or listen to the best selling novel, The Undoing (Digital and print versions available) 

That’s right. The Jewish comedian told Jimmy Kimmel that COVID-19 “comes from a place called Wuhan, which is in Israel.” He was jokingly referring to antisemitic conspiration theories spurring in the United States.  Cohen then asked Kimmel, “In the last week, have you spent more than 15 minutes in the presence of any Jews?” to which Kimmel replied that, “All of our writers and none of our camera guys are Jews.” Watch the hilarious interview.

Exactly. Hugh Grant, who was a huge Rom-Com star in the ‘90s, and was married to Elizabeth Hurley (but appeared beside her in just one Spanish thriller in the ‘80s), is back starring opposite Nicole Kidman in HBO’s new David E Kelly drama, The Undoing.

Watch The Undoing now.

Fans of Britney Spears, 38, are demanding in protests and online posts that the court should #FreeBritney from her father’s financial guardianship he has over her since her emotional breakdown in 2008. These kinds of arrangements are usually temporary, but Britney Spears remains under court control.

• Watch Britney perform in 2011: Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale Tour

Correct. David Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972. The trailer for the new IFC biopic Stardust, depicting Bowie’s career, is out. Take a look.

Watch HBO’s documentary David Bowie: The Last Five Years.

Exactly. Mads Mikkelsen is set to replace Johnny Depp in the third installment of the JK Rowling-scripted fantasy series, Fantastic Beasts. Mikkelsen was born in Denmark. His first English speaking role was in the James Bond film, Casino Royale (2006). 

• Watch Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter, on Hannibal.

Paris Hilton’s YouTube Originals documentary This Is Paris premieres Sept. 14. The 39-year-old DJ and businesswoman opened up for the first time about a secret abuse she suffered at a Utah boarding school she attended. 

True. Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee conquered the Billboard Latin Music Awards Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020,  receiving seven trophies each. Bad Bunny won artist of the year, top Latin album, and songwriter of the year. Daddy Yankee won six of his awards for his hit “Con Calma.” His awards included the hot Latin song and song of the year for streaming and airplay.

True. Curb Your Enthusiasm first aired on HBO 22 years ago, on Oct. 15, 2000

True! Clyde Bunny is the nephew of Bugs Bunny. All other Bunnies bear no family connection to Bugs. HBO Max and Cartoon Network ordered two seasons of Tiny Toons Looniversity from Warner Bros. and executive producer Steven Spielberg. The new show is a reboot of Tiny Toons.

The childhood home of iconic musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone will be indefinitely preserved in North Carolina. Simone taught herself to play piano in the wooden cottage as a young girl in the 1930s.

Correct. Before his Twilight werewolf days, 13 y/o Taylor Lautner was Sharkboy in Robert Rodriguez’s 2005 film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Rodriguez surprised fans on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, with the reveal of Sharkboy and Lavagirl all grown up for his upcoming movie, We Can Be Heroes on Netflix, New Year’s Day.

Sharkboy and Lavagirl are back! And they’ve had a kid. Introducing…Guppy! #WeCanBeHeroes releases on @Netflix on New Year’s Day. pic.twitter.com/dSSHYHgOox

— Robert Rodriguez (@Rodriguez) November 18, 2020

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