Weekly News Quiz: Ratajkowski reveals, Los Angeles cheers, Cartoon havoc

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.

“Mexico is paying for the wall,” President Trump said in a New Hampshire rally on the second to final 2020 election weekend. That’s untrue. The Mexican government refused to contribute to extending or reinforcing barriers on U.S. soil. “Mexico will be paying for it because we’re going to charge a fee,” Trump explained in a different rally.

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.

Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. At the age of 48, she’s the youngest supreme court justice in US history. It’s a lifetime appointment, thus securing a likely conservative court majority for years to come.

Exactly. Kim Kardashian West celebrated her 40th birthday on a private island. She posted a series of photos from her celebration to Twitter and Instagram on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. ‘After two weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time,’ she wrote in a caption that became an instant meme.

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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.

• Watch The Undoing on Amazon’s HBO (Start your 7-day free trial).
• Read or listen to the best selling novel, The Undoing (Digital and print versions available) 

Very Nice! The Kazakh tourism board launched a new campaign in October 2020, adopting Borat’s viral catchphrase “Very nice!” as their official slogan. The campaign shows tourists exploring Kazakhstan’s local food, landscapes, markets, and cities, and then say some variation of: “Wow, very nice!”. Watch the ad.

True.

Top Turkish officials condemned a caricature scorning President Tayyip Erdogan in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Turkish presidential communications director, Fahrettin Altun, tweeted: “We condemn this most disgusting effort by this publication to spread its cultural racism and hatred.” Just two days earlier, Erdogan called for a boycott of French products.

That’s right. Steve Carell, Steven Colbert, John Oliver, and many other talents started their career on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Stewart is returning to the host chair, after a long five-year break, in a new Apple TV show planned for 2021. 

Watch Jon Stewart’s 2020 movie, Irresistible, starring Steve Carell!