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100

She was the first black Miss America winner in 1983, but was forced to resign 10 months later after Penthouse magazine published nude photos of her.

Vanessa Williams

100

the number of ways to leave your lover + the number of tickets Eddie Money had to paradise =

50 + 2 = 52

100

C-Murder

Murder (duh)

100

This one time member of The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan has had a solo career consisting of nine studio albums and a number of singles, including the 1982 hit "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)"

Michael McDonald

100

This A-List actor turned down "the money" to play Edward Scissorhands because Tim Burton couldn’t answer certain questions about the role.  

Tom Cruise

200

Apparently upset he neglected to buy her a pair of sneakers, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes burned down the house of this NFL player.

Andre Rison

200

The sum of Jay-Z's "twos" and "problems" =

22 + 99 = 121

200

Loon

Drug Trafficking 

200

The album and artist was notable for entering the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at number one in 1987, making it the first album by a Caucasian artist to hit the top spot on that chart.

Faith (George Michael)

200

The roles of Patrick Bateman, Dirk Diggler and Remey in Higher Learning were initially meant for this A-List actor, who got his start playing Luke Brower, a homeless boy who is taken in by the Seaver family on Growing Pains

Leonardo DiCaprio

300

Tonya Harding's ex-husband and the mastermind behind the 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan at Cobo Arena in Detroit.

Jeff Gillooly

300

The number of lighters Lil' Keke & Fat Pat have on their dresser + The number of hours Dolly Parton was singing about working =

25 + 8 = 32

300

South Park Mexican

Child Molestation

300

Which Daryl Hall and John Oates-penned song about a lover leaving was covered by two other artists (Lou Rawls & Tavares) before becoming extremely successful for Hall and Oates?

She's Gone

300

This actress turned down the role of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, because she felt it was too close to the TV personality she had just finished playing for 10 years.

Christina Applegate

400

Scott Bernard Amedure was an American murder victim who was fatally shot after revealing that he was attracted to a male acquaintance on this daytime talk show?

Jenny Jones

400

The sum of Tommy Tutone phone number for Jenny =

8+6+7+5+3+0+9 = 38

400

G-Dep

Murder

400

Georgie Woods, a Philadelphia radio DJ, is thought to have coined the term "blue-eyed soul" in 1964, initially to describe which group?

The Righteous Brothers

400

This actor has played the villain in the films Cliffhanger, Raising Cain, Ricochet and Footloose but not in Tim Burton's Batman, where he was originally cast to play The Joker.

John Lithgow

500

On March 26, 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead near San Diego, covered in purple sheets and wearing these now discontinued type of Nikes?

Nike Decades

500

Ice Cube's first dice roll when he was having a Good Day + the number of A Tribe Called Quest stories

7 + 8 Million = 8,000,007

500

BG

Gun Possession & Witness Tampering

500

Founded as a quartet with guitarist/vocalist David Pack, bassist/vocalist Joe Puerta, keyboardist Christopher North and drummer Burleigh Drummond, this LA band chose their name in 1970 to represent a vision of their music: all shades, textures, colors and styles

Ambrosia

500

This actor turned down the role of Forrest Gump to star in another movie that earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor that same year, which he ended up losing to Tom Hanks.  

John Travolta