Teen singer Mandy Moore isn't reaching the heights we expected -- she seems to be losing the second round of the teen queen competition to Jessica Simpson -- but she is still getting twice as many searches as the cult TV hit Queer as Folk, radio host Rush Limbaugh, and the surprising first place Chicago Cubs.
Who is Pootie Tang? He's a character from HBO's Chris Rock Show who fights crime, speaks in an incomprehensible dialect, and now has his own movie opening this weekend. Rock doesn't play Pootie himself, but his relationship with the Tang Man gets him twice as many searches as the upcoming Reese Witherspoon film Legally Blonde, classical violinist Vanessa Mae, and actor Omar Epps.
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery, celebrated on June 19 since 1865 as the African-American emancipation day. Interest is still growing in the holiday, which was twice as popular last week as the Denver Broncos, jailed mobster John Gotti, and Malcolm in the Middle.
Surprisingly, controversial ABC reporter John Stossel receives twice as many searches as new Vancouver/Memphis Grizzly Shane Battier, children's author Beverly Cleary, or Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Did you see the draft though? Battier can easily out-articulate both Sharon and Stossel.
Finally, we are often asked about Cindy Margolis, who puts herself forward as the most-downloaded woman on the Internet. While she is a master of self-promotion, she is far from the most popular beauty online. Instead, the answer in the last group is country-pop singer Faith Hill, currently riding interest in her love theme from Pearl Harbor. Margolis, on the other hand, is no more popular than ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell or vacation islands the Bahamas.
If you got all five answers right, give yourself a big hand. Heck, even getting three right shows an amazingly perceptive view of American pop culture. As Pootie Tang might say, "Sa da tai! Gotta canapan your hiney ho."
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