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You think you know pop culture? Do you watch Jeopardy and think, "I'd clean up on that show!" What about The World Series of Pop Culture on VH-1 -- are you a wiz at that one? Well, you don't have to wait for new episodes. Check out this new web site, Hey, Nielsen, and get going on the quizzes. It's killer.

Experts from all kinds of pop culture web sites -- including our own King of TV Paul Goebel right here on TV Squad -- have contributed to the quizzes. And you can actually win some cool stuff -- iPod nano, one-year subscription to Netflix, $1,000 -- if you're smart enough. I, sadly, am not. I was severely slapped down by the quiz I took. I dare you to try and do better! I'm going back to the books before my next shot!

When I first heard about VH1's World Series of Pop Culture, I decided not to try out. As much of a pop culture whore as I am, I figured that the questions were going into dive into so much minutiae that I was going to be out of my element. I mean, I was expecting questions like "On The Wonder Years, what were the colors of the stripes on Kevin Arnold's gym socks?" or something like that.

But then I watched a preliminary round on Thursday night, and I slapped myself in the head. Most of the questions were completely easy! I think the hardest round to me was the one about hip hop artists in the movies, but I at least got a few of those questions, like the movie series that Kid 'n' Play was in (Answer: House Party, which at least one contestant didn't get). Another question: What was the name of Arnold Jackson's fish on Diff'rent Strokes? Even the tie-breakers weren't hard: Name the eight actor's names (besides Ann B. Davis) from The Brady Bunch. As GOB Bluth would say: Come ON! Had I known the questions were going to be this easy I would have applied myself. Between me, my brother Rich, and Bob Sassone, we would have kicked major-league trivia ass. Granted, we would have been older by any of the other teams by a good seven to ten years, but so what? I refuse to be ashamed if a quarter-mil is at stake.