pop culture

VH1 is hosting two tests tonight on its website for a new game show, The World Series of Pop Culture. At 7 pm or 10 pm (ET), you can log on to this website and take the pop culture quiz. There are six sections, with 10 questions each. You have six minutes to complete each section, but only the fastest to answer will make it through to the interview session with the producers. From that pool, VH1 will choose three people to be on a Wild Card team when it hosts the pop culture tournament in New York City on the weekend of April 28-30.

I took the sample quiz and it was a breeze, with lots of references to '80s and early '90s television shows and movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Cosby Show, and Seinfeld. Good luck!

[Thanks, Lee!]

While YouTube isn't getting any love from networks like NBC and CBS, cable channel E! recognizes a good thing when it sees it. E! will spin-off a web-only segment of its original series The Soup, exclusively for YouTube. It's called Cybersmack and it's described in The Hollywood Reporter as "a compilation of user-generated video clips that satirize pop culture." I suppose that includes all those mock Narnia raps and all the videos making fun of the "My Humps" music video by the Black Eyed Peas. Cybersmack launches Friday. Best clip wins $25,000. The deal also gives YouTube permission to provide clips from other E! programs.