Brian Robbins

This goo was worth a point in May 2024.

publication date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (part of May 2024)

category: Business

clue: Media executives who have reached the paramount of success, like he has, rarely started their careers acting in the sort of sitcoms that he now greenlights.

explanation: Robbins is the co-CEO of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS) after working his way up through leadership of Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, and Richard Slominsky

Outclassed: As the Class of 2024 graduates, it's normal to wonder what the students will go on to accomplish in their lives. Will they make the world a better place or a worse one? For example, the fictional class of gifted students portrayed in the 1980s sitcom Head of the Class (as well as its spinoff and revival) contains both people who ascended to the top of the entertainment industry and people who fell from those heights into disgrace. These seven people all accomplished greater fame or infamy after becoming young members of the cast. Can you name them all? Good luck on this seven-question pop quiz, genuises.

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