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GAME 1
Since 2009, in every year except one, the best-selling video game in the U.S. has been from the same franchise.
What game was the best-selling in 2013, the only one NOT from the same franchise as the others?
GAME 2
What actor, who received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 2006 for the movie Half Nelson, got his start on TV, appearing in The Mickey Mouse Club, as a member of the cast of Breaker High, and as the title character in Young Hercules?
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Game one answer
Grand Theft Auto V
GAME 2 answer:
Ryan Gosling