Think you know 'N Sync inside and out? Well, they thought so too. (As JC put it, "Dude, I'm telling you: I can't think of one thing that the other guys don't know about me.") But we came up with a bunch of juicy questions and fun games that really got the guys thinking, and surprise: We all learned something new! Check it out!
'N Sync One-On-One
JC
CG!: What was your worst breakup?
JC: The worst breakup I ever had happened literally right when 'N Sync started to hit. That's when my girlfriend and I broke up. I was brokenhearted.
CG!: Did you think you'd marry her?
JC: The thought had crossed my mind. I wasn't going to marry her next year or anything, but I thought, "She's the one I'm looking for. She's gonna be around."
CG!: Do you think that experience made you stronger?
JC: Definitely. She made me a better person by hurting me, because she taught me how to truly appreciate something good. If I get something good in my life again, I won't smother it, but I'll definitely know what I have.
CG!: Did she make you cry?
JC: Uh-huh. Yeah.
Chris
CG!: What do you value most about yourself?
Chris: My honesty. My motto is: Anything I say, I should be able to say right to someone's face.
CG!: Where did you get those strong morals?
Chris: From my mom. She never drank, never smoked. She was 16 when I was born; she was almost experiencing her childhood with me.
CG!: If you could have a "do-over" for any bad moment in your life, which would it be?
Chris: I'd try to talk to my stepdad. About five years ago, he shot himself. It was a total shock. I wish I could go back to the day before and stop him.
CG!: Everyone says you're hyper. Why?
Chris: The truth is, I'm hypoglycemic. If I have sugar, I go nuts. But as soon as I get off that sugar high, I crash big-time.
Lance
CG!: What's your best quality?
Lance: I'm really hardheaded at times. If something pisses me off or I know something's wrong, I'll fight and I won't stop until it's done the right way.
CG!: When was your last real date?
Lance: Well, it was with Danielle [Fishel], and we broke up last summer. Since then I've gone out and met people, but no official dates.
CG!: Do you miss it?
Lance: I do, but it's not fair to the girl if you're always on the road. I can't stand dating somebody and not being there for them. You can talk on the phone, but it's not the same.
CG!: You 'N Sync guys spend so much time together. Do you ever fight?
Lance: We're like brothers. Brothers always fight about different little nitpicky things, but you still love 'em.
Justin
CG!: If you could fix any mistake, what would it be?
Justin: I can think of lots of girls that I made the big mistake of giving my heart to.
CG!: So you give your heart quickly?
Justin: No, when I give it, it's with a willingness that's sometimes overwhelming.
CG!: Don't ever lose that quality! That's your saving grace!
Justin: You think so? What may save us can also kill us.
CG!: Have you ever broken the rules?
Justin: Once in kindergarten, I peed my pants on purpose because the teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom. Everybody was like, "Justin peed his pants!" And I stood up on my seat and I'm like (switches to squeaky voice) "That's right! The teacher wouldn't let me go to the bathroom!" I was the peeing Ferris Bueller.
Joey
CG!: Someone once asked Justin which of you guys would get married first, and he said, "It definitelywon't be Joey!" Comment?
Joey: (gets all huffy) How does he know? He doesn't know. I probably will not get married for a while, but I'm sure in two years or whatever, there might be that one girl I want to be serious with.
CG!: Well, you do have a rep for being the biggest flirt in the group. What's your technique?
Joey: I just go up to a girl and talk to her. And I give her neck rubs.
CG!: Has a girl ever rejected you?
Joey: There was this one girl I asked out over and over again in high school who kept turning me down. I tried being nice. She said no. So I tried being mean, and then I asked her again. She still said no. I never did go out with that girl!
How "in sync" are they?
We dug up lots of little details and gave the guys a pop quiz to see how well they know each other. Did they keep their eyes on their own papers? Yup--just check out that grade curve!
[click here to see the test questions and try it for yourself]
Top Scorer: Justin (100 points) Perfecto! Need we say more?
Second place: Chris (95 points) He would have gotten a perfect score, but he forgot to answer question #6. (What a bummer!)
Third place: Joey (95 points) We docked him five points for giving an incomplete answer to question #14. (Hey, we're tough!)
Fourth place: Lance (85 points) He got #2 wrong, gave an incomplete answer to #14, and, for #12, gave an answer that used to be right (Lance!). But we gave him five bonus points for writing his first and last names on the test (how cute!).
Last place: JC (70 points) He got questions 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 wrong, and gave an incomplete answer to #14. Scary thing is, one of those questions was about him. . . . (Don't worry, JC--we still love you!)
Playing the Name Game
We had the guys switch names--and personalities. (Don't panic: It was only temporary!) We made name tags, mixed them up, and had each 'N Sync member answer a bunch of questions as the person on his tag. It was hilarious!
CG!: Okay, Joey: You're Chris. Finish this sentence: "My best quality is..."
Joey: "I'm Chris, and my best qualities are my sense of humor and my wisdom because I'm so smart and older and wiser than everyone."
Justin: "Hi, I'm JC, and my best quality is my creativity."
Chris: "I'm Lance, and my best quality is my big booty. No--just kidding. My best quality is my sense of knowledge in business matters."
JC: "Hello, my name is Joey, and my best quality is my positive attitude."
Lance: "I'm Justin, and my best quality is my sense of humor."
Justin: (panicking because he didn't hear) My what? My what? (laughter)
CG!: "When I get up in the morning, the first thing I do is..."
Joey: "Hi, my name is Chris, and the first thing I do is scratch."
Justin: "Hi, I'm JC, and the first thing I do in the morning is...stretch."
Chris: "My name's Lance, and the first thing I do in the morning is pee in the shower." (laughter)
Justin: That's the best!
Lance: It's true!
JC: (joking) "My name's Joey, and the first thing I do in the morning is drop the kids off at the pool."
Lance: "Hi, I'm Justin, and the first thing I do in the morning is eat a bowl of Cap'n Crunch cereal."
CG!: "The last thing I do before I go to bed at night is..."
Joey: "I'm Chris, and before I go to bed I check my emails and play Dreamcast and then I check my emails some more and then I play Dreamcast again..." (laughter)
Justin: "I'm JC, and before I go to sleep I write down what happened in the day." (to JC) You still do that?
JC: I haven't done that since we were in Hamburg.
Chris: "My name's Lance, and the last thing I do is call my mom."
Everyone: Awwwww!
JC: "I'm Joey, and the last thing I do is leave whatever club I'm at."
Lance: "I'm Justin, and the last thing I do before bed is umm...put some hip-hop music on and rap a prayer."
CG!: "I think I look just like..."
Joey: "I'm Chris, and I look just like Fievel the mouse!" (everyone totally cracks up, because it's true)
Justin: "My name's JC, and I think I look just like Madonna!"
JC: (explaining) I don't look like anyone famous. I look plain.
Chris: "I'm Lance, and I think I look just like my dad."
JC: "My name's Joey, and I think I look just like Blossom." (laughter)
Lance: Mine's easy. "I'm Justin, and I look like Ryan Phillippe."
CG!: "I hate it when a girl..."
Joey: "I'm Chris, and I hate when a girl's way taller than me."
Justin: "I'm JC, and I hate it when a girl talks about her ex-boyfriend."
Chris: "I'm Lance, and I hate it when a girl starts talking about our future together, starts putting on all this pressure to get married, and then tells all my other friends certain things that didn't really happen, but she makes them up because she wants to live in her little dream world."
Lance: That was my ex-ex-ex-ex-girlfriend from like twenty years ago.
JC: "I'm Joey, and I hate it when a girl plays hard to get." (laughter)
Lance: "I'm Justin, and I hate it when a girl talks about herself too much."
Justin: Exactly! Good answer.
CG!: "When it comes to meeting girls, my best pickup line is..."
Joey: "I'm Chris, and I say, 'You want tickets to the show?'"
Justin: "I'm JC, and I meet girls by using my quietness, my mystery."
Chris: How 'bout this one: "I'm Lance. You know that third song? I produced that." (laughter)
JC: "My name's Joey. My pickup line is (switches to cartoon voice) I can do the Bobby voice." (laughter)
Lance: "I'm Justin, and I don't need a line. I just sing a little bit and all the girls are like 'Ohhhhh.'"
Let's Pick On Joey
We asked the guys to write down anonymous questions for each other--things they've always wanted to know, but have never asked. Then we put the slips of paper into a hat and drew them out one at a time. For some reason, Joey seemed to get lots more questions than everyone else...
CG!: Okay, the first question's for...Joey! "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" (everyone laughs)
Joey: Ummm...I don't know. I think it depends on how big the woodchuck is. If he was a big fat one, he could probably chuck a lot. Ten pounds.
CG!: "Justin: Would you ever pee in your wet suit?" (laughter)
Justin: I would, and I have.
CG!: "JC: Were there any off-screen romances on the Mickey Mouse Club?" (general oohing)
JC: Yes. But I don't name names.
Lance: (joking) Can I name names?
CG!: Okay..."Joey: How many girls have you dated at one time?"
Joey: I think three was the most.
CG!: "Justin: Have you ever looked in the mirror naked and done the shake-it dance and thought you looked good?" And they define "shake-it dance" as "move your hips from side to side." (everyone practically dies laughing)
Justin: That question is so Chris. My answer is: Every morning when I wake up. Right after I get out of the shower, I do the shake-it dance.
CG!: Okay..."Joey: If a plane crashes on the border of Canada and the U.S., where do they bury the survivors?"
Joey: Aha! You can't bury survivors in the water! (everyone cracks up)
CG!: What?! Where'd the water come from? The point is, you don't bury survivors!
Joey: Don't write that, please, I suck! I thought they were dead!
CG!: "Justin: What's the name of the last girl you kissed?"
Justin: Name? I don't name names.
CG!: How many letters?
Justin: Five.
CG!: What does it begin with?
Justin: None of your business.
CG!: "Joey: How many total animals did Moses bring on the ark?"
Joey: Wait...read it again. How many total animals did Moses...
JC: Moses didn't even have an ark!!
CG!: Okay, here's one for Chris: "Who was the first person to beat you at every or any sport, and how did you feel?"
Chris: Ooh, that's a good one, a serious one, too. Justin beat me in every sport. No, wait: When I was like 7 years old I was on a Little League team and we sucked. Once I got beaned by a pitch.
CG!: Did you get knocked unconscious?
Chris: No, but I had to take first base. We were playing T-ball.
JC: But you don't pitch in T-ball!
Chris: I know. I'm the only kid who got beaned by a pitch in T-ball! (laughter)
Lance: Wouldn't you always get totally pissed at the kids who couldn't even hit the freakin' ball off the T?
JC: Lance is venting.
CG!: "Justin: Have you ever farted in public and blamed it on someone else?"
Justin: All the time, of course...Joey!
CG!: "Lance, did you ever dirty up the ice at your snow-cone-factory job?"
Lance: Joey...
Joey: No, I did not write that one!
Lance: One time this bug flew into a cone I was making, but I didn't want to scoop it out because the customers were watching. So I just kind of covered it up.
CG!: There's no name on this question, but something tells me it's for Joey. "If it takes four men two hours to dig a hole, how long does it take two men to dig half a hole?" Come on, you guys--I feel bad for Joey! Here's another one for him: "If you travel from point A to point B and you..." Noooo!! I don't even want to read it! Okay, this is the last question! "Chris: Can you describe the worst hairstyle you've ever had?"
Chris: (joking) Well, I had braids on top of my head and I put them in a ponytail....No--I take it back. In the early '90s I actually had a pulse shaved into the side of my head, and then I had the front bleached blond. I thought I was Vanilla Ice.