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Hoop Dreams Quiz

  1992 Dream Team The Dream Team changed the face of Olympic Basketball in 1992. Mike PowellAllsport

1. Prior to the advent of the Dream Team, how many games had the United States lost in Olympic basketball?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. five

2. When Russia beat the U.S. in the controversial 1972 Gold Medal game, it ended an American Olympic unbeaten streak of how many games?
a. 49
b. 50
c. 62
d. 72

3. Which future NBA player and coach hit two free throws with three seconds left to give the U.S. a lead prior to that controversial ending?
a. Doug Collins
b. John Lucas
c. Lenny Wilkens
d. Isiah Thomas

4. Ten players from the dominating 1960 Gold Medal-winning U.S. team eventually played in the NBA. Which NBA great was not on that 1960 team?
a. Jerry Lucas
b. Oscar Robertson
c. Walt Bellamy
d. Bill Bradley

5. Which Boston Celtic great never played in the Olympics?
a. Larry Bird
b. John Havlicek
c. K.C. Jones
d. Bill Russell

6. Of the following legendary Los Angeles Lakers, who is the only one to play in the Olympics?
a. Wilt Chamberlain
b. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
c. Jerry West
d. Elgin Baylor

7. Name the Marquette University player who was so angry about being left off the U.S. team that he played for Puerto Rico and scored 35 points against the United States, almost engineering a huge upset?
a. Neftali Rivera
b. Bo Ellis
c. Jerome Whitehead
d. Butch Lee

8. Who holds the Olympic record for most points in a game?
a. Oscar Schmidt, Brazil
b. Drazen Petrovic, Yugoslavia
c. Charles Barkley, USA
d. Oscar Robertson, USA

9. Led by Arvydas Sabonis and Sarunus Marculionis, Lithuania won the silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Which American musician helped finance the Lithuanian team?
a. Bob Dylan
b. Axl Rose
c. Jerry Garcia
d. Lenny Kravitz

10. Why was the start of the 1992 USA-Cuba game delayed several minutes?
a. Fidel Castro's pregame peptalk to the Cuban team ran long
b. The Cuban team wanted to have pictures taken with the Dream Team players
c. The U.S. team's uniforms were stolen by souvenir-seeking fans
d. The event was oversold and restraints had to be set up for the overflow crowd

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