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| 1. | Add the number of games necessary to decide the Eastern and Western Conference championships in the NBA, and you'll get this number: | ||
| 14 | |||
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13 | ||
| 12 | |||
| 10 | |||
| 2. | The first team to win a road game in the conference championship round was the: | ||
| Celtics | |||
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Thunder | ||
| Spurs | |||
| Heat | |||
| 3. | As of Sunday, which of the following had been decided at the French Open? | ||
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The women's singles championship | ||
| The men's singles championship | |||
| Neither men's nor women's singles championships | |||
| Both men's and women's singles championship | |||
| 4. | Maria Sharapova - perhaps you have heard of her - won the women's singles championship, meaning she lacks ________ to complete career Grand Slam | ||
| The US Open | |||
| Wimbledon | |||
| The Australian Open | |||
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Nothing | ||
| 5. | HWDYK is considering a lockout of the OPJ staff, which means that we would have something in common with this league's officials: | ||
| The NBA | |||
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The NFL | ||
| MLB | |||
| The NHL | |||
| 6. | Hopefully, both Arriaga and Arriaga II are participating in the recently-started Euro 12, which is being hosted by this pair of wacky countries: | ||
| Bulgaria and Hungary | |||
| Finland and Norway | |||
| France and Spain | |||
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Poland and Ukraine | ||
| 7. | Fans of this woeful team hope that Carlos Correa, selected as the #1 overall selection in the MLB draft, turns the fortunes of the franchise around: | ||
| Minneapolis | |||
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Houston | ||
| San Diego | |||
| Chicago Cubs | |||
| 8. | Meanwhile, further down in the draft, _______ selected team hero ________'s 20 in the 20th round of the draft: | ||
| Altanta / John Smoltz | |||
| Oakland / Dennis Eckersley | |||
| Cincinnati / Barry Larkin | |||
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Baltimore / Cal Ripken, Jr. | ||
| 9. | Interleague play over the weekend was highlighted by this sweep: | ||
| Rangers over As | |||
| Braves over Blue Jays | |||
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Rays over Marlins | ||
| Tigers over Reds | |||
| 10. | The Mariners took a rather unconventional route to its no-hitter, having this number of its hurlers to collaborate in the achievement: | ||
| 4 | |||
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6 | ||
| 8 | |||
| 10 | |||
| 11. | In our contractually obligated NASCAR question of the week, we observe that this left-hand turn specialist prevailed in the Sprint Cup race at Pocono: | ||
| Kevin Harvick | |||
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Joey Logano | ||
| Mark Martin | |||
| Clint Boyer | |||
| 12. | A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless that horse is the famous horse...that won the Belmont Stakes: | ||
| Paynter | |||
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Union Rags | ||
| I'll Have Another | |||
| Dullahan | |||
| 13. | I'll Have Another did not win the first Triple Crown in 34 years, so where did he place? | ||
| second | |||
| third | |||
| fourth | |||
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he was scratched from the race | ||
| 14. | Even the NBA looked at the Manny Pacquiao/Timothy Bradley fight and thought "you know, this might be fixed." How long had it been since Pacquiao lost? | ||
| three years | |||
| five years | |||
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seven years | ||
| this was his first loss | |||
| 15. | This NFL team was sent to its room to think about what it has done, and what it has done is to hold excessive workouts during the team's OTAs. Or something. | ||
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Seattle | ||
| Washington | |||
| Detroit | |||
| Indianapolis | |||
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