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1.	To travel from his old team's city in Cincinnati to the home of the team with which he signed this week, T.J. Houshmandzadeh would have to travel in which direction?
		Northwest
		Due south
		Northeast
		Southwest

2.	In other NFL transaction news, Washington cut which defensive player after only one season with the team to save $8M in salary space?
		Rocky McIntosh
		Jason Taylor
		Chris Horton
		London Fletcher

3.	The NBA season has not lacked for some great scoring duels. Monday night saw which two players score 42 and 41 points, respectively?
		Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard
		Tony Parker and Carmelo Anthony
		LeBron James and Dwayne Wade
		Chauncey Billups and Kevin Durant

4.	A dozen armed men attacked Sri Lankan athletes Tuesday, leaving players and coaches injured and a number of others dead. The attack occurred in advance of the Sri Lanka match against Pakistan in which sport?
		Badminton
		Cricket
		Soccer
		Baseball

5.	Congratulations to the UConn women's basketball team, which finished its regular season undefeated. How many wins did the team amass?
		27
		25
		30
		32

6.	Which NBA star was suspended one game for what his team termed an "in-game transgression"?
		Carmelo Anthony
		Dwight Howard
		Tony Parker
		Vince Carter

7.	Hey, it's Lilly Kerssenberg! (We think) The 30 year old Ms. Kerssenberg got engaged this week to which former tennis star, 11 years her senior?
		Ivan Lendl
		Boris Becker
		Mats Wilander
		"Scorin'" Goran Ivanisevic

8.	*Which men's basketball team beat a #1 ranked team twice* this season?**
		Pittsburgh
		Wake Forest
		Kansas
		Memphis

9.	Heavy is the head that throws Terrell Owens the football. And by head, we mean arm. Anyway, for whose appendage will we feel sorry for in the 2009-10 NFL season, now that Owens has signed with a new team?
		Joe Flacco
		Kerry Collins
		Trent Edwards
		Matt Ryan

10.	Which poker pro is a contestant on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice which began this week?
		Annie Duke
		Johnny Chan
		Chris Ferguson
		Phil Hellmuth

11.	The Minnesota Timberwolves have taken an unusual approach to selling season tickets for next season. What is it?
		Season ticket holders get a percentage of the cost back based on final standings
		The team will not sell season tickets
		The price of season tickets will be 75% less than the cost of this year's
		The price of season tickets will be refunded if the purchaser loses a job

12.	Which accounted for the first notable upset in the World Baseball Classic?
		Canada over US
		Netherlands over Domincan Republic
		Taiwan over Japan
		Puerto Rico over Panama

13.	Which is not a country whose team is competing in the WBC?
		Australia
		South Africa
		Venezuela
		Greece

14.	Which AFC quarterback saw his relationship with his team take a beating as he learned his name was bandied about in talks to trade for Matt Cassel?
		Philip Rivers
		Carson Palmer
		Jay Cutler
		Chad Pennington

15.	Kurt Warner re-signed with the Arizona Cardinals for two years this week, but only after a brief dalliance with which other NFC team?
		Washington
		Seattle
		San Francisco
		Green Bay

16.	This week, the Golf Channel premiered The Haney Project, chronicling golf instructor Hank Haney's attempt to fix the all-sorts-of-messed-up golf swing of which retired athlete?
		John Elway
		Michael Jordan
		Charles Barkley
		Dennis Rodman

17.	The bad times continue for Alex Rodriguez. The Yankees slugger was diagnosed this week with a torn labrum. Never mind what a labrum is. Where is it located?
		A
		B
		C
		D

18.	You heard about the remarkable Charleston (West Virginia) University - Salem women's basketball game Monday night, right? If so, you'd have no problem identifying this as the correct final score of the game:
		99-98, 4OT
		20-14
		77-66
		127-25

19.	With its win over the Bucks on Wednesday night, which NBA team was the first to clinch a playoff spot?





20.	Magic coach Stan Van Gundy and Suns center Shaquille O'Neal traded words in the press this week. Van Gundy might have secured the upper hand, though, when he described Shaq as a "very ____________ guy."
		Handsom
		Sensitive
		Pleasant
		Loquacious

21.	Which of the following NCAA men's basketball teams won its regular season conference championship?
		Conneticut
		Xavier
		Illinois
		Oklahoma

22.	The NCAA penalized ten different sports from which big-time sports school for what it termed "major violations" due to academic fraud?
		Alabama
		UCLA
		Oregon State
		Florida State

23.	It was hard to miss the strange and tragic story about the football players whose boat capsized during a fishing trip. Among the presumed dead is Marquis Cooper, a linebacker for which NFL team?
		Chargers
		Raiders
		Texans
		Titans

24.	With its win in the Ivy League tournament, which school became the first to qualify for the NCAA men's basketball tournament?
		Penn
		Yale
		Cornell
		Dartmouth

25.	NHL games saw a combined 4 _____________ on Saturday.
		Shutouts
		Penalty minutes
		Hat tricks
		5-goal victories