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1.	Which NBA legend was not part of the dreaded Monstars team in Space Jam?





2.	Which underrated NBA star of the 1980s played one of the title roles in Amazing Grace and Chuck?
		Rod Strickland
		Alex English
		Adrian Dantley
		Dennis Johnson

3.	Who, according to Chick Hearn, was "actually 6'5" with the afro, 6'9"?
		McLovin
		Irwin Fletcher
		Carl Spackler
		James Francis Ryan Question courtesy of Jim Van Nest

4.	In White Men Can't Jump, Junior (Kadeem Hardison) was stoked to go to which restaurant, if only Sidney could have beaten Billy Hoyle in their shooting contest:
		Sizzler
		Red Lobster
		Grandma's Buffet Palace
		White Castle

5.	"So, Kareem rebounds, feeds Worthy on the break, over to A.C., to Magic, back to Worthy in the lane and Boom...two points." Which action film contains this play-by-play account of Showtime?
		The Last Boy Scout
		Die Hard
		Commando
		Speed

6.	What fictional collegiate team was at the center of Blue Chips?
		Eastern Kentucky Regulators
		Central State Tigers
		Western University Dolphins
		Southern Massachusetts Longshoremen

7.	"Listen, kid. I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes." What was the name of the character that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played in Airplane?
		Oveur
		Dunn
		Murdock
		Striker

8.	Which red-clad team was the nemesis for Scott's Beavers in Teen Wolf?
		Dragons
		Gargoyles
		Griffins
		Minotaurs

9.	Ben Stiller gets a face full of nasty playing some tenacious D: in which film?
		The Royal Tenebaums
		Meet the Parents
		Zoolander
		Along Came Polly

10.	What Pac-10 school did Quincy and Monica play ball at in Love and Basketball?
		USC
		Stanford
		Oregon State
		Arizona State

11.	*Brian Dennehy is* Bobby Knight in the ESPN movie A Season on the Brink. Which noted sports writer penned the book on which the movie was based?**
		John Feinstein
		Dick Schaap
		Mitch Albom
		George Plimpton

12.	Which pair starred as coach and player in a 2001 film loosely based on a Shakespeare play?
		Jon Voight & Tyson Beckford
		Martin Sheen & Mekhi Phifer
		Donald Sutherland & Taye Diggs
		Jeff Bridges & Ludacris

13.	In Hoosiers, prior to coming to Hickory, Norman Dale had been a legendary collegiate coach at what school?
		Ithaca
		Providence
		Holy Cross
		NYU

14.	With which other mayhem factory did Dennis Rodman double-team in 1997's Double Team?
		Steven Seagal
		Sylvester Stallone
		Jean-Claude Van Damme
		Chuck Norris

15.	What was the alliterative name of the disgraced fictitious NBA player who became Juwanna Mann?
		Tony Tyrone
		Alphonso Albert
		Jamal Jeffries
		Sterling Stark

16.	What were the last names of the two teens profiled the acclaimed documentary Hoop Dreams?
		Brown & Fererra
		Glint & Reynolds
		Gates & Agee
		Stanley & Manson

17.	What was the somewhat ironic name of the Flint, Michigan team for which Jackie Moon was player/owner in Semi-Pro?
		Tropics
		Texans
		Sunburn
		Lansings

18.	Which US city completed the title of the 1979 film starring Dr. J., The Fish that Saved......
		Miami
		Cleveland
		Pittsburgh
		Bakersfield

19.	If you were like me, after seeing Air Bud, you went straight to the nearest animal shelter to acquire for yourself one of these, the breed of dog that Bud was¹.
		St. Bernard
		Golden retriever
		Dachshund
		Husky ¹And then realized after a number of frustrating workouts the pooch couldn't even box out much less score from long range

20.	*Which of these NBA stars did not* appear in 2002's Like Mike?**
		Gary Payton
		David Robinson
		Michael Jordan
		Alonzo Mourning

21.	To which diminutive NBA player did referee Mickey Gordon (Billy Crystal) say, "You're the only one I can talk to?" in Forget Paris
		Kevin Johnson
		Robert Pack
		Mugsy Bogues
		Spudd Webb

22.	Which pair of actors both played coaches in "based-on-a-true-story" basketball movies?
		Christopher Reeve & Robert DeNiro
		Josh Lucas & Samuel L. Jackson
		Kevin James & Matthew McCounaghey
		Christopher Walken & Laurence Fishburne

23.	The doom of which NBA franchise was foretold about 10 years before it happened, as the team was the basis for the Whoopi Goldberg movie Eddie?
		Seattle Supersonics
		New York Knicks
		Golden State Warriors
		Los Angeles Clippers

24.	Which member of the 2007-08 NBA champion Boston Celtics garnered good reviews when he appeared as Jesus Shuttlesworth in the 1998 Spike Lee ~~joint~~ movie He Got Game?





25.	That Championship Season looks back at the fictional Fillmore High School team which won the 1975 Pennsylvania state basketball championship. The star of which horror movie wrote the original play and directed the 1982 film version?
		The Exorcist
		A Nightmare on Elm Street
		Army of Darkness
		Alien