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THE ULTIMATE SPORTS/POP CULTURE QUIZ
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1.) Name the pitchwoman for U.S. Cellular and White Sox white fan.
2.) What member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has a widely read L.A. Lakers blog?
3.) Name the favorite team of band O.A.R. (clue: they have a song called
“Road Outside Columbus.”
4.) For what team does Spike Lee possess courtside seats?
5.) The cameras often capture Jack Nicholson watching this team in person.
6.) What is Michael Moore’s favorite basketball team?
(clues: a hat he often wears, he featured the fight song in Roger & Me, his
hometown produced many of this program’s stars, in the
closing credits of Bowling for Columbine he gave a
shout-out to the late father of the program’s most iconic players)
Section
7.) In Good Will Hunting, why did Robin Williams’ character miss
Pudge’s historical home run in game of the 1975 World Series?
8.) Johnny Damon’s autobiography is entitled what?
9.) Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan co-authored what book
about the Sox 2004 season?
If you saw Fever Pitch, give yourself 2 extra points for subjecting
yourself to that torture. 3 pts if you’ve seen it all the way through
SECTION II. Hooliganism (because England isn’t the only country
with over the top sports fanatics)
10.) The Cedar Village instigated riots of Michigan State
University usually occur following the team’s elimination from
March Madness. What was the year they won the tourney
and hence no riots?
11.) Snowballs laced with batteries are most commonly
associated with what city’s sports fans?
12.) What school had a riot following their 2002 March
Madness win, then had a “faux riot” (whatever that is?) the
following year when their women’s team also won the Final Four?
SECTION III. E!SPN: A fusion of sports and useless
celebrity gossip
Match the athlete with the starlet they are cavorting with/had
previously cavorted with
(2 pts each)
Example:
A. Madonna-1. Everybody
A. Bridget Moynahan
B. Carmen Electra
C. Eva Longoria
D. Bridget Wilson
E. PMOY Carmella Decesare
F. Sharon Stone
1. Pete Sampras
2. Tom Brady
3. Dennis Rodman
4. Jeff Garcia
5. Tony Parker
6. Rick Fox
SECTION IV. “Homey its game time, ready here it come”
–The Game and 50 Cent “This is How We Do”
(2 pts each)
13.) Which 2001 Jay-z video featured him wearing a 1984 San Diego Padres jersey?
Note: the length of the blanks may or not represent the length of the words
14.) Twista “Overnight Celebrity”
Play something these hoes will like. Give you ice like ___ wife
15.) Sugar Hill Gang “Rappers Delight”
“got a color tv so I can see the ______ playing basketball”
16.) Nelly “NA NA NA”
“A Nugget kinda fellow I push the _____”
17.) Nelly (of the Furtado variety) “Promiscuous Girl”
“or are you talking trash, is your game MVP like ____ _____.”
18.) Ice Cube “Wicked”
“choking like a ___ ____”
19.) Dr. Dre “Dre Day”
“to the side of this ____ ____ hat”
20.) Eminem “Just don’t give a f@#k”
“dirty rotten rhymer, cursing at your players worse than ____ _____”
SECTION IV. TV/MOVIES (3 pts each)
21.) In My Blue Heaven, they attend a home game of which MLB team?
22.) Which two teams played in the NHL Finals of the Die Hard
knockoff entitled Sudden Death?
23.) Blue Chips starred which two former Orlando Magic stars?
24.) Name the fictional school they attend and drop out of.
25.) For 3 Bonus points each, name as many of the four college
b-ball icons who make a cameo appearance in the film.
26.) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will helps a sports-talk radio host
when she’s going to labor. Name the guest on that episode
who played her?
27.) What NBA arena were they in the parking lot of?
28.) On Lost, Ben a.k.a. Henry Gale convinces Jack that he’s
kept up with the outside world by showing him footage
of which team’s World Series clinching moment?
28.) Name the protagonist’s team in….
Little Big League
29.)…..Rookie of the year
30.) the unwatchable film For the Love of the Game
31.) The antagonist team in major league 1 and 2
32.) Jim Belushi attacked what Cub in a promo for the
film Taking Care of Business? (Clue, the player hits
a home run during the movie)
33.) Who did they beat in the World Series in that film?
34.) What city known for losing baseball and monstrously
ugly football uniforms supposedly “rocks” according
to the Drew Carey theme song?
35.) Name the fictional college football team in The Program.
36.) Add 3 bonus points to your score for every opponent
visually featured in the film
Not the teams mentioned during the montage, the teams that
you see them play (by the way, 3 bonus pts for song title, 3 more
bonus pts for artist of song played during the montage)
37.) Omar Epps and three other actors from that film were also
featured in Higher Learning; name the fictional
school that Malik Williams (Epps character) runs track for?
QUIZ ANSWERS
ANSWER KEY
Please don’t cheat/ there is no need to be like Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds
1.) Joan Cusack
2.) Flea
3.) Ohio St.
4.) NY Knicks
5.) LA Lakers
6.) Michigan St.
7.) to “see about a girl,” hit on his future wife at the bar
8.) Idiot
9.) Faithful
10.) 2000
11.) Philadelphia
12.) Maryland
SECTION II A3 B3 C5 D1 E4 F6
13.) Girlz, Girlz, Girlz
14.) Kobe
15.) Knicks
16.) Carmelo
17.) Steve Nash
18.) Buffalo Bill
19.) White Sox
20.) Marty Schottenheimer
21.) San Diego Padres
22.) Chicago Black Hawks, Pittsburgh Penguins
23.) Shaq, Penny Hardaway
24.) Western University Dolphins
25.) Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Dick Vitale, Bobby Knight
26.) Vanessa Williams
27.) Great Western Forum
28.) Minnesota Twins
29.) Chicago Cubs
30.) Detroit Tigers
31.) New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox
32.) Mark Grace
33.) California Angels
34.) Cleveland
35.) Eastern St. Timberwolves
36.) Michigan, Iowa, Miss St. Georgia Tech
37.) Columbus University
80-128 pts Sports Guy Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, Seth MacFarlane,
the colossal dorks who run the table on VH1’s World Series of Pop Culture….
.Congratulations, you are truly in their league!
30-97 pts You have a healthy amount of free time and devote a well-adjusted
amount of that free time to your hobbies
Less than 30 You either work 90+ hours a week, have a very
exciting social life, or serious trouble with long term memory
encoding, (or maybe a combination of all three) Otherwise, most
of this useless knowledge should have found its way into your brain
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