Take the Hoop Historians Quiz

Over the past few years the Hoop Historians have seen a lot of basketball -- but they have also assembled a number of little known facts.  Recently they have chosen retirement, enjoyed the birth of a child, seen their alma mater win a national championship, watched their favorite school lose in the title game, cheered their team while winning the World Series, watched their team's World Series dream disappear in a puff of smoke (or at least on a foul ball), attended hundreds of college football, major league and minor league baseball games, officiated in the state tournament and traveled around the globe.   Now see if you can identify these very special Hoop Historians!


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  1.  Which Hoop Historian was once part of the peanut gallery on the Howdy Doody show?

  2.  Which Hoop Historian attended a national presidential convention and was on the convention floor?

  3.  Which Hoop Historian provided voice-over work for a television commercial starring the Harlem Globetrotters?

  4.  What two Hoop Historians are war veterans?

  5.  What two Hoop Historians coached together?

  6.  What two Hoop Historians worked for the same company -- but at different times?

  7.  Which Hoop Historian has both their high school and college no longer in existence?

  8.  Which Hoop Historian has a very famous sibling?

  9.  What Hoop Historian recorded a hole-in-one?

10.  Which Hoop Historian attended school in a one room schoolhouse?

11.  What Hoop Historian was a member of their collegiate fencing team?

12.  What organization has members that have attended a collective 347 Final Four Tournaments, and continue to be goodwill ambassadors to the game of basketball?

 

  Answers on the bottom of this page

 

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Quiz Answers:  1-Al Sack; 2-Young Republican Ted Reineking; 3-Joe Spagnolo; 4-Surl Kim (WW II) and John Mayberry (Korea); 5-Dennis Mishko and Al Sack coached together at Keystone College; 6-Bill Carsley and Joe Spagnolo both worked in the Sports Department at the City News Bureau in Chicago during different decades; 7-Ted Reienking's Arlington (IL) High School and Tarkio (MO) State are both defunct; 8-Although, all the Hoop Historians can claim some very special brothers and sisters, Pat Irvine's brother was New York Yankee legend Billy Martin; 9-Frank Wilson shot an ace using a seven iron from 164 yards away; 10-Brian Burmeister; 11-Bruce Ziemer was a fencer at the University of Illinois; 12-The Hoop Historians, of course.

 

 

 

 

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