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Part 3: News Quiz
By Jim Caple
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Hey, kids! Are your parents letting you watch enough sports? Find out by taking Cap'n Jimmy's weekly news quiz, the test that shows whether you need to pay less attention to your teachers and more attention to SportsCenter.

Ray Allen
Allen
1. Milwaukee's Ray Allen called it "extremely frustrating." Bucks coach George Karl said, "There's a lot of sadness." Milwaukee general manager Ernie Grunfeld said, "We learned a lot from this experience, and we're not going away." To what were they referring?
    A. Being denied entry to the NBA Finals when they lost Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.
    B. Being denied entry to the special celebrity room of Atlanta's infamous Gold Club.

2. Match the lyrics with the recording artist who performed during Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Kobe Bryant
Bryant
    A. Shaquille O'Neal
    B. Allen Iverson
    C. Bono
    D. Kobe Bryant
    E. Jeffrey Osborne

    1. "Everybody stay fly/get money kill and f--- b------/I'm hittin' anything in plain view for my riches."
    2. "And I'm crazy 'bout you baby, can't you see/I'd be so delighted if you'd come with me."
    3. "Can't get witcha/don't let the door hitcha/where the Lord splitcha."
    4. "Early morning, April 4/A shot rings out in the Memphis sky/Free at last, they took your life,/But they could not take your pride."
    5. "People know me on these streets playa/I ain't new/lookin' at me all funny while I'm countin' my money/surprise what I do is already legalized."

3. After an investigation by Newsweek magazine, Sony admitted this week that it made up the film critic David Manning, whose glowing blurbs were attached to its movies. One clue that Manning didn't really exist was that:
    A. Manning's supposed newspaper, the weekly Ridgefield Press, does not have a film critic.
    B. He gave "Three thumbs up!" to "Happy Gilmore."

4. Little Leaguer Robert Knight of Harper Woods, Mich., pitched a truly perfect game by striking out all 18 batters he faced Monday. The national Little League office says it doesn't know if the feat is a record because:
    A. It doesn't keep national stats on perfect games.
    B. The game didn't last nine innings.

Hillary Clinton
Clinton
5. The U.S. Senate's balance of power shifted this week when:
    A. Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party, giving the Democrats control.
    B. New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that she was definitely rooting for the Yankees after the Mets fell 12 games out of first place.

ANSWERS: 1, A; 2, A and 5 (lyrics from "No Love Lost"), B and 1 (from "40 Bars"); C and 4 (from "In the Name of Love"), D and 3 (from "K.O.B.E."; E and 2 (from "The Wings of Love"); 3, A; 4, A; 5, A.

Jim Caple is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

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