NBA Trivia
This PF, with career averages of 21.7/8.8/4.4 is a 6x All-star, 5x All-NBA selection, dunk contest winner, and celebrated joke-teller.
Who is Blake Griffin?
This video game character is blue, collects rings, and goes really fast.
Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?
This color, which has a complementary pair of yellow, has the shortest wavelength of light on the visible (to humans) spectrum.
What is purple/violet?
Jail and pitch.
Snap, crackle, ______
What is pop?
This hot NBA team led the league in assists per game in 2019 with 27.2 apg.
Who/What are the Phoenix Suns?
This title created by Blizzard Entertainment features a cast of 32 heroes ranging from an anthropomorphic gorilla to a middle-aged Hispanic man wielding two shotguns.
What is Overwatch?
This TV drama, which is currently Hammy's favorite, features a high school science teacher down on his luck who turns to an illegal method of earning money after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
What is Breaking Bad?
Create and servant.
Life, liberty, and ________.
What is the pursuit of happiness?
What is property?
John Locke/Thomas Jefferson
This current player is currently under contract of the New Orleans Pelicans and is the all-time scoring leader for the Duke Blue Devils?
Who is JJ Reddick?
This video game franchise created by Valve lets players take control of Chel, a mute human woman, who has been enslaved by a tech company in order to test out their invention of a gun that creates pathways between two points.
What is Portal?
On an AVID field trip in 8th grade, Hammy received autographs from these two current NBA players. Hammy has the ticket with both signatures hung in his room.
Who are Andrew Wiggins & Zach Lavine?
Equal and toll.
What is fair & fare?
Straw, sticks, and _______.
What are bricks?
Building materials of 3 little pigs
Chris Jackson was a talented basketball player who suffered from crippling OCD as a kid. He eventually grew up to play 8(ish) seasons in the NBA before he was blackballed by owners for his Muslim faith and for protesting the national anthem in 1996. Before reaching the NBA, however, he changed his name to this new Islamic name.
Who is Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf?
(Pronunciation not too important)
This studio developed the immensely popular game titled "Rocket League" in 2015. In 2019, they were acquired by EPIC games.
What is Psyonix?
Hammy spent 6 years of his short (so far) life training in foil technique for fencing. In these 6 years, Hammy won this many official YEL trophies (placed 1st-5th in any one of the twice-annual tournaments).
What is 6?
Mend and back of foot.
what is heal & heel?
Mason, Miles, and ______.
Who is Marshall?
Plumlee Brothers
In the '93-'94 NBA season, David Robinson scored 71 points in his 80th and final game of the season to overtake Shaq as the scoring leader that season, despite playing 1 less game than Shaq. Shaq was this many points short of tying Robinson.
What is 6?
In NBA2k20, this tool allows you to compare players, create metrics, and gauge the analytical value of individual players.
What is the analytics tool?
Hammy had a stuffed animal cat when he was a kid who he recently found stuffed in his closet. The cat was named after this confectionary decoration.
Naked and afraid. Grrrrrr.....
What is bare and bear?
Pacific Crest, Continental Divide, and ______.
What is the Appalachian?
(Triple Crown of Backpacking)