Trios
Name the three players that made up the Miami Heat’s “Big Three” from 2012-2014.
Chris Bosh, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade
ORD
Chicago-O'Hare
This league’s inaugural game was played on June 21, 1997 with the New York Liberty facing the Los Angeles Sparks.
WNBA
Dan Castellaneta, Class of 1979, has won four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. He is the voice of this main character on The Simpsons, among others.
Homer Simpson
This trio led by Beyonce Knowles has sold more than 60 million records worldwide
Destiny's Child
LAX
Los Angeles
She was named the Best FIFA Women’s Player in 2019 after winning the Golden Boot and Golden Ball at that year’s Women’s World Cup in France. She was also at the forefront of the US Women’s National Team’s fight for equal pay.
Megan Rapinoe
Stephanie Raymond, Class of 2007, scored 1,719 points in her four-year career as a member of the NIU women’s basketball team. She was selected in the second round of the ’07 WNBA Draft by which franchise?
Chicago Sky
Regina George, Gretchen Wieners and Karen Smith make up what most popular and infamous clique at North Shore High School in the film Mean Girls
The Plastics
MSP
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Widely considered to be the greatest and most dominant gymnast of all time, this American woman won four gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics and hold the record for the most World Championship medals (25) and World gold medals (19). She has had four skills named after her.
Simone Biles
Speaking of second round draft picks, in the 2019 NFL Draft NIU offensive lineman Max Scharping was taken in the second round (55th overall) by which AFC team?
Houston Texans
Athos, Porthos and Aramis are the three main characters in this 1844 novel by French author Alexandre Dumas. His book was published 88 years before the chocolate bar of the same name debuted from M&M/Mars.
The Three Musketeers
LGA
New York-LaGuardia
On Nov. 13, 2020 Kim Ng became the first woman to hold this front office position for a professional men’s team in the history of major North American sports when she was hired by the Miami Marlins.
General Manager
Actor Wood Harris graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts from NIU. He played Avon Barksdale in the HBO series “The Wire” and played Julius Campbell in this Disney football movie starring Denzel Washington
Remember The Titans
Snap, Crackle and Pop represent this Kellogg’s cereal and have done so since the 1930s
Rice Krispies
PDX
Portland (Oregon)
Violet Palmer and Dee Kantner became the first two full-time women to do this for the NBA in 1997. There are currently five women who do this full time.
Referee
Tammy Duckworth was working toward a Ph.D. in political science at NIU when she was deployed to Iraq in 2004. She has been decorated with over 10 distinct military honors from her service in Iraq as a member of the Army National Guard, most notably receiving a Purple Heart. In 2010, Duckworth was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by NIU. She was elected to the US Senate in 2017 from what state?
Illinois