Basketball Trivia
A Puzzle by David Pleacher
Can you identify these National Basketball Association (NBA) teams?
______________________ 1. Ancient Britons
______________________ 2. The Music Man’s Trombones
______________________ 3. Both bankers and female deer like these
______________________ 4. Lewis and Clark
______________________ 5. What a huckster does
______________________ 6. Hearts or horses
______________________ 7. Barber’s tools
______________________ 8. Nonconformists (e.g., McCain and Palin in 2008)
______________________ 9. Economically opposite of bears
______________________ 10. Early Dutch settlers
______________________ 11. Automotive cylinders
______________________ 12. Charles, George, Henry, James, etc.
______________________ 13. For fish or for goals
______________________ 14. Cool cat’s music
______________________ 15. Gets a tan
______________________ 16. Harry Potter and pals
______________________ 17. Roundheads’ opponents
______________________ 18. Birds of prey
______________________ 19. Doglike animals in North America
______________________ 20. Charms and spells
______________________ 21. Preliminary rounds of a race
______________________ 22. Large wasps with painful stingers
______________________ 23. Gold lumps
______________________ 24. What a cowboy may use while saying "Giddyup!"
______________________ 25. Of Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior
______________________ 26. Combatants
______________________ 27. Interplanetary
______________________ 28. Hare-hunting felines (lynx cousins)
______________________ 29. Scary bears
______________________ 30. Lightning follower
Here is a list of the 30 N.B.A. Teams:
Atlanta Hawks
Boston Celtics
Charlotte Bobcats
Chicago Bulls
Cleveland Cavaliers
Dallas Mavericks
Denver Nuggets
Detroit Pistons
Golden State Warriors
Houston Rockets
Indiana Pacers
Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Lakers
Memphis Grizzlies
Miami Heat
Milwaukee Bucks
Minnesota Timberwolves
New Jersey Nets
New Orleans Hornets
New York Knicks
Oklahoma City Thunder
Orlando Magic
Philadelphia 76ers
Phoenix Suns
Portland Trail Blazers
Sacramento Kings
San Antonio Spurs
Toronto Raptors
Utah Jazz
Washington Wizards
Answers:
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Celtics
76ers
Bucks
Trail Blazers
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Hawks
Pacers
Clippers
Mavericks
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Bulls
Knickerbockers
Pistons
Kings
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Nets
Jazz
Suns
Wizards
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Cavaliers
Raptors
Timberwolves
Magic
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Heat
Hornets
Nuggets
Spurs
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Lakers
Warriors
Rockets
Bobcats
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Grizzlies
Thunder