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Team USA: basketball quiz

2 October 2026. Six decades of Team USA: the coaches, the stars and the surprises.

Quiz questions

  1. At Barcelona 1992 the Dream Team was made up of eleven established NBA stars. The twelfth man had not yet played a single NBA game. Who was he?
  2. At Barcelona 1992 the Dream Team's points were spread across a roster full of stars. Here is the Olympic line of its leading scorer. Whose line is it?
  3. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and nine more: Barcelona 1992 was the first Olympics at which the USA sent NBA stars. Who was the Dream Team's head coach?
  4. Before the 1972 final in Munich the USA had won 63 Olympic games in a row. The last three seconds of that final were played three times. On the third attempt a full-court pass found Alexander Belov under the basket, and the Soviet Union won 51-50. Who threw that pass?
  5. The 2008 Redeem Team went unbeaten in Beijing and beat Spain 118-107 in the final. Its leading scorer came off the bench. A year earlier he had had shoulder and knee surgery. Who was he?
  6. Three years after Tokyo, Team USA won a fifth straight Olympic gold in Paris in 2024. They beat France in the final. Who was the head coach?
  7. The USA won all eight games at Sydney 2000. Their head coach had spent his whole NBA playing career with one franchise and made five All-Star teams there. Later he coached the same club for more than a decade. Who was he?
  8. The USA won the 2014 World Cup in Spain without LeBron James or Kevin Durant. In the final they crushed Serbia 129-92. The tournament MVP had been NBA Rookie of the Year two years earlier. Who was he?
  9. All four played Olympic basketball for the USA, and three of them won gold at least once. The fourth had missed an earlier Olympics with a knee injury. Who never won Olympic gold?
  10. Only one man played both for the USA's 2004 Olympic team and for the 2010 world champions. Four years later he signed with a Spanish EuroLeague club. He played just two games there before a back injury ended his stay. Who was he?

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