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Test your knowledge of the miracle on ice.

1.

Name the opponents – in order – that the U.S. played in Lake Placid.
2. Why didn't ABC televise the game live?
A. Al Michaels had laryngitis.
B. Network honchos didn't want to cut away from 4 x 10km cross-country race.
C. The Soviets refused to accept a $12,500 payment in exchange for agreeing to move the game into primetime.
3. Who was the only athlete in the Lake Placid Olympics who never got a second of time in competition?
4. What American player had his own name on his hockey stick?
5. Only one U.S. player from 1980 is coaching men's college hockey. Name him.
6.

What city unwittingly paved the way for the '80 Games to be in Lake Placid when its citizens rejected a referendum to finance construction for the 1976 Winter Games?

7. Who were the oldest and youngest players on the U.S. team?
8. Herb Brooks was the last cut from the 1960 Olympic team. Who took his place?
9. Whose goal in the waning seconds of Game 1 kept the U.S. medal hopes alive?
10. Only one hockey player has ever won an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup in the same year. Who is it?

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Answers:  1. Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Norway Romania, West Germany, Russia, Finland  2. C  3. Backup goalie Steve Janaszak 4. Dave Christian 5. John Harrington, St. John’s (Minn.) University  6. Mark Johnson  7. Buzz Schneider, 25 years, 5 months and Mike Ramsey, 19 years,  2 months  8. Bob Cleary, whose face was pasted over Brooks’ photo on the team picture  9. Bill Baker  10.  Kenny Morrow
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Rate yourself (it's the honor system, so be honorable). Each correct answer is worth 10 points.
Score Rating
100 Gold-medal winner. Go ahead and sing the national anthem.
90 Silver medal. One bounce away from another miracle.
80 Bronze medal.  You are on the podium.
70 There’s another Olympics in four years.
60
and below 		Do you believe in flunking?
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