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1  (True or False) Just after Kathy Bryan gave birth to Mike and Bob, her husband Wayne whispered in her ear in the delivery room, “Guess what, sweetie. They came out in Australian formation.”

2  (True or False) After the young Kathy Bryan won her match point against Billie Jean King in Ojai, BJK vehemently protested the result. The chair ump changed the ruling, and Kathy ended up losing.

3  The brothers almost suffered serious injury or worse when:

A Their courtesy car was in a crash in Miami.

B The bus carrying the Cal football team nearly sideswiped them as they pedaled their bikes through the Stanford campus, en route to the 100th “Big Game.”

C They both fell badly when water sprinklers came on and dampened their Indian Wells practice court.

D Their chartered plane from Palm Springs to Atlanta lost oxygen in an incident eerily similar to the one that killed golfer Payne Stuart.

E Their hotel caught fire one night during the Italian Open.

4  Which of the following is NOT true:

A Before the Bryan Brothers became America’s go-to doubles team, the U.S. Davis Cup team had 13 different teams in 17 years.

B In practice, the Bryans regularly choose from 17 doubles-specific drills.

C Wayne Bryan says his sons were so into tennis as kids that his job “was to keep them off the courts.”

D All of the above

5  Who among the following does Bob Bryan NOT have a win over:

A Andre Agassi

B James Blake

C Tim Henman

D Nicolay Davydenko

6  Which one of the following families did NOT produce outstanding Stanford athletic brothers:

A McEnroe (tennis)

B Mayer (tennis)

C Collins (basketball)

D Lopez (basketball)

E Whitlinger (tennis)

7  Which of the following is NOT true:

A The brothers are the only team to win a career Grand Slam since ‘68.

B Mike and Bob are only the second team in the past 50 years to reach the finals of all four Grand Slams in one year.

C Bob and Mike were on 27 different teams before going to Stanford.

D Mike is two minutes older than Bob.

8  Which of the following is NOT true:

A James Blake relentlessly teased the brothers because he heard they would be appearing in People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive issue. Then, when the issue came out, Blake was featured, too.

B After losing to the brothers in a Minnesota exhibition, Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish had to pay up on a bet by running outside their bus naked in 10-degree weather.

C After the Bryan brothers continually failed to break the record of most tournaments won by twins, they joked that their slump was due to the ghost of the late Tim Gullikson.

D For the first 15 minutes of their double date with Venus and Serena, Bob pretended he was Mike and Mike pretended he was Bob.

9  (True or False) At the ‘03 French Open, the brothers wrote the Gulliksons’ names on their sneakers and proceeded to win their first Slam, break the record for the most doubles tournaments won by brothers, became the No. 1 doubles team in the world and soon after, got the call from Davis Cup captain Pat McEnroe to at last play on the U.S. team

10  Which of the following is NOT true:

A Wayne Bryan, a skilled rocker, says that his sons are just as good as musicians as tennis players.

B Wayne claims you can’t learn music by playing paradiddles or by practicing circles of fifths.

C The Bryans have won every Slam and lost in the finals of every Slam.

D The brothers team with the most titles in the Open era after the Bryans are Vijay and Anand Amritraj.

11  Which of the following is NOT a parent of twins:

A William Shakespeare

B Nelson Mandela

C George W. Bush

D Ivan Lendl

12  Which of the following is NOT true:

A  Dubs vet Leander Paes suggested, “If the Bryans were not in the top four, they’d scrap doubles altogether.”

B  The Bryans have said, “Basically, we can read each other’s minds.”

C  Wayne Bryan recalled that he avoided going to church as a kid by prolonging his Sunday morning matches with his dad and concluded, “I got into tennis through religion – or the avoidance thereof. [But] now tennis is my religion.”

D  Two Bryan family mantras are “to leave the tennis campsite cleaner than you found it” and that, “if you’re not making an effort to help those who are less fortunate than you, you’re wasting your life.”

E  None of the above.

 

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