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1. Fortunate Hogwarts students are permitted to play what fascinating game during PE in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series?
2. What controversial Newbery Medal winning children's novel, by Katherine Paterson, introduces the characters of Leslie Burke and Jess Aarons who establish a friendship while competing to be the fastest runner in the 5th grade?
3. What sport plays a significant role in Bruce Brooks's 1984 Newbery medal winning story "The Moves Make the Man?"
4. "Dream Big" is the true story of what all-time great basketball player and his quest for Olympic gold?
5. In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" the Queen of Hearts and her courtiers take exercise in the gardens playing a surrealistic version of what sport?
6. In the novel "Tom Brown's School Days" what English sport provides the backdrop for the culminating event of the protagonist's high school career?
7. What contact sport played at Trinity High School, in Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War", leaves Jerry Renault bloodied and beaten?
8. Seventeen-year old Holden Caulfield is the manager for his prep school's fencing team. He manages to lose the team's fencing equipment on the subway at the beginning of which classic of English literature?
9. Ann Brashares introduced the world to Carmen Lowell, Bridget Vreeland, Lena Kaligaris, and Tibby Rollins in her novel "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". What type of sports camp does Bridget attend in their first summer apart?
10. What futuristic novel, published in 2008, takes physical education to the extreme when teenagers are forced to participate in a deadly televised fight to the death?
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