We take the USA Volleyball Quiz!

Get out your #2 pencils and dive in to the latest bit of fun at USAVolleyball.org, a 13-question quiz that tests your knowledge of the 11-member national team training roster! Weeeeee! I can't wait for the hidden picture contest and word find next month!

#1 - Which three players on the current U.S. Women’s National Training Team played on the same volleyball team for at least one season with their sisters during college?

A. Don't insult my intelligence. Nu'u, Bowman, and...um, I'll come back to this one.

#2 - Which player on the U.S. Women’s National Training Team played in two NCAA championship matches at different positions?

A. Don't be distracted by the presence of Huskies on the roster. The answer is Busboom. Next.

#3 - Lee Maes was this current U.S. Women’s National Training Team player’s club coach prior to attending college.

A. Again, it's quite easy to look in the wrong place. Answer: Allison Anderson, who played for Golden Bear.

#4 - Yoshie Takeshita and Tiger Woods are the favorite athletes of this current U.S. Women’s National Training Team player.

A. I don't even know who Yoshie Takeshita is, let alone know who's in love with him. Her. Whatever.

#5 - Which player is one semester short of a psychology degree?

A. Tom Hogan.

#6 - As a sophomore, this player led NCAA Division I with nine triple-doubles.

A. The only player I remember getting triple doubles with any regularity is Misty May when she set at Long Beach, and Bowman used to set AND hit rightside, so Bowman is the answer. Bowman.

#7 - After her volleyball career, this player envisions teaching ESL to young children.

A. Tom Hogan.

#8 - Which player captured the Class D 100-meter high hurdles title at her state track and field meet?

A. Busboom. She's got that hurdler look to her. I'd love to say Candace Lee, just because the idea of a libero zipping over high hurdles is appealing.

#9 - Which player wants to become a college athletic director after her volleyball playing career is over?

A. The thing you have to ask yourself here is, Which one of these players appears to be a person who could survive despite the constant annoyances of the A.D. job? Who would excel in the soul-grinding minutiae of being an A.D.? Here's where I go with Courtney Thompson. She could throw a drunken cross country runner off a team for public drunkenness in the blink of an eye and still find time to enjoy that day's Ziggy cartoon.

#10 - In addition to volleyball, this current training team player competed in the triple jump in college for one season.

A. Trick question. None of them.

#11 - Which player is obsessed with Shark Week on Discovery Channel?

A. You could go with Candace Lee. She seems to be the silent-but-deadly type that appreciates the efficiency of a shark, but I think I remember The Ham (Jillian Davis) saying she enjoyed this show.

#12 – Which current training team player moved to middle blocker as a college junior after playing her first two collegiate seasons as an opposite?

A. It's gotta be Tomes, doesn't it? The next tallest player is 5'10", and while I know Bowman is multitalented, I don't remember her cracking any 1-balls for the Gophers.

#13 - Which player competed on four state high school volleyball championship teams?

A. This is tricky. You'd want to pick Drury because she's from Louisville, and in all likelihood that means she played for Assumption, and they lose to an in-state school only once every 30 years. No, I'm going with Fenton, because Marysville is nutso for volleyball in the Mitten State.

BONUS QUESTION:
Who will be the next player added to the U.S. Women's National Training Team? (answer not provided on answer key page)

A. What? No answer to this one on the key page? You didn't want to announce who made the team by posting it as the answer to a fun web page quiz? That's...actually very decent of you. I have no idea who the next player added will be. Hunter's been around a while, but Busboom's a crazy good athlete. So I'm gonna plead the 5th and wait. I got time.

The answers reveal that we got 9 out of 13 right. Not too bad, but I'm guessing Bill Kauffman isn't impressed.

Portrait of a ham: Jillian Davis

, There may be a new leader for the women's national team in the category of Most Personality.

We've long considered Courtney Thompson as the college player with the most personality, given her superb performances at the past three All-American banquets. But Cal Berkeley's Jillian Davis is slowly starting to creep into the picture. The libero has already been mentioned in previous articles for her apparently stellar Ron Burgundy imitation, so it was with great anticipation that we perused "20 Questions with Jillian Davis."

We were not disappointed.

Among those she would most want to invite to dinner? Sure, there's the standard answers such as John Wooden and Peyton Manning, but then Davis throws a curve in mentioning Parker Posey and Catherine O'Hara, mainstays of Christopher Guest movies. The question of favorite movies yields more mainstays of today's collegiate athlete, but then goes old school in eliciting "Uncle Buck," and, continuing the Christopher Guest theme, "Best in Show."

But the best moment of the article is Davis' biggest pet peeve. Bad drivers? Nope. Early mornings? Nah. Jillian Davis can't stand it when her hands smell like food. I didn't know this could even be a pet peeve. I've heard of people hating it when their hands smell like fish, onions, liverwurst, but never food in general. Davis goes on to claim she thinks the pet peeve is hereditary, too, as she shares the affliction with her dad.

We also appreciate the nod to teammate Courtney Thompson, who Davis says "hands down" is the funniest person on the squad. Perhaps these two could get their own Internet talk show (USA Volleyball, I'm talkin' to you): "Davis & Thompson;" "D&T;" "The DTs!"