Basketball Stars - Nonfiction stories - Spring Break
  • 1. How many stars are there?
A) two billion
B) A hundred million, million, million
C) 45 trillion
D) tons
  • 2. The sun is really a _________
A) series of stars
B) asteroid
C) planet
D) scorching hot ball of glowing gas
  • 3. How far away is the sun?
A) 93 million miles
B) 45 miles
C) 27 million miles
D) 150 million miles
  • 4. How long would it take to travel to the sun in a car?
A) 150 years
B) 150 days
C) 10 years
D) 2 weeks
  • 5. How hot is the center of the sun?
A) 100 million million million degrees
B) As hot as Florida
C) 312 degrees F
D) 27 million degrees F
  • 6. How many Earths could fit inside the sun?
A) 1 hundred
B) 1 thousand
C) 1 billion
D) 1 million
  • 7. What might happen if you look directly at the sun?
A) You could harm your eyes
B) You could see Elvis
C) You could make the sun stop shining
D) Your face might get stuck like that
  • 8. The sun is really __________
A) the only sun in the universe
B) our closest star
C) the biggest planet in our solar system
D) fun to play soccer with
  • 9. Who was the first person to use a telescope to look at stars?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Galileo
C) Albert Einstein
D) Gerald Ford
  • 10. What year was basketball invented?
A) 1973
B) 2014
C) 1891
D) 1981
  • 11. Who invented basketball?
A) Stevens T. Mason
B) Thomas Edison
C) Ms. Miller
D) James Naismith
  • 12. Why was basketball invented?
A) Not smart enough to invent volleyball yet
B) What else are you going to do in Massachusetts?
C) to have a game people could play indoor
D) It was too hot outside
  • 13. What are the baskets made out of today?
A) peach baskets
B) garbage cans
C) metal hoops
D) laundry baskets
  • 14. Who plays basketball today?
A) only boys
B) people from all over the world
C) just girls
D) tall people
  • 15. Where is the inventor of basketball from?
A) Cleveland, OH
B) Lansing, MI
C) South Beach, FL
D) Springfield, Massachusetts
  • 16. How many points do you get for a normal goal?
A) 4
B) 3
C) 1
D) 2
  • 17. How far away from the basket do you need to be to get 3 points?
A) 23 feet, 9 inches
B) 15 feet
C) 10 feet
D) one million miles
  • 18. How far from the basket is the free throw line
A) 23 feet, 9 inches
B) 15 feet
C) 10 feet
D) one million miles
  • 19. How many players on each team?
A) 4
B) 5
C) 6
D) 3
  • 20. How does a basketball game start?
A) free throw
B) travel
C) tip-off
D) foul
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