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

Created with That Quiz — a math test site for students of all grade levels.