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Basketball Stars - Nonfiction stories - Spring Break
Contributed by: Goers
  • 1. How many stars are there?
A) two billion
B) 45 trillion
C) tons
D) A hundred million, million, million
  • 2. The sun is really a _________
A) asteroid
B) planet
C) scorching hot ball of glowing gas
D) series of stars
  • 3. How far away is the sun?
A) 27 million miles
B) 93 million miles
C) 150 million miles
D) 45 miles
  • 4. How long would it take to travel to the sun in a car?
A) 2 weeks
B) 150 days
C) 150 years
D) 10 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 billion
B) 1 thousand
C) 1 million
D) 1 hundred
  • 7. What might happen if you look directly at the sun?
A) Your face might get stuck like that
B) You could see Elvis
C) You could harm your eyes
D) You could make the sun stop shining
  • 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) Gerald Ford
B) Thomas Edison
C) Galileo
D) Albert Einstein
  • 10. What year was basketball invented?
A) 1891
B) 1973
C) 2014
D) 1981
  • 11. Who invented basketball?
A) Thomas Edison
B) Stevens T. Mason
C) James Naismith
D) Ms. Miller
  • 12. Why was basketball invented?
A) What else are you going to do in Massachusetts?
B) It was too hot outside
C) to have a game people could play indoor
D) Not smart enough to invent volleyball yet
  • 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) tall people
B) just girls
C) people from all over the world
D) only boys
  • 15. Where is the inventor of basketball from?
A) Cleveland, OH
B) South Beach, FL
C) Springfield, Massachusetts
D) Lansing, MI
  • 16. How many points do you get for a normal goal?
A) 2
B) 1
C) 4
D) 3
  • 17. How far away from the basket do you need to be to get 3 points?
A) 10 feet
B) one million miles
C) 15 feet
D) 23 feet, 9 inches
  • 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) 5
B) 3
C) 4
D) 6
  • 20. How does a basketball game start?
A) tip-off
B) free throw
C) travel
D) foul
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