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