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