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