Q 01/05
A) Four
B) Six
C) Seven
D) Five
Answer · why
Each of the five has a position, from point guard to center.
Q 02/05
A) One
B) Two
C) Four
D) Three
Answer · why
Shots from behind the three-point line are worth three, and each free throw is worth one.
Q 03/05
A) Two
B) Three
C) Five
D) One
Answer · why
Free throws are shot from the foul line, sometimes called the 'charity stripe', with nobody allowed to block them.
Q 04/05
A) Abner Doubleday
B) James Naismith
C) William Morgan
D) Walter Camp
Answer · why
He was a gym teacher from Canada working in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891.
Q 05/05
A) Metal buckets
B) Peach baskets
C) Wooden boxes
D) Fishing nets
Answer · why
They still had their bottoms in, so someone had to climb up and get the ball out after every basket.
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