Q 01/05

How many players does each team have on the field in a game of soccer?

A) 5

B) 11

C) 22

D) 44

Answer · why

B) 11

11. One of them must be the goalkeeper, and a side can lose players and carry on: a match is only abandoned when a team drops below seven.

Q 02/05

What is the time a soccer referee adds to each half for delays called?

A) Extra time

B) Stoppage time

C) Overtime

D) Sudden death

Answer · why

B) Stoppage time

Stoppage time. Each half lasts 45 minutes on the clock, but the referee alone decides how much to add for injuries, substitutions and other delays, an...

Q 03/05

In basketball, which violation is called when a player moves with the ball without dribbling?

A) Double dribble

B) Goaltending

C) Travelling

D) Charging

Answer · why

C) Travelling

Travelling. The original 1891 rules were stricter still: a player could not run with the ball at all and had to throw it from the spot where it was ca...

Q 04/05

Who invented basketball in December 1891 to keep his students busy indoors over winter?

A) Luther Gulick

B) Walter Camp

C) James Naismith

D) Abner Doubleday

Answer · why

C) James Naismith

James Naismith. Basketball was born in a Massachusetts gym, yet the instructor who wrote its thirteen rules was himself born in Canada.

Q 05/05

The first basketball goals hung about 10 feet up on which part of a gym?

A) Climbing ropes

B) Balcony railing

C) Wall bars

D) Roof beams

Answer · why

B) Balcony railing

The balcony railing. It happened to be about 10 feet up, still the height of the rim today, and when spectators leaning over it began swatting shots a...