Q 01/05

Which team did Wilt Chamberlain score his record 100 points against?

A) New York Knicks

B) Boston Celtics

C) Syracuse Nationals

D) Los Angeles Lakers

Answer · why

A) New York Knicks

New York Knicks. Desperate not to be on the wrong end of history, they fouled every other opponent to keep the ball from him, and his teammates fouled...

Q 02/05

In which Pennsylvania town did Wilt Chamberlain play his 100-point game in 1962?

A) Philadelphia

B) Hershey

C) Allentown

D) Scranton

Answer · why

B) Hershey

Hershey. Only 4,124 people were in the chocolate town's arena, and because the game was not televised, an audio recording of the fourth quarter is all...

Q 03/05

Which of his nicknames did Wilt Chamberlain like best?

A) Wilt the Stilt

B) The Big Dipper

C) The Record Book

D) The Tower

Answer · why

B) The Big Dipper

The Big Dipper. Friends coined it after watching him dip his head to get through doorways, and he detested the names that drew attention to his height...

Q 04/05

Wilt Chamberlain often summed up his public image with the line "Nobody roots for" whom?

A) Godzilla

B) Goliath

C) King Kong

D) The Cyclops

Answer · why

B) Goliath

Goliath. He meant that a giant gets no sympathy: if he won, people said it was only his size, and if he lost, they asked how a man that big could fail...

Q 05/05

Which Philadelphia high school did Wilt Chamberlain star for?

A) West Catholic

B) Overbrook

C) Northeast

D) Roxborough

Answer · why

B) Overbrook

Overbrook. His teams lost only three games in three seasons, and by the time he left, more than a hundred colleges were trying to recruit him.