FUN FACTS - BASKETBALL
Originally, this type of ball was used when playing basketball.
Soccer ball
This cookie was invented in San Francisco for the Golden Gate Park Tea Garden
Fortune cookie
God bless America, land that I love. Stand beside her and ____ her, through the night with a light from ____.
GUIDE
ABOVE
Chubbs (Carl Weathers) lost this body part to an alligator.
Right hand
This brand of candy bar causes a big commotion in the swimming pool scene.
This player is considered one of the greatest of all time. But, he didn't make his varsity basketball team when he first tried out as a sophomore, AND he couldn't dunk a ball. He spent the year working his hardest on the JV basketball team, putting in multiple 40 point games. People would come from all over to watch him play.
Michael Jordan
Company that created the first denim blue jeans for gold miners in the 1850s
Levi
O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains majesty, above the ____ ____.
Fruited
Plain
Bob Barker's character was originally written for this famous late night TV host's sidekick.
Ed McMahon
Danny's father is going to get him a job here if he doesn't get into college.
Lumber yard
This player scored 100 points in a single NBA game.
Wilt Chamberlain
The Golden Gate Bridge was originally going to be painted these 2 colors.
Black and yellow
This land is your land, this land is my land. From _____ to the New York Island.
Happy Gilmore made a commercial for this fast food restaurant.
Subway
Boxing gloves.
When basketball was created in 1891, this was used instead of hoops.
When Phys Ed teacher James Naismith was looking for another sport for his students to play during the colder months, he hung actual peach baskets from the balcony of the gym. Each time someone scored a goal, they had to pull out a ladder and climb up to retrieve the ball.
Fog in San Francisco happens so much, that it's been given this man's first name.
Karl
___ _______ ____.
Let freedom ring.
Happy offered the nursing home supervisor this much money to care for his grandmother.
$1.00
This actor played the character of Carl Spackler
Bill Murray
Team that has won the most NBA championships.
Boston Celtics
This very famous gangster was a prisoner at Alcatraz. He started a band called "Rock Island" and played the banjo.
Al Capone
DAILY DOUBLE
Name of the country singer who sang this song.
Lee Greenwood
Happy had a crush on this actress when he was a little boy.
Brooke Shields
This actor with white hair played the character of Judge Smails.
Bonus: He also played on this TV show about a newsroom.
Ted Knight
Mary Tyler Moore