It was invented in 1896 by James Naismith, who used apple containers nailed to a tall pole.
What is basketball?
It's the date when American children open their Christmas presents.
What is December 25th?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
It's a music genre that combines jazz with blues, and was made popular by singers such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
What is Rock and Roll?
It's what Americans call films.
What is movie?
It's the game where pitchers can throw a knuckleball, a fastball, a curveball and even a screwball.
What is baseball?
It's the fourth Thursday in November.
What is Thanksgiving?
It's the last name of the first man on the moon, or a great jazz trumpet player.
What is Armstrong?
It's what a fan of Taylor Swift is called.
What is a Swifty?
He's the man who invented motion pictures.
Who was Thomas Edison?
It's the league where you can find Islanders, Devils, Penguins and Sharks.
What is the National Hockey League?
It's the autumn holiday where adults are blackmailed into giving children what they want.
What is Halloween?
Trick or Treat means give me something good or I will prank you. Yikes!
It's what the Wright brothers, two bicycle repairmen, invented in 1903.
What is the airplane?
It's the music genre that includes gangsta and hip hop.
What is rap?
It's the place in California where films are made.
What is Hollywood?
It's the championship game of the National Football League.
What is the Superbowl?
It's the day Americans celebrate the country's independence from Britain.
What is July 4th?
What is Britain?
What is jazz?
He's the actor who starred in Edward Scissorhands, Charley and the Chocolate Factory and Sleepy Hollow.
Who is Johnny Depp?
It's the game played by the National League, the oldest professional sports league in the world.
What is baseball?
The National League was founded in 1876, and was the first professional sports league in the world.
It's the three holidays that Americans call the holidays.
What are Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's?
It's the war the US entered in April, 1917, two and a half years after it began.
What is World War One?
It's a music genre that has many songs about pickup trucks, beer, women and prison, and is the preferred genre for poorly educated white racist Southern men who really like Donald Trump.
What is country?
It's the nickname of the statue given to Academy Award winners.
What is an Oscar?