Basketball History
Daylight Savings
Your Amazing Brain
Jeff Kinney
History of Rap Music
100
The first competitive basketball leagues were in these three east-coast U.S. cities.
What are Philadelphia, New York and Boston?
100
Daylight Savings is also known as this three word name.
What is "British Summer Time"?
100
Your brain weigh about this much (in pounds).
What is 3 pounds?
100
Jeff Kinney attended Bishop McNamara High School in this U.S. state.
What is Maryland?
100
Artists from these two parts of the world lay the foundation for modern-day rap music.
What are West Africa and the Caribbean?
200
The first known professional basketball gave was played in this year.
What is 1896?
200
In 1784, this man suggested the idea of daylight savings time.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The human brain contains about this many microscopic cells called neurons.
What is 1 billion?
200
Kinney attended college at this Maryland institution.
What is University of Maryland College Park?
200
In 1979, this group's "Rapper's Delight" established rap music as an emerging musical genre.
Who is "The Sugarhill Gang"?
300
Fred Cooper earned this much $ to become the first highest paid player.
What is $16?
300
During this month in 1966, Daylight Saving became a permanent feature on the American calendar.
What is April?
300
Sensory neurons relay information to your spinal cord and brain faster than this speed.
What is 150 miles per hour?
300
Although he started writing The Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 1998, it wasn't published until spring of this year.
What is 2007?
300
By the 1980s, female rap groups, such as this trio, were reaching the top of the charts.
Who is Salt-n-Pepa?
400
The team from this New Jersey city won the first ever professional basketball game.
What is Trenton?
400
In an effort to save energy, this British man pitched Daylight Savings.
Who is William Willet?
400
Motor neurons transmit messages faster than this speed.
What is 200 miles per hour?
400
Kinney was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by this magazine.
What is Time?
400
One of the most popular white-rappers of all time.
Who is Eminem?
500
The New England Basketball League got major recognition for allowing this African American to play in a game.
Who is Bucky Lew?
500
This former U.S. president made the first change to Daylight Savings time in 1986.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
Your brain generates enough of this to power a low-watt light bulb.
What is electricity?
500
With his two sons and wife, Kinney now resides in this state.
What is Massachusetts?
500
Rap first gained popularity in the U.S. during this decade as a kind of street art (ex. 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s).
What is the 1970s?
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