Basketball Names and Dates
Name of inventor of basketball
Who is James Naismith?
Reason basketball was invented
What is the PE teacher needed a winter activity for the students
Only continent with no countries
What is Antarctica?
Music label founded by Suge Knight
What is Death Row Records?
A bride or a widow wears these
What are veils?
Year of basketball's invention
What is 1891?
NBA rival league which introduced a new style of play, uniforms and a red-white-and blue ball
What is the ABA?
Continent which has the most countries
What is Africa?
The all time best-selling band (it's not even close!)
Who are The Beatles?
A unit of electricity
What is a volt?
NBA Hall of Famer Lew Alcindor is better known by this Muslim name
WhO is Kareem Abdul JaBBAR?
Scoring innovation which made the game faster, higher-scoring and gave smaller players a chance to become stars
What is the 3 point shot?
2 countries with most people
What is India and China?
New York city borough which was the birthplace of rap
What is the Bronx?
A promise
What is a vow?
Rise of this black power organization in the 1960s frightened a lot of whites
Who are the Black Panthers?
Buddhist concept which emphasizes balance
What is yin and yang?
Longest river in world
What is the Nile?
Classical music composer who composed most of his great scores after he went deaf
Who is Beethoven?
Terrifying dinosaur who was the star "villain" of Jurassic Park
What is a velociraptor?
To reduce the dominance of the big man in college basketball the NCAA banned the slam dunk in this year
What is 1967
One halftime show idea pioneered by NBA rival which didn't catch on (fortunately!)
What is bear wrestling?
This continent with only one country started as a prison colony
What is Australia?
This Tennessee city is the capital of country music
What is Nashville?
A president can do this to reject a law passed by Congress
What is a veto?