🏀 BASKETBALL – ELITE QUESTIONS
You get this many points for a shot made behind the arc.
What is 3 points?
A game begins with this type of kick from the center circle.
What is a kickoff?
Which improves cardiovascular endurance more: 10 push-ups or 10 minutes of jogging?
10 minutes of jogging.
This nutrient helps build and repair muscles.
What is protein?
The Olympic Games are held every how many years?
What is 4 years?
A successful free throw is worth this many points.
What is 1 point?
This part of the body cannot legally score a goal in soccer.
What are hands or arms?
Why does your heart beat faster during exercise?
To deliver more oxygen to muscles.
Drinking enough of this prevents dehydration during exercise.
What is water?
The NBA stands for this.
What is the National Basketball Association?
If a player makes 6 field goals (all two-pointers) and 3 free throws, how many total points do they score?
15 points.
Each team has this many players on the field in a full regulation match.
What is 11 players?
🎯 Daily Double #2 (Fitness Science)
During exercise, your breathing rate increases. Explain why this happens using body systems.
Muscles need more oxygen; lungs and heart work harder to deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
This meal is considered the most important of the day.
What is breakfast?
The Super Bowl determines the champion of this league.
What is the National Football League (NFL)?
Why is it important to keep your knees bent on defense?
To stay balanced and react quickly.
The World Cup is held every how many years?
What is 4 years?
Why does hydration affect athletic performance?
It regulates body temperature, blood flow, and muscle function.
Sleeping this many hours per night is recommended for school-age children.
What is 9–12 hours?
The modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896 in this country.
Pss... Where did they start?
What is Greece?
Why is it smarter to pass ahead instead of dribble through two defenders on a fast break?
Passing is faster and reduces turnover risk.
Passing is also FASTER!
This yellow card means a warning, but two of them equal this.
What is a red card?
A student runs 1 mile in 10 minutes. If they improve by 20%, what is their new time?
8 minutes.
Warming up before exercise helps prevent this.
What are injuries?
This basketball legend won 6 NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and was nicknamed “His Airness.”
Who is Michael Jordan?