Volleyball Basics
What is the name of the object players hit over the net in volleyball?
What is a ball? (or volleyball)
How many times can a team hit the ball before sending it over the net?
Answer: What is 3?
What is the underhand hit called when you join your hands together to pass the ball?
What is a bump?
True or False: Volleyball was invented before basketball.
What is false? (Invented in 1895, basketball in 1891)
How many players are on a beach volleyball team?
What is 2?
How many players are on the court for one team in regular volleyball?
Answer: What is 6?
True or False: Players can catch or hold the ball during play.
What is false? (You must hit it!)
What move uses your fingertips to push the ball high for a teammate?
What is a set?
Where was volleyball invented? (Hint: It starts with "M")
What is Massachusetts?
True or False: Beach volleyball is always played indoors.
What is false?
What do you call it when a player jumps high and hits the ball hard over the net?
What is a spike?
What happens if the ball lands on the line? Is it in or out?
Answer: What is in?
What do you call it when a player jumps to block the ball at the net?
What is a block?
What is the name of the special volleyball played in the Olympics with 2 players per team?
Answer: What is beach volleyball?
What do players often wear on their feet in beach volleyball?
Answer: What is nothing (barefoot) or sand socks?
What is the first hit called when the ball is served to your team?
Answer: What is a pass (or bump)?
How many points does a team need to win a standard volleyball set?
Answer: What is 25? (Must win by 2 points)
What is a "dig" in volleyball?
What is saving a hard-hit ball close to the ground?
Which body part can NOT touch the ball in volleyball?
Answer: What is the foot? (Some versions allow it, but standard rules say no kicks!)
Is the net higher or lower in beach volleyball compared to indoor?
Answer: What is the same height (for men/women, but sand courts vary slightly)?
What do you call it when a player stops the ball right above the net for a teammate to spike?
Answer: What is a set?
What is it called when a player hits the ball into the net on a serve?
What is a serve error (or fault)?
Name the skill where a player quickly hits the ball with one hand to save it.
What is a pancake?
What color is a standard volleyball?
Answer: What is white (or multicolored)?
Name a famous beach volleyball player (Hint: Won Olympic gold with Kerri Walsh Jennings).
Who is Misty May-Treanor?