KIDS QUIZ
SPORTS TEAMS AND PLAYERS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He was bored
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Wanted to be famous
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They needed an indoor sport for the winter
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He didn’t like soccer
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Detailed explanation-1: -His students, forced indoors because of winter, had become rowdy. They had a lot of energy, but no way to burn it off. It was too cold to play football and baseball, and too dangerous to play those sports in the gym. The school asked Naismith to invent a new indoor sport.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although basketball can be played almost everywhere it is mostly an indoor game played on a court that is 29 metres long and 15 metres wide. The floor is made of wood. At each end there is a backboard and a basket which you must shoot the ball through.
Detailed explanation-3: -Naismith was a classmate of Amos Alonzo Stagg at the YMCA School, where Stagg coached the football team. They became close friends and Naismith played on the football team and Stagg played on the basketball team.
Detailed explanation-4: -Training School in Springfield, Mass., Naismith invented basketball in 1891, responding to a challenge and direction from his boss to create a new game that would keep a class of rowdy students busy during winter. Naismith had no other goal in mind.