What Basketball Records Remember: teacher key

Basketball, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. From a 100-point night in Hershey to the all-time scoring list, from a typed page of rules to a worldwide federation, see how basketball keeps its records and how its game kept changing.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Where was Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game played?
   • Springfield, Massachusetts
   • Hershey, Pennsylvania (answer)
   • Toronto
2. Who passed Chamberlain on the career points list in April 1984?
   • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (answer)
   • LeBron James
   • Kobe Bryant
3. How much did the typescript of Naismith's rules sell for in December 2010?
   • $4.3 million (answer)
   • $43,000
   • $430,000
4. Why is the WNBA three-point arc described as a shorter distance?
   • It is 22 feet, 1 3/4 inches against the NBA's 23 feet, 9 inches (answer)
   • It is closer to the corners
   • It was set by the NCAA
5. Who won the first WNBA championship?
   • The New York Liberty
   • The Connecticut Sun
   • The Houston Comets (answer)

Words

• typescript: typed pages
• halftime: mid-game break
• amateurs: unpaid players
• federation: group of groups
• suffocating: very tight
• inducted: formally added