Web Hunt Basketball

By: Abnashi Randhawa

Questions

1.) When was basketball first invented (Include month and year)?

2.) Officially, when and where was the first game of basketball played (Year, month, and date)?

3.) Who created basketball, what was his profession (what he taught), which university and where else did he instruct?

4.) How many rules did he create and post onto the school bulletin board?

5.) Why did Naismith make a rule so you cannot walk/run with the ball?

6.) What are the four major fouls?

7.) What are the definitions for each of these fouls?

8.) Who was the person that got one of the harshest suspensions for a fight during the game (NBA)?

9.) How was the game divided (Halves, quarters etc.), how much time in each, and how much time for breaks in between (The first rules created by the inventor)?

10.) What was the other main thing the inventor was interested in and what did he graduate as because of this?

11.) When the first college games were played and where were they played?

12.) When and where was the first “pro” team created and what were they called?

13.) In what year was the NBA formed?

14.) What two basketball leagues merged to form the NBA and what years were each of those formed?

15.) Who patented the basket ball, and when? What was the patent number?

16.) How many days did the inventor have to create a game that could be played indoors? Who gave the inventor this order and where was this?

17.) What game did the inventor remember from his childhood which gave him the idea of basketball?

18.) How was this game played (Inventor’s Childhood Game)?

19.) What were the first and last original rules for basketball?

20.) What year (include month) was basketball first played at the Olympics and where did it take place?