Thursday, April 21, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #115 Trivia Quiz About Basketball

Fun basketball trivia quiz questions with answers.


  1. What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games,
    from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?
     
  2. What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the
    1990s?
     
  3. What NBA team plays home games in an arena located at Two
    Pennsylvania Plaza?
     
  4. What NBA hoopster averaged an amazing 48.5 minutes per game,
    including overtime, in the 1961-62 season?
     
  5. What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?
     
  6. What NBA star retired for the third time on May 14, 1996?
     
  7. How many rules did James Naismith originally write to define
    basketball --13, 33, or 53?
     
  8. Who led the NBA in hair colors in 1995?
     
  9. What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates
    as "little one"?
     
  10. What do you have to be in the NBA to win the Eddie Gottlieb
    Trophy?
     
  11. Whose all-time NBA assists record was broken by John
    Stockton in 1995?
     
  12. What basketball team had drubbed the New Jersey Reds
    2,495 times straight before losing to them 100-99 in 1971?
     
  13. What city decided to call its new NBA team the Grizzlies,
    after much debate?
     
  14. Whose 1996 return to the NBA earned him simultaneous Time,
    Newsweek, U.S. News and Sports Illustrated
    covers?
     
  15. What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked
    like Herman Munster?
     
  16. What was the first NBA team to win 70 games or more in the
    regular season?
     
  17. Who holds the NBA scoring mark for a single half, with
    59 points?
     
  18. What nickname did NBA star Karl Malone earn for his ability to
    deliver in the clutch?
     
  19. How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a
    player?
     
  20. What former L.A. Lakers guard became the team's general
    manger?
     
  21. What hoopsters did major league pitches Bob Gibson and
    Ferguson Jenkins once play for?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 115 - Basketball Trivia.  

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
  2. The Boston Celtics.
  3. The New York Knicks.
  4. Wilt Chamberlin.
  5. Dennis Rodman.
  6. Magic Johnson.
  7. Thirteen.
  8. Dennis Rodman.
  9. Shaquille O'Neal's.
  10. Rookie of the year.
  11. Magic Johnson's. 
  12. The Harlem Globetrotters. 
  13. Vancouver. 
  14. Magic Johnson.
  15. Kevin McHale.
  16. The Chicago Bulls.
  17. Wilt Chamberlin.
  18. The Mailman.
  19. Five.
  20. Jerry West. 
  21. The Harlem Globetrotters.