Origins Quiz — Tuesday, August 25, 2026

What indoor team sport was invented in December 1891 by Canadian-American physical education instructor James Naismith, who nailed two peach baskets to opposite ends of a gymnasium balcony, giving the game its literal, still-unchanged name?

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