PE Pickleball Exam Questions
and Answers 2025
What is pickleball? - -paddle game played over a tennis-type net on a
badminton size court
- What type of ball is used? - -special perforated slow moving ball
- Who do you serve the ball? - -underhand without bouncing it off court;
diagonally toward to opponents service court
- How are points scored? - -1) by the serving side only; 2) when opponent
fails to return ball or hits ball outside of bound
- When can the server continue to serve the ball? - -by alternative service
courts until the opponent fails
- Who wins the game? - -The first side scoring 11 points AND leading by a 2
point margin wins.
- what happens for example if both sides are tied with 10 points? - -they
continue playing until one side scores 2 points
- When was pickleball created? - -in summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island
(Seattle, Washington)
- Who invented it? - -Joel Prichard, William Bell and Barney McCallum
- Why did they invent the game? - -as a sport for the entire family to play
- Where did the families play the game at the beginning when it was
invented? - -backyard, driveways, dead end streets
- What happened in mid-1970's? - -the game became a sport with
formalized rules and played on a net court. it is now played all around the
world.
- Double bounce rule - -following serve, each side must make at least one
groundstroke, prior to volleying the ball (hitting it before it has bounced)
- Non Volley zone - -a player cannot volley a ball while standing in the non-
volley zone
and Answers 2025
What is pickleball? - -paddle game played over a tennis-type net on a
badminton size court
- What type of ball is used? - -special perforated slow moving ball
- Who do you serve the ball? - -underhand without bouncing it off court;
diagonally toward to opponents service court
- How are points scored? - -1) by the serving side only; 2) when opponent
fails to return ball or hits ball outside of bound
- When can the server continue to serve the ball? - -by alternative service
courts until the opponent fails
- Who wins the game? - -The first side scoring 11 points AND leading by a 2
point margin wins.
- what happens for example if both sides are tied with 10 points? - -they
continue playing until one side scores 2 points
- When was pickleball created? - -in summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island
(Seattle, Washington)
- Who invented it? - -Joel Prichard, William Bell and Barney McCallum
- Why did they invent the game? - -as a sport for the entire family to play
- Where did the families play the game at the beginning when it was
invented? - -backyard, driveways, dead end streets
- What happened in mid-1970's? - -the game became a sport with
formalized rules and played on a net court. it is now played all around the
world.
- Double bounce rule - -following serve, each side must make at least one
groundstroke, prior to volleying the ball (hitting it before it has bounced)
- Non Volley zone - -a player cannot volley a ball while standing in the non-
volley zone
