PICKLEBALL EXAM SCRIPT 2025/2026 ALL QUESTIOS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔when was pickleball created? - ✔✔during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge island,
Washington, near Seattle.
✔✔where did the name come from? - ✔✔family dog named pickles who would chase
after balls and hide them in the bushes. Pickle's Ball was shortened to pickleball.
✔✔Initially, families played pickleball where? - ✔✔hard surfaces, driveways, and
residential dead end streets.
✔✔what did it evolve from? - ✔✔a family activity into a paddle court sport with
formalized rules.
✔✔where is it played now? - ✔✔school PE programs and at parks and recreation
centers, correctional facilities,camps, YMCA's and retirement communities. it's popular
among active senior adults, students, and at community centers.
✔✔what kind of court is pickleball played on? - ✔✔standard badminton court. 20ft wide
by 44 ft long. sectioned into two halves like a tennis/badminton court as well. the net is a
standard 36 inches high.
✔✔scoring and winning - ✔✔a team gets a point when they win a rally that they served.
✔✔the serve - ✔✔the player on the right always serves first.
✔✔non volley zone - ✔✔a line seven feet from the net delineates the non volley zone.
✔✔the return - ✔✔the receiving team must let the ball bounce before returning the
serve.
✔✔keeping track of scoring - ✔✔because players switch sides with each point, a simple
scoring system is devised to keep track of who is serving.
✔✔baseline - ✔✔the line at the back of the pickleball court, 22 ft from the net.
✔✔centerline - ✔✔the line bisecting the service court that extends from the non volley
zone line to the baseline.
✔✔cross court - ✔✔the opponent's court diagonally opposite yours.
✔✔dink - ✔✔a soft, low shot initiated from within or just behind the non volley zone,
which lands in the opponent's non volley zone.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔when was pickleball created? - ✔✔during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge island,
Washington, near Seattle.
✔✔where did the name come from? - ✔✔family dog named pickles who would chase
after balls and hide them in the bushes. Pickle's Ball was shortened to pickleball.
✔✔Initially, families played pickleball where? - ✔✔hard surfaces, driveways, and
residential dead end streets.
✔✔what did it evolve from? - ✔✔a family activity into a paddle court sport with
formalized rules.
✔✔where is it played now? - ✔✔school PE programs and at parks and recreation
centers, correctional facilities,camps, YMCA's and retirement communities. it's popular
among active senior adults, students, and at community centers.
✔✔what kind of court is pickleball played on? - ✔✔standard badminton court. 20ft wide
by 44 ft long. sectioned into two halves like a tennis/badminton court as well. the net is a
standard 36 inches high.
✔✔scoring and winning - ✔✔a team gets a point when they win a rally that they served.
✔✔the serve - ✔✔the player on the right always serves first.
✔✔non volley zone - ✔✔a line seven feet from the net delineates the non volley zone.
✔✔the return - ✔✔the receiving team must let the ball bounce before returning the
serve.
✔✔keeping track of scoring - ✔✔because players switch sides with each point, a simple
scoring system is devised to keep track of who is serving.
✔✔baseline - ✔✔the line at the back of the pickleball court, 22 ft from the net.
✔✔centerline - ✔✔the line bisecting the service court that extends from the non volley
zone line to the baseline.
✔✔cross court - ✔✔the opponent's court diagonally opposite yours.
✔✔dink - ✔✔a soft, low shot initiated from within or just behind the non volley zone,
which lands in the opponent's non volley zone.
