A quick sports quiz - and no googling allowed...

[JimmyJazz]

1. What is the only Olympic sport in which men and women compete as equals?

2. What are the names of the two athletes who had their medals revoked for their protest during the medal ceremony in the 1968 Olympics?

3. Who won the 1960 decathalon in Rome?

4. What score was posted for Nadia Comaneci after she completed her uneven bar routine in the 1976 Montreal games?

5. What are the five colors of the Olympic rings?

Bonus: What is the name of the Japanese gymnast who completed his ring routine with a broken leg (1976 - Montreal)

[MallRat]

1. I'll try a couple.

1. Curling?

4. The judges posted a 1.00. The scoreboard couldn't accomodate four digits, so they had to put up her 10.00 with the decimal point in the wrong place.

5. Blue, black, red, green, yellow.

[JimmyJazz]

12. I'm impressed with the correct answer to number 4

I thought it was a little tougher than that!

[Huckebein the Raven]

2. Damn I think I know two

1.) Equestrian events

5.) red, black, green, gold, blue (?)

-I failed this quiz

[JimmyJazz]

6. one correct

[fryguy]

3. my stab

1. equistrian

4. 10

5. Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Black

[JimmyJazz]

4. two out of three correct

[deadmessengers]

5. Hmmm.

1) Equestrian

2) I know one was Tommie Smith - can't remember the other one.

3) Rafer Johnson

4) No f'ing clue

5) Yellow, Red, Blue, Black, and green

Bonus: No clue.

[ProgressiveDave]

7. do they have mixed doubles in olympic tennis?

if so, would that qualify as an answer to 1?

[JimmyJazz]

9. Yes, but that is not the correct answer because they are

not technically competing against one another equally - the team is comprised on one man and one woman - same as pairs figure skating. This is a sport where it doesn't matter your gender

[Utah_Lefty]

8. They stood tall...

2) John Carlos and Tommie Smith.

[JimmyJazz]

11. yes, they did

:hi:

[calico1]

10. 1.

Equestrian? Not sure.

2. Can't remember.

3. Rafer Johnson

4. The score was 1.0. (It was meant to mean "10.00") but the scoring machines at the time could only go up to 9.999.

5. I think: Red, blue, yellow, green and white (?)

[VelmaD]

13. men and women used to compete

as "equals" in the pistol shooting events...until the women started winning medals and then they separated the genders. :eyes:

They also competed as "equals" in one of the first World Figure Skating Championships...but when a woman came in 2nd they banned them for several years and then started having a separate "ladies" event.

[JimmyJazz]

15. I didn't know that! I love the history of the Olympics -

It's a shame it's become so commercialized.

[JimmyJazz]

14. Here are the correct answers:

1. Dressage

2. Tommie Smith and John Carlos



3. Rafer Johnson




4. The correct answer is 1.0, but it wasn't an electronic scoreboard - it was a handheld, flip the numbers manually scoreboard and it could only go up to 9.9

5. Red, Green, Black, Blue and Yellow - representing the five competing continents.

Bonus: Shun Fujimoto

[calico1]

16. What is "dressage?"

I have never heard of it.

[JimmyJazz]

17. It is a specific equestrian event

in which the rider gets the horse to perform specific tasks.



http://www.equisearch.com/special/dressagetoday/about_dressage.html

[u4ic]

18. It's not only dressage

but the other equestrian sports, show jumping and three day eventing, where women compete with men.

Women were not allowed to ride in the Olympics till I believe the 60's. That being said, civilians couldn't ride either until the 50's. The first woman I can remember riding was Marian Mould on Stroller for the 1968 British show jumping team.

In Barcelona, the US show jumping team was compromised of women only :)

[JimmyJazz]

19. That's my answer and I'm sticking to it!

That's what it says on the trivial pursuit card - isn't that authoritative? Just kidding - thanks for the clarification. I thought it was only dressage.