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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, September 16, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Olympic your by Paul Montella associated press est your knowledge of olympic history. Score s Points for each Correct answer to a single question 2 Points for each part of a multiple question and 10 Points for the Bonus question. Total Points 145. 1. Who has won the mos Gold medals in a single olympics 2. Who has won the Mast career medals in the olympics 3. The Umed states and the soviet Union Are the top two nations in Overall medals won. What nation ranks third in total medals a francs b West Germany c East Germany d Brilain 4. True or false the United states has never finished worse than second in Overall medals in an olympics in which it has competed. 5. The United Stales won a record 83 Good medals in the 1964 los angelas olympics. Which country was second and or five Bonus Points How Many did it have a Canada b Romania c Britain d China 6. Name the Only . Athlete to win a Gold medal in four consecutive olympics. 7. Name the first husband and wife team to compete and win a Gold medal in the olympics. A Frances Schlolh and George Schroth United Stales b Emit Zatopek arid Dana Zato Kova Czechoslovakia c Hal Connolly and Olga Fik Otova United Stales Czechoslovakia d Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter. United Stales 8. Name the tour boxers who have won a medal in the heavyweight division of the olympics and went on to win a professional heavyweight title. 9. How Many olympics have been cancelled because of warm a 2 c 3 d 4 10. What is the meaning of the olympic motto citius Alulus. Fortis 11. What Are the five events of the lrsvvm1 or Bronx he modern Pentathlon 12. Who was the first american to compete in the modern Pentathlon a Jim Thorpe b George Palton c Dwight Eisenhower d Jesse Owens 13. True or false. Romanian gymnast Madia come Neci was the first athlete to receive a perfect score of 10 in any olympic sport. 14. What two world track and held records set in the 1968 olympics at Mexico City still stand 15. Which of the following did not win two Gold medals in the decathlon a Bill Toomey b Daley Thompson c razor Johnson d Bob Mathias 16. Mama the two . Runners who gave the Black Power salutes on the medal stand in the 1968 games. 17. Who was the first american to compete in both the Winter and summer games a Willie Davenport b Willie Gault c Eddie Egan d Connie Carpenter Phinney 18. True or false. Bob Hayes is a Only olympic Gold medallist to play Tor a super bowl Champion. 19. Only Hoo players have won. Basketball s version of the triple Crown an olympic Gold medal the Mcaa championship and the Aba championship learn. Who Are they 20. Which of the following was not the site of a summer olympics a Tokyo b Paris c Sydney d Munich 21. Which of the following has been the site of Only one summer olympics a Paris b los angelas c London. D Athens 22. In 1972 the United slates lost its Only game in men s basketball Competition. Who was the opponent what was the score Why was it controversial 23. Only four men have coached Mcaa end olympic basketball champions. Name them. Bonus what Are the colors of the Tive rings of the olympic Symbol and what does each stand for wearing traditional hats korean High Koto Al Auden Vicany ceremonial drum in a rehear Tat Tor opening ceremony a Tho olympic Seoul simmers Down for t by Susan Chira new York times he Clang of construction that terms the background noise of Seoul will fall still As Seoul City of perpetual motion tries to tame itself for the olympic games. Construction firms working near olympic Sites have agreed to cat a temporary halt to the thud of jackhammers and Boom of pile Drivers that Herald Seoul s continual Divivo to reshape Itsell. But no measures can cloak entirely the controlled chaos and raw Energy that define South Korea s capital. Seoul is a place where cabdriver Careen around Corners daring other Drivers to gel out of the Way. Young men stand atop wooden boards piled High Wilh clothes clapping their hands to signal the Day s bargains. New buildings seem to Spring up monthly vast department stores Wilh 1u windows sparkling in the e vying for the most Labora much of this Energy is b preparations for the game olympic signboards i Over the cily pointing the venues. A huge wooden Tower if flags of All participating is the radio broadcasts or television airs cartoons on driving. The olympic Mast smiles from nags sign Tow thousands of other trinket the Llred stares of sold the ready stand As a Soler grinning Tiger. Braced Tor the terrorist olympics Are the olympic by Hal Bock associated press a fistful of the elite athletes who comprise America s olympic team have never competed against their soviet  that makes the 19bs games a special event Lor them. The 1984 olympics mean a lot to me. But those weren t True olympics says Maryt. Meagher who was in her swimming prime in 1980 when America boycotted the Moscow games and in 1984 when he soviets responded by staying away from the los Angeles olympics. Meagher set world records in the 100 and so meter Butterfly races in 1981, at age 16, and olympic records in the same two events at los Angeles at age 19. Now 23. Her three Gold medals from los Angeles Aren t quite enough. So she s Back in the water aiming for the East germans who were missing in 84. In a lot of ways. Yes. Having them there will make this Moie important Lor me she said. I m not As much in my prime As i was in 1980 and 1984, if 1 lose i won t be demolished. But my Best Competition is the East germans and in would mean a Lollo me to win Gold against them. There was a Little Emp there i gives me More in not my Lite anymore. I Don makes it Tough for  some swimmers Don t i one of those is Rick care medals from the 1984 Gai the olympics Are the there he said. I Don t i there Are no what its at in 1980,1 was there in 198 you can do about who a Carey mid the Preaor won t change his Outlook much he said. I made t i did t enjoy sitting end v them in 1984.1 knew wha the presence of the so have significant Impact or american olympians like Louganis. In t384, All my compe said. If the chinese had be  Page 14 the stars and stripes Friday sept  
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