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| 1 | Question: Who won the 1952 Olympic marathon, even though it was the first time he'd ever run a marathon? |
| Left: Emil Zatopek | |
| Right: Paavo Nurmi | |
| 2 | Question: What city's marathon ends in Copley Square in the Back Bay neighborhood? |
| Left: Boston Marathon | |
| Right: London Marathon | |
| 3 | Question: Shizo Kanakuri was reported missing to the police when he abandoned the marathon at this city's 1912 Olympics, but returned in 1966 to finish it, for a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds. What city was this? |
| Left: Chicago | |
| Right: Stockholm | |
| 4 | Question: Two Olympic team sports are played barefoot. One is water polo. Excluding the various swimming events, what is the other? |
| Left: Handball | |
| Right: Beach volleyball | |
| 5 | Question: What is the only Muslim city to have hosted an Olympic games? |
| Straight: Cairo | |
| Left: Sarajevo | |
| 6 | Question: What was the only new sport added to the 2008 Olympics? |
| Left: Baseball | |
| Right: BMX biking | |
| 7 | Question: Irina Merleni was the first woman awarded a gold medal in what sport, at the 2004 Summer Olympics? |
| Left: Wrestling | |
| Straight: Weightlifting | |
| 8 | Question: The unfortunately named Kim Yoo Suk competed as a pole-vaulter for what country at the 2004 Olympic Games? |
| Right: South Korea | |
| Straight: Malaysia | |
| Left: Taiwan | |
| 9 | Question: Edwin Moses and Mary Lou Retton shared the spotlight as SI Sportsmen of the Year for their standout performances at the Olympics in what year? |
| Right: 1984 | |
| Straight: 1988 | |
| 10 | Question: Roger Bannister may have broken the four-minute mile, but he always felt his greatest achievements were in what field, which he went into after sports? |
| Left: Neurology | |
| Straight: Sculpture | |
| 11 | Question: What athletic milestone tumbled for Roger Bannister on May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road Track in Oxford? |
| Straight: Six-foot long jump | |
| Right: Four-minute mile | |
| 12 | Question: On July 7, 1999, Hicham El Guerrouj set a record running in Rome when he ran the mile in just 3:43:13. What country was he from? |
| Straight: Kenya | |
| Left: Morocco | |
| 13 | Question: In 1978, Graham Salmon ran the 100 metres in 11.4 seconds. What was especially unusual about this? |
| Straight: He fell over dead afterward | |
| Right: He was being chased by a dog | |
| Left: He was blind | |
| 14 | Question: Derartu Tulu became the first black woman from Africa to win a gold medal, winning the 10,000 metres in 1992 for what country? |
| Left: South Africa | |
| Right: Ethiopia | |
| 15 | Question: People questioned the gender of Caster Semenya after her (his?) victories in track in Berlin in 2009 for what country? |
| Straight: Great Britain | |
| Left: South Africa | |
| 16 | Question: What future track star also helped the University of North Carolina win the NCAA title while on a basketball scholarship? |
| Left: Jackie Joyner | |
| Right: Marion Jones | |
| Straight: Florence Griffith-Joyner | |
| 17 | Question: Jim Thorpe was probably the greatest all-round athlete who ever lived. Where did he win gold in both the pentathlon and the decathlon, winning eight of the 15 events outright? |
| Left: Stockholm | |
| Right: Berlin | |
| 18 | Question: What name is shared by the first cyclist to bike a mile in under a minute and by an actor on Chappelle's Show? |
| Left: Paul Mooney | |
| Straight: Donnell Rawlings | |
| Right: Charles Murphy | |
| 19 | Question: In 2012, what formerly men-only Olympic sport decided to let women in on the medals? |
| Right: Boxing | |
| Left: Tennis | |
| 20 | Question: What city's Olympics were the first to greet teams from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia? |
| Right: Atlanta | |
| Straight: Seoul | |
| Left: Barcelona |