QUIZ # 5 (June,
2000)
Grand Prize:
a new pair of Ray Bans X5-ray sports shades.
Whoever gets the most correct answers wins. The closing date
is June 25th.
Send your entries to Toby at swoosh@onebox.com.
The Quiz
(General Hint: This
is a self-contained quiz --- all the hints are built in ...)
- On firsts --- Which athlete took
the coveted honor of becoming Nike's first track Olympic gold
medalist? Hint: In fact, he was very open about it
...
Answer: Steve Ovett was overt about receiving
the coveted medal ...
- On distance --- As the 2000 millenium
games approach Ron Clarke is back in the focus, what distance
did the Australian set his first Senior National record at?
Hint: It is NOT the 1500m, because that is not a millenial
race.
Answer: 2000m.
- On The Harriers ---
Way ago the New York Harriers had what token for the club subs?
Hint: You wouldn't want your runners to inhale all the auto
exhaust ...
Answer: Subway tokens.
- On different sports --- What sport
did the Mexican Benjamin Paredes try before turning to
marathoning success? Hint: He did make quite a few tries
before giving up ...
Answer: Rugby touchdowns are known as tries.
- On Shorter --- Frank incredibly
vied even with Kenya's Cosmas for how many sub 2:12 marathons?
Hint: Try to count without using Arabic numerals ...
Answer: VI (as in vied) is the roman numeral for
6.
- On cities --- Only one letter is
omitted out of Cierpinski's original name. Otherwise,
all of the letters are there to find out the name of the city
where the double Olympic champ ran his debut marathon.
Hint: It was a maratón which had not attained peace
yet ...
Answer: Kosice, where the Kosice Peace Marathon
(spelt maratón locally) is held today.
Tiebreaker: In September 1981 this
local runner from Westchester won the Cow Harbor 10 km. Who
is he, where does he live now and what is the name of his newly
born baby boy?
You can check out Toby's
earlier quiz # 1, quiz
# 2, quiz # 3 and quiz
# 4
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