Admirable Athletes
The first black player to play in the America Major League.
a. Jackie Thompson
b. Jackie Robinson
c. Jackie Johnson
d. Jackie Anderson
b. Jackie Robinson
He wanted to break racial segregation in baseball.
a. Milton Crane
b. Branch Rickey
c. Orville Sutter
d. Clancy Dobbs
b. Whos is Branch Rickey?
This type of athlete can take a toll on your health.
a. A professional athlete
b. A young athlete
c. An old athlete
a. What is a professional athlete?
At the Paralympic in this country and year a team cheated.
a. The 2012 Olympic in Glasgow
b. The 2008 Paralympics in Auckland
c. The 2004 Olympics in Orlando
d. The 2000 Paralympics in Sydney
d. What are the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney?
The year the Hesel disaster happened.
a. What happened in 1984?
b. What happened in 1985?
c. What happened in 1986?
b. What happened in 1985?
She lost har arm to a shark when surfing.
a. Emily Harrison
b. Lindsay Harper
c. Bethany Hamilton
c. Who is Bethany Hamilton?
When people of different colors or races live in the same areas and work together.
a. Integration
b. Equality
c. desegregation
d. segregation
a. What is integration?
This country encourages young athletes to extreem degree, according the text you've read.
a. USA
b. Korea
c. Thailand
d. China
d. What is China?
What country did the athletes come from that cheated at Paralympics?
a. Portugal
b. France
c. Italy
d. Spain
d. What is Spain?
The number of Juventus and Liverpool fans were in the Heysel stadium.
a. What is more than 45.000 fans?
b. What is more than 60.000 fans?
c. What is more than 70.000 fans?
b. What is more than 60.000 fans?
A group of state and local laws that discriminated against black people and segregated people in America.
a. John Doe Laws
b. Jim Crow Laws
c. Morgan Lee Laws
d. Taylor Brooks Laws
b. What are the Jim Crow?
The captain of the team that put his arm around Robinson when the fan's heckling of him became intolerable.
a. Bubba Joe Knox
b. Dizzy Earl McCoy
c. Dusty Lee Rawlins
d. Pee Wee Reese
d. Who is Pee Wee Reese?
Olympic gymnasts in China train this much a week.
a. 6 hours, 7 days a week
b. 7 hours, 6 days a week
c. 8 hours a day, 6 days a week
d. 5 hours, 7 days a week
c. What is 8 hours a day, 6 days a week?
The team at the Paralympics said they had this handicap.
a. A motor skills handicap
b. An intellectual handicap
c. A balance handicap
d. A linguistical handicap
b. What is an intellectual handicap?
The result of the game between Juventus and Liverpool.
a. What is 2 - 0 to Liverpool?
b. What is 1 - 0 to Juventus?
c. What is 2 - 0 to Juventus?
b. What is 1 - 0 to Juventus?
The Jim Crow Laws were in affect between this years.
a. 1876 and 1965
b. 1745 and 1876
c. 1965 and 1992
d. 1802 and 1865
a. What is 1876 and 1965?
Robinson was honorably discharged from this institution earlier in his life because he refused to sit in the back bus.
a. The military
b. High school
c. The Police Academy
d. University
a. What is the military?
a. Ballet
b. Soccer
c. Running events
d. Tennis
a. What is ballet?
The handicap athletes in the categories: track and field, tennis and swimming, said they had, but didn't.
a. A motor skills handicap
b. An intellectual handicap
c. A balance handicap
d. A linguistical handicap
b. What is an intellectual handicap?
The number of years English football clubs were banned from european football after the Heysel disaster.
a. What is 5 years?
b. What is 6 years?
c. What is 7 years?
a. What is 5 years?
He was the sports executive for the Brooklyn Dodgers and brought Jackie Robinson there.
a. Harlan Griggs
b. Clem Radley
c. Vernon Tate
d. Branch Rickey
d. Who is Branch Rickey?
When Robinson was done playing baseball, he became a leader in this movement.
a. The women's rights movement
b. The environment movement
c. The civil rights movement
d. The indian movement
What is the civil rights movement?
This country has 3000 government-run schools that are strictly devoted to young ahtletes.
a. China
b. Korea
c. Thailand
d. USA
a. What is China?
At least this many athletes at Sydney had no type of physical or mental handicap.
a. 15
a. 14
b. 16
c. 18
a. What is 15?
The number of years Andrew Nicholls was a hooligan.
a. What is 25 years?
b. What is 30 years?
c. What is 35 years?
b. What is 30 years?