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. Who is Jackie Robinson?
He wanted to break racial segregation in baseball.
a. Milton Crane
b. Branch Rickey
c. Orville Sutter
d. Clancy Dobbs
b. Who is Branch Rickey?
The type of athlete that can take a toll on your health.
a. A professional athlete
b. A young athlete
c. An old athlete
d. An amateur athlete
a. What is a professional athlete?
The year and country the Paralympics was held and where teams 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. 1984
b. 1985
c. 1986
d. 1987
b. What happened in 1985?
The girl who lost her arm to a shark when surfing.
a. Emily Harrison
b. Lindsay Harper
c. Bethany Hamilton
d. Emily Carter
c. Who is Bethany Hamilton?
When people of different color and race live in the same areas and work together.
a. Integration
b. Equality
c. desegregation
d. segregation
a. What is integration?
A country that encourages young athletes to train to an extreem degree.
a. USA
b. Korea
c. Thailand
d. China
d. What is China?
The country that the athletes came from that cheated at the Paralympics.
a. Portugal
b. France
c. Italy
d. Spain
d. What is Spain?
The number of Juventus and Liverpool fans in the Heysel stadium.
a. More than 45,000 fans
b. More than 50,000 fans
c. More than 55,000 fans
d. More than 60,000 fans
d. What is more than 60.000 fans?
A group of state and local laws that discriminated against black people and segregated Whites and Blacks in America.
a. John Doe Laws
b. Jim Crow Laws
c. Morgan Lee Laws
d. Taylor Brooks Laws
b. What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The captain of the team that put his arm around Robinson when the fans' 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?
The amount of hours and days olympic gymnasts train in China 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 handicap Spanish teams at the Paralympics said they had.
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 at the Heysel Disaster.
a. 2 - 0 to Liverpool
b. 1 - 0 to Juventus
c. 2 - 0 to Juventus
d. 1 - 0 to Liverpool
b. What is 1 - 0 to Juventus?
The years the Jim Crow Laws were in effect.
a. 1876 to 1965
b. 1745 to 1876
c. 1965 to 1992
d. 1802 to 1865
a. What is 1876 to 1965?
The institution Robinson was honorably discharged from earlier in his life because he refused to sit in the back of the bus.
a. The military
b. High school
c. The Police Academy
d. University
a. What is the military?
The sports disciplin where it is not unusual for young girls to starve themselves.
a. Ballet
b. Soccer
c. Running
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. 5 years
b. 6 years
c. 7 years
d. 8 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?
The movement Robinson became a leader of (he was not the only leader) when he stopped playing baseball.
a. The Women's Rights Movement
b. The Environmental Movement
c. The Civil Rights Movement
d. The Indian Movement
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
A country that has 3000 government-run schools that are strictly devoted to young athletes.
a. China
b. Korea
c. Thailand
d. USA
a. What is China?
The number of athletes at Sydney that had no type of physical or mental handicap.
a. 14
b. 15
c. 16
d. 18
b. What is 15?
The number of years Andrew Nicholls was a hooligan.
a. 25 years
b. 30 years
c. 35 years
d. 36 years
b. What is 30 years?