Monday, February 18, 2013

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1) Who was the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal in the Winter Olympic games?

2) What is the hormone epinephrine also known as?

3) Name the Russian cosmonaut who flew the first manned space flight.

4) What did the U.S. Table Tennis Association want to call its sport?


Answers:

1) On February 18, 2006, American Shani Davis won the men's 1000 meter speed skating event in Turin.


2) Adrenaline

3) Yuri Gagarin, in 1961.


4) Ping-Pong, but Parker Brothers already owned the rights to the name.

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