October 22, 2012: The Marathon |
The Marathon Champion
Barclay
Runner-Up
BarkerC
TODAY'S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS1.
What 2007 British film follows the story of a man who, five years after jilting his pregnant fiancee, decides to run a marathon in an attempt to win her back? 2.
In what newspaper did this 1967 photograph, which depicts a seminal moment in women's marathon running, first appear? Click here 3.
This (slightly redacted) souvenir comes from the Olympic marathon whose course, partly dictated by royal request, led to the standardization of the modern marathon distance as 26 miles, 385 yards. In what year did this marathon take place? Click here 4.
The current world record for the men's marathon, as acknowledged by the International Association of Athletics Federations -- 2 hours, 3 minutes, 38 seconds -- was accomplished in what city, whose landmarks include the Pergamon Museum and the Fernsehturm? 5.
What zoological term is used to describe runners like Paul Pilkington, who angered many fellow athletes when he won the 1994 Los Angeles Marathon because they had counted on him not to finish the race? 6.
Give the name of the ancient Greek hero that has been removed from this excerpt from an 1879 poem by Robert Browning: Unforeseeing one! Yes, he fought on the Marathon day: So, when Persia was dust, all cried 'To Akropolis! Run, ________, one race more!' 7.
Guor Marial was the only marathoner to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, as an athlete without a country. After the race, Marial said, 'In my heart here, I feel like I was carrying the flag of _____.' To what young nation was he referring -- country that does not have its own national Olympic committee and thus could not sponsor him as an athlete? 8.
This image shows a portion of the course of what city’s marathon? Click here 9.
More than 20 years after she became the first gold medalist in the women's Olympic marathon, Joan Benoit Samuelson served as a pace-setter for another athlete's first attempt to run 26.2 miles. Name that athlete -- who once dominated in another type of competition featuring much longer distances. 10.
What term -- also the name of a classic rock album -- is used to refer to the crushing fatigue that a marathon runner often experiences around the 20th mile of the race? 11.
Kurt Fearnley, Amanda McGrory, and Masazumi Soejima have all donned the laurel wreaths of New York City Marathon winners at least once. What other important distinction do they have in common? 12.
The person on the right is competing in a marathon that was a challenge on what reality television series? Click here How to read the One-Day scoreboard• For each player line, the top row is regular points, the bottom row is money points. • For each row, if a number > 0 appears in the cell, then that question was answered correctly. • If the cell is bold green, then the player receives that number of points (for the top row, every correct answer will be green; for the bottom, the green ones are the ones the player designated as Money Questions). • All correct answers are worth 15 points (top row); all questions designated as Money Questions are worth the percentage of players who answered incorrectly (bottom row). • The Total is the sum of all green numbers. |
