Let’s get quizzical
Know your Olympics, do you? Well, here’s your chance to go for gold. It’s Stuff’s 75-question quiz on New Zealand Olympic feats. Today, the first 15 (answers at the bottom of the page). . .
1. Who was the first New Zealander to win an Olympic medal?
2. Who was the first woman to represent NZ at an Olympic Games?
3. Who won a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and later become NZ’S Governor General?
4. When Arthur Porritt was portrayed in the movie Chariots of Fire, what pseudonym was used for his character?
5. Ted Morgan won gold in the welterweight class at the 1928 Amsterdam Games, while battling what injury?
6. Which Kiwi athlete finished fourth in the men’s 5000m and 10,000m finals at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics?
7. New Zealander Billy Savidan later had the same job as Malcolm Champion, who won gold as part of the Australasia team at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. What was it?
8. What small South Island west coast town was 1936 Berlin Olympics men’s 1500m gold medallist Jack Lovelock born in?
9. Who was the radio commentator who excitedly described Lovelock’s victory?
10. Which NZ runner was favoured to win a medal in the 1948 London Olympics until he suffered a torn Achilles while contesting his semifinal (the result of being spiked by a rival’s shoe during his heat)?
11. Yvette Williams was the first NZ woman to win Olympic gold. She also finished sixth and 10th in which other events at the 1952 Helsinki Games?
12. Peter Mander and Jack Cropp won gold in the Sharpie sailing class at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics on a countback after their rivals from which country were disqualified in the final race?
13. Peter Snell won his first Olympic gold medal at the Rome 1960 Games, beating Roger Moens in the men’s 800m final. What country was Moens representing?
14. Murray Halberg became a gold medallist at the 1960 Rome Olympics despite having a withered arm from an injury suffered as a youth playing which sport?
15. Who was the first NZ woman to win an Olympic medal on the track?