Q 01/05

Huang Xuechen won seven Olympic artistic swimming medals, level with the all-time record, without ever winning what?

A) A team medal

B) A gold medal

C) A duet medal

D) A silver medal

Answer · why

B) A gold medal

A gold medal. She collected five silvers and two bronzes across four Olympics from 2008 to 2020, finishing behind the same unbeaten rivals in every fi...

Q 02/05

Swimming's world governing body, now called World Aquatics, was known for more than a century by which acronym?

A) UCI

B) FIG

C) FISA

D) FINA

Answer · why

D) FINA

FINA. Delegates from eight nations, in London for the 1908 Olympics, formed it so that swimming would have one set of rules and an official list of wo...

Q 03/05

Which sport made its Olympic debut alongside synchronised swimming in 1984?

A) Beach volleyball

B) Rhythmic gymnastics

C) Modern pentathlon

D) Softball

Answer · why

B) Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics. The two arrived together in Los Angeles, and by Rio 2016 they were the only Olympic disciplines still closed to men, until artist...

Q 04/05

From 1952 until its 1984 medal debut, synchronised swimming appeared at the Olympics only as what?

A) An opening ceremony act

B) A demonstration event

C) A Paralympic sport

D) An art competition entry

Answer · why

B) A demonstration event

A demonstration event. American and Canadian swimmers first showed it off in Helsinki, and it took a campaign of some 30 years to turn those exhibitio...

Q 05/05

Kay Curtis, often called the mother of synchronised swimming, presented her 'Modern Mermaids' at which city's 1934 World's Fair?

A) St. Louis

B) San Francisco

C) Chicago

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

C) Chicago

Chicago. Curtis had started a water ballet club at the city's university in 1923, and her fair show gave the new pastime a big audience and a name tha...