Q 01/05

The word 'gymnastics' comes from a Greek verb whose literal meaning is to train how?

A) Naked

B) Daily

C) In silence

D) With weights

Answer · why

A) Naked

Ancient athletes exercised without clothing, and the adjective gymnos simply meant nude.

Q 02/05

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, whose 1811 gymnastics movement invented the parallel bars, was from which country?

A) Sweden

B) Germany

C) Austria

D) Denmark

Answer · why

B) Germany

The vault horse also came out of the same Turnen movement.

Q 03/05

The Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) was founded in 1881 in which city?

A) Paris

B) Lausanne

C) Liege

D) Brussels

Answer · why

C) Liege

That makes it older than the International Olympic Committee, which was formed in 1894.

Q 04/05

Men's gymnastics was included in the very first modern Olympic Games, held in which year?

A) 1896

B) 1900

C) 1908

D) 1912

Answer · why

A) 1896

Women had to wait until 1928 in Amsterdam, and even then their competition was limited to synchronized calisthenics and track and field.

Q 05/05

The first women's Olympic gymnastics competition was held in 1928 in which host city?

A) Paris

B) Los Angeles

C) Berlin

D) Amsterdam

Answer · why

D) Amsterdam

Olympic apparatus and events for men and women were not standardized into the modern format until 1954.