Q 01/05

Joyner-Kersee won the 1991 world long jump title in which city, days before Mike Powell broke Bob Beamon's record there?

A) Stuttgart

B) Tokyo

C) Helsinki

D) Osaka

Answer · why

B) Tokyo

Tokyo. Days after her win, Carl Lewis beat Beamon's mark with the wind at his back, only for Powell to answer on his next jump with 8.95 m, legal and ...

Q 02/05

Joyner-Kersee won her sixth and last Olympic medal on home soil, in which city?

A) Los Angeles

B) Atlanta

C) Montreal

D) Mexico City

Answer · why

B) Atlanta

Atlanta. Injured and out of the heptathlon, she jumped into the bronze-medal place with the very last leap of her Olympic career, which her husband ca...

Q 03/05

In which Illinois city was Jackie Joyner born in 1962?

A) Springfield

B) Rockford

C) East St. Louis

D) Champaign

Answer · why

C) East St. Louis

East St. Louis. In 1988 she set up a foundation for children growing up in the same hard-pressed city, and a youth centre there now carries her name.

Q 04/05

After whom was the future champion, born Jacqueline Joyner, named?

A) Jackie Robinson

B) Jackie Bisset

C) Jackie Kennedy

D) Jackie Wilson

Answer · why

C) Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy. Her grandmother insisted on the First Lady's name, saying: 'Some day this girl will be the first lady of something.'

Q 05/05

A film about which multi-sport star inspired the young Joyner to take up combined events?

A) Fanny Blankers-Koen

B) Babe Didrikson Zaharias

C) Billie Jean King

D) Wilma Rudolph

Answer · why

B) Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Didrikson Zaharias. The film showed an Olympic track champion of 1932 who went on to conquer professional golf, and the young Joyner set out to b...