Q 01/05

Weissmuller won five Olympic golds with a high-riding version of which stroke?

A) Butterfly

B) Breaststroke

C) Front crawl

D) Backstroke

Answer · why

C) Front crawl

Front crawl: he rode it with his chest high out of the water, a style credited with revolutionising freestyle swimming in the 1920s, and titled his 19...

Q 02/05

Weissmuller won three golds at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the Games dramatised in which film?

A) Chariots of Fire

B) Cool Runnings

C) The Boys in the Boat

D) Eddie the Eagle

Answer · why

A) Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire follows Britain's sprinters at the same Paris Games, where Weissmuller's three golds included a narrow win over Sweden's distance sta...

Q 03/05

Weissmuller's Olympic bronze medal came in which team sport?

A) Rowing

B) Water polo

C) Football

D) Basketball

Answer · why

B) Water polo

Water polo: the bronze came in Paris in 1924, within days of his three swimming golds, which made him a medallist in two sports at a single Games.

Q 04/05

Weissmuller was born in 1904 in Szabadfalva, then part of which kingdom?

A) Prussia

B) Hungary

C) Bavaria

D) Serbia

Answer · why

B) Hungary

Hungary ruled the Banat village then; today it is Freidorf, a district of Timișoara in Romania. He was seven months old when his family sailed for Ame...

Q 05/05

Weissmuller later admitted the tale that swimming cured his sickly boyhood was put about to do what?

A) Sell swimsuits

B) Inspire children

C) Hide his real age

D) Win him film roles

Answer · why

B) Inspire children

Inspire children: he told Sports Illustrated in 1970 that the yarn was 'something we put out to inspire the kids', adding that he had been skinny but ...