Q 01/05

How many Olympic gold medals did Weissmuller win in total?

A) Three

B) Five

C) Seven

D) Nine

Answer · why

B) Five

He added 52 US national titles and 67 world records and retired unbeaten.

Q 02/05

At which two Olympic Games did Weissmuller win his swimming golds?

A) Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924

B) Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928

C) Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932

D) Stockholm 1912 and Antwerp 1920

Answer · why

B) Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928

He won the 100 m freestyle and the 4 x 200 m relay at both Games, plus the 400 m freestyle in Paris.

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

He won it in Paris in 1924 as a member of the US national team.

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

His Banat Swabian family took him through Ellis Island in January 1905, when he was seven months old, and settled first in Windber, Pennsylvania.

Q 05/05

Which disease, contracted at age nine, led a doctor to recommend that young Weissmuller take up swimming?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Polio

C) Rheumatic fever

D) Scarlet fever

Answer · why

B) Polio

His first lessons were at Fullerton Beach on Lake Michigan in Chicago.