Q 01/05

Since 1988, when are the Paralympics held relative to the Olympics?

A) At exactly the same time

B) In the year between Summer and Winter Olympics

C) Shortly after them, in the same host city

D) Six months before them

Answer · why

C) Shortly after them, in the same host city

Since the 1988 Summer Games the Paralympics have followed the Olympics in the same host city, opening shortly after them; London 2012's Paralympics op...

Q 02/05

The 1948 competition that grew into the Paralympics was for British war veterans with what kind of injury?

A) Amputated limbs

B) Spinal cord injuries

C) Blindness from gas

D) Shell shock

Answer · why

B) Spinal cord injuries

Spinal cord injuries: Guttmann directed the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and the 1948 games were an archery contest b...

Q 03/05

Which German-Jewish neurologist, a refugee from Nazi Germany, founded the games at Stoke Mandeville Hospital?

A) Ludwig Guttmann

B) Kurt Goldstein

C) Robert Steadward

D) Otfrid Foerster

Answer · why

A) Ludwig Guttmann

Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist who fled Breslau for Britain in 1939, was knighted in 1966; after Kristallnacht in 1938 he admitted 64 Jewish men to hi...

Q 04/05

The first Stoke Mandeville Games were held on 29 July 1948, the same day as what?

A) VJ Day celebrations

B) The founding of the NHS

C) The opening of the London Olympics

D) The Berlin Airlift's start

Answer · why

C) The opening of the London Olympics

The opening of the London Olympics: the first Stoke Mandeville Games took place on 29 July 1948, the day the 1948 Olympic Games opened at Wembley Stad...

Q 05/05

In which city were the first official Paralympic Games held in 1960?

A) Heidelberg

B) London

C) Tokyo

D) Rome

Answer · why

D) Rome

Rome staged the first Paralympics from 18 to 25 September 1960; they doubled as the ninth International Stoke Mandeville Games and were backed by INAI...