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

Seoul was the first to use the same host city and most of the same venues, a precedent formalised by an IOC-IPC agreement in 2001.

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

Guttmann ran the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and every torch relay now begins there.

Q 03/05

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

A) Ludwig Guttmann

B) Antonio Maglio

C) Robert Steadward

D) Otfrid Foerster

Answer · why

A) Ludwig Guttmann

He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966, and had once saved 60 of 64 Jewish patients from deportation by admitting them without question after K...

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

All the participants were paralysed patients, and Guttmann's aim was an elite competition equivalent to the Olympics.

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

They were also the ninth Stoke Mandeville Games, and were largely financed by an Italian workers' accident insurance fund.