Q 01/05

What did Californian surfers originally call skateboarding?

A) Board cruising

B) Street riding

C) Sidewalk surfing

D) Pavement paddling

Answer · why

C) Sidewalk surfing

Early skaters rode barefoot and copied surfing moves, and the first manufactured boards were ordered by a Los Angeles surf shop.

Q 02/05

What were the very first skateboards made from?

A) Boxes or boards with roller-skate wheels

B) Cut-down surfboards with bicycle wheels

C) Sheet metal with wagon wheels

D) Ironing boards with casters

Answer · why

A) Boxes or boards with roller-skate wheels

The rough home-made contraptions date to the late 1940s or early 1950s.

Q 03/05

In the early 1970s Frank Nasworthy revived skateboarding by developing wheels made from what material?

A) Polyurethane

B) Hard rubber

C) Fired clay

D) Cast steel

Answer · why

A) Polyurethane

He called his company Cadillac Wheels; modern wheels are extremely hard, around 99A on the durometer scale.

Q 04/05

A 1976 California drought helped launch "vert" skating because skaters started riding what?

A) Empty swimming pools

B) Dry riverbeds

C) Drained reservoirs

D) Storm drains

Answer · why

A) Empty swimming pools

Ty Page, Bruce Logan and the Z-Boys were among the first to carve the vertical walls of pools left empty by water restrictions.

Q 05/05

The Z-Boys skate team was sponsored by a surf shop in which California neighbourhood?

A) La Jolla

B) Huntington Beach

C) Santa Monica

D) Malibu

Answer · why

C) Santa Monica

Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the shop in 1973 and recruited local kids from the "Dogtown" area.