Q 01/05

What did Californian surfers originally call skateboarding?

A) Concrete surfing

B) Street riding

C) Sidewalk surfing

D) Board cruising

Answer · why

C) Sidewalk surfing

Sidewalk surfing: surfers took it up as something to ride when the waves were flat, and carried their surfing moves over to the pavement.

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) Water skis with pram wheels

Answer · why

A) Boxes or boards with roller-skate wheels

Boxes or boards with roller-skate wheels: children first nailed the wheels of old skates under a plank with a crate on the front as a scooter, and the...

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

Polyurethane gripped the road where the old clay and steel wheels skidded; he named his company Cadillac Wheels after the smooth ride, and the sport's...

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

Empty swimming pools: households drained them to save water, and skaters who hopped the fences found that the curved concrete walls let them ride up t...

Q 05/05

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

A) La Jolla

B) Huntington Beach

C) Santa Monica

D) Malibu

Answer · why

C) Santa Monica

Santa Monica: the shop stood at the rundown southern end of town, in a strip the locals called Dogtown that its co-owner remembered as a seaside slum,...