Q 01/05

The Seattle boathouse where the Boys in the Boat trained in the 1930s was built in 1918 as what?

A) A streetcar repair barn

B) A Navy seaplane hangar

C) A salmon cannery

D) A lumber mill warehouse

Answer · why

B) A Navy seaplane hangar

A Navy seaplane hangar went up on the campus shore during World War I, but the war ended within months and the Navy handed it to the university. The r...

Q 02/05

Which star, earlier the director of The Monuments Men, made the 2023 film The Boys in the Boat?

A) George Clooney

B) Denzel Washington

C) Ben Affleck

D) Ron Howard

Answer · why

A) George Clooney

George Clooney both produced and directed it, taking over an adaptation that had been in development since 2011, two years before the book was even pu...

Q 03/05

Besides a medal, the Boys in the Boat and other 1936 Olympic champions were given which living prize?

A) A laurel bush

B) A linden seedling

C) An oak sapling

D) A carrier pigeon

Answer · why

C) An oak sapling

An oak sapling, a year old, went with each of the 130 gold medals. Winners carried the trees home and planted them at schools, stadiums and parks.

Q 04/05

Which nation's eight took silver behind the Boys in the Boat in 1936, just ahead of host Germany?

A) Britain

B) Hungary

C) Canada

D) Italy

Answer · why

D) Italy

Italy finished six-tenths of a second behind the Americans, with Germany another four-tenths back, after a race lasting almost six and a half minutes.

Q 05/05

In which country were the Seattle and Berlin regatta scenes of the film The Boys in the Boat shot?

A) England

B) Canada

C) New Zealand

D) Ireland

Answer · why

A) England

England stood in for both: lakes at the Cotswold Water Park near Swindon became the campus waterfront and the Olympic course, with Oxford college rowe...