Q 01/05

Jet Ski, a name used loosely for any personal watercraft, is actually a product line of which maker?

A) Kawasaki

B) Honda

C) Suzuki

D) Bombardier

Answer · why

A) Kawasaki

Kawasaki built the Jet Ski on a stand-up design by Clayton Jacobson II, a motocross rider who had first licensed his sit-down version to Bombardier, m...

Q 02/05

Righting a capsized hunting craft unaided from inside it, a skill of Greenland's Inuit hunters, was long known as what?

A) Eskimo rescue

B) Eskimo roll

C) Low brace

D) Duffek stroke

Answer · why

B) Eskimo roll

Eskimo roll is the older name for the roll, a survival skill: a 1911 Greenland survey found 867 of 2,228 hunters with their own boats could do it.

Q 03/05

In surfing and other board sports, what is a rider who stands with the right foot forward called?

A) Regular

B) Natural

C) Goofy

D) Mongo

Answer · why

C) Goofy

Goofy riders lead with the right foot, the mirror of the regular stance; riding with the unfamiliar foot forward is called switch, and street skateboa...

Q 04/05

Olympic triathletes swam in which river in 2024, after failed pollution tests delayed the men's race by a day?

A) Marne

B) Oise

C) Loire

D) Seine

Answer · why

D) Seine

The Seine had been closed to bathers since 1923, and a clean-up costing about €1.4 billion was meant to make it fit for the Games; the men's race stil...

Q 05/05

Which nation's divers won all eight golds at Paris 2024, the first sweep of the full eight-event programme?

A) China

B) Mexico

C) Canada

D) Russia

Answer · why

A) China

China had fallen one gold short at both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, beaten each time in a men's synchronised event; in Paris the runner-up nation took fi...