Q 01/05

At which Olympic Games did Wilma Rudolph win her three gold medals?

A) Tokyo 1964

B) Melbourne 1956

C) Rome 1960

D) Mexico City 1968

Answer · why

C) Rome 1960

She won the 100 metres, the 200 metres and the 4 x 100 relay, becoming the first American woman to take three golds at one Games.

Q 02/05

Which childhood disease left Rudolph wearing a leg brace until she was 12?

A) Rickets

B) Polio

C) Tuberculosis

D) Rheumatic fever

Answer · why

B) Polio

She had also survived pneumonia and scarlet fever, and lost strength in her left leg and foot.

Q 03/05

Rudolph was born prematurely in 1940 in Saint Bethlehem, now part of which Tennessee city?

A) Memphis

B) Chattanooga

C) Clarksville

D) Knoxville

Answer · why

C) Clarksville

She weighed 4.5 pounds at birth; her father was a railway porter and her mother a maid.

Q 04/05

Rudolph was the 20th of how many children from her father's two marriages?

A) 22

B) 24

C) 28

D) 31

Answer · why

A) 22

Her siblings later gave her massage treatments four times a day to help her weakened leg.

Q 05/05

Rudolph and her mother took weekly bus trips for treatment at which Black medical college in Nashville?

A) Meharry

B) Fisk

C) Morehouse

D) Howard

Answer · why

A) Meharry

There was little medical care available to African Americans in Clarksville in the 1940s, and Nashville was about 50 miles away.