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 Wilma Rudolph's left leg in a brace for years?

A) Rickets

B) Polio

C) Tuberculosis

D) Rheumatic fever

Answer · why

B) Polio

Polio weakened her left leg and foot, and doctors doubted she would ever walk normally; she had already survived double pneumonia and scarlet fever.

Q 03/05

Rudolph was born in 1940 in Saint Bethlehem, just outside which Tennessee city where she grew up?

A) Memphis

B) Chattanooga

C) Clarksville

D) Knoxville

Answer · why

C) Clarksville

Clarksville became home soon after her birth in nearby Saint Bethlehem on 23 June 1940; the city later named a boulevard after her and raised a life-s...

Q 04/05

Rudolph's siblings took turns doing what to her weakened leg every day?

A) Massaging it

B) Icing it

C) Bandaging it

D) Splinting it

Answer · why

A) Massaging it

Massaging it was a family job: her mother learned the routine from hospital staff and taught the older children, who worked on the leg several times a...

Q 05/05

Rudolph travelled about 50 miles for regular treatment at which Black medical college in Nashville?

A) Meharry

B) Fisk

C) Morehouse

D) Howard

Answer · why

A) Meharry

Meharry Medical College gave her leg heat and water therapy; she and her mother made the trip for two years because her hometown offered Black patient...