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Weightlifting Quiz
2. Which of the following is not a class in Men's Olympic Weightlifting? a. Flyweight b. Bantomweight c. Middleweight d. Super Heavyweight
3. What was unique about Khadr Sayed El Touni's gold medal-winning performance at the 1936 Berlin Games? a. He was the first Egyptian to win an Olympic medal b. He set World Records in every category c. His records are still standing d. A Middleweight, his final weight was more than the Light Heavyweight champion
4. After winning a silver medal at the 1948 London Olympics, Harold Sakata earned greater renown as a James Bond villain. Which one? a. Dr. No b. Oddjob c. Goldfinger d. Jaws
5. Athletes from what adversarial countries shared the medal stand for the first time following the featherweight competition at the 1984 Los Angeles Games? a. China and Taiwan b. Israel and Syria c. East and West Germany d. Russia and Hungary
6. Which of the following facts is not true about Turkish featherweight Naim Suleymanoglu? a. He is the first weightlifter to win gold medals in his weight class in three straight Olympiads b. The Turkish government paid the Bulgarian government $1,000,000 to allow the Bulgarian defector to compete in the 1988 Seoul Games c. The Turkish government has put his image on its currency d. He claims to smoke 50 cigarettes a day 'to find my inner peace'
7. Tamio 'Tommy' Kono, who started weightlifting while his family was held in a detention camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, won medals in three different categories in three different Olympics. At what weight class did he not medal? a. Lightweight b. Middleweight c. Light Heavyweight d. Middle Heavyweight
8. Who was the first Olympic weightlifter to lift over 600 kg in combined weight? a. Vassily Alekseyev b. Rudolf Mang c. Leonid Zhabotynsky d. Paul Anderson
9. Who is the heaviest lifter ever to compete in the Olympics? a. Vassily Alekseyev b. Mark Henry c. Gerd Bonk d. Jiri Zubricky
10. When women's weightlifting debuts in Sydney, how many weight classes will there be? a. 2 b. 5 c. 7 d. 10
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