athlete
Athletes train for physical performance in competitive or recreational sports. This topic is part of General Sports within Sports. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
athlete trivia questions
A person trained or skilled in sports is commonly called what?
Answer: Athlete
Bonus fact: Athletes train for physical performance in competitive or recreational sports.
In the ancient Olympic Games, athletes competed at Olympia in honor of which Greek god?
Answer: Zeus
Bonus fact: The ancient Olympic festival at Olympia was held in honor of Zeus.
The word “athlete” comes from a Greek word related to competing for what?
Answer: A prize
Bonus fact: The Greek athlētēs referred to a contestant or competitor for a prize.
Athlete's foot is usually caused by what type of organism?
Answer: Fungus
Bonus fact: Dermatophyte fungi commonly cause athlete's foot.
At the Olympic Games, when is an athlete's national anthem typically played?
Answer: During the medal ceremony for a gold medal
Bonus fact: The winner's flag is raised while the anthem is played.
Which athlete revolutionized high jumping with the back-to-the-bar technique that became known as the 'Fosbury Flop'?
Answer: Dick Fosbury
Bonus fact: Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic high jump with an Olympic-record 2.24 metres.
Who became the first athlete to win four consecutive Olympic gold medals in the same individual event?
Answer: Al Oerter
Bonus fact: Oerter won the discus at the 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968 Olympics.
Who is the only athlete to have won Olympic gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Games?
Answer: Eddie Eagan
Bonus fact: Eagan won boxing gold in 1920 and four-man bobsleigh gold in 1932.
Who became the first Black athlete to win an Olympic sprint gold medal, at Los Angeles 1932?
Answer: Eddie Tolan
Bonus fact: Tolan won both the 100m and 200m at the 1932 Olympics.
Which athlete won wrestling gold at the 1896 Olympics and also won three gymnastics events at those Games?
Answer: Carl Schuhmann
Bonus fact: Schuhmann won the unlimited-class Greco-Roman wrestling tournament in Athens.
Which Norwegian won Olympic ski jumping gold in 1924 and later an Olympic sailing silver medal in 1936?
Answer: Jacob Tullin Thams
Bonus fact: Thams became the second athlete to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Michael Phelps won his Olympic medals in which sport?
Answer: Swimming
Bonus fact: Michael Phelps won more Olympic gold medals than any other athlete.