What Do You Think You Know About Bobsleigh
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Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four teammates make times runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. The times runs are combines to calculate the final score.
Questions and Answers
- 1.The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in?
- A.
Athens
- B.
Accra
- C.
Netherlands
- D.
St. Mortiz
- 2.All three types were adapted from boys’ delivery sleds and?
- A.
Sweater
- B.
Leggings
- C.
Toboggans
- D.
None of the above
- 3.International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the?
- A.
FIFA
- B.
UEFA
- C.
FIBT
- D.
IIFA
- 4.The name is derived from the action some early competitors adopted of?
- A.
Bobbing
- B.
Band and forth
- C.
Increase speed
- D.
A and B only
- 5.The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) was founded in the year?
- A.
1940
- B.
1933
- C.
1923
- D.
1930
- 6.The men two-man Bobsleigh event was added in the year?
- A.
1937
- B.
1934
- C.
1932
- D.
1933
- 7.Women bobsleigh competition began in the US in the year?
- A.
1933
- B.
1980
- C.
1987
- D.
1983
- 8.Women’s two-woman bobsleigh made its Olympic debut at the?
- A.
2002 winter Olympics
- B.
2004 winter Olympics
- C.
2008 winter Olympics
- D.
2012 winter Olympics
- 9.The two country that has proved most successful by overall success in Europe, world cup and Olympic championships are?
- A.
Germany and Switzerland
- B.
England and Turkey
- C.
Austria and Greece
- D.
Spain and France
- 10.Bobsleigh can attain speeds of 150 km/h, with the reported world record being?
- A.
201km/h
- B.
100 km/h
- C.
150 km/h
- D.
250 km/h
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