Answers to Trivia Questions #1

1. C -- Milburn won 28 consecutive finals in the 120y/110m high hurdles.

2. B -- Moses won 107 consecutive finals in the 400m hurdles between 1977 and 1987.

3. A -- Milburn's win streak ended at the US Olympic Trials in 1972, where he was defeated by Tom Hill, and also by Willie Davenport, who finished second. Milburn, however, went on to win the gold at the Games.

4. C -- 1982 and 1985. He was hurt in 1982, and in 1985 he just took a mental health break.

5. C -- Danny Harris defeated Moses on June 4, 1987, in Madrid, Spain. Harris ran 47.56 to Moses' 47.67.

6. A -- Hot Rod. I hope you didn't put lightning rod for that one.

7. B -- Skeets. I hope you didn't put Scooter for that one.

8. C -- Ten. Check here for details.

9. A -- Five. Check here for details.

10. A -- heptathlon. She was pretty good at it too, and might still be planning to go back to it.

11. B -- University of Pittsburgh. In 1983, Kingdom upset the favored Willie Gault of Tennessee in the NCAA finals. That was the first major victory of Kingdom's career.

12. C -- .03. The 120y race, which is hardly ever contested anymore, is a few centimeters shorter than the 110m race.

13. A -- 1968. The Olympic Games that year marked the last time the women ran the shorter 80m distance over eight hurdles. Since then, they've run 100 meters over ten.

14. B -- Mark McKoy, in 1992. Drut was French, not Canadian. And Johnson was a sprinter, not a hurdler. He got busted for steroids anyway.

15. A -- Susanna Kallur of Sweden. Her sister Jenny, four minutes older than her, also runs the 100m hurdles.

16. C -- Jack Pierce. He fell at the first hurdle in the finals, which is why he didn't make the Olympic team. Harrington, too, ran very fast in the semis and then fell in the final.

17. C -- Florida State, fool. For you youngsters who don't remember her, she won the 400 hurdles at the 1995 World Championships in what was then a world record time of 52.61.

18. A -- Angelo Taylor of Georgia Tech won the 400h at the 2000 Games out of lane one, and hasn't been heard from since.

Rate yourself:
**15-18 correct answers: you are a true hurdle scholar.
**11-14 correct answers: not bad, but you've got some catching up to do.
**7-10 correct answers: you passed, but only because I'm a nice teacher and curved the quiz.
**6 -below correct answers: take up another event.

© 2006 Steve McGill