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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Al Ulbrickson's wife?
(a) Maria Ulbrickson.
(b) Idiria Ulbrickson.
(c) Hazel Ulbrickson.
(d) Sarah Ulbrickson.

2. What lake is used by Princeton University's rowing team?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Montlake Cut.
(c) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(d) Lake Carnegie.

3. How many acres was the site of the Reichssportfeld in 1933?
(a) 256 acres.
(b) 150 acres.
(c) 325 acres.
(d) 78 acres.

4. What did Joyce do after turning off the radio when the Americans won the men's eights at the 1936 Olympics?
(a) She called her mother.
(b) She called Joe.
(c) She made sandwiches.
(d) She called her father.

5. How old did Adolf Hitler turn on April 20, 1936?
(a) 52.
(b) 36.
(c) 41.
(d) 47.

6. What is the name of the lake where the Olympic rowing, canoeing, and kayaking events were held in the 1936 Olympics?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(c) Montlake Cut.
(d) Baalensee.

7. What book did the Reich League of German Officials have hand-transcribed as a birthday gift for Adolf Hitler on April 20, 1947?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) Olympia.
(c) Zweites Buch.
(d) Ulysses.

8. What was the name of the University of Washington's football team before they became the Huskies?
(a) The Brewskies.
(b) The Gold Miners.
(c) The Sea Dolphins.
(d) The Sun Dodgers.

9. Who was the president of both the AAU and the American Olympic Committee in 1935?
(a) Avery Brundage.
(b) Charlie McDonald.
(c) Ed Stanley.
(d) Byron Noble.

10. Who was the champion sculler from the 1904 Olympics that attended the 1936 Olympic trials for rowing?
(a) Charlie McDonald.
(b) Constance Titus.
(c) Lloyd Saxton.
(d) Jim Wray.

11. Who was the head of Cornell's rowing program at the Olympic trials in 1936?
(a) Charlie McDonald.
(b) Lloyd Saxton.
(c) Ed Stanley.
(d) Jim Wray.

12. Who was the coxswain for the British crew at the 1936 Olympic Games?
(a) John Noel Duckworth.
(b) Avery Brundage.
(c) Ed Stanley.
(d) Gordy Adam.

13. What was the name of the ship that the University of Washington crew took to Europe in 1936?
(a) The SS Manhattan.
(b) The SS Maryland.
(c) The SS Boston.
(d) The SS Olympia.

14. What business had Johnny White's father run until the financial crash of 1929?
(a) A scrap steel export business.
(b) A bakery.
(c) A Las Vegas casino.
(d) A logging company.

15. What was the name of Johnny White's mother?
(a) Doris White.
(b) Dorothy White.
(c) Elizabeth White.
(d) Maimie White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Fritz Kreisler born?

2. What two lanes of the racecourse at Grunau were exposed to prevailing winds and could be at times unrowable?

3. Who was the twenty-two-year-old heavyweight boxer from Detroit that rose to prominence against Max Schmeling in 1936?

4. Who was the NBC announcer that screamed the details of the crew regatta over KOMO's airwaves in Seattle during the 1936 Olympic Games?

5. What was Bobby Moch's weight in 1936?

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