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Sports Quiz
Horse and Car Racing
May brings the Kentucky Derby, the horse race called “the most exciting two minutes in sports.” It also brings the Indianapolis 500, the most important car race of all. So what do these things have to do with being Jewish? Well, it just so happens that many racing champs are Jewish!
1. In just four years (1904-1909), Walter Miller won 1,094 horse races! And he even won ____ of them in a row, a record never broken in almost 100 years.
2. Another Walter— Walter Blum— won back-to-back American riding championships in 1963 and 1964. He is one of only six riders ever to win more than _____ races in his career.
3. In 1908, Georges Stern, who was born in France, won three national derbies in one year. Which country’s derby did he not win?
4. Willie Harmatz was a leading jockey for 20 years. He rode in all of the three greatest horse races, together called the "Triple Crown." Which race is not a Triple Crown race?
5. Hirsch Jacobs was not a rider, but a successful owner who bred and trained his own horses. He turned many losing horses around, saddling more wininng throroughbreds than anyone in:
6. Jody Scheckter was the Formula One racer who won the World Championship in ’79. Jody is a man, but that’s a common man’s name in his home country of:
7. Peter Revson competed in every Indy 500 from 1969-73, once finshing second, and won the British and Canadian Grand Prix races. He also was the first American to win the Can-Am Championship, which is short for:
8. In 1941, Mauri Rose had to pull out of the Indy 500 after 60 laps due to car trouble, but he got in another car— that had started in ___th place— and won anyway! He won again in ’47 and ’48.
9. Kenny Bernstein won the Hot Rod Championships 4 years in a row in the 1980s. Because he was the first drag racer to drive more than 300 m.p.h., he was called:
10. This Jewish action-movie star also likes racing action! He races cars, owns a car racing team, and even played the voice of a racecar in the movie Cars:

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