JUF and You

Subscribe to JUF's
e-mail newsletters:

The Guide
The Guide to Jewish Living in Chicago
The Guide to Jewish Living in Chicago
offers a comprehensive, up-to-date listing of Chicago-area Jewish organizations, resources, products, and services.
Browse the Guide »
Memorials & Celebrations
Memorials & Celebrations
Celebrating, rejoicing or sending love to a friend in need? JUF has a card or certificate designed just for you.
Find out more »
E-mail this page   E-mail this page      Print this page   Print this page

Sports Quiz
Track and Field
Track and field events involve some of the most basic elements common to all sports: running, jumping, and throwing. This year, the Summer Olympics will be in Beijing, China, so you can be sure they will be all over the news! Start training now by seeing what you know about American Jewish track and field stars. Careful— there’s a few… hurdles!
1. Jillian Schwartz, born here in Chicago, has ranked the 10th worldwide in her sport, and is only the fifth American woman to leap over 15 feet high (she had some help). So her sport must be...
2. Steve Seymour won a Silver at the London Olympics of 1948, the same year Israel was founded! He earned it by throwing something like a spear, called a:
3. Ukraine’s Zhanna Pinyusevich-Bloch has won world titles in the following distance:
4. Gary Gubner used his shotput to make a statement against the Soviet Union’s treatment of Jews by beating the Soviets in his event on a European tour in 1961. While in Moscow, he also spent Friday night in a:
5. One of the great all-around athletes ever, Lillian Copeland excelled in throwing events. From 1925-1932, she would set six world records in throwing all but one of these things:
6. . Henry Laskau’s sport was race-walking, and he set a world record by walking a mile in just over six minutes! Henry was unbeaten in the US from 1947- 56, and set three American records, in the 3K, 10K, and 15K distances. His nickname was simply:
7. New Yorker Sybille Tabachnikoff changed her name to Syd Koff. She won seven gold medals in the Maccabiah Games in Israel before it was even a state. But she never competed in the Olympics, even though she qualified; the first time, she boycotted Hitler, and the second time, the Games were cancelled because of:
8. All the way back in 1904, Daniel Frank won the Silver Medal in the long jump. That year, the Summer Olympics were held in which American city?
9. Hugo Friend scored a Bronze in the long jump in the 1906 Summer Olympics. That year, they were held in Athens, the city where the original ancient Olympics were held. Athens is in:
10. In the London 1908 Olympics, Charles Jacobs tied for bronze in the highest-jumping sport there is. You run at a high, horizontal bar and use a pole to fling yourself over it. The event is called pole...

* (indicates required field)