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Sports Quiz
Sailing
In the Torah, Jacob blesses his son Zevulun that he will “dwell on the coast, at the harbor for ships.” And since then, Jews have been making history in boats, from the Olympics to America’s Cup (not named for America the country but for the first boat to win, the America), both of which are coming up this summer! Now put on your lifejacket and set sail for our Jewish boating quiz!
Sailing:
1. Israel won its first Olympic gold medal— in any sport!— at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. It was won by Gal Fridman, in windsurfing. Gal was started in windsurfing by his dad when he was only 7, but even before that, he named him “Gal,” which is Hebrew for:
2. Zephania Carmel was Israel’s first international champion in any sport! He won in sailing, in a competition held in Sweden, once alone and once with his partner Lydia Lazarov. His team was called Zevulun— read the intro again to see why! Zephania was born in a city that’s famous, but not for sailing, called:
3. The Israeli sailing team of Yoel Sela and Eldad Amir finished an amazing fourth place at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. What’s so amazing about fourth place? Well, they didn’t even compete in one of their only two races, because of:
4. Walentin Mankin (his first name is Russian for “Valentine!”) sure likes his last initial, M! That may be because he won three yachting gold medals, in three Olympics, in three different classes of boats… but always in a city starting with M! In which city did he NOT win?
5. At the Tokyo Olymics in 1964, Alan Rosenberg coached the US Rowing team to two golds— in Eights and Pairs— plus a silver and a bronze! His team won another silver at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. His “Rosenberg style” of rowing is now used by ____ of today’s world-class rowers:
Rowing:
6. Don Spero specialized in rowing ulra-thin boats called “sculls.” He was US champion in single sculls in 1963, ’64, and ’65, and World Champion in ’66. And he took sixth in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, even though he was injured! By the way, a scull is so thin you have to cross your _____ to row one!
7. At the Barcelona (Spain) Olympics in 1992, Joe Jacobi and his partner became the first Americans to win a gold in whitewater canoeing. They did it in an event which has the same name as one of the skiing events, called:
8. At the Melbourne (Australia) Olympics in 1956, Laszlo Fabian and his partner became the first Hungarians to win a gold in canoe-style competition. But they did it a kind of a boat invented by the Inuit people (we used to call them Eskimos) called a:
9. Also at those Games, Leon Rottman of Romania won two golds! He won both the 1,000 and 10,000 meter singles events. The events were in the style of canoeing developed in this far-northern country:
10. Shaun Thomson is one of the greatest Jewish athletes in the water. He won the most international victories in his sport from 1976-85. Shaun was world champ in 1977 and Sportsman of the Year in South Africa (where he was born) in 1978. Unlike the others in this quiz, he doesn’t use a sail or a paddle… or even a boat! He’s only powered by the waves, so he must be a:

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