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Sports Quiz
Fencing
En garde! The sport of "fencing" has nothing to do with climbing up, jumping over or balancing on fences— it’s the word for swordfighting as a sport. It’s been around as long as… well, swords, and we Jews have been around a long time too! In fact, there are even sword fights mentioned in the Torah. Touché! And fencing is part of the Summer Olympics, which are in China in 2008. So sharpen your… wits and see if you get the point (ouch!) of our Jewish fencing quiz!
Fencing:
1. Sada and Emily Jacobson are sisters, and they are both on the US Olympic team! Sada got a Bronze at the 2004 Olympics, and was the first American woman to be ranked ___ in the world in the sabre (a kind of sword) event!
2. Emily only made it in to the semi-finals at the 2004 Olympics, but became Junior World Champion that year! Earlier, in 2002, she was named the Jewish High School Athlete of the Year, the same year she also...
3. Albert Alexrod was an American fencing champ for longer than anyone else, and was #1 in the US for 4 years during the 1950s, ’60s and ‘70s. He won a Bronze in the 1960 Olympics, but that was only one of the amazing ___ Olympics he was in!
4. Hungarian fencer Ildiko Ujlaki-Rejto is one amazing woman. She competed in five Olympics in a row and won at least a Bronze every time, racking up a total of two Bronzes, three Silvers, and two Golds. If that wasn’t amazing enough, she has been ____ since she was born!
5. Denmark’s Ivan Ossier competed in seven Olympics, winning one Silver, in 1912. But he is only of the very few athletes ever to win the Olympic Diploma of Merit! He refused to compete in the 1936 Olympics, in protest against the:
6. Olympian Grigori Kriss won the Gold in 1964, two Silvers in 1986, and a Bronze in 1972. He is from a city called Kiev (or Kyiv, as they spell it there), which used to be part of the Soviet Union but is now part of:
7. Dr. Otto Herschmann is one of the few Olympians to ever win medals in more than one sport! He won a Silver in fencing in 1912, while he was also head of Austria’s whole Olympic Committee. Earlier, in the first modern Olympics in 1896, he won a Bronze in:
8. For Hungary’s Jeno Fuchs, lightning struck twice. He won individual and team Golds in the 1908 Olympics and again in 1912— that’s four Gold Medals! He fought a total of 25 matches in the Olympics, winning an unbelievable ___ of them!
9. Even though he had won Olympic Gold, Endre Kabos had to give up fencing twice. Once, he was too poor to continue, so he opened a store. But then someone helped him out, so he competed again and won more Golds! Then he quit again in 1936 to help Hungary fight in:
10. A captain leads the team while he or she is on the team, and Mark Midler was captain for the Soviet team that took the Gold in 1960 and 1964. Later, he led the team while not fencing himself, but as their:

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