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Rowing Facts Quiz

Welcome to the QuizMoz Rowing Facts Quiz. QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced QuizMoz quiz masters. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. Best of luck!!

 Rowing Facts Quiz Facts
 Average Score for this quiz: 34.5%
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 No of people failing this quiz: 5
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Coverage : The Rowing Facts Quiz will test your knowledge of the history of the competitive sport of rowing.

1. Rowing competitions are named after 13th century Venetian festivals called what?
a.Carnivals
b.Regattas
c.Travelers fairs
d.None of the above
 
2. In most types of rowing competitions, the boat used is called a what?
a.Shell
b.Skipper
c.Long boat
d.Vessel
 
3. An oar is often referred to as what other name?
a.Paddle
b.Dipper
c.Rod
d.Blade
 
4. Boat types are classified by what?
a.Length and weight
b.Number of oars
c.Number of rowers and position of coxswain
d.Wood or fiberglass composition
 
5. What are the two forms or classes of rowing called?
a.Doubles and singles
b.Sweep and sculling
c.Paddle and rowing
d.All of the above
 
6. The oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the United States is the Harvard-Yale Regatta that began in what year?
a.1850
b.1849
c.1852
d.1853
 
7. In competitive rowing, the athlete sits facing towards the back of the boat, or stern.
a.True
b.False
 
8. In sculling, each rower controls how many oars?
a.Four
b.One
c.Two
d.Three
 
9. In sweep rowing, each rower has how many oars?
a.Two
b.One
c.Three
d.Four
 
10. At Yale University, the first American college rowing club was founded in what year?
a.1835
b.1838
c.1843
d.1840
 
11. Women were not allowed to compete in Olympic rowing until the summer games of 1976.
a.True
b.False
 
12. Rowing has been an Olympic sport since what year?
a.1896
b.1904
c.1900
d.1888
 
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