ONLINE QUIZ chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
#1 TOUR DE FRANCE
a)In what year was the inaugural Tour de France?
b)Which magazine sponsored the race?
c)How many miles/kilometers do riders cover?
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#2 HEYSEL DISASTER
a)In what year was the Heysel Stadium disaster?
b)How many fans died?
c)What disciplinary action did Urfa take?
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#3 PITTSBURGH STEELERS
a)How much did Fox charge advertisers for a 30-second spot during the 2009 Super Bowl between Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals?
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b)The Steelers’ home stadium is named after which famous baked beans company?
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c)What is the inspiration behind the club’s unusual logo, which consists of three hypocycloids (diamond shapes)?
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#4 IDENTITIES
a)Several writers in this chapter argue that we create identities from sport. Does sport provide us with what Gordon Marshall calls the opportunity “to self-actualize: to discover an inner self which is not artificially imposed by tradition, culture or religion; and to embark upon quests for greater individuality, self-understanding, flexibility, and difference?”
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b)Football casuals created a distinct identity around clothing, music and sport. Of all the designer labels that were favored by casuals can you name five of the most important?
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If you can’t, take a look at this trailer for the 2009 film The Firm:
c)Can you measure exercise identity?
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#5 MODERN LIFE
a)A definition of modernity is offered in the text. But what is modernization?
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b)Max Weber speculated that the future looked more like an iron case than a … what?
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c)According to Ulrich Beck, what was the primary institutional form of social structure of the twentieth century?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 2: BACK TO NATURE
#1 NATURALS
a)In 2009, Bolt broke his own 200 meters world record in 19.19 seconds. Who came second?
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b)Who are your own top all-time clutch players?
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c)Alex Rodriguez’s best year for stealing bases was 1998. How many did he steal?
Answer Here’s Rogriguez on ESPN in 2009, owning up to taking performance enhancing drugs in 2001-03
#2 ANIMALS and TECHNOLOGY
a)What is the theory of "ecological intelligence"?
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b)Here are capuchin monkeys in action What is the typical diet of this type of monkey?
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c)“Beavers are second only to humans in their ability to manipulate and change their environment,” according to National Geographic. Watch them in action How quickly can they swim and how long can they remain underwater without surfacing?
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#3 HUMAN SPECIES
a)Having opposable thumbs has enabled the human species to develop fine motor skills thus making it possible for the species to manipulate the physical environment to its own designs. Opposable thumbs have also assisted the construction of tools. A limited number of other species also have opposable digits, though none has the cranial capacity of humans. Dolphins have a large brain and the intellectual and cognitive abilities necessary to learn Can you imagine if they had opposable digits?
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b)The Pleistocene epoch () lasted from 1,8m to about 10,000 years ago. It was marked by great fluctuations in temperature that caused the ice ages and interglacial warm periods. During the middle of this epoch, the modern human cranial features began to appear and several, significant behavioral changes occurred. What were they?
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c)Are there any hunter-gatherer culture remaining today?
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#4 COMMUNICATION and EVOLUTION
a)Humans share a vocal trait with deer: the descended larynx, which increases the length of their vocal tract and allows the groan to deepen. For what purpose do deer use this facility?
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b)Prior to the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species in 1859 (), adaptation was understood as a static relationship between an organism and its habitat. What changes in our conception of adaptation were ushered in by Darwin’s theory? (Note: biota refers to the animal and plant life of a particular region, habitat.)
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c)Do chimpanzees speak with different dialects?
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ACTN3 is one gene among more than how many others in the human genome?
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#5 CULTURE
a)The anthropologist Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917), maintained that culture evolved from the simple to the complex, and that all societies passed through the three basic stages of development
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b)Can you write six sentences, using the word culture differently in each?
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c)What do biologists mean by “a Red Queen process”?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 3: BUILT FOR ACTION
#1: HUMAN BODY
a)Here’s Federica Pellegrini in 2009, setting the world record for 400 (lane 4) What is her height, weight and fastest time over 200-meters?
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b)How many organs are there in the human body?
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c)Can you define energy and write two sentences in which you use it in completely different ways?
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#2: BRAIN,BONE and MUSCLE
a)Concussion is most common sports-related brain injury. Troy Aikman, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s and 200s, sustained how many that he publicly admits to?
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b)Metatarsal injuries have been suffered by several highprofile footballers, including Wayne Rooney, David Beckham and Steven Gerrard. The healing process is often aided if the broken bone is one of the three inner metatarsals, as was the case with Rooney; the bones on either side aided the fourth metatarsal. What is the name given to this effect?
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c)There are three types of muscle contraction: isotonic (which cause the muscle to change length), isometric (when there is no change in length, such as when you are holding an object and isokinetic (a rare contraction in sport in which the muscle changes length at a constant speed). Write a sentence each on the two main types of isotonic contraction.
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#3: FOOD and ENERGY
a)Glucose is a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms. From what kinds of food do humans get most of their glucose?
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b)Muscle packing, or carbohydrate loading, as it is sometimes known, is typically practiced over three days. During this time, how much weight can the athlete expect to gain?
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c)What is an arrhythmia? What are its causes and symptoms?
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d)Lactic acid is a by-product of competing or working-out anaerobically, i.e. without using oxygen. It is often thought of as purely waste product, but, during sustained, intensive activity, for example an 800m race, the heart may get as much as half its energy from lactic acid. True or false?
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#4: NERVOUS SYSTEM
a)What is a synapse?
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b)“Pain is not a concept with a single, universally accepted meaning,” says Lucy Bending. During the Victorian period (1837-1901), conceptions of pain changed dramatically. Why?
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c)How many sweat glands do we have, and why do we need them?
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#5: EQUIPMENT FOR IMAGINATION
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a)Can you describe a neuron (you have 100 billion of them in your brain)?
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b)… and a ganglion?
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c)and, finally, thorax
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 4: A VERY DIFFERENT ANIMAL
#1: BLOOD SPORTS
a)What is the origin of the name of the Bullring in Birmingham, England?
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b)In what parts of the world does horse fighting still take place?
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c)In how many US states is dog fighting a felony?
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#2: HOMO SAPIENS AND OTHERS
a)What are the “multiregional hypothesis” and the “out of Africa hypothesis?
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b)What is the name of the wide stone tools used by Neanderthals?
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c)Clothing was often draped or tied however, simple needles made out of animal bone provide evidence of sewn leather and fur garments from at least 30,000 years ago, our ancestors wore clothes made of leather or fur, sometimes draped or tied around them, but sometimes sown into garments with crude needles; what were the needles made of?
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#3: HUNTERS AND FARMERS
a)Can kangaroos really box?
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b)Apart from human beings and some apes, what other animal walks and runs bipedally?
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c)Although farming is conventionally believed to have started 10,000 years ago, a discovery in 2004 suggested in may have started even earlier; what was the discovery?
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d)“Hunting became an autotelic activity.” What exactly does this mean?
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#4: ANCIENT SPORTS
a)According to Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, how did King Tutankhamen die?
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b)According to J. Sakellarakis: “One finds in Crete, the first indications of the athletic spirit which was to evolve and reach a high pitch in subsequent centuries”; what were some of the Cretans’ sports?
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c)What percentage chance did gladiators have of surviving a contest?
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d)The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from about 50 B.C. that refers to ball games; where else in the ancient world were ball games played?
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#5: SPORTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
a)The Statute of Arms for Tournaments was ordained by King Edward I, of England (1272-1307) and effectively regulated jousting as a sport; what were its stipulations?
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b)Archery tournaments today closely resemble their mediaeval predecessors; how many contestants line up in this round of the World Archery Tournament?
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c)Can you name five medieval sports that have survived in some form today?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 5:THE HUNT FOR REASONS
#1 CIVILIZING PROCESS
a)In 1453, the Fall of Constantinople to OttomanSultanMehmed II marked the end of the Roman Empire; in what year did Constantinople change its name and to what?
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b) According to Elias, there is no opposition between nature and society; why not?
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#2 HEYSEL DISASTER
a)In what year was the Heysel Stadium disaster?
b)How many fans died?
c)What disciplinary action did Uefa take?
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#3 PITTSBURGH STEELERS
a)How much did Fox charge advertisers for a 30-second spot during the 2009 Super Bowl between Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals?
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b)The Steelers’ home stadium is named after which famous baked beans company?
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c)What is the inspiration behind the club’s unusual logo, which consists of three hypocycloids (diamond shapes)?
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#4 IDENTITIES
a)Several writers in this chapter argue that we create identities from sport. Does sport provide us with what Gordon Marshall calls the opportunity “to self-actualize: to discover an inner self which is not artificially imposed by tradition, culture or religion; and to embark upon quests for greater individuality, self-understanding, flexibility, and difference?”
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b)Football casuals created a distinct identity around clothing, music and sport. Of all the designer labels that were favored by casuals can you name five of the most important?
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c)Can you measure exercise identity?
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#5 MODERN LIFE
a)A definition of modernity is offered in the text. But what is modernization?
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b)Max Weber speculated that the future looked more like an iron case than a … what?
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c)According to Ulrich Beck, what was the primary institutional form of social structure of the twentieth century?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 6: IN THE MIND
#1choking
a)What label shirt was Jean Van de Velde wearing during his classic choke”
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b)Can you interpret the choke in terms of the Distraction Hypothesis?
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c)“Balls versus brains, boy,” says golfer Don Johnson to his caddy, Kevin Costner in Tin Cup. What does he mean?
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d)The Observer newspaper rated Roberto Duran’s 8th round “No mas” retirement against Ray Leonard in 1980 as the fourth biggest choke in history But is this really an example of choking?
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#2 social loafing and motivation
a)Can you name two effects of working in groups?
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b)Is it possible to move both up and down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
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c)Read this link and evaluate the tips on how to develop an internal locus of control.
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#3 commitment
a)On October 2, 1999, Gabriela Szabo, then 24, got married. How old was she when she met her future husband?
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b)In the 1972 Olympics 5000 meters final, David Bedford, not a fast finisher, was expected to hit the front early and dictate a blistering pace. But, after a short spell leading, he was cut adrift after ten laps. Lasse Viren’s winning time was 13:26.4, well within Bedford’s capabilities – he had run 13:17.21 weeks before the Olympics. He had prepared steadfastly for the race, so what do think went wrong?
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c)Do you think Seligman’s experiments with dogs can really be applied to humans?
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d)What is the difference between self-efficacy and self-esteem?
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#4 focus ,attention and mental toughness
a)What happens here?
b)According to this study, a visit to the supermarket involves automaticity. Exactly how?
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c)Why drove Lance Armstrong to compete in the Tour de France at the age of 38?
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d)Why did Brett Favre retire in March 2008?
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e)Why did Brett Favre comeback in August 2009?
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f)Is it possible to develop mental toughness?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 7: THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
#1 exercise
a)Would the women depicted in Peter Paul Ruben’s The Judgement of Paris (c. 1632-35) be considered obese by today’s standards?
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b)In the movie 300, the Spartans’ bodies look remarkably ripped; do you think their training would have resembled the techniques used today?
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What exercise did Dioclesian Lewis recommend for his wife?
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#2 pioneers of fitness culture
Jan Todd was inspired to write her book Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful by the discovery that in the nineteenth century, there was a large number of women doing what?
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In the 1994 movie The Road to Wellville, what does John Harvey Kellogg call “a flagpole on your grave”?
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a)Did Bernarr Macfadden offer to train fascist cadets from Italy?
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b)In the Charles Atlas advertisement from 1947, “The insult that turned a ‘CHUMP’ into a CHAMP,” what does the girl say to ~Joe in the final frame?
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c)And how much would a Charles Atlas course in dynamic-tension set you back today?
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#3 the workout
a)What are Jane Fonda’s first words in her classic 1982 workout video?
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b)The 10th anniversary and 118th issue of shape magazine reported that, in 1992, the first Brit to win Mr. Olympia was crowned. He went on to retain the title for five straight years. Who was he?
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c)In this scene from Flashdance how many people are in the panel?
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#4 building bodies
a)You know how the human body can be aestheticized, but what else? Illustrate your answer by writing a sentence using the term aestheticized in a different context.
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b)In his study In the gym: Motive, meanings and moral careers (2005), Nick Crossley writes of “path dependence” in his attempt to understand the changing motives of gym-goers. What does he mean?
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c)What does this image tell us about male bodies?
ONLINE QUIZ chapter 8: CONTROL OF THE BODY
#1 THE MODERN BODY
a)Can you write a paragraph, summing up their impact on cultural conceptions of women’s bodies? Base your answer on these three women, all of whom grew to prominence in the 1980s.
Bev Francis
Flo-Jo
Linda Hamilton
b)n 1904, Bernarr Macfadden’s competition to find the “perfect woman” was accompanied by a souvenir brochure; what was the brochure’s title?
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c)Why did women wear corsets?
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d)In what year did Joe Weider invite Arnold Schwarzenegger to the USA to train?
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#2 GENDERING BODIES
a)According to Londa Schiebinger, what is an example of a “female disease”?
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In his MakingSex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Thomas Laqueurwrites of two “masterplots.” What are they?
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b)In her article “Exercise, physical capability, and the eternally wounded woman in late nineteenth century North America,” Patricia Vertinsky identifies the British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) as influential in explaining the “physical disabilities of women” in the nineteenth century. Can you summarize Spencer’s argument?
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#3 QUESTIONS ABOUT WOMEN
a)In this Journal of Sport History review of Helen L Lenskyj’s Out of Bounds: Women, sport and sexuality, Lenskyj’s summary of Victorian physicians’ attitudes toward women in sport is quoted. Why did the physicians believe participation in sport did to women’s bodies?
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b)Irina Press (seen here, left, with sister Tamara: ) died in 2004. In her obituary, it was noted the “dominance of Eastern bloc athletes in the 1960s (at the height of the Cold War) led to rumors of widespread doping.” Speculation regarding Irina and her sister was rife. The obituary gives two examples of the suspicions surrounding the Presses. What were they?
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#4 NARCISSISM
a)What’s the meaning of “Generation Me”?
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b)How many cosmetic surgery procedures did Heidi Montage undergo in a single day?
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c)According to this report in 2010 what were use did al-Qaeda find for breast implants?
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#5 CROSSING BOUNDARIES
a)How did Lindsay Davenport explain her remark "I thought I was playing a guy" in reference to Amélie Maurizio?
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b)This is the 2009 IAAF World Championships women’s 800 meters final won by Caster Semanya: Why was this so controversial?
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c)This is Oscar Pistorius in 2008: According to scientists what percentage less energy did Pistorius use compared to able-bodied runners running at the same speed?
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ONLINE QUIZ chapter 9: SPORTS EMASCULATED
#1 SPORTSWOMEN IN HISTORY
a)What was the name of Cynisca’s father was King of Sparta at the time of her famous chariot victories. What was his name?