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1. In the 1908 London Olympics, Jay Gould of the USA won the first (and to date only) Olympic Gold medal awarded for "Jeu de Paume". By what name is this sport better known in English-speaking countries?
2. In the 1900 Paris Olympics, Great Britain won a Gold medal at Cricket; the only year it was an Olympic event. Which nation were the losing finalists?
3. In the 1908 London Olympic Games, the finalists in this event were two 8-man teams of British policemen, from London (who took Gold) and Liverpool (Silver). A third team of British police took the Bronze medal by default, when their Swedish opponents didn't bother to turn up for the match. What now discontinued sport was this?
4. The Olympic Rope Climb was competed for on five occasions between 1896 and 1932, competitors being timed on the speed with which they ascended a free-hanging rope. But in the 1896 Athens Games, why did only two competitors reach the top of the 14-metre rope?
5. In the 1900 Paris Olympic Games, the Belgian Constant van Langendonck won a Gold medal for a variety of long-jump, jumping 6.10 metres. What was unusual about this (now discontinued) event?
6. In the 1900 Paris Olympics, why did Frederick Lane of Australia have to climb over a pole and a row of boats, and swim under another row of boats?
7. This sport, popular today among members of the British royal family, made intermittent appearances on the Olympic programme during the early part of the 20th Century, appearing on five occasions between 1900 and 1936. Great Britain won the Gold medal on the first three occasions, and Argentina on the other two.
8. In the Men's Standing High Jump event at the 1912 (Stockholm) Olympic Games, Platt Adams (USA), Benjamin Adams (USA) and Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (Greece) took Gold, Silver and Bronze respectively. In which other event that year did they also share the three medal positions (but in a different order)?
9. Not all discontinued sports appeared only in the earliest Olympic Games. This individual event was featured in three Games in 1984 (Los Angeles), 1988 (Seoul) and 1992 (Barcelona), during which period the USA, Canada and Japan were the only countries to win medals.
10. In the Live Pigeon Shooting event at the 1900 Olympic Games, how many pigeons did the Belgian Leon de Lunden successfully slaughter in order to win the Gold medal?
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