KIN 2501 Jacobsen Final Exam and
Actual Detailed Answers 2025\2026
Updated.
When were the first Modern Olympics created and who was credited for creating them? -
Answer 1896; Pierre de Coubertin
Why were the 1900 Paris Games considered a failure? - Answer Lasted 5 months
How long was the first marathon race? - Answer 25 miles
When and where was the first Olympic flag and oath created? - Answer 1920; Antwerp,
Belgium
When and where were the first Winter Olympics? - Answer 1926; Chamonix, France
What year was the International Sport Federation created? - Answer 1908
Why was the International Sport Federation created? - Answer Because of the Ireland/Finland
problem
When did women first participate in the Olympics and what sport was it? - Answer 1912;
swimming
When was the pentathlon created? - Answer 1912 (Stockholm)
How were the 5 sports determined for the pentathlon? - Answer They were de Coubertin's
favorite sports
Why were the 1916 Games in Berlin cancelled? - Answer World War I
What year was the Olympic flag flown for the first time? - Answer 1920
, In what year did Jimmy Carter threaten to boycott the Moscow games because USSR took
Afghanistan? - Answer 1976
When were the first women added to the IOC? - Answer 1981
In what year were the games held in a separate year for the first time? - Answer 1994
When was the Salt Lake City scandal? - Answer 2002
When did Title IX become a law? - Answer June 23, 1972
True or False: Pierre de Coubertin supported women in sport - Answer False
- Native American
- Track/Field, Football and Baseball
- Won decathlon and pentathlon in 1912
- Icon for Olympics
- Stripped of medals because he was not an amateur - Answer Jim Thorpe
Who coached football at Carlisle and discovered Jim Thorpe? - Answer Pop Warner
Who stripped Jim Thorpe of his medals? - Answer Avery Brundage
- 5th president of IOC
- Believed in amateurism
- Did not support women in sport
- Expelled Tommie Smith and John Carlos - Answer Avery Brundage
Who returned Jim Thorpe's medals to him? - Answer Juan Antonio Samaranch
- Real name is James Cleveland
Actual Detailed Answers 2025\2026
Updated.
When were the first Modern Olympics created and who was credited for creating them? -
Answer 1896; Pierre de Coubertin
Why were the 1900 Paris Games considered a failure? - Answer Lasted 5 months
How long was the first marathon race? - Answer 25 miles
When and where was the first Olympic flag and oath created? - Answer 1920; Antwerp,
Belgium
When and where were the first Winter Olympics? - Answer 1926; Chamonix, France
What year was the International Sport Federation created? - Answer 1908
Why was the International Sport Federation created? - Answer Because of the Ireland/Finland
problem
When did women first participate in the Olympics and what sport was it? - Answer 1912;
swimming
When was the pentathlon created? - Answer 1912 (Stockholm)
How were the 5 sports determined for the pentathlon? - Answer They were de Coubertin's
favorite sports
Why were the 1916 Games in Berlin cancelled? - Answer World War I
What year was the Olympic flag flown for the first time? - Answer 1920
, In what year did Jimmy Carter threaten to boycott the Moscow games because USSR took
Afghanistan? - Answer 1976
When were the first women added to the IOC? - Answer 1981
In what year were the games held in a separate year for the first time? - Answer 1994
When was the Salt Lake City scandal? - Answer 2002
When did Title IX become a law? - Answer June 23, 1972
True or False: Pierre de Coubertin supported women in sport - Answer False
- Native American
- Track/Field, Football and Baseball
- Won decathlon and pentathlon in 1912
- Icon for Olympics
- Stripped of medals because he was not an amateur - Answer Jim Thorpe
Who coached football at Carlisle and discovered Jim Thorpe? - Answer Pop Warner
Who stripped Jim Thorpe of his medals? - Answer Avery Brundage
- 5th president of IOC
- Believed in amateurism
- Did not support women in sport
- Expelled Tommie Smith and John Carlos - Answer Avery Brundage
Who returned Jim Thorpe's medals to him? - Answer Juan Antonio Samaranch
- Real name is James Cleveland
