KIN 2501 CORE EXAM SET QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔In 1993, coach complained about unequal treatment of girls' basketball team and
was fired - ✔✔Jackson vs. Birmingham BOE
✔✔In 2000, females students sued because a lack of softball and soccer teams -
✔✔Pedersen vs. LSU
✔✔Kicker who was cut from Duke and sued - ✔✔Heather Sue Mercer
✔✔First modern Olympic games. Limited international participation. An all-male event.
1st marathon. - ✔✔1896-Athens
✔✔A fiasco. Dragged on for more than 5 months as part of a world's fair. About 1,000
participants, including 11 women (in tennis and golf) - ✔✔1900-Paris
✔✔Exact content and participation still under discussion. Women participate only in the
unofficial activity of archery. - ✔✔1904-St.Louis
✔✔Dispute over rules. Figure skating in the summer. Definitions of marathon distance.
A breakthrough for women, with 43 officially competing. - ✔✔1908-London
✔✔Well-organized games. Over 2,000 participants. Dishonor of the Jim Thorpe affair.
Women compete in swimming for the first time. - ✔✔1912-Stockholm
✔✔Games were canceled because of WWI. Originally scheduled to be held in Berlin. -
✔✔1916
✔✔Germany and its allies not allowed to participate. Ice hockey and figure skating at
summer games. Adoptions of Olympic flag and oath. Archery expelled after a rules
dispute. - ✔✔1920-Antwerp
✔✔For the first time a separate week of winter sports. - ✔✔1924-Winter-Charmonix,
France
✔✔Germany not welcomed by the French hosts. Over 3,000 participants. - ✔✔1924-
Summer-Paris
✔✔Sonja Henie wins first (of three) gold medals in figure skating. - ✔✔1928-Winter-St.
Moritz, Switzerland
, ✔✔Women compete in 5 track and field events and gymnastics. Tennis dropped from
the Olympic program, not to return until 1988. - ✔✔1928-Summer-Amsterdam
✔✔Decrease in participation from overseas. - ✔✔1932-Winter-Lake Placid, New York
✔✔First time IOC decision to hold games alternately in Europe and outside Europe is
implemented. Photo finish and automatic timing devices introduced. - ✔✔1932-
Summer-Los Angeles
✔✔A popular success, drawing half a million spectators. - ✔✔1936-Winter-Garmish,
Germany
✔✔An attempt to organize an international boycott of the games fails. Dominated by the
politics of Nazi Germany. - ✔✔1936-Summer-Berlin
✔✔No games. Cancelled because of WWII. - ✔✔1940 and 1944
✔✔The first post-war world 2 winter games - ✔✔1948-Winter-St. Moritz, Switzerland
✔✔Record participation with over 4,000 athletes from 58 countries Germany and Japan
barred from the ganes - ✔✔1948-Summer-London
✔✔USSR does not participate in spite of joining the Olympic movement in 1951.
Subsequent winter and summer games are to be held in different countries - ✔✔1952-
Winter-Oslo
✔✔First games in which African countries and the USSR participate. Avery Brundage
becomes IOC chair. Emil Zatopek becomes the first and only athlete to win the 3
distance races. The US women's olympic squad consisted of only 10 athletes in 9
events - ✔✔1952-Summer-Helsinki
✔✔First appearance of the USSR in the winter games. - ✔✔1956-Winter-Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy
✔✔Roger Bannister of England broke the 4 minute mile barrier. First games in the
southern hemisphere. Boycott by 6 countries for political reasons. - ✔✔1956-Summer-
Melbourne, Australia
✔✔3 political events from 1952-1956 that were noteworthy for blacks: - ✔✔1. President
Truman desegregated the Armed Forces
2. 1954 Supreme Court Decision
3. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary, Great Britain, and France
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔In 1993, coach complained about unequal treatment of girls' basketball team and
was fired - ✔✔Jackson vs. Birmingham BOE
✔✔In 2000, females students sued because a lack of softball and soccer teams -
✔✔Pedersen vs. LSU
✔✔Kicker who was cut from Duke and sued - ✔✔Heather Sue Mercer
✔✔First modern Olympic games. Limited international participation. An all-male event.
1st marathon. - ✔✔1896-Athens
✔✔A fiasco. Dragged on for more than 5 months as part of a world's fair. About 1,000
participants, including 11 women (in tennis and golf) - ✔✔1900-Paris
✔✔Exact content and participation still under discussion. Women participate only in the
unofficial activity of archery. - ✔✔1904-St.Louis
✔✔Dispute over rules. Figure skating in the summer. Definitions of marathon distance.
A breakthrough for women, with 43 officially competing. - ✔✔1908-London
✔✔Well-organized games. Over 2,000 participants. Dishonor of the Jim Thorpe affair.
Women compete in swimming for the first time. - ✔✔1912-Stockholm
✔✔Games were canceled because of WWI. Originally scheduled to be held in Berlin. -
✔✔1916
✔✔Germany and its allies not allowed to participate. Ice hockey and figure skating at
summer games. Adoptions of Olympic flag and oath. Archery expelled after a rules
dispute. - ✔✔1920-Antwerp
✔✔For the first time a separate week of winter sports. - ✔✔1924-Winter-Charmonix,
France
✔✔Germany not welcomed by the French hosts. Over 3,000 participants. - ✔✔1924-
Summer-Paris
✔✔Sonja Henie wins first (of three) gold medals in figure skating. - ✔✔1928-Winter-St.
Moritz, Switzerland
, ✔✔Women compete in 5 track and field events and gymnastics. Tennis dropped from
the Olympic program, not to return until 1988. - ✔✔1928-Summer-Amsterdam
✔✔Decrease in participation from overseas. - ✔✔1932-Winter-Lake Placid, New York
✔✔First time IOC decision to hold games alternately in Europe and outside Europe is
implemented. Photo finish and automatic timing devices introduced. - ✔✔1932-
Summer-Los Angeles
✔✔A popular success, drawing half a million spectators. - ✔✔1936-Winter-Garmish,
Germany
✔✔An attempt to organize an international boycott of the games fails. Dominated by the
politics of Nazi Germany. - ✔✔1936-Summer-Berlin
✔✔No games. Cancelled because of WWII. - ✔✔1940 and 1944
✔✔The first post-war world 2 winter games - ✔✔1948-Winter-St. Moritz, Switzerland
✔✔Record participation with over 4,000 athletes from 58 countries Germany and Japan
barred from the ganes - ✔✔1948-Summer-London
✔✔USSR does not participate in spite of joining the Olympic movement in 1951.
Subsequent winter and summer games are to be held in different countries - ✔✔1952-
Winter-Oslo
✔✔First games in which African countries and the USSR participate. Avery Brundage
becomes IOC chair. Emil Zatopek becomes the first and only athlete to win the 3
distance races. The US women's olympic squad consisted of only 10 athletes in 9
events - ✔✔1952-Summer-Helsinki
✔✔First appearance of the USSR in the winter games. - ✔✔1956-Winter-Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy
✔✔Roger Bannister of England broke the 4 minute mile barrier. First games in the
southern hemisphere. Boycott by 6 countries for political reasons. - ✔✔1956-Summer-
Melbourne, Australia
✔✔3 political events from 1952-1956 that were noteworthy for blacks: - ✔✔1. President
Truman desegregated the Armed Forces
2. 1954 Supreme Court Decision
3. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary, Great Britain, and France
