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Questions
- Which English village is seen as the birthplace of the Paralympic movement?
- The first Paralympic Games were held in 1960, six days after the close of the Olympics, in which city?
- Rather than the five rings of the Olympics, the Paralympic symbol features how many crescent-shaped curves called agitos?
- At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, which Paralympic champion was the first amputee to win a non-disabled world track medal?
- Due to its chair-knocking intensity, what was wheelchair rugby initially called?
- Name the Paralympic champion who won her first medal at the age of 13 and is the youngest winner of the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year?
- In Tokyo 2020 in which position did Great Britain come in the overall medal table?
- Whose fifth and last Paralympic Games were in 2004 where she won two gold medals in wheelchair racing in the 100m and 400m?
- The joint second tallest man alive in the world in 2022, Iran’s Morteza Mehrzad, was a 2016 gold medallist in which sport?
- At the London 2012 Games, which British athlete won four gold medals: three at the Olympic Stadium and one in the marathon?
- Whose seventeen Paralympic gold medals make her the most successful British Paralympian of all time?
- The Paralympics and Olympics have been held together in the same city ever since the Seoul Games in which year?
- Which city was first to host the Summer Paralympics twice?
- In which sport would you get a person called a tapper?
- Wenlock was the official mascot for the 2012 London Summer Olympics, what was the official mascot for the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
- Which sport was invented in 1976 by Brad Parks, as a recreational therapy after he was injured while skiing?
- The Paralympics three word motto was introduced in 2004 in Athens. What is it?
- Boccia is a ball sport related to which sport?
- What does the C5 classification stand for in the Paralympics?
- Sir David Lee Pearson is a 14-times Paralympic Games gold medallist having represented Britain in which sport?
Answers
- Stoke Mandeville
- Rome
- Three crescent-shaped curves or agitos
- Oscar Pistorius
- Murderball
- Ellie Simmonds
- Second (China came first, the USA third)
- Tanni Grey-Thompson (in total in her Paralympic career Tanni's won 16 medals (11 gold, four silver and a bronze)
- Volleyball (sitting volleyball)
- David Weir
- Sarah Storey's
- 1988
- Tokyo (1964 & 2021)
- Swimming (tappers let visually impaired swimmers know when they are approaching the end of the pool)
- Mandeville
- Wheelchair tennis
- Spirit in Motion
- Bowls or petanque (accept either answer)
- Minimum impairement
- Para-equestrian