AAA + Wenlock

Question 1

What values did the AAC emphasise in athletics?

Answer 1

Endeavour, fair play and courage

Question 2

What change did the Amateur Athletic Association make in 1880 (the year it was founded)?

Answer 2

Withdrew the exclusion clause

Question 3

When was the Amateur Athletic Association created?

Answer 3

1880

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Amateur Athletic Association?

Answer 4

To oversee athletics

Question 5

Which organisation came before the Amateur Athletic Association?

Answer 5

Amateur Athletics Club

Question 6

When did international athletics fixtures begin?

Answer 6

In the first modern Olympics

Question 7

When was the first Wenlock Olympic Games?

Answer 7

1850

Question 8

What organisation formed the Olympian class?

Answer 8

Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society

Question 9

Why did WARS want an Olympian class?

Answer 9

Promote moral, physical and intellectual improvements

Question 10

Examples of events in Wenlock Olympic games

Answer 10

Quoits, football, running

Question 11

Example of fun at Wenlock Olympic games?

Answer 11

Blindfolded wheelbarrow race

Question 12

How did William Penny Brookes promote sport?

Answer 12

Wanted PE in school curriculum

Question 13

Where was the first National Olympian Festival

Answer 13

Crystal Palace

Question 14

What did Baron Pierre de Coubertin establish?

Answer 14

Modern Olympic Games