QUESTIONS:
1. The Olympics in Athens have been the top story in the news this past week. Who was the last U.S. President to open the summer Olympics?
2. Who was the only man elected to the House after having won an Olympic gold medal and been the subject of a film biography?
3. Who was the only black Olympic gold medal winner to be elected to the House?
4. Who is the only former Olympian now serving in Congress?
5. Who was the last former official of the U.S. Olympic Committee to win elected office?
ANSWERS:
1. Bill Clinton in 1996, when the Olympics were held in Atlanta.
2. Bob Mathias, the gold medal winner in the decathlon at the 1948 and ??¢â???¬â???¢52 Olympics, played himself in The Bob Mathias Story in 1954 and was elected as a Republican U.S. representative from California in 1966.
3. Ralph Metcalfe, gold, silver, and bronze medal winner in track at both the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany (where he was a teammate of Jesse Owens), who served as a Democratic House member from Illinois from 1971-78.
4. Rep. Jim Ryun (R.-Kan.), who ran track in the 1964, ??¢â???¬â???¢68, and ??¢â???¬â???¢72 Olympics.
5. Mitt Romney, head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2000 Winter Olympics, is now Republican governor of Massachusetts.
