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Quiz about Nadia Comaneci
Quiz about Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci Trivia Quiz


In women's artistic gymnastics, Nadia Comaneci is widely regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time. You may agree or disagree, but here are some easy questions about her life.

A multiple-choice quiz by SuperRo. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
SuperRo
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
83,360
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
912
Last 3 plays: Guest 162 (5/10), Guest 49 (0/10), Guest 92 (1/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Where is Nadia originally from? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Nadia's hometown is called what? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Did Nadia win the first national competition that she entered? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. After her first national competition, Nadia's coach gave her a doll. What was it? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. How many perfect tens did Nadia earn at the 1976 Montreal Olympics? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Nadia has won 18 Olympic women's gymnastics medals, 9 of them gold.


Question 7 of 10
7. Who beat out Comaneci for the all-around title in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In 2002, Svetlana Khorkina tied Nadia Comaneci's European Championships record for most all-around titles won. How many European Championships did Svetlana and Nadia win?

Answer: ( One Word, or just number ... it's a single didgit number)
Question 9 of 10
9. Nadia defected to the United States in what year? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In 1996, Nadia Comaneci married which fellow gymnast?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Where is Nadia originally from?

Answer: Romania

Olga Korbut, another gymnastics legend, was from the U.S.S.R. (specifically Grodno, in modern-day Belarus). Nadia was Romanian (although she's now an American), and she belonged to the first generation of the gymnastics legends that Romania is now famous for producing.
2. Nadia's hometown is called what?

Answer: Onesti

During its Communist years, Onesti was officially renamed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, but to its residents it was still Onesti. After the Romanian revolution, it took back its old name. Onesti was where the Karolyis (Bela and Marta) established the program that would turn Romania into a gymnastics superpower. Deva was where the Karolyis were forced to start over after persecution by the Romanian government in the late 1970s, but they turned their luck around and in the process Deva became a nationally-recognized institution that still stands today. Little girls all over Romania dream of being asked to train with the national team at the club that the Karolyis built, CSS (Clubul Sportiv Scolar) Cetate Deva.

Incidentally, the experimental gymnastics school in Onesti where Nadia began her career is still going strong - it's also traditionally been the place where the junior national team trains, although in 1999, the junior team was transferred to Deva.
3. Did Nadia win the first national competition that she entered?

Answer: no, she fluffed her beam routine

She was only nine then, and she made a mess of it - she fell off the balance beam three times. Bela Karolyi noted that she fell off, got back on, and promptly fell off the other side. Despite this, the Onesti team won Nationals. Nadia finished 13th.
4. After her first national competition, Nadia's coach gave her a doll. What was it?

Answer: an Eskimo

Bela Karolyi gave her the Eskimo doll in 1970, after her disastrous first meet. He said it would bring her luck and reminded her never to finish 13th again. In a question/answer session published in "International Gymnast," Nadia noted that the doll was still in her brother's house back in Romania.
5. How many perfect tens did Nadia earn at the 1976 Montreal Olympics?

Answer: 7

She was the first female to earn a perfect 10 in a gymnastic event, and went on to do it six more times in the course of the competition. Almost every gymnastics fan has heard the story of how the scoreboard was not equipped to handle a 10 because no one had ever achieved perfection before, so it flashed a 1.0 as the score. Nadia and Karolyi were understandably upset until they found out what it meant.
6. Nadia has won 18 Olympic women's gymnastics medals, 9 of them gold.

Answer: False

False. That honor belongs to Larissa Latynina, of the former Soviet Union. Latynina's record stands not only in the gymnastic's world. Over the course of her three Olympics (1956, 1960, and 1964) she won 18 medals, 9 of them gold, and was a record for having won more total Olympic medals than anyone, male or female, in any sport (the record was still standing at the end of the 20th century, after the Sydney Olympics).

However, Nadia is credited with being the more talented gymnast, because when Larissa competed, gymnastics was considered by many to be technically "easier". Latynina was not an innovator. Largely due to the influence of Bela Karolyi, Comaneci's generation revolutionized the sport, changing it from stylized ballet to a more acrobatic and technically demanding sport. Comaneci was the best example of Karolyi's "new kind of gymnast" - younger, smaller, more flexible, and more daring.
7. Who beat out Comaneci for the all-around title in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow?

Answer: Yelena Davydova

The 1980 Olympic Games were boycotted by many western countries in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As a result, it became known as "the Communist Olympic games". Nadia's defeat was a very controversial judging decision, and most gymnastics fans agree that she was "ripped off".

The story there was that Nadia was the last competitor in the all-around, on beam. The judges scored the Soviet gymnast Davydova above her, Karolyi knocked down the scoreboard, and the judges changed Nadia's score several times and had a 27 minute argument about her score.

In the end, they valued their careers more than their integrity and gave the title to Davydova by a narrow margin. Believe that or not, this is a fact: Karolyi spoke out against the biased judging to the Western media and when he got back to Romania he was heavily reprimanded for confirming the West's opinion of the "first Communist Olympic Games".

The Romanian regime's persecution of him for this action became unbearable, and soon after he and his wife Marta defected to the United States.
8. In 2002, Svetlana Khorkina tied Nadia Comaneci's European Championships record for most all-around titles won. How many European Championships did Svetlana and Nadia win?

Answer: 3

Nadia won the European Championships in 1975, 1977, and 1979, and was the only three-time European Champion (until Sveta's title in 2002).
9. Nadia defected to the United States in what year?

Answer: 1989

She defected just weeks before the Romanian Revolution. The oppressive Romanian government was not happy to lose their biggest star and status symbol, and her family left behind in Romania was imprisoned and interrogated. The defeat of the brutal Communist regime and the execution of the dictator Ceaucescu saved the Comanecis, who had themselves been scheduled for execution.
10. In 1996, Nadia Comaneci married which fellow gymnast?

Answer: Bart Conner

They own a gym in Norman, Oklahoma, and have several business ties to gymnastics (including one with the popular magazine "International Gymnast").
Source: Author SuperRo

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