AMAZING FOOTHILL RACE TRIVIA CHALLENGE
Congratulations to all of the Winners for
Amazing Race #2: The Tour De France.
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THE TOP 10 WINNERS OF WEEKLY PRIZES 1. Chris Visaya 2. Lauren Velasco 3. April Flowers 4. Laurie Bertani 5. Victoria Taketa 6. Lori Thomas 7. Frank Cascarano 8. Marie Findrick 9. Cal Schrotenboer 10. Mario Ramos |
ALL THOSE IN THE RUNNING FOR THE GRAND PRIZE!! Lauren Velasco April Flowers Victoria Taketa Lori Thomas Frank Cascarano Marie Findrick Cal Schrotenboer Mario Ramos |
ANSWERS TO WEEK #2 TRIVIA CHALLENGE:
1. How did the Tour De France come about?
| The Tour De France came about because of a feud between two rival French sports newspapers. Le Velo was the original publication. It's competitor, L'Auto-velo, was founded by a former advertiser who was unhappy with Le Velo's editorial policies. Le Velo filed and won a trademark suit against its competitor, and forced it to change the newspaper name from L'Auto-velo, to L'Auto. Henri Desgrange, editor for L'Auto, was very concerned that the name change would kill the newspaper. So he and his cycling reporter, Georges Lefevre, came up with the idea of a six-day race over roads and through towns as a publicity stunt, to increase circulation of L'Auto. |
2. What year did the Tour De France begin?
1903
3. Who has won the Tour De France championship more times
than any other contestant and how many times has he won?
Lance Armstrong, 7 times
4. Name the Oldest and Youngest winners of the Tour De France
championship and give their age at the time of their win.
Oldest: Firmin Lambot, Age 36
Youngest: Henri Cornet, Age 20 (technically 19 years and 50 weeks)
5. Who has ridden the most times in the Tour De France?
Joop Zoetemelk has ridden 16 times.
6. What is the significance of the colored jerseys, and what are the colors?
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Jerseys are worn by leaders in general time, points, best climber and youth general time: 4) White Jersey: Identifies the best Young Rider, 25 and under |
7. What was the fastest average over the whole Tour and by whom?
| DUE TO SOME AMBIGUITY, THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN THROWN OUT! While Lance Armstrong is definitely the person considered to have the fastest average over the Tour, different sources are citing different times & years for his fastest time! 1) While the Tour De France website has his fastest time (this past July 2005) at 41.654 kph, this time has not been officially confirmed as yet on the site. 2) Other very reliable sources, such as the Guiness Book of Records, cite his time in 1999 at 40.276 kph as the fastest. So to be fair, we are dropping this question from the list! |
8. How long is the Tour De France?C
| This question had some ambiguity as well... For instance, how "long" in length, or how "long" in time:
1) In time, the Tour is held over 3 weeks in July 2) In length, the Tour has varied -- in 1903 it was 2388 kilometers (1400 miles) and in recent years it has ranged from 3500 to about 4000 kilometers. The most recent Tour was 3607 kilometers. So again, in the interest of fairness, we were liberal in our acceptance of answers to this question! |
CONTEST RULES
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Weekly Challenge: Beginning September 23rd and running for four Prizes will be awarded each week for the Winners will be notified by email, and a Good luck! GP |
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Grand Prize Challenge: Contestants must answer all the questions correctly in Week 1 to be included "in the running" for the Grand prize: Contestants must play each week and In the event of multiple winners, the person with the quickest overall response time will |
Deadline to submit entries each week is Thursday by 5:00 p.m.
Weekly game dates will be: 9/23, 9/30, 10/7 & 10/14
OPENING DAY INFO | AGENDA |
DISTRICT OPENING DAY | FOOTHILL
SHIRTS | AMAZING
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