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WorksheetsThe Boys in the Boat - Part 3
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
On what date did Al Ulbrickson announce his intention to take crews from the University of Washington to the 1936 Olympic Games?
January 14, 1935
December 14, 1933
October 9, 1935
June 24, 1934
In Part 3, who were the brothers that were in the all-sophomore boat and the JV boat and sustained a sibling rivalry?
Roger and Andrew Morris
Sid and George Lund
Jim and Paul Hunt
Ky and James Ebright
In their sophomore year, Joe Rantz's crew changed their rowing chant from MIB to what?
LGB
BRB
MAC
LOC
What University of Washington crew member's father had been the manager of Bon Marche department store and was famous for hiring spies to infiltrate the unions?
Angus Hay Jr's father
Byron Noble's father
Frank G. Gorrie's father
Broussais Beck Jr's father
In Part 3, who is described as "the savvy little coxswain of what seemed to be shaping up to be the best of the JV boats"
Harvey Love
Bobby Moch
George Hunt
Charlie McDonald
In Part 3, who were the sophomore crew members that Ulbrickson called into his office and told they needed to shape up?
Joe, Bobby, George and Russell
Mike, Byron, George, Joe, and Willis
Frank, Bobby, Ky, Harry, and Jerry
George, Chuck, Roger, Shorty, and Joe
What word from Part 3 means noisy or clamorous?
Vociferous
Sedentary
Atavistic
Misanthropic
What was the nickname that Jim McMillan's crewmates called him?
Hungry Jack
Stub
Shorty
Jimmy Rogers
In Part 3 - What was the name of the business where Joe visited his father at work?
Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery
Clyde's Deli and Bakery
The White Horse Tavern
Northern Pacific Railroad
What was the name of the University of Washington's football team before they became the Huskies?
Gold Miners
Brewskies
Sea Dolphins
Sun Dodgers
In what year did Seattle's professional hockey team, the Metropolitans, become the first American team to win the Stanley Cup?
1917
1936
1900
1935
By what name did the dust storm that hit on April 14, 1935 become known?
Black Monday
Black Friday
Black Sunday
Black Thursday
Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?
Byron Noble
Frank Gorrie
Harvey Love
Ed Stanley
Who was the president of both the AAU and the American Olympic Committee in 1935?
Charlie McDonald
Ed Stanley
Avery Brundage
Byron Noble
What word from Part 3 refers to a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd?
Paradox
Allusion
Ambiguity
Vagary
In Part 3, according to the author, what sports writer for the Seattle Post Intelligencer had been "loudly backing the cause of the sophomores for months" before the regatta in Poughkeepsie in 1935?
Charlie McDonald
Ed Stanley
Avery Brundage
Royal Brougham
How old was Jim Ten Eyck, the coach from Syracuse in 1935 when Washington went to race in Poughkeepsie?
39
55
83
76
Who was the senior that Ulbrickson swapped out for George Morry as coxswain on the sophomore boat at Poughkeepsie in 1935?
George Hunt
Ed Stanley
Wink Winslow
Russell Callow
Of the Grand Coulee Dam, the narrator says it was "so massive that by the time it was finished it would be the largest masonry structure built since...
The Great Pyramid at Giza
The Empire State Building
The Sears Tower
The Great Wall of China
How much did Joe Rantz earn for the dangerous job of jack hammering on the side of cliff faces at the Grand Coulee Dam site in 1935?
25 cents an hour
50 cents an hour
75 cents an hour
2 dollars an hour
Where did Al Ulbrickson agree to meet Cal, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Wisconsin, and UCLA for a one-off 2000 meter varsity match up after Poughkeepsie in 1935?
Long Beach, California
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Princeton, New Jersey
Cleveland, Ohio
How many men worked in the kitchen for the cafeteria of the Grand Coulee Dam site when Joe Rantz worked there?
20
5
30
10
Where is the Grand Coulee Dam located?
Columbia River, Washington
Colorado River, Nevada
Stanislaus River, California
Bighorn River, Montana
What was the area called where Joe Rantz rented a cheap room while working at the Grand Coulee Dam site?
Hooverville
Dinghy Pond
Shack Town
Jackson Square
What business had Johnny White's father run until the financial crash of 1929?
A Las Vegas Casino
A logging company
A bakery
A scrap steel export business
What was the name of Johnny White's mother?
Doris White
Maimie White
Elizabeth White
Dorothy White
In Part 3, what word is used to describe Chuck Day that means combative or inclined to quarrel?
Epistolary
Derivative
Scullery
Pugnacious
What was Chuck Day's father's profession?
He was a butcher
He was a dentist
He was a professor
She was a ship builder
Where did Joe Rantz finally see his father for the first time in Seattle?
The Rantz family home on Bageley Street
The LaFollette home on Aurora Avenue
In front of the Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery
The annual race regatta between Washington and Cal
At the Seattle train station, before boarding the Empire Builder
In what year did the Nazi Party come into power in Germany?
1918
1924
1929
1933
1935
The Reich Citizenship Law defined citizens to be any German national "of German or related blood who proves by his conduct that he is willing and fit to faithfully serve he German people and Reich"
TRUE
FALSE
The US Ambassador Charles H Sherrill attended the 1935 Nuremberg Rally as Hitler's personal guest
TRUE
FALSE
Avery Brundage, president of the AAU, supported the movement to boycott the 1936 Olympic Games
TRUE
FALSE
What was the meaning of Bobby Moch's call BAB to the crew members in the varsity boat?
Bring it All Back
Boys And Boats
Beat Al's Babies
Better and Beyond
What was the inscription on the bell housed in the limestone bell tower on the Maifield next to the Olympic Stadium in Berlin
Here is the field of champions
I summon the youth of the world
Victory is ours on this field
Heil, Hitler
During George Pocock's discussion with Joe Rantz about boat building, what did George Pocock say were lessons that wood could teach an individual?
Survival
Overcoming adversity
Strength and Resilience
The ability to yield
All of these
What event put a stop the the planned American boycott of the 1936 Olympic games
American protests that the games must go on
The attack of the Japanese at Pearl Harbor
The insistence by President Roosevelt that Americans must compete
The AAU failed to send a committee to investigate claims of Jewish persecution by the Nazis
The United Nations threatened any country who did not participate in the event would be sanctioned
