Test your knowledge

Know your Olympics, do you? Well, here’s your chance to go for gold. It’s Stuff’s 75-question quiz on New Zealand Olympic feats. Today, the second 15 (answers at the bottom of the page). . .

16. Who claimed bronze behind Peter Snell and Josef Odlozil of Czechoslovakia in the men’s 1500m final in Tokyo?

17. Helmer Pedersen teamed up with Earle Wells to win gold for NZ in the Flying Dutchman yachting class in Tokyo. Where was Pedersen born?

18. Which later-to-be Mayor of Auckland finished seventh in the men’s discus final in Tokyo?

19. The NZ men’s hockey team finished bottom of their pool in Tokyo after losing to which two African nations?

20. Who was the coxswain of the NZ men’s rowing coxed four which was a surprise gold medal winner at the 1968 Mexico Olympics?

21. Who won NZ’s first shooting medal at an Olympics in Mexico?

22. Mike Ryan won bronze in the men’s marathon. Which nation claimed gold for the third consecutive Olympics in the event?

23. Which NZ team missed playing off for the medals despite not losing any of its seven pool games in Mexico?

24. What was played for the first time at an Olympic Games when NZ won a medal in Munich in 1972?

25. Which NZ road cyclist has never received an Olympic medal despite being promoted from fourth to third in Munich after Spain’s Jaime Huelamo was disqualified for failing a drug test?

26. Who was the goalkeeper of the NZ men’s hockey team who finished the final against Australia with a gold medal and a shattered kneecap?

27. Twenty-eight African nations boycotted the 1976 Montreal Olympics over New Zealand’s involvement with what issue?

28. That meant which famous runner was denied the chance to compete against NZ’s John Walker in the men’s 1500m?

29. Who claimed silver behind NZ’s John Walker in the men’s 1500m in Montreal and died later that year in a car accident?

30. Who made his Olympics debut in the men’s K1 500 canoeing event in Montreal?