Skate or Trivia
With skateboarding making its debut at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, it's time to stomp your deck and get rad in this fun trivia game about skateboarding and its history.
15 questions · Published August 3, 2021
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. In which decade did creative California surfers begin attaching roller-skate wheels to wooden boards, effectively inventing skateboarding?
Skateboarding was started in California in the early 1950s as a counterpart to surfing; it was even called "sidewalk surfing" when it first started.
- Multiple Choice
2. The "Z-Boys," a group of teens who pioneered modern street skateboarding, skated empty pools in a section of Santa Monica, California, known as ______________.
The Zephyr Competition team, known as "The Z-Boys," were the first sponsored skateboarding team. They revolutionized modern skateboarding by inventing tricks and taking major risks on the streets of Dogtown.
- Fill In The Blank
3. While the weight of the board and type of wheels have some influence, the speed of a skateboard actually comes from its ________ bearings.
A general ball bearing setup is the standard "608" size, consisting of seven ceramic ball bearings. A skateboard's speed comes from how freely and quickly they can move, which means they must be cleaned and lubricated regularly.
- Multiple Choice
4. The uncommon stance on a skateboard where a rider's right foot is forward instead of their left foot is known as ______________.
FUN FACT
Goofy foot or Goofy stance isn't derogatory, it's simply surfer slang from the 1960s.
While there is some question as to its origin, common history in the surfing community says it was named after a scene in the Goofy cartoon "Hawaiian Holiday," which features the character surfing with his right foot forward.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which aerial skateboard trick is often credited to Alex Gelfland, Jeff Duerr, and Rodney Mullen for creating different variants?
In 1978, Alex Gelfland created the ollie pop, popping your board over the lip of a vertical ramp and getting a small amount of air.
Later that year, he was shown the ollie air by his friend Jeff Duerr, wherein you pop your board off the top of the lip of a vertical ramp and get a lot of air.
In 1982, Rodney Mullen created the flatland ollie, wherein you slam the tail of your board down to pop into the air from the ground.
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