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• When and where did rowing first appear as a competitive sport?

  • Ancient Milton Keynes

  • Ancient Egypt

  • Bedford six weeks ago

  • Paris 300 years ago

• What do you call the boats that rowers use in races?

  • ChumpRacer5000's

  • Racing Shells

  • Bashor Boats

  • Floatboats

• Can you tell me what a coxswain is?

  • Itchy skin from spending too much time in the stern

  • One who steers the boat

  • The area above the rowlocks

  • A goose that pecks the boat

• What is the name of the renowned rowing racing between Oxford and Cambridge?

  • Poshboy Throwdown

  • The Floating Boating Race

  • The Thames Toff Off

  • The Boat Race

• An oarlock is...what?

  • The metal piece that slides over the swivel and locks the oar in place

  • A support for a rowing oar

  • Mythical beast

  • Oar Manager or Oarage Administrator

• What do you call a crew that uses two oars instead of one?

  • Trolling

  • Rigging

  • Sculling

  • Trestling

• Which term best describes the oars used by professional rowers?

  • Blades

  • Splashdashers

  • Movesticks

  • Fins

• Which of the following is NOT a rowing competition?

  • Stake Racing

  • Head Racing

  • Bump Racing

  • Face Racing

• When a rowing team wins a race, what do they customarily do to their coxswain?

  • Put them in a bookcase!

  • Throw them into the lake!

  • Tell them how you really feel about their behavior

  • Prepare a celebratory bacon and chip butty for them

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