Swimming Into The Jungle

 Olympics Photo Quiz 6 

 Background 

Winner of five gold medals in swimming for the United States at the 1924 Paris and 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, along with a bronze as part of his adopted country's water polo team at the Games in the French capital, the Romanian born Johnny Weissmuller would famously go on to play Tarzan in a string of movies during the nineteen thirties and forties featuring the jungle man. Less well known is the fact that he took up swimming to help offset the sickly physique that came in the wake of his childhood bought of polio. Eagle eyed Beatles fans will however know that his is one of the faces that appear in the montage that forms the cover of the band's 1967 landmark 'Sergent Pepper' album.                   

 Olympics Photo Quiz 6 

How many other Olympic medalists went on to portray Tarzan in Hollywood movies? 

The Answer will be published along with the next Highly Questionable quiz and associated blog post.

 Olympics Photo Quiz 5 Answer 

Refusal to accept their silver medals was the form of protest mounted by members of the USA basketball team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. They were aggrieved at what they saw as irregular timekeeping at the end of their match with the USSR which allowed the Russian's to snatch victory and the gold medal in a sport that the Americans had never previously lost a match in in the history of the Games.

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