Test your track nerd mettle with my 50 question quiz

That quiz website has the option of making an AI-generated quiz based on prompts. I tried a couple of those the other night and one of the questions was something like, “What foods do runners consume to fuel themselves during long distance runs?” with the options peanut butter sandwiches, sports drinks, energy gels, and bananas. Turns out peanut butter sandwiches is correct while bananas is wrong - nobody’s ever done that.

26/50, ooof I need to brush up

I have little patience so I probably finished in 10 minutes. I got 28. I think it would be a better barometer of one’s knowledge if there were a time limit. I would assume many could score in the 30s if they took time and who knows if some cheated? Anyway there were about 15 I simply rushed a guess because I really didn’t know for sure. Thanks for the cheap entertainment.

22

OK for someone who has run passionately since 1972 but skipped the 1980s for rock climbing and mountaineering and is a sprinter now. I would be among the top for a combined track/climbing/biology/paleontology/WWII history I would think.....

Haha I think the world is safe from AI takeover for a little while longer.

34/50 and one was a misstype

I screen shot my score for proof. I swear I got 40/50

15/50

31 here. Good challenge.

Great quiz. 17/50. I think I know more than I do.

nice stuff, I posted the 10 question quiz a few days ago.

There were some really, really tough questions here. I'm still surprised that Henrik competed in the NCAA.

I might need to make a 50 question one for the sprinters out there!

I got 25 out of 50. Humbling! Great quiz!

40/50. Fun quiz but some toughies in there. The one about the Burundi national records threw me...had never heard of that guy before.

I did even worse than random guessing. I'm only a casual fan of T&F, so I guess that's OK.

this has to be the best non-AI score

i got 23, no idea about the old stuff and obscure records

I did hopeless, only knew a few global medal winners, the rest was guess work

I hadn’t seen this reply before now. This to me (along with Hardloper’s 34) indicates the quiz isn’t far from being well calibrated. I didn’t want to make a quiz where anyone was likely to get 50/50 because those quizzes are more boring.

I’m sure some of the downvotes on my OP are because I said I definitely would have scored forty-some, and people think that makes me an arrogant or lying know-it-all. Well, I would have, but I have the tremendous advantage of the questions coming from my own knowledge database, if you will; I came up with most of the questions and multiple choice answers either trying to fall asleep or walking my dogs. If another person had written a similarly difficult quiz, I’m guessing I would have scored in the Gault to Hardloper range. My saying I would have scored forty-some was really just my nervous defense of the quality/difficulty level of the quiz.

Thanks to everyone who took it and shared their scores and feedback.

13/50

30 years old and just started following pro running casually in 2015. Last couple years becoming a more serious fan listening to LRC podcast and watching most diamond league meets. Got laughed at for having no idea who Prefontaine was during my one year of practice squad trying to make a D3 college team. Good quiz thanks.

44/50

one of the misses was the meaning of Kipchoge

i've not looked anything - but I'm following athletics since decades...