Gentlemen!
D-Day minus 21. Three weeks to go. (If you haven't started your summer reading, you'd best get a read-on.) So stop watching nauseating Olympic weightlifting injuries on MSNBC and get to work!
Meantime, some clever lads have already got themselves out to A+ range in Comp II by skewering last month's exiting mid-Summer Hooper. Yes, Matt Hand, the Roman Emporer in 190 a.d. was Commodus (the one Maximus knifes at the end of Gladiator), and the 190th pope was Martin IV. Five points to Mr. Hand, and three more to Mr. Solomon.
Anyway, now that the Olympics are underway, some more Hoopering for you.
HOOPER PROJECT: Five first quarter points to the first, and three to each additional, Comper who can tell me: (a) What World War II general competed at the 1912 Olympics?, (b) What Scottish athlete, immortalized in the film Chariots of Fire, won the 400 meters at the 1924 Olympics?, and (c) What American is the only man to win more than one Olympic gold medal (he won four!) in the long jump? Faster, Higher, Stronger... Hooper!
