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Question 1
Olympic scoreboards flashed a 1.00 for gymnast Nadia Comăneci in 1976 because the maker failed to do what?
Swiss manufacturer Omega asked if four digits were needed, but Olympic officials insisted a perfect score of 10.00 was impossible.
Question 2
Broadcasters famously set Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci's montages to a theme song from what soap opera?
After ABC used the instrumental theme of The Young and the Restless for her television montages, the track was renamed "Nadia's Theme."
Question 3
Gymnast Nadia Comăneci earned the first perfect 10 in Olympic history while competing on what apparatus?
At just 14 years old, she executed a flawless compulsory routine on the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Games to secure the historic score.
Question 4
Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci made international headlines in 1989 by defecting from what country?
She secretly fled the oppressive communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu by walking overland into Hungary just weeks before the revolution.