1. Name the athlete who won the Marathon race consecutively at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games.   Abebe Bikila   Frank Shorter   Waldemar Cierpinski   Carlos Sousa Lopes   2. Who was the winner of the first Marathon race in the 1896 Athens Olympics?   Spiridon Louis   Michel Breal   Herodotus   Pheidippides   3. In which year was the first Olympic Marathon race (from Marathon Bridge to the stadium in Athens) held?   1800   1890   1896   1900   4. Who was the inspiration behind the idea of the Marathon race?   Spiridon Louis   Michel Breal   Herodotus   Pheidippides   5. Who was the first woman to win a Marathon race in the Olympic games ?   Grete Waitz   Joan Benoit   P. T. Usha   Diane Dixon   6. Since when is the Women's Marathon race held in Olympic games ?   1896 Athens Olympics   1900 Paris Olympics   1984 Los Angeles Olympics   1988 Seoul Olympics   7. In which year was the race distance for Marathon events in the modern Olympic games standardized ?   1896   1900   1908   1924