Question: Where do most injuries happen?
Answer: the lower extremities such as: cartilage lesions, ligament tears, and bone bruises/fractures

Question: How do you avoid injuries?
Answer: proper technique must be used by the gymnast

Question: What is a successful landing?
Answer: soft, meaning the knee and hip joints are at greater than 63 degrees of flexion

Question: Individual routines start with what phases?
Answer: build-up phase during which the gymnast jumps repeatedly to achieve height

Question: What does the gymnast do during the 10 bounces.
Answer: a sequence of aerial skills

Question: What is the maximum scroe for routines?
Answer: 10 points

Question: How can additional points be earned?
Answer: depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills

Question: In high level competitions how many preliminary rountines are there?
Answer: two preliminary routines

Question: What are the uneven bars?
Answer: two horizontal bars set at different heights

Question: What are these bars made out of?
Answer: fiberglass covered in wood laminate

Question: Why are the bars not made of wood anymore?
Answer: the bars were prone to breaking,

Question: How have the bars changed over the years?
Answer: They've been moved increasingly further apart

Question: How do gymnasts normally mount the uneven bars?
Answer: using a springboard, or a small mat

Question: What does a higher flight phase result in?
Answer: a higher vertical ground reaction force

Question: What is vertical ground reaction force?
Answer: s external force which the gymnasts have to overcome with their muscle force and has an impact on the gymnasts linear and angular momentum

Question: What else is an important aspect that affects linear and agular movements?
Answer: time the landing takes Gymnasts

Question: What was aerobic gymnastics called orginally?
Answer: Sport Aerobics

Question: What does aerobic gymnastiscs involve?
Answer: the performance of routines by individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people, emphasizing strength, flexibility, and aerobic fitness

Question: How many people can be in a routine?
Answer: individuals, pairs, trios or groups up to 6 people

Question: What is the size of the mat?
Answer: 7x7m

Question: How long do the routines last?
Answer: Routines generally last 60–90 seconds depending on age of participant and routine category

Question: What kind of routines do general gymnastic groups perform?
Answer: synchronized, choreographed routines

Question: What do the troupes consist of?
Answer: of both genders and are not separated into age divisions

Question: When was the first World Gymnaestrada held?
Answer: 1939

Question: What was the first Sport Program recongized by FIG?
Answer: Gymnastics for All

Question: How many participants are there?
Answer: 30 million

Question: What is gymnastics?
Answer: Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance and control

Question: Who governs all events in gymnastics?
Answer: Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG)

Question: What does each country have?
Answer: Each country has its own national governing body (BIW) affiliated to FIG

Question: What are the best known gymnastic events?
Answer: Competitive artistic gymnastics

Question: What events does this normally consist of for women?
Answer: vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.

Question: What two Germans were known for creating exercises on apparauses?
Answer: Johann Friedrich GutsMuths (1759–1839) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778–1852)

Question: What did the exercises lead to?
Answer: to what is considered modern gymnastics

Question: Who introduced educative gymnastics in France?
Answer: Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano

Question: What did Jahn promote the use of?
Answer: parallel bars, rings and high bar

Question: When did FIG decide that scores are no longer limited to 10 points?
Answer: 2006

Question: What are the two different scores?
Answer: an execution score and a difficulty score

Question: What score was added?
Answer: difficulty score

Question: How much is a fall deduction?
Answer: 1.00 deduction

Question: What is a gymnast's difficulty score based on?
Answer: what elements they perform

Question: What is the floor exercise events performed on now?
Answer: a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting of hard foam over a layer of plywood

Question: What was the floor exercise even on before?
Answer: the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats

Question: Why helps add an extra bounce to the floor?
Answer: springs or foam blocks generally called a "spring" floor

Question: What is the maximum for floor events?
Answer: up to 90 seconds

Question: What do athletes perform for tumbling?
Answer: an explosive series of flips and twists down a sprung tumbling track

Question: When was tumbling orginally contested at the Olympics?
Answer: 1932

Question: Where are offical tumbling competitions allowed?
Answer: only allowed as an event in Trampoline gymnastics meets

Question: What year did FIG reconginze Trampoline and Acrobatic Gymnastics?
Answer: 1999

Question: What are mens' rhythmic gymnastics related to?
Answer: both Men's artistic gymnastics and wushu martial arts

Question: Where did mens' rhythmic gymnastics develop from?
Answer: stick gymnastics

Question: What is the aim of stick gymnastics?
Answer: improving physical strength and health

Question: What are the main focus?
Answer: tumbling, strength, power, and martial arts skills are the main focus

Question: How many mens' rhythmic gymnasts were in Japan in 2002?
Answer: 1000

Question: Where did the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg move his residence to?
Answer: Hanover

Question: Who elevated the status of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor

Question: Who confirmed the elevation of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1708?
Answer: Imperial Diet

Question: Which other nation would the electors of Hanover become monarchs of?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: Who was the first elector from Hanover to sit on the British throne?
Answer: George I Louis

Question: Other than for railroads and road junction, what did Hanover have that made it a major target?
Answer: production center

Question: Which campaign specifically was Hanover a target for in World War II?
Answer: Oil Campaign

Question: What does VLW stand for?
Answer: United light metal works

Question: How many civilians were killed in the Allied bombing raids in World War II?
Answer: more than 6,000

Question: How many bombing raids were there during World War II?
Answer: 88

Question: Which zoo is one of the best in Europe?
Answer: Hanover Zoo

Question: What award did the Hanover Zoo receive four years in a row?
Answer: Park Scout Award

Question: Which animal does the so-called swimming area have?
Answer: seabirds

Question: When did the Canadian-theme area in the Hanover Zoo open?
Answer: 2010

Question: How many people visited the Hanover Zoo in 2010?
Answer: 1.6 million

Question: What famous theatre is located in Georgs Palace?
Answer: GOP Variety theatre

Question: What is the most important Cabaret-Event?
Answer: Kleines Fest im Großen Garten

Question: Where do artists who feature in the Kleines Fest im Großen Garten come from?
Answer: around the world

Question: What is another important event other than the Calenberger Cabaret Weeks or the Hanover Cabaret Festival?
Answer: Wintervariety

Question: What is a notable achievement about the Kleines Fest im Großen Garten?
Answer: most successful Cabaret Festival in Germany

Question: What does the German spelling of Hanover have that English does not?
Answer: a double n

Question: Which version of the spelling of Hanover does the local Government use on English websites?
Answer: German

Question: Which syllable does the English spoken version of Hanover stress?
Answer: first