Question 1

True or false: Jones was a college basketball star at the University of North Carolina before switching to track.

Accepted Answer

True. Marion Jones was indeed a college basketball star at North Carolina; she was the 1994 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player and led her team to a national championship before pursuing track and field professionally.

Question 2

True or false: Marion Jones’s ex-husband, shot-putter C.J. Hunter, was also banned for doping.

Accepted Answer

True. Hunter tested positive for steroids before the 2000 Olympics and was banned, a scandal that later implicated Jones.

Question 3

True or false: Marion Jones never competed in the long jump at the Olympic Games.

Accepted Answer

False. She actually won bronze in the long jump at Sydney 2000, though it was later revoked.

Question 4

True or false: Marion Jones won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics before later admitting to doping.

Accepted Answer

True. She won three golds and two bronzes in Sydney, but all were stripped after her 2007 doping confession.

Question 5

True or false: Jones served six months in federal prison for lying to investigators about doping.

Accepted Answer

True. In 2008, she was sentenced to six months for making false statements in the BALCO doping investigation.

Question 6

True or false: Marion Jones was the first woman to win five track and field medals at a single Olympics.

Accepted Answer

False. Marion Jones was stripped of all five medals (three gold, two bronze) from the 2000 Sydney Olympics in 2007 for doping violations, so she is not officially recognized as having won any medals at those Games.

Question 7

True or false: After her doping ban, Jones played professional basketball in the WNBA for the Tulsa Shock.

Accepted Answer

True. She signed with the Tulsa Shock in 2010, playing one season before retiring.

Question 8

True or false: Marion Jones's personal best in the 100 meters was an American record.

Accepted Answer

False. The American record is 10.49 seconds, set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 (also the world record). Jones's best time of 10.65 seconds is slower and never held the record.

Marion Jones Trivia Questions