How well do you know the New Hampshire road race/triathlon scene? You can find out this week when you take the Andy On The Run Granite State road race/triathlon trivia test. Questions are listed first followed by the answers (yes, some are easy and some will leave you saying, “I haven't got a clue.” That's what trivia is).

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1. Who are the only two runners to win both the Boston Marathon and the Mount Washington Road Race?

2. What is the state's largest triathlon?

3. What is the state's largest 10K road race?

4. Who are the two women who were living in New Hampshire in 1992 who ran in the Olympics in Barcelona that year?

5. What 5K is the site of the fastest 5K ever run in New Hampshire but doesn't count as a state record because the course is too fast per USA Track and Field standards?

6. What 5K is the site of the fastest 5K per USA Track and Field standards?

7. In addition to the Mount Washington Road Race, what other New Hampshire mountain race has been the site of the U.S. Mountain Running Championship in the past 10 years?

8. True or false: a female has run under 2 hours, 30 minutes at a New Hampshire marathon?

9. Where does the New Hampshire triathlon club S2 get its name?

10. What are the events that make up the Lord of the Flies competion?

11. The Mount Washington Road Race is the oldest road race in New Hampshire. What's the second oldest race?

12. The Mooseman Triathlon has been held in Bristol for a number of years but Bristol was not the original site Mooseman. Where was the first Mooseman Triathlon held?

13. What former Olympic runner was living in New Hampshire in 1981 and was the fastest New Hampshire female at the Boston Marathon that year?

14. True or False: the Smuttynose Palooza, the indoor half marathon that took place in Milford these past two years, is the only indoor half marathon in New England?

15. Who are the three former New Hampshire elite runners who founded the Millennium Mile race in Londonderry?

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Now the answers:

1. John J. Kelley won the Boston Marathon in 1957 and the Mount Washington Road Race in 1961. Jackie Garreau won the Boston Marathon in 1980 (the Rosie Ruiz incident) and is a three time winner of Mount Washington (1989, 1994, 1996).

2. The Timberman Triathlon Festival in Gilford, held every August, brings in well over 2,000 athletes. The race brings in close to 1,500 athletes.

3. The Market Square Day 10K, held every June in Portsmouth

4. Lynn Jennings lived in Newmarket and won bronze in the 10,000 meters. Cathy O'Brien lived in Durham (and still does) and finished 10th in the marathon.

5. The Hollis Fast 5K saw Nate Jenkins finish in 13:46 in 2007. Ask runners who were there about the horse that got loose from its pen and chased Jenkins

6. In 2010, Alene Reta won the Cigna/Elliot 5K in 13:53, the fastest 5K ever in the Granite State (per USATF standards).

7. The Cranmore Hill Climb in North Conway has been a U.S. Mountain Running Championship race on a number of occasions in the past ten years.

8. False. Cathy O'Brien has the state's female marathon record in 2:33:56 (Clarence Demar Marthon, Keene, 1995)

9. The club is named after its found and coach, Sean Snow.

10. The Lord of the Flies are the bike trial, international distance triathlon, and sprint distance triathlon distance races at the Black Fly Triathlon Festival in Waterville Valley. Fastest combined times are declared male and female Lord of the Flies.

11. The Bill Luti 5 Miler in Concord is the state's second oldest race.

12. The first Mooseman Triathlon Festival took place in Waterville Valley.

13. Joan Benoit Samuelson was living in Exeter in 1981 when she finished Boston in 2:30:16.

14. True

15. John Mortimer and the Downin brothers, Matt and Andy.

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RUNNING SHORTS: Another triathlon win for former Keene State runner Mark Miller. Miller won the inaugural Capital City Tri on Aug. 5. ... Give it up for Tyler Mansfield of Wakefield and Caitlin Miftari of Somersworth, winners of the Give the Kids The World Mouse Ear Gathering 5K, held in Rochester on Aug. 5. ... A great tradtion continues on Aug. 25 in Gilford, the 35th Gilford Old Home Days 5K. ... Labor Day weekend will be busy in the Granite State with the New Hampshire Ten Miler in Auburn on Sept. 1, the new Applecrest Half Marathon in Hampton Falls on Sept. 2 and the St. Charles Children's Home 5K in Portsmouth on Sept. 3.

Andy Schachat's column appears every other week in the New Hampshire Sunday News. Email him at schachat44@gmail.com.