| 1. | Name the athlete who set the first world record. |
| 2. | How many times has a new world record for the mile been set? |
| 3. | In what year was the mile first run in less than four minutes? What was the name of the runner? |
| 4. | Would you agree with the statement that, "The record is only broken in the warmer months of the year, and never in winter"? If not, why not? |
| 5. | Are some months better for record-breaking that others? |
| 6. | What is the longest period of years for which the record has gone before being broken? |
| 7. | Which runner (or runners) has held the record the greatest number of times? |
| 8. | By how much time has the record been lowered this century? |
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| 9. | What is the greatest amount of time by which the record has been broken? |
| 10. | Make a table to show by how much the record has been lowered in each of these periods given below - The first and last have already been done. |
| From | 1913 to 1923 | 4 seconds |
| | 1923 to 1933 | |
| | 1933 to 1943 | |
| | 1943 to 1954 | |
| | 1954 to 1965 | |
| | 1965 to 1975 | |
| | 1975 to 1985 | |
| | 1985 to 1995 | 1.93 seconds |
| 11. | Make a forecast of what the record might be in 2005, and explain how you arrived at that time. |
| 12. | If John Paul Jones and Nourreddine Morceli had been running in the same race, by what distance should one have beaten the other? |