Sports Quiz – Olympic Games – Questions and Answers

Sports quiz - the olympic games

Sports - Olympic Games

In which year was the Winter Olympics held in Lillehammer, Norway?

The film Olympia documented which Olympic Games?

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Australian athlete Sally Pearson (McLellan) won a gold medal in which event?

Where were the first Winter Olympics after World War II held?

Which country has won the most Olympic gold medals in the men's handball tournament?

All of the following countries have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympics, except:

Which of these athletes has won the most Olympic gold medals?

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, Christoph Harting (Germany) won a gold medal in which event?

What do the five interlocking rings in the Olympic symbol represent?

At the 1976 Games, 26 African countries boycotted the games as a result of the following:

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The Olympic Games Quiz

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Questions
10
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Quiz about the Modern Olympics

From their start to today’s modern games, this quiz about the Olympic games has ten tough questions randomly pulled from a more extensive set of questions.

You can answer all questions correctly with a genuine sports interest and some history knowledge. However, it is a challenging quiz.

What is the Olympic Games?

As you probably already know, the games were inspired by different competitions held in the ancient Greece.

The modern Olympics is a leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter competitions in which thousands of athletes worldwide participate. The Olympic Games are the world’s foremost sports competition. Usually, the Olympic Games are held every four years. Summer and Winter Olympics alternate every two years in these four years.

In the beginning, no professional athletes were allowed to participate. Still, the exclusion of professionals caused many controversies throughout the modern Olympics. The Olympic Games also had their fair share of controversies, scandals, and boycotts.

How many of them do you think you remember?




Participating Countries

Athletes from five nations, Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, and Switzerland, have competed in all Summer Olympics.

Athletes from 14 nations, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia), Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Slovakia (Czechoslovakia), Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States, have participated in all Winter Games (up to 2022).

Do you know which country has walked away with the most gold medals? Or which athlete has been awarded the most?

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