Sports Quiz – Olympic Games – Questions and Answers

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In which year were the first Summer Olympics held?

A) 1912

B) 1932

C) 1924

D) 1896

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece.

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Which event made its Olympic debut in the 2018 winter games?

A) Short track speed skating

B) Halfpipe Women

C) Luge, team relay

D) Mixed team alpine skiing

Four events made their Olympic debut in 2018: big air snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling, and mixed team alpine skiing. Luge team relay is a discipline introduced in 2014.

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How many times has Athens (Greece) hosted the official Summer Olympics?

A) No time

B) Four times

C) One time

D) Two times

Athens, Greece, hosted the Summer Olympics in 1896 and 2004.

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The Olympic mascot Vinicius represented which games?

A) 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul

B) 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

C) 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo

D) 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney

Vinicius is the official mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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In which year was the Winter Olympics held in Sapporo, Japan?

A) 1972

B) 1960

C) 1932

D) 1956

The 1972 Winter Olympics was held in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games outside Europe and North America.

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The film Olympia documented which Olympic Games?

A) Munich, 1972

B) Rome, 1960

C) Berlin, 1936

D) Mexico City, 1968

Olympia is a 1938 Nazi German propaganda sports film written, directed, and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.

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

A) 4 x 100 metres relay

B) Boxing

C) 100 m hurdles

D) High Jump

Sally Pearson is an Australian athlete. She won a silver medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2008 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

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Which is the only country that has earned gold at every Winter Olympic Games?

A) Finland

B) United States

C) Canada

D) Norway

Six countries (Austria, Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States) have earned medals at every Winter Olympic Games. Only one, the United States, has earned gold at all.

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In which event has Chris Hoy six Olympic gold medals?

A) Speed skating

B) Cycling

C) Gymnastics

D) Swimming

Christopher Hoy is a British racing driver and former track cyclist from Scotland. Hoy is the second most decorated Olympic cyclist with seven Olympic medals, six gold, and one silver.

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Grenoble, which hosted the 1968 Winter Games, is in which country?

A) Switzerland

B) France

C) Canada

D) Italy

Grenoble is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France.

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The Olympic Games Quiz

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?