Winter Olympic History
Which city in Asia hosted the 2022 Winter Olympic Games?
What is Beijing?
This holiday movie taught us that wet bandits + winter = bad decisions.
What is Home Alone?
What song has the lyric "Alright stop, collaborate and listen."
What is “Ice Ice Baby”?
Athletes skate at high speed around an oval track, leaning dangerously into turns.
What is speed skating?
The official name for a snowstorm that lasts at least three hours with winds over 35 mph.
What is a Blizard?
What Winter Olympic sport was the first to include mixed-gender team events?
What is figure skating?
This 2002 movie features a Miami dentist who discovers he’s inherited a team of sled dogs in Alaska.
What is Snow Dogs?
This Red Hot Chili Peppers song features rapid-fire vocals and the lyric “Deep beneath the cover of another perfect wonder.”
What is “Snow (Hey Oh)”?
Athletes slide stones down ice while teammates furiously sweep in front of them.
What is curling?
What date is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is December 21?
This 1988 winter Olympics team inspired the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings.
What is the Jamaican Bobsled Team?
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar after freezing in this brutal survival film.
What is The Revenant?
This holiday song asks listeners to bring “some corn for popping."
What is “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”?
This winter olympic sport relies more heavily on aerodynamics than any other sport.
What is Ski Jumping?
This country is widely considered to have the most annual snowfall per year.
What is Japan?
This was the first Winter Olympics host Country in 1924.
What is snowboarding?
What is France?
This rom-com features a bookstore owner and a political aide meeting during a snowy New York winter.
What is You've Got Mail?
What were The Mamas & The Papas dreaming of on such a winters day?
What is California?
Competitors ski long distances and periodically stop to shoot rifles at targets.
What is Biathlon?
Despite their reputation, polar bears actually have this color skin under their fur.
What is black?
This Winter Olympic event made history when it debuted at the 1998 Games in Nagano.
What is Snowboarding?
This cult classic ski movie is named after the most difficult slope on a mountain.
What is Better Off Dead?
This song includes the lyric “It’s too cold for you here,” and became one of the most streamed songs of the 2010s.
What is Sweater Weather?
This Olympic sport involves flying down an icy track head-first.
What is Skeleton?
"Winter is Coming" is the official motto of this noble family in Game of Thrones.