Olympic swimming
Pool history
Pool sizes
Finish the joke
Pool records
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In competitive swimming, how many different standard strokes are there? Name them for 50 extra points

What is 4?

The standard strokes are front crawl (freestyle), backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly.

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What is the oldest swimming stroke that we still use today

What is breaststroke

100

What is the size of a normal public swimming pool?

What is 25m?

100

Where do ghosts go swimming?

What is in the dead sea?

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Who has the most swimming world records set?

Micheal Phelps

200

When was swimming first introuced to the olympics?

what is 1896?

200

What material were the first recorded swim goggles made of in the 14th century?

 What is Tortoise shells.

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What is the size of a olympic swimming pool

What is 25m?

200

Why did Vegetarians stop swimming?

What is because they didn’t like meets!

200

fastest 50m front crawl world record

20.88 seconds, set by Australia's Cameron McEvoy at the China Swimming Open in Shenzhen.

300

How many event will take place in the pool in 2028 olympcis in Los Angelos

What is 41 pool events (20 women, 20 men, 1 mixed)

300

Who is credited with inventing the first heated swimming pool in the 1st Century BC?

Gaius Maecenas, a wealthy Roman lord and political advisor.

300

 How much water does an olympic pool hold?

What is 2.5 million liters (about 660,000 gallons) of water. [1, 2, 3, 4]

300

Why do you keep doing backstroke? Because I’ve just had lunch and don’t want to swim on a full stomach.

What is because I’ve just had lunch and don’t want to swim on a full stomach.

300

Where is the world's deepest swimming pool, the "Deep Dive Dubai," located?

In the United Arab Emirates, plunging to a depth of roughly 197 feet

400

What is they year and locaation of when and where the olympics switched from open water to swimming pools?

What is 1908, London?

400

What is considered the oldest known public swimming pool in the world, built around 2500 BC?

 The "Great Bath" in Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan, sealed with bitumen for waterproofing.

400

What are teh dimesions of the biggest pool ever?

What is 3,324 ft long (1,013 m), covering 20 acres?

400

What is a swimmers favorite exercise?

What is a pool-up?

400

What is the world record for holding breath underwater

The world record for the longest time holding one's breath underwater is 29 minutes and 3 seconds, set by Croatian freediver Vitomir Maričić on June 14, 2025. 

Apparently he inhaled a ton a oxygen before and then held his breath for this long

500

Which individual diving events were featured in the Olympics? 

 What is 3 meter spring board, 10 meter platform?

In addition to these individual diving events, there are also synchronized 3 meter spring board, and 10 meter platform diving events.

500

what country has the longest swimming pool ever made?

Morocco

500

Does pool size matter if you want to have fun??

NO NOT AT ALL, EVEN SMALL POOLS ARE SO MUCH FUN AND YOU CAN DO ALMOST THE SAME EXACT THINGS!!!!!

500

Whats a swimmers favourite candy?

What is swedish FISH and LIFESAVERS?

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What is the world record for the highest dive of a diving board

The official Guinness World Record for the highest dive from a diving board stands at 58.8 meters (192 feet, 10 inches). It was achieved by Lazaro "Laso" Schaller in Maggia, Ticino, Switzerland, on August 4, 2015

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