Country Flags
This country's flag has red and white sections with an 11-pointed red maple leaf in the center.
What is Canada?
How many years ago did Paris last host the Summer Olympics?
What is 100 years (in 2024)?
After a break of more than 1500 years, the first modern day Olympics were held in Athens, Greece in this year.
What is 1896?
The first Paralympics were held in 1948 at the same time as the Summer Olympics in this European city.
What is London?
This arrangement for housing of Olympic athletes to foster cordiality of the participants was introduced in the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics.
What is Olympic Village?
This European country's flag of 3 vertical stripes in the colors of green, white, and red can easily be mixed up with the flag of Mexico.
Which US City has hosted the Summer Olympics more than once?
What is Los Angeles? (1932 and 1984)
Bronze, silver, and gold medals were first awarded in this year at the St. Louis Summer Olympics.
What is 1904?
Which of these is NOT one of the 22 Summer Olympics Paralympics sports? A) Para Judo B) Para Table Tennis C) Para Boxing D) Para Basketball
This hat worn by rebels of the French revolution is this year's Olympic mascot.
What is les Phryges?
This country's flag, called the Union Jack, is made up of St. Andrew's Cross, St. George's Cross, and St. Patrick's Cross.
What is the United Kingdom?
Prior to 2024, which City hosted the most Summer Olympics?
What is London?
This year's host city also welcomed women in the Olympics for the first time in this year.
What is 1900?
In 1976, the first Paralympics Winter games were held in this country.
What is Sweden?
This year every medal won will contain 18 grams of iron form this famous structure.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This country has the only non-quadrilateral flag. It consisting of two triangular shapes with images of a crescent moon and a sun representing Hinduism and Buddhism.
What is Nepal?
What city became the first South American city to host the Olympic games in 2016?
What is Rio de Janeiro?
Berlin hosted the first televised Olympics in this year.
What was 1936?
This German who fled the Nazis to Britain first invented the Paralympics for British WWII veterans with spinal cord injuries.
Who is Sir Ludwig Guttmann?
The parade of athletes in this year's Olympics will be the first where athletes make their entrance not in a stadium, but via these vessels.
What are boats?
This African country's flag has a red stripe and a green strip with a yellow star in the middle.
What is Burkina Faso?
This is the only Canadian city to host the Summer Olympics.
What is Montreal?
The United States has sent athletes to every modern day Olympics except for the Summer Olympics held in this year.
What is 1980?
Trischa Zorn-Hudson, a US paralympic athlete, is the most decorated athlete in history with 55 medals won in this Sport.
What is swimming?
This energetic sport makes its debut in this year's Paris Summer games.
What is break dancing?