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Where did the Olympic Games originate?

Olympia Greece


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What is the official motto for the Olympics?

“Citius, Altius, Fortius” ("Faster, Higher, Stronger")

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Though it had a 10-foot bite diameter, megalodon, the biggest ever of these, died out in the Pliocene

a shark

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The name of this mountain range comes from Sanskrit words for "snow" & "abode"

the Himalayas

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To impede, or a laundry receptacle

hamper

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Where was the first Olympic Games held?

Athens, Greece (1896)

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Which country has hosted the most Olympic Games?

United States

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Around 10 feet tall, a tusked mammal had hair that could get to be more than 2 feet long, hence this descriptive name

a woolly mammoth

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Dating to the 1690s, the Eddystone Lighthouse is near Plymouth in Devon, on rocks in this narrow body of water

the English Channel

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You can do this with a fugitive in a place of refuge, perhaps in the same-named watery area


harbor

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What country leads the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Games?

Greece

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Which sprinter was famously stripped of his 100m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?

Ben Johnson 


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This Feline known for its big canines during the ice age, also California's official state fossil

a saber-toothed tiger

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In 1616 navigator Willem Schouten rounded this cape at the tip of South America & named it for the Dutch city of his birth

Cape Horn

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It's an animal; it's a northeastern city; it's a verb meaning to bully


buffalo

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What year did Paris last host the Olympic Games?

1924

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Which Olympic game was boycott (year and place)?

Summer Olympic games Moscow 1980s

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An early type of this semiaquatic weasel wasn't cute & cuddly--it was the size of a wolf, with a bite to match

otter

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The Tha, a tributary of this river, flows through Laos

the Mekong


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Happening now, or the movement of the tide

current

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Which four years have seen the Olympics canceled

1916, 1940, 1944, and 2020

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Who was the first Canadian Women to win a Gold medal?

Ethel Catherwood (High Jump at Amsterdam, 1926)

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Sea scorpions called Eurypterids could reach 8 feet, making them the biggest ever members of this phylum that includes crustaceans & bugs

arthropods

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In 2021 this Canal got blocked for six days by the Ever Given, the canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea

Suez Canal

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To abstain or elect not to do something, like not mentioning it's another word for a song's chorus

refrain

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