Countries of the Olympics
Olympic Events
Olympic History
Carrying the Torch
Russia
100
This country is the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
What is Russia?
100
This event involves two teams rolling "stones" down a sheet of ice while their teammates sweep to make the stones move faster.
What is Curling?
100
This Canadian city hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic games.
What is Vancouver?
100
He was a torch-bearer for the 2010 Olympics and brought his torch in to our classroom.
Who is Joseph Pierre?
100
Known for its size, Russia is in this place in a ranking of the world's largest countries.
What is First?
200
This country hosted the 2010 Olympics in the city of Vancouver.
What is Canada?
200
This event involves four people racing together down a steep track with banked corners.
What is four-person bobsled? (There is also two-person bobsled)
200
In 1980, these two rival countries met in a hockey game that became known as "The Miracle on Ice."
What is the United States and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R./Russia)?
200
How is the Olympic torch carried across oceans to the site of an Olympics?
What is "by airplane?"
200
This Russian city is the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
What is Sochi?
300
This is the country that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
What is the United States?
300
This event combines cross-country skiing with target practice.
What is biathlon?
300
The first Olympic games were held in this European country.
What is Greece?
300
This is the name for the event that signals the start of the Olympics, and where the torch is finally carried into the Olympic Stadium.
What is "the Opening Ceremonies?"
300
Not only is it the capital, but it is also the largest city in Russia.
What is Moscow?
400
This country hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics in the city of Beijing.
What is China?
400
This Olympic event involves an athlete racing down a steep track on a sled with metal runners on their back.
What is luge?
400
Both the Winter and Summer Olympics are held every ___ number of years.
What is 4?
400
This is the name for the large metal bowl that the flame is lit in and where it stays lit until the end of the Olympics.
What is a cauldron?
400
Before the fall of Communism in 1991, Russia was even bigger. What was the name of the country before 1991?
What is the Soviet Union?
500
This country hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics, three years before they invaded Poland and started World War II.
What is Germany?
500
This skiing event requires its competitors to race down a hill, while steering around gates the entire time.
What is slalom?
500
This ex-KGB head is now the President of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
500
This is the city where the Olympic Flame is lit and carried from to the site of the Olympic Games.
What is Athens, Greece?
500
Russia is the only country to be a part of two continents, these are their names.
What is Asia and Europe?
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