The First
Rings and Medals
Olympic Sports
Meanings and Traditions
Fun Facts
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The one and only game in the first Olympics.
What is Running?
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The First, Second, and Third place medals for the Olympics.
What is Gold, Silver, and Bronze?
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The sport in which teams throw a ball through their opponent's hoop.
What is Basketball?
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The flame that is transported by relay runners, called “torch-bearers,” to the host city of the Olympics.
What is The Olympic flame.
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The Winter and Summer games alternate every ___ years.
What is 2?
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The religious figures the first games honored.
What is The Greek Gods?
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The number of Olympic rings.
What is 5?
200
An event where sets of arrows are shot at a target from different distances.
What is Archery?
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A tradition that includes each country’s athletes enter the Olympic Stadium as a group, carrying their country’s flag.
What is the Parade of nations?
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There have only been ___ number of athletes who have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games
What is 4? Eddie Eagan (United States), Jacob Tullin Thams (Norway), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (East Germany), and Clara Hughes (Canada).
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The only gender allowed to compete in the first games.
What is Men?
300
The colors of the Olympic rings.
What is Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, and Red?
300
The sport where athletes compete in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle?
What is Swimming?
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The process where every athlete has to vow that they trained in their home cities for at least ten months and that they would obey the rules and regulations of the Olympic Games.
What is The Olympic Oath?
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The age of the youngest Olympic competitor and medalist on record
What is 10 years old? Dimitrios Loundras a Greek gymnast
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All wars and battles were halted so everyone could come and watch the games.
What is The Olympic Truce?
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True or False: The medal designs have varied considerably since the first Olympic Games
What is True?
400
The sport in which a small ball is hit back and forth across a net with a raquet.
What is Tennis?
400
The five Olympic rings represent
What is the five major regions of the world; whether that be by flag colors or by the five main countries who host the Olympics?
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The first Olympic Games to ever be televised
What is The 1936 Berlin Olympics
500
The year of the first Olympics?
What is 776 BC?
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The prize for event winners in the Ancient Olympics.
What is an olive branch wreath?
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The sport in which players try to score by using body parts other than their hands.
What is Football/Soccer?
500
For the 1900 Olympics, held in Paris, winners were given ______ instead of medals, which the French believed were far more valuable.
What are Paintings?
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Since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, new sports have been added along with at the least of 12 sport being eliminated completely from the schedule. Name at MOST three sports we no longer see at the Olympics.
What are croquet, cricket, Jeu de Paume, pelota, polo, roque, rackets, tug-of-war, lacrosse, baseball, softball, and motor boating? basque pelota, union? swimming- plunge for distance and underwater swimming? track and field- standing highjump? shooting- running deer shooting and dueling pistol? http://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/list.htm
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