Swimming
In Olympic swimming, goggles are worn mainly to protect the eyes from this.
What is chlorine?
100 points – This is the color of the basketball used in most Olympic games.
Answer: What is orange?
The Olympic Games begin with the lighting of this symbolic flame.
Answer: What is the Olympic torch?*
100 points – The Winter Olympics take place in this month most often.
Answer: What is February?
100 points – In table tennis, a player must win this many points to win a game.
Answer: What is 11?
200 points – This stroke is the only one where swimmers start in the water instead of diving from the block.
Answer: What is backstroke?
200 points – A made basket from beyond the arc in Olympic basketball is worth this many points.
Answer: What is 3 points?
200 points – The colors of the Olympic rings are blue, black, red, yellow, and this.
Answer: What is green?
200 points – This city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Answer: What is Rio de Janeiro?
200 points – This sport involves sliding stones on ice toward a target area.
Answer: What is curling?
300 points – A relay swimming team in the Olympics is made up of this many swimmers.
Answer: What is 4?
300 points – This foul is called when a defensive player makes illegal physical contact that stops the offensive player’s movement.
Answer: What is a blocking foul?
300 points – This is raised for the gold medalist during a medal ceremony.
Answer: What is their country’s flag?
The first time the Olympics were broadcast on television was during these Games.
Answer: What were the 1936 Berlin Games?*
In badminton, this is the official name for the object players hit back and forth.
Answer: What is a shuttlecock?
400 points – In butterfly, swimmers must move their legs together in this type of kick.
Answer: What is the dolphin kick?
400 points – In Olympic basketball, overtime periods last this many minutes.
Answer: What is 5 minutes?
400 points – The Olympic motto was updated in 2021 to add this word after “Faster, Higher, Stronger.”
Answer: What is Together?
400 points – The Summer and Winter Games were held in the same year until this decade.
Answer: What is the 1990s?
This Summer Olympic sport involves fencing, swimming, horseback riding, shooting, and running all in one event.
Answer: What is the modern pentathlon?*
The swimming event where competitors swim two lengths each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle is called this.
Answer: What is the 200-meter individual medley?*
500 points – This international basketball governing body organizes Olympic basketball tournaments.
Answer: What is FIBA (Fédération Internationale de Basketball)?
The music played at medal ceremonies in the Olympics is officially called this.
Answer: What is the Olympic Hymn?*
500 points – The last time the Olympics were held in Australia was in this year.
Answer: What is 2000?
500 points – In track cycling, the bikes used have this unusual feature compared to normal road bikes.
Answer: What is no brakes?