Olympic
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History
True or False:
The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were delayed until 2021 because of a pandemic.
True.
Good ol' COVID-19 delayed the Olympics a full year.
True or False:
Soccer is an Olympic sport.
Answer: True
Around the world, soccer is known as "football,"True or False:
No Olympian has ever participated in more than nine Olympic Games.
Answer: False
Between 1972 and 2012, Ian Millar, participated in TEN Summer Olympics. He was an equestrian (horse rider) from Canada.
Which has the most events,
the Summer Games or the Winter Games?
Answer: Summer
The Summer Games typically have about 50 sports and over 200 participating countries.
The Winter Games usually have about 15 sports and less than 90 countries participating.
True or False:
The United States hosted the first Special Olympics.
Answer: True
The first Special Olympics took place in Chicago in 1968.
True or False:
The Olympics have never been cancelled.
False.
They have been cancelled three times:True or False:
As popular as basketball is...basketball is NOT an Olympic sport.
Answer: False
Basketball is an Olympic sport.
True or False:
All the women who won medals in street skateboarding in 2020 were teenagers.
Answer: True
A 13-year old won gold.Don't underestimate the kids!
True or False:
Originally, the Summer and Winter Games both took place in the same year.
Answer: True
The Winter Games didn't begin until 1924 and took place in the same year as the Summer Games. The only difference was the host city. The Games weren't separated to rotate every two years until 1992.
Which town in Utah hosted the main skiing, jumping, and sledding events during the 2002 Winter Games?
Answer: Park City, Utah
The 1993 movie, "Cool Runnings," was inspired by which Winter Olympics team?
A. Jamaican bobsledAnswer: A
The Jamaican bobsled team
In the 1900 Games in Paris, Avril Lafoule won the Poodle-Clipping Event.
Answer: False
There was not a poodle-clipping event.
How old was the youngest ever recorded athlete to participate in the Olympics?
A. 10Answer: A
Dimitrios Loundras from Greece was only 10 years old when he competed in gymnastics in 1896.
What do Olympic ice hockey, curling, figure skating, and speed skating have in common? (But not with other Winter Games events?)
A. They all began at the original Winter Games in 1924.
B. They all are held indoors.
C. They originated from the same sport.
Answer: B
They are the Winter Olympics sports that are held indoors.
Both short track and long-track speed skaters can go how fast?
A. 15 mphAnswer: C
They can even go faster than 35 mph.
Blink and you'll miss 'em!
Answer: C. Walt Disney
His opening ceremony included 5,000 entertainers; 2,000 pigeons; and a military gun salute.
Which sports first debuted in the Olympics in the 2020 Summer Games?
A. SkateboardingAnswer: E
All of these sports were played for the first time in the Olympics last year!
How old must you be to participate in the Olympic Games?
A. 0
B. 10
C. 16
D. There is no specific eligibility age.
Answer: D
Each sport or event sets it's own age requirements:Answer: A - Figure skating
Ice hockey was also originally part of the Summer Games.
In the four-man bobsled race, each of the four athletes have a job. There is one driver, two pushers, and what other job?
A. An ice cleaner
B. A brakeman
C. Someone to provide snacks
Answer: B
The brakeman pulls the brakes and stops the sled at the end of the race.
The U.S. boycotted (refused to go and let athletes participate) in which Summer Olympics:
A. 2020 Games in Tokyo, JapanAnswer: D - Moscow, Russia
The U.S. boycotted to protest the 1979 Russian invasion of Afghanistan
Which sport was never an Olympic event?
A. BaseballAnswer: C - Squash
The three others were all played in at least one modern Olympics.
Answer: B
Oscar Swahn was 72 years old when he won GOLD in the "100-meter running-deer event" in 1920.
Which is NOT true about the 1960 Winter Olympics held in Squaw Valley, California:
A. It was the first time people in the U.S. saw the Olympics on TV.Answer: C
Artificial snow was first used in the 1964 Games in Austria.
It was also first made by machines in 1980 at Lake Placid, New York.
Which country's athletes get to enter LAST in the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremonies?
A. GreeceAnswer: D
The host country enters the stadium last.