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Winter Olympics History
Winter Olympics History
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Snow Sports
Snow Sports
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Ice Sports
Ice Sports
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Sliding Sports
Sliding Sports
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Trivia
Trivia
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Winter Olympic Movies
Winter Olympic Movies
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Where were the last Winter Olympics held?
A) Beijing, China
B) Pyeongchang, South Korea
C) Sochi, Russia
Pyeongchang, South Korea
100
Everyone agrees that this sport one of the hardest ski events at the Winter Olympics. It's an event that combines cross-country skiing with ski jumping. What sport is it?
A) Cross-Country Skiing
B) Freestyle Skiing
C) Nordic Combined Skiing
Nordic Combined Skiing
100
What Ice Sport is often called NASCAR on Ice?
A) Curling
B) Short Track
C) Speed Skating
Short Track
100
How many disciplines make up the Sliding Sports for the Winter Olympic Games?
A) 3 Disciplines
B) 6 Disciplines
C) 9 Disciplines
3 Disciplines: The Bobsled, The Luge, and The Skeleton.
100
There are how many rings in the official Olympic Symbol?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 6
5
100
What 1993 movie tells the story of the first Jamaican Bobsled team?
A) Cool Runnings
B) The Cutting Edge
C) The Mighty Ducks
Cool Runnings
200
How many years separate each Winter Olympic Games?
A) 2 Years
B) 4 Years
C) 6 Years
4 Years
200
What sport do you get when you combine cross-country skiing with rifle shooting?
A) Alpine Skiing
B) The Biathlon
C) Spy School
The Biathlon
200
What sport went on to mainstream success, with Professional teams around the world?
A) Hockey
B) Ice Skating
C) Speed Skating
Hockey
200
What's is the fastest Winter Olympic sport?
A) Down Hill Skiing
B) The Luge
C) Speed Skating
The Luge
200
What country has won the most Winter Olympic medals ever?
A) Canada
B) Germany
C) The United States
The United States has won the most Olympic medals with 2,681.
200
What movie is about a mismatched pair of banned figure skaters who become teammates upon discovering a loophole that will allow them to compete in the sport again?
A) Blades of Glory
B) Cool Runnings
C) The Mighty Ducks
Blades of Glory
300
What year where the first Winter Olympics held?
A) 1924
B) 1936
C) 1942
1924
The 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in Chamonix, France
300
What Winter Sport did the astronauts believe would make walking on the moon easier?
A) Alpine Skiing
B) The Biathlon
C) Cross-Country Skiing
Cross-Country Skiing
300
What Winter Sport is the oldest sport in the Winter Games program?
A) Figure Skating
B) Hockey
C) Speed Skating
Figure Skating.
It was first contested in 1908 at the London Summer games.
300
True or False: Years ago, athletes on a sled developed the habit of "bobbing" their head back and forth to help make the sled go faster, which is how the name Bobsled came about?
A) True
B) False
True
300
What colors are the rings in the Olympic Symbol?
A) Black and White
B) Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, and Red
C) Red, White, and Blue
Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, and Red
300
The movie "Miracle" retold the story about the U.S. hockey team beating the Russian team. What is the movie's title short for?
A) The Miracle of Gold
B) The Miracle on Ice
B) The Miracle Worker
The "Miracle on Ice" was an ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
400
Where were the first Winter Olympics held?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Chamonix, France
C) St. Moritz, Switzerland
Chamonix, France in 1924
400
What sport might make you think you're at a gymnastics event, with back flips, twists, and breathtaking jumps 20 feet into the air?
A) Alpine Skiing
B) Cross-Country Skiing
C) Freestyle Skiing
Freestyle Skiing
400
What sport has you sliding "stones," called rocks, on a sheet of ice towards a circular target area; it is sometimes called "chess on ice"?
A) Curling
B) Speed Skating
C) Short Track
Curling
400
What sport involves jumping head-first onto a tiny sled, and then sliding down a track reaching speeds of 75 mph?
A) Luge
B) Skeleton
C) Deathwish
Skeleton
400
What do the 5 colors of the symbol represent?
A) The 5 participating continent areas of the world
B) The different sports played during the games
C) The number of days the entire games last for
The 5 participating continent areas of the world
400
In the late '70s, Hanna-Barbera took all of their old cartoon characters such as Scooby-Doo and Yogi Bear, and made TV series about the Olympics. What was the name of the TV series?
A) The Flintstone's Olympics Specatular
B) Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
C) Yogi's Wide-World of Sports
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
500
What country won the most medals at the first Winter Olympic Games?
A) Canada
B) Germany
C) Norway
Norway
500
What sport has 11 different events including skiing downhill at speeds of around 87 mph, or making sharp turns through "gates," in a shorter, but still challenging course?
A) Alpine Skiing
B) Freestyle Skiing
C) Ski Jumping
Alpine Skiing
500
In what Olympic Winter Sport have U.S. athletes won more medals than any other?
A) Figure Skating
B) Hockey
C) Speed Skating
Speed Skating
500
What sport has you lying flat on your back on a tiny sled zooming down an icy hill with twists and turns at speeds up to 90 miles per hour; plus...you don't have any brakes!?
A) Bobsled
B) Luge
C) Skeleton
Luge
500
The colors of each Olympic Ring are: Blue for Europe, Black for Africa, Yellow for Asia, Green for Oceania and Red for what?
A) North America
B) South America
C) Both Americas
Both Americas
500
What film's sequel has the hockey team representing the United States in the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles?
A) Cool Runnings
B) Ice Castles
C) The Mighty Ducks
The Mighty Ducks. The sequel was called D2: The Mighty Ducks.
600
What years did Canada host the Winter Olympics and in what city?
A) Calgary 1988
B) Lake Placid 1980
C) Vancouver 2010
D) A & C
Calgary 1988 and Vancouver 2010
600
What Winter Sport did the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not allow women to participate in the event until the 2014 Winter Games?
A) The Biathlon
B) Freestyle Skiing
C) Ski Jumping
Ski Jumping
600
What is Scotland's National Winter Sport?
A) Bagpiping
B) Curling
C) Short Track
Curling
600
Officials felt this sport was simply too dangerous and decided to ban the sport in 1948, but brought it back 50 years later in 2002?
A) Hockey
B) Luge
C) Skeleton
Skeleton. It was brought back in 2002.
600
The is the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games?
A) Beijing, China
B) Cortina, Italy
C) Lausanne, Switzerland
Beijing, China
600
What movie is the true story of a British skier who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928?
A) Cool Runnings
B) Eddie the Eagle
C) Ice Castles
Eddie the Eagle
700
The Olympic Games were held every four years from 1924 to 1936, but they were interrupted in 1940 and 1944 by what major world event?
A) The Cold War
B) The Great Depression
C) World War II
World War II
The Games did resume in 1948 after the war.
700
What sliding sport has only been a part of the Winter Olympics since 1998?
A) Snowball Fighting
B) Snowboarding
C) Snow Volleyball
Snowboarding
700
According to a poll, what is the leading sport voted the favorite Winter Olympics sport?
A) Figure Skating
B) Ice Hockey
C) Speed Skating
Figure Skating
Ice Hockey was a close second; but the least favorite sport was Curling.
700
True or False: There is only one event in the Bobsledding category, a four-person team?
A) True
B) False
False
There is a two-person and a four-person bobsled event.
700
True or False: The Winter Olympic Games have never had a host city located below the equator?
A) True
B) False
True
700
In 1969, the movie 'Downhill Racer' starring Robert Redford, was one of the first movies to showcase the Winter Olympics. What sport was the movie about?
A) Hockey
B) Ice Skating
C) Skiing
Skiing
800
Only once have the Winter Olympic Games been played two years apart. What two years did that happen?
A) 1936 and 1938
B) 1972 and 1974
C) 1992 and 1994
1992 and 1994
Until 1992, the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games were held in the same year, but the IOC decided to alternate the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games on separate four-year cycles.
800
What U.S. athlete has most Olympic gold medals by a snowboarder?
A) Lindsey Vonn
B) Michael Phelps
C) Shaun White
Shaun White
800
A month before the Lillehammer 1994 Olympics, Nancy Kerrigan was deliberately injured by a teammate and it went on to become a huge scandal. What sport did they both participate in?
A) Bobsledding
B) Curling
C) Figure Skating
Figure Skating
800
True or False: The Bobsled event has been in every Winter Olympic Games since the Winter Olympics began in 1924?
A) True
B) False
False
The bobsledding event has been part of the games since 1924, but it was not a part of the 1960 Squaw Valley games because they did not want spend the money to build the track.
800
What month are the Winter Olympic Games usually playing during?
A) December
B) January
C) February
February
They typically begin during the first week of February, however it has started on the last few days of January for 4 Winter Olympics games; including on the very first Winter Olympics.
800
In "For Your Eyes Only", Secret Agent James Bond skied down the bobsled track at the 2nd Winter Olympic Games location. Where were the 2nd Winter Olympics held?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Chamonix, France
C) St. Moritz, Switzerland
St. Moritz, Switzerland in 1928
