Winter Olympic Sports/Locations
In this sport, Olympians slide stones on ice towards a circular target
What is curling?
This player scored the 'Golden Goal' for Team Canada in the men's hockey gold medal game in 2010
Who is Sidney Crosby?
This sprinter from Jamaica holds the record for most Olympic sprinting gold medals
Who is Usain Bolt? (Bolt won eight gold medals across the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics)
Across the Summer and Winter games, this country has won the most Olympic gold medals
What is the U.S?
This city, located in an Island nation in northwestern Europe, was the first to host three Summer Olympics
What is London, England?
This location hosted the historic 'Miracle on Ice' men's hockey game between the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union in 1980
What is Lake Placid?
This country won the gold medal in women’s hockey in 2026
What is the U.S.A.?
This North American sprinter was the first Olympian to be disqualified for testing positive for steroids in 1988 (Hint: this made a patriotic young Andrew Vlasman cry)
Who is Ben Johnson?
This is the number of times that Canada has hosted the Olympics
What is three? (Montreal in 1976, Calgary in 1988 and Vancouver in 2010)
This continent has never hosted an Olympics (not Antarctica)
What is Africa?
This sport combines cross-country skiing and shooting
What is biathlon?
In 1988, a four-man bobsleigh team from this tropical country made their historic debut in Calgary (Hint: a movie starring John Candy was loosely based on this team)
What is Jamaica? (The movie is Cool Runnings)
With 28 medals, this swimmer is the most decorated Olympian of all time
Who is Michael Phelps?
Blue, yellow, black, green and red
What are the colours of the Olympic rings?
Wrestlers covered their bodies in this slippery substance in the ancient Greek Olympics
What is oil?
This is the fastest sport in the Winter Games, where athletes ride feet first on a sled
What is luge?
This country holds the all-time record for total Winter Olympic medals won
What is Norway? (Norway has won 447 medals, with the U.S. second at 363)
In 2024, this Olympic athlete went viral after competing in Breaking (they received a score of zero in each of their three round-robin battles)
Who is Rachael Gunn aka RayGun?
The 2028 Summer Games will be held in Los Angeles. Where will the 2032 Summer Games be hosted? (Hint: it's located in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres)
Where is Brisbane, Australia?
This Summer Olympics discipline has the highest number of medals awarded (Hint: the events are not in water, and includes track and field)
What is athletics? (The modern program includes track and field events, road running events, and race walking events)
This location hosted the first officially designated Winter Olympics in 1924 (Hint: it's located in the French Alps)
What is Chamonix, France? (The 1924 Summer Games were also held in France, in Paris)
This North American figure skating duo are the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history, having won five medals
Who are Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir?
At age 14, this Romanian gymnast scored seven perfect 10's at the 1976 Olympics
Who is Nadia Comaneci?
This was the last year that the Summer and Winter Olympics were held in the same year (Hint: a U.S. President named Bill was elected in this year)
What is 1992? (The Winter Games were held in Albertville and the Summer Games were held in Barcelona)
This woman is the only Canadian athlete to have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics (Hint: road cycling and speed skating)
Who is Clara Hughes? (Hughes won two bronze cycling medals in the 1996 Summer Games and four speed skating medals over the course of three Winter Olympics)