Olympics History
About the Olympic
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS
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MULTIPLE MEANINGS
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Where did the Olympic Games originate?
Olympia Greece
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What is the official motto for the Olympics?
“Citius, Altius, Fortius” ("Faster, Higher, Stronger")
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Though it had a 10-foot bite diameter, megalodon, the biggest ever of these, died out in the Pliocene
a shark
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The name of this mountain range comes from Sanskrit words for "snow" & "abode"
the Himalayas
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To impede, or a laundry receptacle
hamper
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Where was the first Olympic Games held?
Athens, Greece (1896)
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Which country has hosted the most Olympic Games?
United States
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Around 10 feet tall, a tusked mammal had hair that could get to be more than 2 feet long, hence this descriptive name
a woolly mammoth
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Dating to the 1690s, the Eddystone Lighthouse is near Plymouth in Devon, on rocks in this narrow body of water
the English Channel
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You can do this with a fugitive in a place of refuge, perhaps in the same-named watery area
harbor
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What country leads the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony at the Olympic Games?
Greece
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Which sprinter was famously stripped of his 100m gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
Ben Johnson
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This Feline known for its big canines during the ice age, also California's official state fossil
a saber-toothed tiger
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In 1616 navigator Willem Schouten rounded this cape at the tip of South America & named it for the Dutch city of his birth
Cape Horn
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It's an animal; it's a northeastern city; it's a verb meaning to bully
buffalo
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What year did Paris last host the Olympic Games?
1924
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Which Olympic game was boycott (year and place)?
Summer Olympic games Moscow 1980s
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An early type of this semiaquatic weasel wasn't cute & cuddly--it was the size of a wolf, with a bite to match
otter
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The Tha, a tributary of this river, flows through Laos
the Mekong
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Happening now, or the movement of the tide
current
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Which four years have seen the Olympics canceled
1916, 1940, 1944, and 2020
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Who was the first Canadian Women to win a Gold medal?
Ethel Catherwood (High Jump at Amsterdam, 1926)
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Sea scorpions called Eurypterids could reach 8 feet, making them the biggest ever members of this phylum that includes crustaceans & bugs
arthropods
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In 2021 this Canal got blocked for six days by the Ever Given, the canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
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To abstain or elect not to do something, like not mentioning it's another word for a song's chorus
refrain