History
This Mediterranean country is where the Olympic Games began.
What is Greece?
This city was the host of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Tokyo
What colors are the olympic rings?
Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, Red
This sport, involving ollies and kickflips, debuted at the 2020 summer olympics.
What is skateboarding?
This olympic athlete holds the world record for the 100m sprint.
Usain Bolt
This Greek city is home to the first modern Olympics in the year 1896.
What is Athens?
This Continent has never hosted the Olympic Games.
Where is Africa?
True or false - Olympic gold medals are made out of solid gold
False! (Approximately 100 years ago they started making them out of silver with gold plating.)
What is the sport that participants run races, jump hurdles, and throw a javelin.
Track and Field
Ancient Olympic athletes wore this while competing.
nothing (Ancient athletes competed naked.)
Every athlete, from Polites to Leonidas, ran naked and barefoot at the Ancient Games.
The modern Olympic Games have been postponed or cancelled this many times.
What is a 4?
This country hosted the 2016 Olympics.
Where is Brazil?
These three core values represent the Olympic Movement
excellence, friendship, and respect
This type of dancing is considered an Olympic event for the first time in Paris 2024
Breakdancing
This Olympic athlete is the youngest, most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals in individual and team events.
Michael Phelps
This number of events was included in the first modern Olympics.
What is 43?
During the Olympic Games in this city in 1972, 11 Israeli's were killed.
Where is Munich?
When was the first edition of the Paralympics Games held?
1960
Name at least 2 out of the 4 events in the ancient olympics.
Wrestling, running, boxing and chariot races.
The Olympic Games first featured equal numbers of male and female athletes in this year.
2020
This year marked the first written record of the Olympic Games.
When is 776 BC?
The U.S. has hosted the Olympics (Summer and Winter) this many times.
What is 8?
“The important thing in life is not the ____, but the _____; the essential thing is not to ____ ____, but to have ____ ____.”
triumph, fight
have won, fought well
In addition to fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, and cross country running, the modern pentathlon includes this sport.
What is pistol shooting?
This athlete is widely considered to be the greatest and most dominant female gymnast of all time with a total combined 30 Olympic and World Championship medals.
Simone Biles