Top Athletes
This American swimmer has the most Olympic medals ever
Who is Michael Phelps?
This country has held the most modern Olympic games
What is the United States?
This sport is considered the oldest Olympic sport
What is Sprinting?
How many modern summer Olympic Games have been held
25, 28, 33
28
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter called for the boycott of which country holding the Olympics
What is the Soviet Union?
This American track and field athlete stood up to Hitler By winning gold at the 1936 summer Olympics
Who is Jesse Owens?
Where were the ancient Olympic games held
What is Olympia, Greece?
What was the original goal of the Paralympics
To give injured WWII Veterans a chance to compete and rehabilitate
When were the Olympics games first held in South America
What is 2016?
This Olympic figure skater was attacked by her rivals ex-husband just before the 1994 Olympic games
Who is Nancy Kerrigan?
This soviet female gymnast held the record for most medals for 48 years
Who is Larisa Latynina?
This was the first US city to hold the Olympic games in 1904
What is St. Louis?
How old was the youngest Olympic athlete to ever compete
6, 8, 10
10 years old
How many times have the Olympics been completely cancelled
3 Times
This country was revealed to have over 200 athletes involved in a state-sponsored doping program
What is Russia
This Norwegian athlete has the most medals of any winter athlete ever
Marit Bjørgen or Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Who is Marit Bjørgen?
How many different cities have hosted the summer Olympics
15, 23, 34
23 cities have held the summer Olympics
The most common type of fencing
What is foil?
When was the last time that art contests were held as an Olympic event?
1948 in London
This city hosted the 1972 games during which a group of terrorists killed two athletes and kidnapped nine more, none of which survived
What is Munich?
This Italian athlete is considered the best fencer of all time with 13 Olympic medals
Roberto Baggio or Edoardo Mangiarotti
Who is Edoardo Mangiarotti?
What county besides the USSR has hosted the Olympics and no longer exists
Yugoslavia or Burma
What is Yugoslavia?
This one time Olympic sport was held at the 1900 Paris games is the only Olympic game to kill animals for sport.
What is live pigeon shooting?
This female tennis star was the first woman to win a gold medal in the modern Olympics
Charlotte Cooper, Rachel White, or Bridget Jones
Who is Charlotte Cooper?
In 1912 this athlete had his medals revoked when it was discovered he played for a professional minor league, going against the Olympic’s amateur-only rule.
Charles Bennet, Norman Pritchard, Jim Thrope
Who is Jim Thrope