This year London becomes the city to host the Olympics the most times with this total.
What is 3 times?
100
This country has won more medals (2,189) at the Summer Games than any other country.
What is the United States?
200
This major river running through London actually consists of 4 rivers; the Isis, the Churn, the Coln and the Leach.
What is the Thames?
200
Only free men (not slaves) who spoke this language could compete, rather than athletes from any country as in the modern Olympics.
What is Greek?
300
This is location where British kings and queens are crowned.
What is Westminster Abbey?
300
The early Olympic Games were celebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival. The Olympics celebrated this Greek god.
Who is Zeus?
400
This name, also the name of a gin bearing their image, is how the Yeoman of the Guard, or Queen's Bodyguard are also referred.
Who are Beefeaters?
400
Athletes in the ancient Olympic Games would participate in the nude. This english word comes from the Greek root "gymnos" meaning nude and the literal meaning of this word is "school for naked exercise."
What is gymnasium?
400
A gymnast from this country finished her summer Olympics career with 18 medals, the most in history.
What is the former Soviet Union?
500
It was recently announced that The Clock Tower (Big Ben) will have a name change to honor this "Big Beth".
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
500
In the ancient Olympics, this philosopher in 427-347 BC was a double winner of the Pankration, a martial art that combines wrestling and boxing.