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100
What are the colours of the Olympic rings?
What is blue, black, red, yellow and green?
100
True or False. Before the first Winter Olympics in 1924, figure skating and ice hockey were held during the Summer Olympics?
What is TRUE.
100
Who is a four-time world skating champion from Alberta?
Who is Kurt Browning?
100
What is the approximate population of Sochi? A) 350 000 B) 500 000 C) 1 million D) 1.5 million
What is 350 000? Sochi had a permanent population of 343 334 in 2010, making it Russia's largest resort city.
100
What is Canada's national sport?
What is lacrosse?
200
Outside of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, what other city in Canada has hosted the Winter Olympics?
What is Calgary in 1988? One of the memorable moments from the Olympic games in Calgary was that this was the first year that the Jamaican bobsled team entered into Olympic competition.
200
True or False. The first Olympic games were held in 1924 in France?
What is TRUE.
200
Who won gold in the men's speedskating oval in the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Who is Charles Hamelin?
200
What sea coast borders Sochi?
What is the Black Sea coast?
200
This Winter Olympic sport combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting?
What is biathlon?
300
How many Olympic events will be held during the Sochi 2014 Olympics? A) 78 B)86 C)90 D)98
What is 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines over 17 days of competition?
300
True or False. The Olympic games have been completely cancelled due to bad weather.
What is FALSE. Individual events have been cancelled in the past due to poor ice surface or lack of snow. The only time the entire olympics themselves have been cancelled is due to war.
300
Who won gold in the men's ski moguls in the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Who is Alex Bilodeau?
300
What kind of climate does Sochi have?
What is a humid subtropical climate with mild winters from December to March and warm summers from May to October?
300
This Olympic sport is played on a sheet of ice and uses a rock and broom.
What is curling?
400
True or False. During the first Winter Olympic games in 1924, Canada scored only 10 goals and gave up 5.
What is FALSE. Canada scored 110 goals and gave up 3 during the first Winter Olympics.
400
True or False. Canada has hosted the Olympics three times.
What is TRUE. 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
400
What medal did Kaetlyn Osmond receive in the newly-created team skate category in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics?
What is silver?
400
True or False. Sochi is known for its sports facilities.
True. A local tennis school spawned many famous careers and the Russian Football Union established a year-round training centre for the country's national teams in Sochi.
400
This Olympic sport can be participated in by individuals or pairs. It is played on ice and is also known as artistic skating.
What is figure skating?
500
How many new competitions are being held during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi? A) 8 B) 10 C) 12 D) 15
What is 12? A total of 12 new competitions are being held in Sochi including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing and others.
500
True or False. Canada has not always won a medal during the Olympics.
What is FALSE. Canada has competed at every Winter Olympic Games and has won at least one medal each time.
500
This male Canadian world skating champion from Newmarket, Ontario is known for sharing his first name with a famous rock and roll musician.
Who is Elvis Stojko?
500
What is Sochi known for in Russia?
What is the major resort town?
500
This Winter Olympic event involves skiing downhill between poles or gates. The event is judged by the best time you are able to make it down the hill and a penatly is given for the "gates" that are missed.
What is Alpine Skiing?