Olympic Geography
This city hosted the first modern Olympics in1896.
Where is Athens, Greece?
The US and Canada boycotted the Moscow Olympics in this year.
What is 1980?
This sport combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting.
What is biathlon?
This swimmer holds the world record for most olympic medals earned overall.
Who is Michael Phelps?
This is the largest muscle of the human body, responsible for powerful movements like running and jumping.
What is the gluteus maximus?
Including 2026, this is the number if times Italy has hosted the Olympics.
What is 4?
Women were first allowed to compete in the Olympics in this year.
What is 1900?
A marathon is this long.
What is 26.2 miles/ 42.2km?
Inge Sorensen was this age when she became the youngest Olympic medalist, winning for swimming in 1936.
What is 12?
This is the overall strongest muscle in the human body (not relative to size), typically very pronounced for skiers and skaters.
What is the rectus femoris? (part of the quadriceps)
The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924 in this country.
What is France?
Since 1896, this has been the official motto of the Olympic Games.
What is "Citius, Altius, Fortius”, or "Faster, Higher, Stronger" in English?
This ice sport features a target area known as a house.
What is curling?
This Romanian gymnast scored 7 perfect 10.0s at the 1976 Olympics at only 14 years old.
Who is Nadia Comaneci?
The human body has about this many skeletal muscles (depending on how you count complex muscles).
What is 650-840?
This city was host to the first Olympics to be held outside of Europe.
What is St. Louis, Missouri, USA?
A famous Jamaican bobsledding team competed for the first time in these Olympic games.
What is Calgary, 1988?
This winter sport uses the terms “stale fish” and “mule kick”.
What is snowboarding?
The oldest Olympic medalist, Oscar Swahn, was 72 when he won gold in this sport in 1920.
What is shooting?
In elite athletes, muscle accounts for up to 60% of body weight. In an average person, it accounts for this percentage of body weight.
What is 40%?
This city was the host to the first Olympic games held outside of the Northern Hemisphere.
Where is Melbourne, Australia?
These were the only Olympics to be postponed for reasons other than a world war.
What was Tokyo, 2020?
These are the 5 events that women were allowed to compete in in the 1900 Olympics.
What were tennis, sailing, croquet, golf and equestrianism?
This world-famous Olympic runner won 4 gold medals and set a world record in Men's Relay in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
When a muscle tenses and shortens, it is known as isotonic contraction. When it tenses but does not shorten, it is known as this type of contraction.
What is isometric?