Winter Olympics
The biathlon incorporates these two sports.
What are skiing and shooting?
What is Athens, Greece?
Ancient greek athletes wore this type of suit when participating in the games.
What is a birthday suit (naked)?
From 1912 - 1948 medals were awarded for categories beyond Athletics. Name them (first team to name three).
What are painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, and music.
The five intertwined rings on the Olympic Flag symbolize the unity and solidarity of what?
What are the five continents?
This is the fastest winter olympic sport with speeds reaching 90mph.
What is luge?
This schoolyard game involving a rope was contested at every Summer olympics from 1900 - 1920.
What is tug-of-war?
In 1964, the Austrian Army delivered 50,000 cubic yards of this substance to save the year's Olympic games.
What is snow?
Who is Jesse Owens?
What is CBS.
Olympics were traditionally only held in the summer - that is until this year - when the first winter games took place (+ or - 5 years).
What is 1924?
The 1996 olympics were at which American host city?
What is Atlanta?
Live pigeons were used for this sport in the 1900 games.
What is archery?
Olympic gold medals were only made of solid gold until the 1912 Olympics - today, gold medals must be made of at least 92% of this metal.
What is silver?
This is the only city to host both winter and summer olympics.
What is Beijing?
One of these countries has NOT participated in every Winter Games: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland
What is Denmark?
What are Australia, UK, France, or Switzerland?
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was the first athlete to test positive for a banned substance after downing two of these to calm his nerves before the pistol shoot event.
What are beers?
What is the UK?
Despite having no legs, this athlete won olympic gold and later, a murder conviction.
Who is Oscar Pistorius?
The namesake of this entertainment empire was chairman of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 1960 games in California.
Who is Walt Disney?
These four new sports were added to the Olympics for the 2020 Summer games in Japan (name one).
What are surfing, rock climbing, karate and skateboarding?
Finland's Kalle Jalkanen won the 1936 gold medal in this endurance sport despite having to stop and retrieve dentures he accidentally spat out.
What is x-country skiing?
This was the first country from the Southern Hemisphere to win a Winter medal.
What is New Zealand?
The most brutal sport in the ancient games was pankration a combination of wrestling and boxing. The only forbidden actions in the sport were these (name 1)?