Winter Olympics Basics
This event features athletes racing downhill on long, narrow skis.
A) Snowboarding
B) Alpine skiing
C) Cross-country skiing
B) Alpine skiing
This sport involves spins, jumps, and choreographed routines on ice.
Figure skating
Athletes race headfirst on a small sled in this sport.
Luge
Skiers race downhill as fast as possible in this event.
Downhill skiing
This medal is awarded to first-place finishers.
The gold medal
The Winter Olympics are held once every how many years?
Four years?
Players shoot a puck into a goal in this fast-paced team sport.
Ice hockey
This sliding sport features teams pushing a sled before jumping in.
Bobsleigh
This sport combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
A) Nordic combined
B) Biathlon
C) Ski jumping
B) Biathlon
This country has won the most Winter Olympic medals overall.
A) Norway
B) United States
C) Russia
A) Norway
This Olympic symbol represents unity and appears on the Olympic flag.
The Olympic rings
In curling, players slide this object down the ice toward a target.
A stone?
This sport is similar to luge but athletes go down face-first.
A) Bobsleigh
B) Skeleton
C) Speed skating
B) Skeleton
Skiers perform tricks and jumps in this freestyle event.
Freestyle skiing
This famous Olympian is known as the most decorated Winter Olympian ever.
Hint: She’s a Norwegian cross-country skier who has won over 15 Olympic medals!
Marit Bjørgen
The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in this country.
A) Switzerland
B) France
C) Norway
B) France
This figure skating jump is named after a toe-assisted takeoff.
A) Axel
B) Salchow
C) Toe loop
C) Toe loop
These events take place on an ice track with banked curves.
A) Speed skating events
B) Sliding sports
C) Figure skating events
B) Sliding sports
This skiing event involves skiing through gates set close together.
A) Downhill
B) Giant slalom
C) Slalom
C) Slalom
The Winter Olympics were separated from the Summer Games starting in this year.
1994
This organization oversees and governs the Olympic Games worldwide.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC)
This ice sport made its Olympic debut at the 1924 Winter Games.
A) Figure skating
B) Ice hockey
C) Curling
C) Curling
This country is famous for dominating sliding sports like bobsleigh.
A) Canada
B) Germany
C) Switzerland
B) Germany
This skiing discipline includes moguls, aerials, and halfpipe.
A) Freestyle skiing
B) Nordic combined
C) Alpine skiing
A) Freestyle skiing
This city hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics, famous for the “Miracle on Ice.”
Hint: It's in New York!
Lake Placid