Olympics Trivia Question and Answers
1.
Which sport was added to the 1984 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer:
Synchronized Swim
2.
Which company spent the most money to advertise in the 1996 Olympics?
Answer:
Coca-Cola
3.
Great Britain won the gold medal in hockey at which Winter Olympics?
Answer:
1936
4.
What music did both Debi Thomas and Katarina Witt skate to at the 1988 Olympics?
Answer:
Carmen
5.
What female skater won three straight Olympic gold medals?
Answer:
Sonja Henie
6.
What Olympic pairs champion died while practicing with his partner?
Answer:
Sergei Grinkov
7.
What was the name of the site of the Sydney 2000 Olympics?
Answer:
Homebush Bay
8.
Who said, "I didn't lose the gold, I won the silver"?
Answer:
Michelle Kwan
9.
Where were the 1992 Olympic Summer Games held?
Answer:
Barcelona, Spain
10.
At which Olympic games were eleven Israeli athletes murdered?
Answer:
1972
11.
What do the five rings on the Olympic flag symbolize?
Answer:
The Five Major Continents
12.
What was the nickname of Scandinavian multi-medalist Paavo Nurmi?
Answer:
The Flying Finn
13.
Where were the 1996 Summer Olympics held?
Answer:
Atlanta
14.
Which city hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Answer:
Calgary, Canada
15.
Which ice skater won the 1988 women's Olympic gold?
Answer:
Katarina Witt
16.
Which boxer beat three Olympic gold medalists?
Answer:
Felix Trinidad
17.
What city hosted the Summer Olympics in 1956?
Answer:
Melbourne
18.
Which boxer was a replacement for Buster Mathis in the Tokyo Olympics and went on to win the gold medal?
Answer:
Joe Frazier
19.
Which country won the gold medal in baseball at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games?
Answer:
USA
20.
Who was the manager of the U.S. Baseball Team at the 2000 Olympics?
Answer:
Tommy Lasorda
21.
Which championship fighter lost a very controversial decision at the 1988 Olympics?
Answer:
Roy Jones, Jr.
22.
How many summer Olympics were held during the 1990's?
Answer:
2
23.
Which skater won men's Olympic bronze medals in 1994 and 1998?
Answer:
Philippe Candeloro
24.
Who won Australia's first gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
Answer:
Steven Bradbury
25.
What rifle caliber is used in the Olympic sport biathlon?
Answer:
0.22 mm
26.
How often are the summer Olympic Games held?
Answer:
Every Four Years
27.
What shapes make up the Olympic symbol?
Answer:
Rings
28.
How many gold medals did America win at 1980 Moscow Olympics?
Answer:
0
29.
How many minutes are in a game of soccer at the Olympics?
Answer:
90
30.
Where is baseball's Olympic Stadium located?
Answer:
Montreal, Canada
31.
In what year were the first winter Olympic games held in France?
Answer:
1924
32.
What sporting event did Amy Tryon compete in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer:
Equestrian
33.
At the 2004 Olympics, Mia Hamm competed in which sport for the USA?
Answer:
Soccer
34.
What sport did Martina Navratilova compete in for the USA team in the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer:
Tennis
35.
Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
Answer:
Charlotte Cooper
36.
What is 2010 Olympic Men's Speed Skater Shani Davis's given first name?
Answer:
Shani
37.
What speed skater became the most decorated American Winter Olympian ever during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver?
Answer:
Apollo Ohno
38.
What are the official languages of the Olympic Games?
Answer:
English and French
39.
Who, at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, won the gold, the most medals, and the label "America's Sweetheart"?
Answer:
Mary Lou Retton
40.
What former Andrew Lloyd Weber muse joined Chinese singer Liu Huan to sing the theme song of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
Answer:
Sarah Brightman
41.
What swimmer earned eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, breaking the record held by Mark Spitz since 1972.
Answer:
Michael Phelps
42.
What gold medal-winning team at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics included Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tayshaun Prince and Carmelo Anthony?
Answer:
U.S. Men's Basketball Team
43.
Light-flyweight Zou Shiming grabbed China's first gold medal in what sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?
Answer:
Boxing
44.
In what sport are Austria's Linger brothers the 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal champs?
Answer:
Luge Doubles
45.
Which nation's 2010 U.S. Winter Olympic Team includes 216 athletes from 35 states?
Answer:
USA
46.
What 2010 Winter Olympic Game has a skip and sweeper on a sheet shouting at one another?
Answer:
Curling
47.
What competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics includes cross-country skiing combined with shooting for both men's and women's teams?
Answer:
Biathlon
48.
What 2010 Winter Olympics venue hosts the Alpine ski, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh, ski jumping, biathlon and Nordic combined events?
Answer:
Whistler
49.
What two payment methods were declared the only accepted payment methods at the 2010 Winter Olympics venues?
Answer:
Visa And Canadian Currency
50.
Which country always enters first during the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics?
Answer:
Greece
51.
Who was Mark McGwire's teammate at USC and on the 1984 Olympic baseball team?
Answer:
Randy Johnson
52.
Which team won the gold medal in women's ice hockey at the 1998 Olympics?
Answer:
United States
53.
What female speed skater had won the most American gold medals in the Olympics by 1994?
Answer:
Bonnie Blair
54.
Who won the gold medal in stunt flying in the 1936 Olympics?
Answer:
Germany
55.
In Nagano, who was in goal for Canada when Russia beat them for the gold medal in men's hockey?
Answer:
Patrick Roy
56.
When Dorothy Hamill won Olympic gold in 1976, what was her most difficult jump?
Answer:
Double Axel
57.
Which American speed skater won five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid?
Answer:
Eric Heiden
58.
Which member of the British royal family competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics?
Answer:
Princess Anne
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