Multiple Choice Olympics Quiz

Q1. How many different events are included in the all-around competition in women's gymnastics?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6


Q2. Cleveland was recently appointed host city for the 2014 Gay Games. In what year and city were the first Gay Games held?
Note: do not confuse this with the Outgames
a) 1982 San Francisco
b) 1984 New York City
c) 1986 Los Angeles
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Q3. Which Winter Olympics country has the most lopsided medal count in terms of % of total medals won in a single sport?
—a) Norway – nordic skiing
b) South Korea – speed skating
c) Austria – alpine skiing
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Q4. Where were the Southernmost Winter Olympics held
—a) Salt Lake City, USA
b) Turin, Italy
c) Nagano, Japan


Q5. Where were the Northernmost Summer Olympics held
a) 1980 Moscow
b) 1952 Helsinki
c) 1976 Montreal


Q6. London 2012 is the 30th Olympiad. Including London 2012 and excluding the three games cancelled due to war (1916, 1940 and 1944), how many different cities have hosted the summer games?
a) 22
b) 23
c) 24


Q7. Somehow, yachting is an Olympic event. How many crew members are on each boat in the Star class competition? Be sure to include the skipper!
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3


Q8. How many times has a single nation swept the podium in the men's OR women's 100m dash:
—a) 0
b) 2
c) 3


Q9. In 1972 American Swimmer Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals. Which of the following events did he NOT win:
a) 200m freestyle
b) 200m butterfly
c) 400m individual medley


Q10. In 2008, Liu Chunghong won the gold medal in the women’s 69kg weight class
What was her winning lift in kg’s in the Snatch (as opposed to Clean & Jerk)?
a) 108kg
b) 118kg
c) 128kg


Q11. The 1956 Olympics were held in Melbourne, Australia, but due to biosecurity concerns the equestrian events were held early. In which city were they held in September 1956:
a) Tokyo
b) Dover
c) Stockholm


Q12. Which of the following nations has NOT been represented by athletes at all 32 Modern Olympiads (excepting those cancelled due to war)?
a) Great Britain
b) France
c) Switzerland


Q13. What is the smallest city (by current population as of 2010) to have hosted the Summer Olympic games?
a) Antwerp
b) Stockholm
c) Athens


Q14. Which of the following island nations has the highest overall medal count (Summer Games only)
—a) Trinidad & Tobago
b) Mauritius
c) Puerto Rico
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Q15. Europe’s reigning monarchs have how many Olympic medals between them?
a) 0
b) 2
c) 4
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Q16. The ancient Olympics were held at Olympia, Greece. In what US state is a modern city named Olympia?
a) Tennessee
b) Washington
c) Nevada
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Q18. Anne, Princess Royal competed in equestrian events at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. What was the name of her horse?
a) Doublet
b) Goodwill
c) Rarity


Q19. Which of the following actors did not appear in the Classic 1981 made-for-TV movie Miracle on Ice?
a) Karl Malden (Patton)
b) Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy)
c) Dennis Quaid (Great Balls of Fire!)


Q20. The Olympic marathon record (42km) is 2:06:32. What is the current record in the wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon?
a) 1:12:28
b) 1:18:32
c) 1:22:06


Q21. The tug-of-war was an Olympic sport between 1900 and 1920. How many competitors were on each team the last time it was contested in 1920?
a) 5
b) 7
c) 8
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Q21. Pigeon shooting appeared as an event at the first three modern Olympic games. What total did the gold medallist get in 1904 St Louis?
—a) 22
b) 32
c) 42


Q22. Ramadan is the month of the year when Muslims fast during daylight hours, and will affect Muslim athletes in London. In what year did Ramadan last fall during the Olympic games?
a) 1972 Munich
b) 1980 Moscow
c) 1988 Seoul

Q23. Contested since 1972, which nation has won the most Olympic medals in Handball (men's)?
a) Romania
b) Spain
c) Germany
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Q24. Since professionals were allowed to play basketball at the Olympics starting in 1992, how many of the 5 contested gold medals has the USA's men's “Dream Team" won?
—a) 3
b) 4
c) 5


Q25. This is a picture of the famous "Black Power" display on the podium at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. From which nation did the silver medallist hail?
a) England
b) Russia
c) Australia


Q26. Jamaica famously entered a bobsled team in the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, and was coached by John Candy in the movie Cool Runnings. How old was Candy when he passed away in 1994?
a) 43
b) 47
c) 51


Q27. How many nations competed in the first Modern Olympics in 1896 Athens?
a) 10
b) 14
c) 18


Q28. Since when has American fast food chain McDonald's been a title sponsor of the USA Olympic team?
a) 1968 Mexico City
b) 1976 Montreal
c) 1984 Los Angeles


Q29. Who was not an official mascot of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?
—a) Beibei
b) Nini
c) Singsing


Q30. As of 2012, how many members of the USA Men’s gold medal 4x400 relay team from the 2000 Olympics have not admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2


Q31. The 1994 movie Muriel's Wedding features the title character marrying an Olympic hopeful from which nation?
a) South Africa
b) France
c) Poland


Q32. Contested since 1956, what is the mens’ world (not Olympic) record in time for the 20km walk?
a) 1:17:16
b) 1:25:32
c) 1:37:22


Q33. What nation has won the most medals in Men’s aerial freestyle skiing since the event's inception in 1992?
a) Belarus
b) USA
c) Switzerland


Q34. Canadians get a bit excited about ice hockey. How many times has Canada won the men’s gold medal, out of the 20 Winter Olympics held?
a) 8
b) 12
c) 16


Q35. How old, in months, was the youngest medalist ever, speedskater Kim Yoon Mi from South Korea, who took home a medal in Lillehammer?
a) 154
b) 158
c) 162


Q36. Greg Louganis famously hit his head on a dive tower at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. During which event was he competing?
a) 5m Springboard
b) 10m Platform
c) 3m Springboard


Q37. The Detroit Lions are a notoriously terrible football team. How many times in a row did the city of Detroit bid, and fail, to be nominated the host city of the Summer Games, starting in 1952?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6


Q38. The 1992 Winter Olympics were held in Albertville, France. In which provence is Albertville?
a) Lyon
b) Champagne
c) Savoie


Q39. Pre-London 2012, how many medals has New Zealand won (including Summer and Winter games)?
a) 75
b) 87
c) 99


Q40. The ski jump is everybody’s favourite Olympic event. How long is the world’s longest ramp at Vikkursunbakken, Norway?
a) 175m
b) 200m
c) 225m


Q41. Romanian Nadia Comaneci was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic event, in 1976 Montreal. Which of the following scripts spells her name in the Cyrillic (Romanian) alphabet?
(ref: translit.cc)

a) Приме Дирецтиве
b) Цаптаин Авесоме
c) Надиа Цоманеци


Q42. US figure skater Tonya Harding was involved in an unsavoury incident leading up to the 1994 Olympics, in which her partner assaulted another competitor with a police baton.
How long was her 2000 jail sentence for having assaulted her partner with a hubcap?
a) 3 days
b) 3 weeks
c) 3 months


Q43. Which of the following actors did not appear in the monster movie Lake Placid, set in Lake Placid, New York?
—a) Bill Paxton
b) Brendan Gleeson
c) Betty White
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Q44. A total of twenty-two nations officially boycotted the Montreal Olympics because the IOC refused to ban which country from attending:
a)Soviet Union
b)Taiwan (Democratic Rep of china)
c)New Zealand


Q45. Montreal famously racked up $1.5 billion in debt to host the 1976 games. In what year was the debt finally paid off?
—a)1996
b)2001
c)2006


Q46. Which of the following is not an event in the “modern pentathlon”
—a)Long jump
b)Show jumping (equestrian)
c)Shooting


Q47. Which of the following was permitted in ancient Olympic wrestling:
a)Biting
b)Hair pulling
c)Eye gouging


Q48. In the NBC sitcom Friends, which Olympian was on Ross’ “5 Celebs” list?
a)Katarina Witt
b)Dorothy Hamill
c)Florence Griffith-Joyner


Q49. Chariots of Fire is an inspirational 1981 film about the Olympics.
Who wrote the inspirational 2011 autobiography A Shore Thing.
a)Jwoww
b)Snooki
c)Mike “The Situation”


Q50. The Olympics have had 40 host cities. How many of them has the quizmaster Dustin personally set foot in (airports and train stations do not count on their own)?
a)12
b)20
c)28
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