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OLYMPIC<br />
QUIZ<br />
Are you a Games expert?<br />
Test your friends with<br />
this bumper set of<br />
questions from<br />
<strong>Gavin</strong> <strong>Fuller</strong><br />
Our quizmaster <strong>Gavin</strong> <strong>Fuller</strong> has compiled all the<br />
tools you need for a huge Olympics quiz to test<br />
the knowledge of family and friends. So gather<br />
everyone around — at home, at your workplace or<br />
in the pub. In this pack you will find complete<br />
question lists spread out over 20 categories, team<br />
answer sheets and solutions. It’s the perfect way<br />
to whet everyone’s appetite for the Games.<br />
When the Games start, Eurosport will be covering<br />
its 12th edition of the Olympics, with more than<br />
100 hours in 3D on Sky 3D and Virgin Media.<br />
British Eurosport is available in HD on Sky 410<br />
and Virgin Media 522, and online or on your<br />
mobile via eurosportplayer.co.uk. If you love<br />
athletics, cycling, swimming and tennis, there’s<br />
no better place to watch than Eurosport.<br />
£ British Eurosport is the home of cycling with<br />
more coverage than any other channel, including<br />
all three Grand Tours, major Spring Classics and<br />
the road and track World Championships.<br />
£ Eurosport recently showcased its commitment<br />
to athletics with coverage of the European and<br />
World Junior Championships.<br />
£ British Eurosport will show more than 1,200<br />
hours of blockbuster tennis in 2012, including the<br />
Australian, French and US Open championships<br />
and the Davis Cup.<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.
Quiz sheet 1<br />
Olympic history (1)<br />
1 Who was president of the IOC from 1896 to 1925, and<br />
honorary president until his death in 1937?<br />
2 What natural event led to Rome being unable to host the<br />
1908 Games, London stepping in at short notice to do so?<br />
3 Where did the rowing events take place when London staged<br />
the 1948 Olympics?<br />
4 Josef Barthel was which European country’s only gold medal<br />
winner when he won the 1,500m at Helsinki in 1952?<br />
5 Which games were the first to receive a fee from<br />
broadcasters to show the Olympics, the IOC collecting<br />
$1.2 million with the games being broadcast in 21 countries?<br />
6 What was the name of the Palestinian terrorist group who<br />
blighted the Munich games with their kidnap and murder of<br />
11 Israelis?<br />
7 Who is the only person to light the Olympic torch and win a<br />
gold medal at the same games, winning her country’s 100th<br />
gold in the process in front of the largest-ever crowd at an<br />
Olympic session?<br />
8 Which is the only country credited with having won a gold<br />
medal at every modern Olympic Games?<br />
9 What are the only five sports to have been played at all<br />
the modern Olympic Games?<br />
10 With 207 golds, Great Britain takes fourth place in the<br />
all-time medal table for the Summer Olympics. What are the<br />
three countries ahead of us?<br />
British gold (1)<br />
1 Which bald British swimmer won gold at the 1980 Olympics in<br />
the 100m breaststroke?<br />
2 Who was the first British woman to win two gold medals at<br />
the same Olympic Games?<br />
3 Which three rowers helped Steve Redgrave to his fifth gold<br />
medal at Sydney?<br />
4 Who ran the anchor leg when Britain shocked the Americans<br />
to win the men’s 4x100m at Athens in 2004?<br />
5 In which sport did Malcolm Cooper win gold at Los Angeles in<br />
1984 and Seoul in 1988?<br />
6 Chris Hoy won gold medals in Beijing in the sprint, team sprint<br />
and which other cycling event?<br />
7 Britain won the first four gold medals, between 1900 and<br />
1920, in which seven-man team sport, but has never won a<br />
medal in it since?<br />
8 In which event have Laurieston (in 1972) and Shear l’Eau<br />
(in 2004) helped the UK to Olympic gold?<br />
9 In which sport did brothers Laurie and Reggie Doherty<br />
both win two gold medals at Paris in 1900?<br />
10 At which two Olympic Games did Daley<br />
Thompson win gold medals in the decathlon?<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Famous Olympians<br />
1 Which current Premier League footballer was top scorer in<br />
the football tournament in Athens, scoring eight goals to help<br />
Argentina to gold?<br />
2 Which grill entrepreneur won an Olympic gold at Mexico<br />
in 1968?<br />
3 How did Gertrude Ederle, who won bronze medals in the<br />
100m and 400m freestyle and a gold in the 4x100m freestyle<br />
in Paris in 1924, make swimming history two years later?<br />
4 Who won the 400m freestyle swimming at the 1932<br />
Los Angeles Games before embarking on an acting career,<br />
becoming the only actor to play Tarzan, Flash Gordon and<br />
Buck Rogers?<br />
5 Which Second World War American General competed in the<br />
modern pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, coming<br />
fifth, the highest place for a non-Swede?<br />
6 Childcare expert Dr Benjamin Spock was an Olympic gold<br />
medallist in which sport?<br />
7 Weightlifter Harold Sakata, who won the light heavyweight<br />
silver at London in 1948, later became famous for his role in<br />
which part in a James Bond film?<br />
8 What nationality was Juan Antonio Samaranch, president<br />
of the IOC from 1980 to 2001?<br />
9 Which fencing competitor at Melbourne in 1956 was<br />
president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005?<br />
10 Which country did Lennox Lewis represent when he won<br />
the Olympic super heavyweight boxing title at Seoul in 1988?<br />
London 2012 (1)<br />
1 In which city was it announced on July 6, 2005, that London<br />
was successful in its bid to host the 2012 Olympics?<br />
2 From where did the Olympic torch embark at 7am on<br />
Saturday, May 19, on its tour around the country?<br />
3 Who is artistic director of the opening ceremony?<br />
4 What is the price of the costliest ticket to the opening<br />
ceremony?<br />
5 Who is the architect of the Aquatic Centre for the Olympics?<br />
6 Who is the chairman of the London 2012 Organising<br />
Committee?<br />
7 Which artist designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower at<br />
the Olympic Park?<br />
8 What was Wolff Ollins’ key contribution to the 2012<br />
Olympics?<br />
9 Which watch company is official timekeeper to the 2012<br />
Olympics?<br />
10 Which river runs through the Olympic Park?
Answer sheet 1<br />
Olympic history (1)<br />
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Famous Olympians<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
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London 2012 (1)<br />
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Quiz sheet 2<br />
British medallists<br />
1 Walter Tysal in 1908 and Louis Smith in 2008 are the only<br />
British men to have received an Olympic medal in which sport?<br />
2 In which sport did Sarah Stevenson come fourth in the<br />
welterweight category in 2000 and won a bronze medal in the<br />
heavyweight category in 2008?<br />
3 Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms are Britain’s only medallists<br />
in which sport since its admission to the Games in 1992?<br />
4 Which tennis player partnered Neil Broad to a silver medal in<br />
the men’s doubles at Atlanta in 1996?<br />
5 In which different sports did Rebecca Romero win a silver<br />
medal in Athens and a gold medal in Beijing?<br />
6 How many Olympic medals did Sebastian Coe win in total?<br />
7 Which British athlete became the first woman to win a gold,<br />
silver and bronze at the same Olympic Games, at Tokyo 1964?<br />
8 What occupation was shared by the members of the British<br />
teams who won all three medals at the 1908 Games and the<br />
gold medal at the 1920 Games in the tug-of-war?<br />
9 Who won judo silver in the lightweight category at the 1980<br />
Olympics, and in the half-middleweight in 1984?<br />
10 In which sport did British women win five gold, five silver<br />
and five bronze medals up to 1924, but none since its<br />
reintroduction in 1988?<br />
Athletics at the Olympics<br />
1 Nicknamed “The Vaulting Vicar”, theology professor<br />
Reverend Bob Richards is the only man to have won two golds<br />
in which event, in 1952 and 1956?<br />
2 Who ran in gold shoes to win two golds at Atlanta in 1996?<br />
3 In which event did Dorando Pietri of Italy capture hearts at<br />
London in 1908, receiving a medal from Queen Alexandra to<br />
compensate for his disqualification for receiving assistance?<br />
4 Vladimir Kuts in 1956, Lasse Viren in 1972 and 1976 and<br />
Miruts Yifter in 1980 all achieved gold medals in which two<br />
athletics events?<br />
5 At 32 years of age, which athlete is the oldest man to win<br />
the men’s 100m?<br />
6 Which country’s first track gold medal was achieved in the<br />
110m hurdles at the 2004 Athens Games?<br />
7 Who still holds the heptathlon word record of 7,291 points,<br />
set when she won the gold medal in Seoul?<br />
8 Which athlete is the only man to win both the 400m and<br />
800m at the same Olympic games?<br />
9 What was the surname of the Soviet athlete sisters Tamara<br />
and Iryna, who won five golds between them before<br />
disappearing when sex testing was introduced?<br />
10 Pole Robert Korzeniowski made history at Sydney<br />
by becoming the only man to take both men’s walking<br />
titles. What was the distance in kilometres he had to<br />
walk to do this?<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Olympic incidents<br />
1 Which athlete was stripped of his gold medal in the men’s<br />
100m at Seoul after failing a drugs test?<br />
2 The opening ceremony to which Olympic Games featured<br />
a spaceman flying with a jetpack?<br />
3 Who crashed out in tears of the women’s 3,000m at<br />
Los Angeles in 1984 after tripping over Zola Budd?<br />
4 South Korean Park Si-hun benefited from at least four highly<br />
contentious judging decisions in five matches to win an Olympic<br />
Gold in which sport at Seoul in 1988?<br />
5 At the ceremony for the men’s 200m in athletics at Mexico in<br />
1968, two American athletes caused controversy by giving the<br />
black power salute. Bronze medallist John Carlos was one,<br />
which gold medallist was the other?<br />
6 Which event was disrupted by defrocked Irish priest Cornelius<br />
Horan at Athens in 2004, who grabbed the leader, Brazilian<br />
Vanderlei de Lima, and pushed him into the crowd?<br />
7 Which two countries contested a violent water polo match at<br />
Melbourne, tensions having been inflamed by political events a<br />
month earlier?<br />
8 At Munich in 1972, in which sport were the Pakistan team so<br />
riled by what they saw as biased officiating in the final against<br />
Germany that they poured water over the president of the<br />
sport’s international federation?<br />
9 The women’s gymnastics event at Sydney was affected by<br />
the height of which piece of equipment being set 5cm too low?<br />
10 Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou<br />
missed a drugs test prior to Athens 2004. What there they<br />
accused of faking to explain the missed test?<br />
London 2012: the sports<br />
1 In which Olympic sport is Greco-Roman one of the versions<br />
competed?<br />
2 Which Summer Olympic sport takes place on a piste?<br />
3 Which sport at London 2012 involves two apparatus sets, one<br />
consisting of five balls, the other three ribbons and two hoops?<br />
4 How long is an Olympic rowing course?<br />
5 In which sport is the top of the net 2.43m above the ground<br />
for men and 2.24m above the ground for women?<br />
6 What is the name of the two-day, six-discipline cycling event<br />
that is making its debut at London 2012?<br />
7 Which sport is played in four quarters of eight minutes with<br />
a team of seven?<br />
8 Which swimming strokes only have race distances of<br />
100m and 200m?<br />
9 Which event, being staged at this year’s Olympics for the last<br />
time after 28 years, uses the RS:X as its equipment?<br />
10 There are two types of lift performed in Olympic<br />
weightlifting competitions. One is the snatch.<br />
What is the other?
Answer sheet 2<br />
British medallists<br />
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Athletics at the Olympics<br />
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Olympic incidents<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
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London 2012: the sports<br />
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Quiz sheet 3<br />
Olympic medallists<br />
1 Which British athlete was fourth in the pentathlon in 1964,<br />
ninth in 1968 but won gold with a world record in 1972?<br />
2 Which Australian swimmer, notable for his size 17 feet and<br />
75in arm span, won three gold medals in 2000 and another two<br />
in 2004?<br />
3 At which Olympic Games did Cassius Clay (later Muhammad<br />
Ali) win the light-heavyweight boxing gold medal?<br />
4 In which event have the fathers of both Grace Kelly and Hugh<br />
Laurie won gold medals at the Olympic Games?<br />
5 Which Ethiopian athlete became the first gold medallist from<br />
his country when he won the marathon, running barefoot, at<br />
Rome in 1960?<br />
6 Which country won the men’s hockey gold medal on six<br />
consecutive occasions, from 1928 to 1960?<br />
7 Eugene Lunde of Norway in 1924, son Peter in 1952<br />
and grandson Peter in 1960 were all Olympic medallists in<br />
which sport?<br />
8 Oscar Swahn of Sweden is the oldest man to receive a<br />
medal, at the running-deer shooting event at Antwerp in 1920.<br />
How old was he?<br />
9 Which sprinter has won more bronze medals than any other<br />
woman at the Olympics — six between 1980 and 2000 — as well<br />
as three silver medals but never a gold?<br />
10 Dick Williams, who won gold in the tennis mixed doubles at<br />
Paris in 1924, was a survivor of which famous disaster?<br />
Olympic sports (1)<br />
1 In Olympic gymnastics, do the men compete on the<br />
asymmetric or the parallel bars?<br />
2 How many players are there in a beach volleyball team?<br />
3 What are the three types of fencing sword used at the<br />
Olympics?<br />
4 In a swimming individual medley race, which of the four<br />
strokes is done first?<br />
5 Which sport, undertaken by women only, originally had solo<br />
and duet competitions when introduced at Los Angeles in 1984,<br />
but since 2000 has duet and team events?<br />
6 In diving, how high above the water is the springboard?<br />
7 What is the lightest weight category of the 10 currently<br />
fought in men’s boxing at the Olympic Games?<br />
8 How many people take part in the final of an Olympic<br />
rowing eights competition?<br />
9 Which Olympic discipline is competed on something<br />
5.05 metres wide and 1.155 metres high?<br />
10 Which event was an exhibition sport on<br />
seven occasions, more often than any other,<br />
finally gained admittance in 1992, but was<br />
dropped after 2008?<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Olympic history (2)<br />
1 Which then-revolutionary jumping technique made its debut<br />
at Mexico in 1968?<br />
2 Swedish modern pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall has the<br />
dubious distinction of being the first man to do what at an<br />
Olympic Games, also in Mexico in 1968?<br />
3 What type of creature was Misha, mascot of the 1980<br />
Olympics?<br />
4 What connects Berlin in 1916, Toyko and then Helsinki in<br />
1940 and London in 1944?<br />
5 Ian Taylor, Steve Redgrave twice, Matthew Pinsent, Kate<br />
Howey and Mark Foster are the last five British competitors to<br />
do what at the summer Olympic Games?<br />
6 The torch relay was first staged at which Olympic Games?<br />
7 Which country was banned from the Olympic Games from<br />
1962 to 1991?<br />
8 At Athens in 2004, women competed for the first time in<br />
which event, in four weight classes?<br />
9 Which sport will be making its return at Rio in 2016 after 112<br />
years, having been competed in 1900 and 1904 when all the<br />
gold medals were won by people from North America?<br />
10 Who received the Olympic Flag from the IOC president at<br />
the 2008 Closing Ceremony?<br />
Olympic royalty<br />
1 How many times has Queen Elizabeth II opened the Olympic<br />
Games?<br />
2 Crown Prince Constantine won a gold medal in the Dragonclass<br />
sailing at the 1960 Games for which country, whose<br />
throne he would accede to four years later?<br />
3 Princess Haya of which country in the Middle East carried its<br />
flag at the 2000 Olympics, where she competed in the show<br />
jumping?<br />
4 Ahmed al-Maktoum is a member of the royal family of which<br />
of the United Arab Emirates, for which he won its only Olympic<br />
medal, a gold in the double trap shooting at Athens in 2004?<br />
5 What is the name of the horse on which Zara Philips will be<br />
competing at London 2012?<br />
6 Which current European monarch, plus his son and daughter,<br />
have all competed in the Olympic Games at sailing, between<br />
1972 and 1992?<br />
7 Which competitor at the 2000 Olympics went on to marry<br />
Prince Albert II of Monaco?<br />
8 In which city did Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands open the<br />
1928 Games?<br />
9 Which future monarch won a yachting gold medal at these<br />
Games?<br />
10 Who opened the Olympic games the first time they were<br />
staged in London, in 1908?
Answer sheet 3<br />
Olympic medallists<br />
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Olympic sports (1)<br />
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Olympic history (2)<br />
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Olympic royalty<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
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Quiz sheet 4<br />
Beijing 2008<br />
1 In which sport did Australian Matt Mitcham stop China<br />
winning all eight golds at the 2008 Games?<br />
2 What nickname was given to the Olympic stadium in Beijing<br />
due to its striking appearance?<br />
3 In which sport did Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina and<br />
Vera Zvonareva give Russia a clean sweep of the individual<br />
medals at Beijing?<br />
4 Which sport at the 2008 games was staged at Qingdao?<br />
5 Weightlifter Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatatakoon has the<br />
longest name of any Olympic champion. For which country did<br />
she win gold at Beijing?<br />
6 Emma Hindle, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Jane Gregory were<br />
Britain’s competitors in which event at the 2008 Games?<br />
7 Nathalie du Toit became the first amputee to take part in the<br />
Olympics for 104 years when she competed in Beijing. What<br />
country did she represent?<br />
8 Which Cuban athlete won the 110m hurdles at the Beijing<br />
Olympics?<br />
9 In which sport was the men’s final between France and<br />
Iceland and the women’s between Norway and Russia?<br />
10 Which song did Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis perform<br />
outside a London bus at the 2008 closing ceremony?<br />
Olympic greats<br />
1 Which mother of two won four sprint gold medals at London<br />
in 1948?<br />
2 Which great Finnish runner won both the 1,500m and<br />
5,000m at Paris in 1924 even though the finals were only two<br />
hours apart?<br />
3 Who is the only woman to win six gold medals at the same<br />
Olympics, in the pool at Seoul in 1988?<br />
4 Which American athlete won four golds at Berlin in 1936,<br />
much to the displeasure of Adolf Hitler?<br />
5 In which sport did Larissa Latynina of the Soviet Union win<br />
nine gold medals, more than any other female in the history of<br />
the Games?<br />
6 How many world records was Usain Bolt involved in setting in<br />
Beijing ?<br />
7 Which swimmer’s seven golds at Munich in 1972 were all in<br />
world record times?<br />
8 In which sport did German Birgit Fischer win eight gold<br />
medals across six Olympic Games, the last in Athens 2004 at<br />
the age of 46?<br />
9 Which nine-time gold medallist in athletics was named<br />
“Sportsman of the Century” by the IOC in 1999?<br />
10 Who, at Montreal in 1976, became the first<br />
gymnast to receive a perfect mark of 10.0, on<br />
the asymmetric bars?<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Olympic oddities<br />
1 Cyclist Erika Salumäe won Estonia’s first gold medal since it<br />
regained independence at Barcelona in 1992, but what error did<br />
officials make with the Estonian flag at the medal ceremony?<br />
2 In 1956, although the Games were in Melbourne, which sport<br />
was forced to stage its events five months earlier in Stockholm?<br />
3 In which sport were the three leading women successively<br />
disqualified for lifting in the closing stages of the race at the<br />
2000 Sydney Olympics?<br />
4 In which sport at the first Olympic Games in Athens was one<br />
of the events limited to members of the Greek navy only?<br />
5 In which equestrian event was Sweden disqualified after<br />
London 1948 because one of its competitors was a sergeant,<br />
not a commissioned officer?<br />
6 In 1904, George Eyser picked up three medals in which sport<br />
despite competing with a wooden leg?<br />
7 In Toyko in 1964, Bulgarian long-jumper Diana Yorgova and<br />
gymnast Nikolai Prodonov were the first, and to date the only,<br />
people to do what in the Olympic Village?<br />
8 Man Afraid Soap, Almighty Voice and Rain in Face were<br />
among the competitors in which sport at the 1904 Olympics,<br />
won by Canada the only two times it was staged?<br />
9 How many paying spectators attended the croquet<br />
tournament at the Paris Olympics of 1900?<br />
10 Which Swedish future world heavyweight boxing champion<br />
was disqualified from the 1952 final for not “giving of his best”?<br />
British gold (2)<br />
1 Who won the first British gold medal at the 2008 Olympic<br />
Games, in the women’s cycling road race?<br />
2 Two British gold medal-winning athletes were the subject of<br />
the film Chariots of Fire. Name one of them<br />
3 Which co-founder of the London Marathon won the 3,000m<br />
steeplechase gold medal at Melbourne in 1956?<br />
4 Stephanie Cook was a British gold medallist at Sydney in<br />
which event, the first time a woman’s competition was staged?<br />
5 Ben Ainslie won his first Olympic gold in 2000 in a Laser boat,<br />
but in which type of boat did he win gold in 2004 and 2008?<br />
6 Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton were two of the three winning<br />
members of the crew in which sailing class, the only two times it<br />
was staged at the Olympics, in 2004 and 2008?<br />
7 Rebecca Adlington’s gold was the first in the swimming pool<br />
at an Olympic Games by a British woman for 48 years. Who won<br />
that previous gold medal, in Rome?<br />
8 Who scored eight goals in seven games to help Britain’s men’s<br />
hockey team to Olympic gold at Seoul in 1998?<br />
9 Heir to the Marquess of Exeter, which Lord won the 400m<br />
hurdles at the 1928 Olympics?<br />
10 What was the surname of the brothers whose late surge in<br />
the coxed pairs in 1992 brought a surprise gold medal?
Answer sheet 4<br />
Beijing 2008<br />
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Olympic oddities<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
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British gold (2)<br />
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Quiz sheet 5<br />
Olympic sports (2)<br />
1 In which Olympic Games did judo make its debut as an<br />
Olympic sport?<br />
2 The standard distance for which event was set at the London<br />
Olympics of 1908, although it wasn’t until 1924 that it was set<br />
at that length?<br />
3 In which sport has China won 20 out of the 24 gold medals<br />
competed for since it was introduced at Seoul in 1988?<br />
4 Archery was dropped from the Olympic programme after the<br />
1920 games. In which year did it return — 1964, 1972 or 1980?<br />
5 The 14 tallest male competitors and the four tallest female<br />
competitors in the history of the Olympic Games all competed in<br />
which sport?<br />
6 In which six-person team sport are the USA and Brazil<br />
defending men’s and women’s champions respectively in<br />
London?<br />
7 At which Olympics did BMX racing make its debut?<br />
8 Which of these sports has never been played at the<br />
Olympics? Croquet, jeu de paume, kabaddi or pelota?<br />
9 First held in Beijing, what is the longest distance in a<br />
swimming event at the Olympics?<br />
10 What is the maximum score an execution judge can award<br />
in an Olympic trampoline competition?<br />
London 2012 (2)<br />
1 Which sport will be taking place at Eton Dorney in 2012?<br />
2 Where in London was the Countdown Clock unveiled on<br />
March 14, 2011?<br />
3 Savannah Marshall, Nicola Adams and Natasha Jonas will<br />
be the first women to represent the UK in which sport at<br />
London 2012?<br />
4 Which city did London defeat in the final round of voting to<br />
host the 2012 Games?<br />
5 Drew Sullivan and Julie Page are the men’s and women’s<br />
team captains for Great Britain at which sport at London 2012?<br />
6 The 2012 medals will be the biggest and heaviest to date.<br />
How much will they weigh — 400g, 550g or 700g?<br />
7 Despite having been played at the Olympics since 1936,<br />
2012 will see British teams competing in which sport for the<br />
first time?<br />
8 Which sport will be taking place over seven days at the ExCeL<br />
centre, starting with the lowest weight level and progressing<br />
each day through the next to the highest level on the final day?<br />
9 The men’s cycling road race includes nine circuits of<br />
which hill?<br />
10 On what date is the closing ceremony of the 2012<br />
Olympics?<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Olympic history (3)<br />
1 In which sport was Romanian gold medallist Andreea<br />
Raducan stripped of her title at Sydney after testing positive in a<br />
drugs test due to her team doctor having given her an Nurofen<br />
tablet to counteract breathing difficulties?<br />
2 London is in 2012 the first city to host three modern<br />
Olympics, going ahead of which three cities that have staged<br />
the Games twice?<br />
3 At 7,400 feet above sea level, what has been the highest<br />
location so far for a Summer Olympic Games?<br />
4 Which men’s track event had a British gold medallist in 1920,<br />
1924, 1928 and 1932?<br />
5 At the Montreal Olympics of 1976, the sailing took place out<br />
of the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour at Kingston, on which of<br />
the North American Great Lakes?<br />
6 What were Superdocious and Superdoso, which contributed<br />
to British gold in 1968 and 1972?<br />
7 Who is the only tennis player to win an Olympic singles tennis<br />
title and achieve the Grand Slam in the same year?<br />
8 Who lit the Olympic Flame at the opening ceremony for the<br />
1948 London Olympics?<br />
9 Winners at the ancient Olympic Games at Olympia were<br />
crowned by a wreath made from branches of which tree?<br />
10 Which rather unlikely country was the last to win a rugby<br />
gold medal, at Paris in 1924?<br />
Olympic miscellany<br />
1 In which stadium did the opening ceremony for the 1948<br />
London Olympics take place?<br />
2 What does the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius” mean<br />
when translated into English?<br />
3 Which athlete’s world record times when winning gold in the<br />
women’s 100m and 200m at Seoul in 1988 have stood<br />
undefeated ever since?<br />
4 Which sports car manufacturer made the bicycle on which<br />
Chris Boardman won the 4,000m pursuit in 1992?<br />
5 What do the five Olympic rings represent?<br />
6 And what are the five colours of the rings on the<br />
Olympic Flag?<br />
7 Which countries as a rule are the first and last to enter the<br />
stadium at an Olympic Games opening ceremony?<br />
8 Teams from Britain or Argentina have won the gold medal in<br />
which sport the only five times it was staged at the Olympics?<br />
9 For which country did Eric “The Eel” Moussambani race in the<br />
men’s 100m freestyle at the Sydney Olympics, despite him<br />
never having attempted that distance before?<br />
10 What caused Lynn Davies to say to Ralph Boston, “What’s<br />
the point in going on? We’ll all look silly,” at Mexico in 1968?
Answer sheet 5<br />
Olympic sports (2)<br />
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London 2012 (2)<br />
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Olympic history (3)<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
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Olympic miscellany<br />
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Answers<br />
Olympic history (1)<br />
1 Baron Pierre<br />
de Coubertin<br />
2 it could not afford<br />
the cost after having to<br />
pay for disaster relief<br />
when Mount Vesuvius<br />
erupted<br />
3 Henley<br />
4 Luxembourg<br />
5 Rome 1960<br />
6 Black September<br />
7 Cathy Freeman<br />
8 Great Britain<br />
9 Athletics, cycling,<br />
fencing, gymnastics<br />
and swimming<br />
10 USA (929), Soviet<br />
Union (395) and<br />
Germany (247)<br />
British gold (1)<br />
1 Duncan Goodhew<br />
2 Kelly Holmes (800m<br />
and 1500m at Athens<br />
in 2004)<br />
3 Matthew Pinsent,<br />
Tim Foster and James<br />
Cracknell<br />
4 Mark Lewis-Francis<br />
5 Shooting<br />
6 Keirin<br />
7 Water polo<br />
8 Individual three-day<br />
event (they’re the<br />
horses Richard Meade<br />
and Leslie Law<br />
respectively rode)<br />
9 Tennis (Laurie won<br />
the men’s singles, the<br />
brothers teamed up to<br />
win the men’s doubles<br />
and Reggie won the<br />
mixed doubles with<br />
Charlotte Cooper)<br />
10 Moscow in 1980<br />
and Los Angeles<br />
in 1984<br />
Famous Olympians<br />
1 Carlos Tevez<br />
2 George Foreman<br />
3 She was the first<br />
woman to swim the<br />
English Channel<br />
4 Buster Crabbe<br />
5 George S Patton<br />
6 Rowing (men’s eight)<br />
7 Oddjob (in Goldfinger)<br />
8 Spanish<br />
9 James Wolfensohn<br />
10 Canada<br />
London 2012 (1)<br />
1 Singapore<br />
2 Land’s End<br />
3 Danny Boyle<br />
4 £2,012<br />
5 Zaha Hadid<br />
6 Lord Coe<br />
7 Anish Kapoor<br />
8 They designed<br />
the logo<br />
9 Omega<br />
10 The River Lea<br />
(or Lee)<br />
British medallists<br />
1 Gymnastics<br />
2 Taekwondo<br />
3 Badminton<br />
4 Tim Henman<br />
5 Rowing (silver)<br />
and cycling (gold)<br />
6 Four (two<br />
1500m gold and<br />
two 800m silver)<br />
7 Mary Rand<br />
8 Policemen<br />
9 Neil Adams<br />
10 Tennis<br />
Athletics at<br />
the Olympics<br />
1 Pole vault<br />
2 Michael Johnson<br />
3 Marathon<br />
4 5,000m and<br />
10,000m<br />
5 Linford Christie<br />
6 China (Liu Xiang<br />
being the winner)<br />
7 Jackie Joyner-Kersee<br />
8 Alberto Juantorena<br />
of Cuba (at Montreal<br />
in 1976)<br />
9 Press<br />
10 70km<br />
Olympic incidents<br />
1 Ben Johnson<br />
2 Los Angeles 1984<br />
3 Mary Decker<br />
4 Boxing<br />
5 Tommy Smith<br />
6 (Men’s) marathon<br />
7 Hungary and the<br />
Soviet Union (which<br />
had invaded Hungary<br />
to quell an anticommunist<br />
revolt a<br />
month earlier)<br />
8 Hockey<br />
9 The vaulting horse<br />
10 A motorcycle<br />
accident<br />
London 2012:<br />
the sports<br />
1 Wrestling<br />
2 Fencing<br />
3 Rhythmic gymnastics<br />
4 2,000m<br />
5 Volleyball<br />
6 Omnium<br />
7 Water polo<br />
8 Backstroke,<br />
breaststroke and<br />
butterfly (only freestyle<br />
has shorter and longer<br />
distances)<br />
9 Windsurfing<br />
10 Clean and jerk<br />
Olympic medallists<br />
1 Mary Peters<br />
2 Ian Thorpe<br />
3 1960 in Rome<br />
4 Rowing<br />
5 Abebe Bikila<br />
6 India<br />
7 Sailing<br />
8 72<br />
9 Merlene Ottey<br />
10 The sinking of<br />
RMS Titanic<br />
Olympic sports (1)<br />
1 Parallel (and women<br />
on the asymmetric)<br />
2 Two<br />
3 Épée, foil and sabre<br />
4 Butterfly<br />
5 Synchronised<br />
swimming<br />
6 Three metres<br />
7 Light flyweight<br />
8 54 (six teams of<br />
eight rowers and<br />
one cox)<br />
9 Trampoline<br />
10 Baseball<br />
Olympic history (2)<br />
1 The Fosbury Flop<br />
(in the high jump)<br />
2 Fail a drug test<br />
3 A bear<br />
4 They were intended<br />
locations of games<br />
cancelled due to the<br />
First and Second<br />
World Wars<br />
5 Carry the flag in the<br />
opening ceremony<br />
6 Berlin in 1936<br />
7 South Africa<br />
8 (Freestyle) wrestling<br />
9 Golf<br />
10 Boris Johnson<br />
Olympic royalty<br />
1 Once (Montreal<br />
in 1976)<br />
2 Greece<br />
3 Jordan<br />
4 Dubai<br />
5 High Kingdom<br />
6 King Juan Carlos I<br />
of Spain<br />
7 Charlene Wittstock<br />
of South Africa<br />
8 Amsterdam<br />
9 Olav V of Norway<br />
10 Edward VII<br />
Beijing 2008<br />
1 Diving<br />
2 The Bird’s Nest<br />
3 Tennis<br />
4 Sailing<br />
5 Thailand<br />
6 Dressage<br />
7 South Africa<br />
8 Dayton Robles<br />
9 Handball<br />
10 Whole Lotta Love<br />
Eurosport. All sports. All emotions.<br />
Olympic greats<br />
1 Fanny Blankers-Koen<br />
2 Paavo Nurmi<br />
3 Kristin Otto<br />
4 Jesse Owens<br />
5 Gymnastics<br />
6 Three (100m,<br />
200m, and 4x100m)<br />
7 Mark Spitz<br />
8 Kayaking<br />
9 Carl Lewis<br />
10 Nadia Comaneci<br />
Olympic oddities<br />
1 They flew it<br />
upside down<br />
2 Equestrianism<br />
(due to Australian<br />
quarantine regulations)<br />
3 Walking (20km walk)<br />
4 Swimming<br />
5 Dressage<br />
6 Gymnastics<br />
7 Get married<br />
8 Lacrosse<br />
9 One<br />
10 Ingemar Johansson<br />
British gold (2)<br />
1 Nicole Cooke<br />
2 Harold Abrahams<br />
or Eric Liddell<br />
3 Chris Brasher<br />
4 Modern pentathlon<br />
5 Finn<br />
6 Yngling<br />
7 Anita Lonsbrough<br />
8 Sean Kerly<br />
9 Lord Burghley<br />
10 Searle (Jonathan<br />
and Greg)<br />
Olympic sports (2)<br />
1 Tokyo in 1964<br />
2 Marathon<br />
3 Table Tennis<br />
4 1972<br />
5 Basketball<br />
6 Volleyball<br />
7 Beijing 2008<br />
8 Kabaddi<br />
9 10,000m<br />
(open water)<br />
10 10<br />
London 2012 (2)<br />
1 Rowing<br />
2 Trafalgar Square<br />
3 Boxing<br />
4 Paris<br />
5 Basketball<br />
6 400g<br />
7 Handball<br />
8 Judo<br />
9 Box Hill<br />
10 August 12<br />
Olympic history (3)<br />
1 Gymnastics<br />
2 Athens (1896 and<br />
2004), Paris (1900<br />
and 1924) and<br />
Los Angeles (1932<br />
and 1984)<br />
3 Mexico City<br />
4 800m<br />
5 Lake Ontario<br />
6 Boats (of the Flying<br />
Dutchman class helmed<br />
by Rodney Pattison<br />
with Iain MacDonald-<br />
Smith and Chris Davies<br />
respectively)<br />
7 Steffi Graf<br />
(in1988)<br />
8 John Mark<br />
9 Olive<br />
10 USA<br />
Olympic miscellany<br />
1 Wembley Stadium<br />
2 Faster, Higher,<br />
Stronger<br />
3 Florence<br />
Griffith-Joyner<br />
4 Lotus<br />
5 The five continents<br />
that take part in the<br />
Olympics (Europe, Asia,<br />
Africas, Oceania and<br />
the Americas)<br />
6 Blue, Black, Red,<br />
Yellow and Green<br />
7 Greece and the<br />
host nation.<br />
8 Polo<br />
9 Equatorial Guinea<br />
10 Bob Beamon’s<br />
long jump of 8.90<br />
metres, which broke<br />
the world record by<br />
55 centimetres
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