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Hard Olympics Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our olympics set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard band reaches back to Olympia, to the 1900 and 1904 Games attached to world's fairs, and into details like the number of colors on the flag and the meaning of the word added to the motto in 2021. All of it is documented history.
14 hard olympics trivia questions with answers
The ancient Olympic Games were staged at which sanctuary site?
Answer: Olympia Delphi and Corinth hosted their own separate games.
Which city hosted the 1900 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Paris They were spread over months as part of the World's Fair.
Which city hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics, the first held outside Europe?
Answer: St. Louis They too were attached to a world's fair.
Which city hosted the 1956 Summer Olympics, the first in the Southern Hemisphere?
Answer: Melbourne Quarantine rules forced the equestrian events to be held in Stockholm.
Counting the white background, how many colors appear on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Six Blue, yellow, black, green and red sit on white.
Which city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Salt Lake City Denver was awarded the 1976 Winter Games but turned them down.
Which city hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Nagano Sapporo had hosted Japan's first Winter Games in 1972.
A fourth word, Communiter, was added to the Olympic motto in 2021. What does it mean?
Answer: Together The full motto now reads faster, higher, stronger, together.
Which ancient Olympic event combined boxing and wrestling with few restrictions?
Answer: Pankration Only biting and eye-gouging were forbidden.
What did winners at the ancient Olympics receive as their prize?
Answer: A wreath of olive branches The laurel crown belonged to the Pythian Games at Delphi instead.
Which city hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics at high altitude?
Answer: Mexico City The thin air helped sprinters and hurt distance runners.
Which city hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Lillehammer 1994 broke the pattern of holding both Games in the same year.
Which city hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Munich It was West Germany's turn to host after 1936 in Berlin.
What is the Olympic Charter?
Answer: The rulebook governing the Olympic Movement It sets out the principles, the role of the IOC and the conditions for the Games.
Answer key
- Olympia
- Paris
- St. Louis
- Melbourne
- Six
- Salt Lake City
- Nagano
- Together
- Pankration
- A wreath of olive branches
- Mexico City
- Lillehammer
- Munich
- The rulebook governing the Olympic Movement
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