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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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