Olympic Games Quiz Night Questions
If you are heading to a trivia night around the time of the Olympic Games there is a good chance there will be questions about the Olympics. Here are some questions that I think would be suitable for a challenging Olympic Games quiz night. The answers are not here, that would make it too easy. The answers are mostly found throughout this site or require a bit more research.
- Name two Olympic events that require an athlete to vault?
- Name the only sport that still requires participants to have amateur status to participate in the Olympic Games.
- What contests make up the heptathlon (or decathlon or modern pentathlon)?
- Which is the only sport created specifically for the modern Olympic Games.
- What are the five colors of the rings on the Olympic flag?
- What is the meaning of the motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' of the Olympic Games?
- Name five Olympic sports in which the participants compete while sitting.
- At one Olympic Games the track distances were measured in yards - which year?
- What is interesting about the names of the host cities for the Olympics from 1968-1980.
- Name the only nation to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Games.
- What summer Olympic event was discontinued in the early 1900's because too many people thought it was cruel?
- Name three Olympic events in which the athletes primarily travel backwards.
- At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Gold medals were not awarded - what was awarded to the winners?
- Name five ancient Olympic sports or events that are still in today's modern Olympics?
- What did the athletes competing at the Ancient Olympics wear?
- Over what distance are the mens athletics High Hurdles? And the women?
- At the opening ceremony, which country always marches out first, and which country always marches last?
- Pheidippides is said to have run from the city of Marathon to where?
- What is the most populous country to never win an Olympic medal?
- What is the distance of the modern Olympic marathon race?
- Name a city which has hosted the summer Olympics three times, and in what years?
- Which country had their name mispronounced by officials in all three languages - French, English and Greek - during the opening ceremony in 2004.
- When was the first Olympic Games to be held in Asia?
- How many times have the Olympic games been canceled due to war? What years?
- In which Olympic sport will you find a "rear naked choke"
- In which two Olympic sports do men and women compete equally against each other.
- Which country has won the lowest number of Olympic medals per capita.
Related Pages
- Olympic Firsts
- Olympic Quotes
- Books about the History of the Olympic Games
- More sports trivia
- Winter Olympics Trivia
- Athlete Deaths at the Olympics
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