Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #111 Trivia Questions and Answers About the Olympics

Olympics trivia questions and answers.

1. What year was the first summer Olympiad televised live?
    
2. What procedure did the IOC begin after a Danish cyclist died
   during the 1960 Summer Olympics?
    
3. How many minutes does an Olympic basketball game last?
    
4. What Olympic event is about to start when a jury director
   orders, "En garde"?
    
5. What track favorite donned golden shoes to capture gold in
   both 200- and 400-meter 1996 Olympic sprints?
    
6. What country's Olympic basketball team does Chicago Bulls star
   Toni Kukoc play for?
    
7. What part of their vehicle's equipment are bobsledders only
   allowed to use after crossing the finish line?
    
8. Who was unable to run the 200-meter final at the 1992 Olympics
   due to food poisoning?
    
9. How many times did the Summer Olympics feature the sport
   of Live Pigeon Shooting?
    
10. How many continents must a sport be played on before the IOC
    will consider making it an Olympic event for men?
     
11. What athlete was protected by seven security guards at
    the 1994 Winter Olympics?
     
12. What country competed alone in Athens' 1996 Olympic
    100-meter Freestyle for Sailors?
     
13. What Olympic athlete dated the son of Romanian dictator
    Nicolae Ceausescu?
     
14. What walking sport should be added to the Olympics, according
    to 42 percent of U.S. sports editors, sportscasters and columnists?
     
15. What Olympic event has runners wearing shoes with perforations
    to allow for drainage?
     
16. How many seconds are there on an Olympic basketball shot
    clock?
     
17. What Olympic field event consists of a crouch, shift,
    thrust, and release?
     
18. What general stormed into the boxing ring at the 1928 Olympics
    to protest judges ruling for a South African over an American?
     
19. What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 1969 to
    1973, but never an Olympic gold medal?
     
20. What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold
    in basketball, soccer and softball?
     
21. What 1996 Olympic event had two U.S. squads playing each other
    for the gold medal?
     
22. What U.S. Olympic city did the torch relay to Atlanta
    start in?
     
23. What Olympic event's winner is considered to be the
    "world's greatest athlete"?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 111

1. 1960.
2. Drug testing..
3. Forty.
4. Fencing.
5. Michael Johnson.
6. Croatia's.
7. Brakes.
8. Michael Johnson.
9. Once.
10. Four. 
11. Nancy Kerrigan. 
12. Greece. 
13. Nadia Comaneci. 
14. Golf.
15. Steeplechase.
16. Thirty.
17. The shot put.
18. Douglas MacArthur.
19. Janet Lynn
20. The U.S.
21. Beach volleyball. 
22. Los Angeles. 
23. The decathlon's.