Olympics trivia questions and answers
- How many of Carl Lewis' Olympic gold medals were won in long
jump competitions?
- What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for
the only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
- What U.S. athlete was "about a week" pregnant when she broke
the world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
- What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at
the 1968 Winter Olympics?
- What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and
the Winter Games?
- What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against
during the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
- What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the
first black man from South Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
- What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S.
woman to win Olympic gold, in 1900?
- What future screen star was the first person to swim 100
meters in under a minute, in 1922?
- What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the
play "Jeffery" in 1993?
- What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give
up during the 1996 Olympics?
- What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and
1976?
- What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big
Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
The U.S..
- What L.A. Laker star's height was listed as two meters in 1996
Olympic programs?
- What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a
balance beam?
- What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her
fourth Olympic team in 1996?
- What sport is played with stones and brooms?
- What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event
from 1900 to 1920?
- What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the
Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
- How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter
Olympics?
- What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta's
1996 Olympic festivities?
- What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as "the pig"?
- What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds
at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
- What new women's team sport was played on sand at the 1996
summer Olympics?
- Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S.
Winter Olympian ever?
- What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold
Medal celebration lap through the late night streets of Atlanta?
- What decathlon champ was the first black student body
president at UCLA?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 122 - Olympic Trivia.
- Three.
- Hercules.
- Evelyn Ashford
- Peggy Fleming.
- Avery Brundage.
- The Dream Team.
- The Marathon.
- Golf.
- Johnny Weissmuller.
- Greg Louganis.
- Sex.
- Insbruck.
- The U.S..
- Sahquille O'Neals's.
- Olga Korbut.
- Mary Slaney.
- Curling.
- Tug of War.
- Synchronized swimming
- One
- Muhammad Ali.
- The pommel horse.
- Speed skating.
- Beach Volleyball.
- Bonnie Blair.
- Her gold medal.
- Rafer Johnson
