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Olympics Trivia Quiz
Let The Games Begin Bolt, Biles, a boat parade on the Seine, a shooter with a hand in his pocket and cricket's comeback in LA.
103 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This Olympics Trivia Quiz has 103 questions: 37 easy, 41 medium and 25 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 103 Olympics questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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No matches, no lighters: before each Games, the flame at ancient Olympia is lit with a curved mirror and what?
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The sun
Women dressed as ancient priestesses run the ceremony, then hand the torch to the first relay runner.
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Fred Lorz crossed the line first in the 1904 Olympic marathon and was hailed as the winner, until officials learned he'd covered about 11 miles how?
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In a car
He was banned, but the ban was soon lifted, and he won the Boston Marathon the next year.
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Jamaica's four-man bobsled crashed on its third run at Calgary 1988 and finished last. Which 1993 Disney film did that story inspire?
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Cool Runnings
Its makers took liberties with the real story, and Jamaica's bobsledders kept coming back to later Winter Games.
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Britain's only ski jumper at Calgary 1988 came last in both events, yet became one of the stars of the Games. What was his nickname?
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Eddie the Eagle
On the normal hill he was about 70 points behind the next-to-last jumper, but crowds loved his never-give-up spirit.
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Paris 2024's newest sport, where Australia's Raygun scored zero points, has been left out of LA 2028. Which sport is it?
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Breaking
LA28 went for cricket, flag football, lacrosse, squash and baseball-softball instead.
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Which rapper worked for NBC at Paris 2024, watched the dressage with Martha Stewart and even swam with Michael Phelps?
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Snoop Dogg
His Paris work as NBC's 'Ambassador of Happiness' won him two Sports Emmy Awards.
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LA28 cricket will use which format, with six teams each in the men's and women's events?
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T20
It's the same format as the IPL, which the IOC hopes will pull in huge audiences in South Asia.
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At the Paris opening, which Spanish tennis star took the Olympic flame on a boat with Serena Williams, Carl Lewis and Nadia Comăneci?
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Rafael Nadal
It was a fitting role in Paris: he won the French Open at Roland-Garros a record 14 times.
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Pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis was born and raised in Louisiana, but which country does he compete for?
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Sweden
At Paris 2024 he broke his own world record, clearing 6.25 m on his third and final try, then ran to his family.
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In the film that opened the Paris 2024 ceremony, which French football legend carried the torch through the Metro and the city's catacombs?
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Zinedine Zidane
He came back at the end of the night to pass the flame on to a Spanish tennis great.
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Tonga's oiled, shirtless flag bearer at Rio 2016 was a taekwondo fighter. Which winter sport did he switch to for PyeongChang 2018?
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Cross-country skiing
With no snow at home, he trained on sand with wooden planks, and didn't finish last in his 15 km race.
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'Eric the Eel' had never seen a 50 m pool before Sydney 2000, yet won his 100 m freestyle heat when both rivals false-started. Which country did he swim for?
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Equatorial Guinea
His 1:52.72 is the slowest Olympic 100 m freestyle ever. By 2006 he'd cut his best to about 52 seconds.
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Because LA28's pool goes into a football stadium after the opening ceremony, which sport swaps with swimming to take the first week?
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Athletics
Swimming will be in week two for the first time since Mexico City 1968.
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Cricket's only Olympic match, in 1900, saw Great Britain beat a side made up mostly of British expats playing for which country?
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France
Britain won by 158 runs with five minutes left; cricket returns at LA28 after a 128-year wait.
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LA28's new cricket ground is home to a Major League Cricket team run by the same group as which IPL side?
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Kolkata Knight Riders
The ground grows to 15,000 seats for the six-team men's and women's T20 tournaments in 2028.
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Which swimmer, coached by Michael Phelps's old coach in Arizona, won four individual golds at his home Games in 2024?
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Léon Marchand
He won the 200 m breaststroke, 200 m butterfly and both medleys, as the Paris crowd chanted his name.
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LA28 swimming will be held in a temporary pool inside the home stadium of the NFL's Rams and Chargers. Which stadium?
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SoFi Stadium
With 38,000 seats it will be the biggest Olympic swimming venue ever; the pool stays covered for the opening ceremony.
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Which non-contact, five-a-side version of America's favourite sport makes its Olympic debut at LA28?
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Flag football
American football was last seen at the Games as a 1932 demonstration in LA, and NFL players will be allowed to take part.
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Paris 2024's cauldron didn't stay on the ground. What lifted it into the night sky above the Tuileries Garden?
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Hot-air balloon
It honoured a 1783 flight from the same garden, and its 'flame' was made of light and water mist, not fire.
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Which US gymnast sat quietly for hours waiting for his one event, then took off his glasses and helped win Paris 2024 team bronze?
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Stephen Nedoroscik
Fans dubbed him 'Pommel Horse Guy' and compared his glasses-off moment to Clark Kent turning into Superman.
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