Monday, February 10, 2014

Olympic games

Questions:

  1. Where are the 2014 Winter Games being hosted?
  2. Where were the 2012 SUMMER games hosted?
  3. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in _____________. What year?
  4. The FIRST Winter Games to be televised were the 1956 Games in ____________________.
  5. Only four athletes have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games. Were any of them American? Is yes, who?
  6. Who is the only person to win medals at the Winter and Summer Games in the same year.
  7. What country has held the most number of Winter Olymipic games? How many times has the country hosted?
  8. Which US city has hosted TWO winter games?
  9. What country is hosting the 2018 winter games?
  10. 6 countries are in the running to host the 2022 winter games.  Which ONE was a prior host? What year?       

Answers:

  1. Sochi, Russia
  2. London, England
  3. Chamonix, France in 1924
  4. Cortina d'Amperzso
  5. Yes, Eddie Egan
  6. Eddie Egan
  7. The United States, hosted it 4 times
  8. Lake Placid
  9. South Korea
  10. Oslo, Norway, 1952

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