Get Gold at this Winter Olympics Quiz!

#11 Week 3

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Sigrun Sørumgård
January 15, 2025

Think you’ve got what it takes to conquer the slopes, ice, and trivia? Test your Winter Olympics knowledge now!

  1. In what year was the first ever Winter Olympics?

  2. How many times were the Winter Olympics canceled?

  3. Who won gold medals for the downhill, slalom, and giant slalom races for men at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France?

  4. Who is hosting the next Winter Olympics in 2026?

  5. In the first Winter Olympics, women were only allowed to compete in one event, what was it?

  6. Marit Bjørgen from Norway has won the most medals of any Winter Olympian. How many Olympic medals has she won?

  7. Which sport made its Olympic debut at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium, but was then transferred to the Winter Olympics in 1924 in Chamonix, France?

  8. Which Asian city was the first to host the Winter Olympics?

  9. Which figure skater was the victim of an attack prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer?

  10. Vancouver hosted the Winter Olympics in 2010. In which Canadian province is this city?

The Wonder Wall

  • On average, curling stones weigh 42 pounds. Curling stones are made of rare granite, and the granite used to make Olympic curling stones are found only in 2 places in the entire world.

  • Beijing is the first city in the world to have hosted both the Summer and Winter games.

  • The average speed of an Olympic downhill skier is 80 mph.

  1. Giacomo Puccini

  2. Franz Joseph Haydn was called the father of the symphony because he contributed so much to this genre of music. Haydn composed over 100 symphonies.

  3. The Nutcracker is a ballet with music written by the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky.

  4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, also known as the Fate Symphony (German: Schicksalssinfonie).

  5. Vienna.

  6. Music by Johann Strauss II. and in 2025 marks his 200th birthday!

  7. Ride of the Valkyries comes at the beginning of Act 2 of Die Walküre, the second of Richard Wagner's four operas that make up Der Ring des Nibelungen, or The Ring Cycle. The whole thing took 27 years to compose and takes more than 15 hours to perform.

  8. Franz Schubert

  9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  10. A tempo marking that indicates to playing quickly and brightly (from Italian meaning cheerful).