Quiz  /  Round 1: Olympic History Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which decathlete was the youngest to win a gold medal in the Olympics?

  • Bob Mathias
  • Rafer Johnson
  • Caitlyn Jenner
  • Daley Thompson

  • 2. 
    During which Games was the first Olympic Village built to accommodate competitors and officials?

  • Amsterdam, 1928
  • Berlin, 1936
  • London, 1948
  • Los Angeles, 1932

  • 3. 
    Who is the only athlete to win a gold medal in different sports in both the Summer and the Winter Olympics?

  • Sonja Henie
  • Irving Jaffee
  • Eddie Eagan
  • Jack Shea

  • 4. 
    How many rounds were fought in ancient Olympic boxing matches?

  • 24
  • 0
  • 3
  • 12

  • 5. 
    Who was the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games?

  • Shirley Babashoff
  • Dawn Fraser
  • Tracy Caulkins
  • Shane Gould

  • 6. 
    Who among these sailors won four consecutive gold medals in Olympic Finn Class sailing?

  • Paul Elvstrøm
  • Ruslana Taran
  • Peter Goss
  • Paul Cayard

  • 7. 
    Which of these siblings combined to win five Olympic track-and-field gold medals during a career in which they set 26 world records?

  • Tamara and Irina Press
  • Sergey and Anatoly Beloglazov
  • Michael and Leon Spinks
  • Nedo and Aldo Nadi

  • 8. 
    Who won the Olympic marathon in 1972 in Munich, West Germany, becoming the first American in 64 years to win the event?

  • Buddy Edelen
  • Dave Wottle
  • Frank Shorter
  • Clarance DeMar

  • 9. 
    Which British athlete won the gold medal for the decathlon at successive Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984?

  • Sir John Berry Hobbs
  • Bob Mathias
  • Adam Gemili
  • Daley Thompson

  • 10. 
    Who won gold medals in freestyle wrestling in three consecutive Olympics?

  • Aleksandr Medved
  • Chris Taylor
  • Bruce Baumgartner
  • George Hackenschmidt

  • 11. 
    Who won nine Olympic gold medals during the 1980s and 1990s, including four gold medals at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles?

  • Edwin Moses
  • Archie Hahn
  • Carl Lewis
  • Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  • 12. 
    Who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome while running barefoot, setting an unofficial world record?

  • Volmari Iso-Hollo
  • Kip Keino
  • Abebe Bikila
  • Haile Gebrselassie

  • 13. 
    Who won gold medals in two 400-metre events at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, setting a world record in one that lasted two decades?

  • Lee Evans
  • Butch Reynolds
  • Edwin Moses
  • Waldemar Cierpinski

  • 14. 
    Which athlete was stripped of decathlon and pentathlon gold medals won at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden?

  • Greta Johansson
  • Red Grange
  • Jim Thorpe
  • Chuck Noll

  • 15. 
    The ancient Olympic Games were abolished in what year?

  • 776 BCE
  • 582 BCE
  • 217 CE
  • 393 CE

  • 16. 
    The modern Olympic Games were first held in what year?

  • 1876
  • 1800
  • 1896
  • 1920

  • 17. 
    Who was the first to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event?

  • Mary Lou Retton
  • Lyudmila Turishcheva
  • Nadia Comăneci
  • Olga Korbut

  • 18. 
    Who was the first man to win the Olympic gold medal in both the 200-metre and the 400-metre races?

  • Michael Johnson
  • Carl Lewis
  • Jesse Owens
  • Maurice Greene

  • 19. 
    Who was the first to win a medal in both swimming and diving in the same Olympics?

  • Aileen Riggin
  • Debbie Meyer
  • Dawn Fraser
  • Janet Evans

  • 20. 
    Who earned gold medals in the 3-metre springboard and 10-metre platform diving events at both the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games?

  • Klaus Dibiasi
  • Sammy Lee
  • Greg Louganis
  • John Naber

  • 21. 
    Which of these was an athletic and musical competition in honour of Apollo in ancient Greece?

  • Olympic Games
  • Highland Games
  • Chariot Festival
  • Pythian Games

  • 22. 
    How many times has Great Britain hosted the Olympic Games?

  • three times
  • twice
  • once
  • four times

  • 23. 
    Who is considered the architect of the modern Olympics?

  • Pierre, baron de Coubertin
  • Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • Dimitrios Vikelas
  • Avery Brundage

  • 24. 
    During the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which team enters the stadium first?

  • the Greek team
  • teams enter in alphabetical order
  • the host team
  • the French team
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