Welcome to this Olympics Trivia post! The Olympic Games are a global phenomenon that unites nations and athletes from around the world every two years, alternating between the Summer and Winter Games. It’s an incredible event full of impressive sportsmanship, record-breaking performances, and heart-touching moments that span over a century of modern history.
In this post, we delve into a collection of 100 intriguing Olympics trivia questions and answers about the Olympics. From its origins in ancient Greece to the most recent games, from heart-stopping victories to unforgettable individuals, these trivia questions will test your knowledge about the world’s premier sporting event. Whether you’re an Olympic enthusiast or a casual fan, this trivia is sure to entertain and educate. Enjoy the journey and may the best trivia buff win!
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1. Which city hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896? Reveal Answer Athens, Greece.
2. Who was the first woman to ever light the Olympic Cauldron? Reveal Answer Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
3. What are the five colors of the Olympic rings? Reveal Answer Blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
4. What is the maximum weight for a men’s boxing heavyweight in the Olympics? Reveal Answer There is no maximum weight limit.
5. Which sport was dropped from the Olympic program after the 1936 Berlin Games? Reveal Answer Polo.
6. Who is the most decorated Olympian of all time? Reveal Answer Michael Phelps, with 28 medals.
7. What year did the Winter and Summer Olympics start being held separately? Reveal Answer 1994.
8. Which country has the most Summer Olympic gold medals? Reveal Answer The United States.
9. In which year was the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” introduced? Reveal Answer 1924.
10. How many sports are in the 2022 Winter Olympics? Reveal Answer 7 sports.
11. What is the only city to have been awarded the Summer Olympics three times? Reveal Answer London.
12. Which country has hosted the most Winter Olympics? Reveal Answer France, with three times.
13. Who was the oldest Olympian ever? Reveal Answer Oscar Swahn of Sweden, who was 72.
14. Which athlete won 9 gold medals in sprinting between 1984 and 1996? Reveal Answer Carl Lewis.
15. Which sport returned to the Olympics in 2016 after a 112-year absence? Reveal Answer Golf.
16. Which Olympic sport is played with stones and brooms? Reveal Answer Curling.
17. What are the three Olympic values? Reveal Answer Excellence, Friendship, and Respect.
18. Which country has the most Olympic medals without a gold? Reveal Answer Malaysia.
19. What is the decathlon in the Olympics? Reveal Answer An athletic event consisting of ten different events.
20. Who was the youngest Olympian ever? Reveal Answer Dimitrios Loundras, who competed in the 1896 Olympics at the age of 10.
21. Who won the first Olympic marathon? Reveal Answer Spiridon Louis of Greece in 1896.
22. In what year did the Olympic Games include a closing ceremony for the first time? Reveal Answer 1920.
23. Which event is the last event in the Olympic Decathlon? Reveal Answer 1500 meter run.
24. Which Olympic event is performed on a 3.048 meters (10 feet) high beam? Reveal Answer Women’s gymnastics balance beam.
25. Which event did George Eyser, an athlete with a wooden leg, win in the 1904 Olympics? Reveal Answer The men’s vault.
26. In which sport did India win its first ever gold medal at the Olympics? Reveal Answer Men’s field hockey.
27. How many sports are there in the Summer Olympics 2024? Reveal Answer 33 sports.
28. Who holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympic games? Reveal Answer Michael Phelps with 8 gold medals in 2008.
29. In what year were the first Winter Olympic Games held? Reveal Answer 1924.
30. Which country has the most Winter Olympic gold medals? Reveal Answer Norway.
31. What three Asian cities have hosted the Summer Olympics? Reveal Answer Tokyo, Seoul, and Beijing.
32. Who is the most decorated female Olympian of all time? Reveal Answer Marit Bjørgen, a Norwegian cross-country skier with 15 medals.
33. Which sport is divided into three disciplines called dressage, eventing, and jumping? Reveal Answer Equestrian.
34. Who was the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal? Reveal Answer Alice Coachman in high jump in 1948.
35. Who won the first gold medal in the modern Olympic games? Reveal Answer James Connolly in triple jump in 1896.
36. Who is the first female athlete to win five gold medals in a single Olympics? Reveal Answer Kristin Otto, a swimmer from East Germany in 1988.
37. What is the youngest age limit for participating in the Olympics? Reveal Answer Depends on the sport, some have no limit, others may have a minimum age between 15 and 18.
38. What is the first sport played in the ancient Olympics? Reveal Answer Running.
39. What is the most expensive Olympic Games to date? Reveal Answer The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
40. What country has won the most medals in Judo? Reveal Answer Japan.
41. Who is the most successful athlete in the Winter Olympic Games? Reveal Answer Marit Bjørgen, a Norwegian cross-country skier.
42. Which country has won the most medals in Swimming? Reveal Answer The United States.
43. How many times has the Olympic torch relay failed? Reveal Answer Never, despite some interruptions and adaptations.
44. Which country has the most medals in Wrestling? Reveal Answer The United States.
45. What are the three types of medals awarded in the Olympics? Reveal Answer Gold, Silver, and Bronze.
46. Who is the youngest female individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Winter Games? Reveal Answer Kim Yuna, a South Korean figure skater.
47. Who was the first athlete to fail a drug test at the Olympics? Reveal Answer Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall in 1968.
48. How many times have the Summer Olympic Games been canceled? Reveal Answer Three times: 1916, 1940, and 1944.
49. In what year were the first Paralympic Games held? Reveal Answer 1960.
50. Which city will host the 2028 Summer Olympics? Reveal Answer Los Angeles, USA.
51. Who holds the record for the most consecutive gold medals in one event by a male athlete? Reveal Answer Al Oerter in discus throw from 1956 to 1968.
52. How many sports are there in the 2022 Winter Olympics? Reveal Answer 7 sports.
53. What’s the only Olympic team event where men and women compete together? Reveal Answer Equestrian events.
54. Which country has the most participation in the Olympic Games without winning a medal? Reveal Answer Monaco.
55. What are the two new sports in the 2024 Summer Olympics? Reveal Answer Breakdancing and Skateboarding.
56. Who is the only Olympian to compete pregnant and win a gold medal? Reveal Answer Kerri Walsh Jennings in beach volleyball in 2012.
57. What country always enters the stadium first during the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremony? Reveal Answer Greece.
58. In which Olympic games was the first doping disqualification? Reveal Answer Mexico 1968.
59. Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal? Reveal Answer Charlotte Cooper in Tennis, 1900.
60. What was the original prize in the Ancient Olympics? Reveal Answer An olive wreath.
61. What is the motto of the Olympics? Reveal Answer Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).
62. Who has won the most gold medals in a single Winter Olympics? Reveal Answer Eric Heiden with 5 gold medals in speed skating in 1980.
63. Which country has won the most overall medals in the Summer Olympics? Reveal Answer The United States.
64. What symbol is used to represent the Olympic Games? Reveal Answer The Olympic Rings.
65. Who is the first female athlete to win five gold medals in a single Olympics? Reveal Answer Kristin Otto, a swimmer from East Germany in 1988.
66. How many Olympic Games have been hosted in Africa? Reveal Answer None.
67. What are the three types of Olympic Games? Reveal Answer Summer Olympics, Winter Olympics, and Paralympics.
68. In which year were the first Winter Paralympics held? Reveal Answer 1976.
69. What is the most recent sport to be added to the Olympics? Reveal Answer Breakdancing, which will debut in 2024.
70. Who was the first torchbearer in the Olympic torch relay for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? Reveal Answer Azusa Iwashimizu, a member of the Japanese women’s football team.
71. How many rings make up the Olympic symbol? Reveal Answer Five.
72. Who was the first woman to run the marathon in the Olympics? Reveal Answer Joan Benoit Samuelson in 1984.
73. What sport uses a piece of equipment called a foil? Reveal Answer Fencing.
74. How often do the Olympic Games occur? Reveal Answer Every two years, alternating between Summer and Winter Games.
75. What animal was the mascot for the Sydney 2000 Olympics? Reveal Answer A duck-billed platypus named Syd.
76. Which country has won the most medals in Archery? Reveal Answer South Korea.
77. What are the four strokes in Olympic swimming? Reveal Answer Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle.
78. What color is the center ring in the Olympic symbol? Reveal Answer Black.
79. In which country were women first allowed to compete in the Olympics? Reveal Answer France in 1900.
80. What is the Olympic symbol supposed to represent? Reveal Answer The five continents of the world, united by Olympism.
81. Who was the first professional athlete to compete in the Olympics? Reveal Answer The USA’s Dream Team in basketball in 1992.
82. Which country has won the most medals in Taekwondo? Reveal Answer South Korea.
83. How many players are on the field for each team in an Olympic soccer match? Reveal Answer 11.
84. Who was the first female gymnast to score a perfect 10 in the Olympics? Reveal Answer Nadia Comăneci in 1976.
85. What type of bird is released at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games? Reveal Answer Doves, though it has been changed to a symbolic release after the Seoul 1988 games.
86. Which country won the first Olympic ice hockey gold medal? Reveal Answer Canada in 1920.
87. What is the distance of the Olympic marathon race? Reveal Answer 42.195 kilometers or 26.219 miles.
88. Who was the first Olympian to win medals in five different individual events at one Olympic Games? Reveal Answer Eric Heiden in 1980.
89. Who holds the record for the most appearances in the Olympics? Reveal Answer Canadian Ian Millar, who appeared in 10 Olympic Games.
90. What country has won the most Olympic medals in Boxing? Reveal Answer The United States.
91. Who was the first woman to carry the US flag at an Olympic opening ceremony? Reveal Answer Edith Master in 1972.
92. In what year were the first medals for women’s boxing awarded at the Olympics? Reveal Answer 2012.
93. Which city was the first in South America to host the Olympics? Reveal Answer Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
94. What Olympic event has competitors use a piece of equipment called a Coxless Pair? Reveal Answer Rowing.
95. What is the official language of the Olympic movement? Reveal Answer French and English.
96. In what year did the Olympics ban boxing for women? Reveal Answer Women’s boxing was never banned, but it was included for the first time in 2012.
97. What sport at the Summer Olympics covers the longest distance? Reveal Answer The Men’s Cycling Road Race.
98. Who holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by a woman? Reveal Answer Marit Bjørgen with 15 medals.
99. Who was the first Olympic athlete to test positive for blood doping? Reveal Answer Johann Mühlegg in cross-country skiing in 2002.
100. Who was the first person to light the Olympic cauldron in the Winter Olympics? Reveal Answer Ken Henry in 1960 at Squaw Valley, USA.
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