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Where
will you place? Test your knowledge of the Winter Games
Are you a gold-medal
fan? Take our quiz and see how you score in the Olympics history
event.
1. In 1924, Norway won a medal in all 14 events except two. Which
two?
A. Ice hockey and bobsledding.
B. Ice hockey and curling.
C. Figure skating and ski jump.
D. Speed skating and bobsledding.
2. When Peggy Fleming won gold in women’s figure skating in
1968, she returned the United States to the top of the sport. How
long had it been since an American took the top prize in figure
skating?
A. Four years.
B. Sixteen years.
C. Eight years.
D. Twenty-four years.
3. Which is NOT a type of move in freestyle skiing?
A. The Post Toastie.
B. The Bucher spin.
C. The Thumper.
D. The 310.
4. During 1992’s four-man bobsled event, what happened to Canadian
Jack Pyc?
A. Pyc jumped into the sled the wrong way and went down backward.
B. Pyc missed the sled and slid down the run behind it.
C. Pyc got sick during the event and fainted.
D. Pyc substituted for an injured Swiss team member.
5. Before the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, Tonya Harding was
investigated for plotting to injure fellow American Nancy Kerrigan.
Kerrigan took the silver; where did Harding place?
A. Third place.
B. First place.
C. Eighth place.
D. 10th place.
6. What ice hockey player at the 1948 Games went on to become a
tennis player, winning the Wimbleton singles title in 1954?
A. Friedrich Demmer.
B. Jaroslav Drobny.
C. John Murray.
D. John Kirrane.
7. What athlete revolutionized cross-country skiing with his crisscross
technique?
A. U.S. skier Bill Koch.
B. Norway’s Bjorn Daehlie.
C. Austria’s Franz Klammer.
D. Germany’s Georg Zipfel
8. The biathlon combines what two things?
A. Ice fishing with speed skating.
B. Ski moguls with running.
C. Downhill and cross-country skiing.
D. Cross-country skiing and riflery.
9. American John Heaton participated in the skeleton in 1948, the
last time this event was included in the Games until this year.
Where did Heaton place?
A. Sixth place.
B. First place.
C. Second place.
D. Ninth place.
10. Until 1998, four countries — Germany, Austria, Italy and
Soviet Union — had won all 87 medals in the luge. What country
broke that streak and took two medals?
A. Norway.
B. United States.
C. Italy.
D. Sweden.
Sources: “The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics,”
“The Olympic Factbook,” KRT.
Answers:
1) A; 2) C; 3) D; 4) B; 5) D; 6) B; 7) A; 8) D; 9) C; 10) B.
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