Olympics Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

Trivia quiz questions and answers about the Olympics.

Olympics Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers

1. How many of Carl Lewis' Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
    
2. What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
    
3. What U.S. athlete was "about a week" pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
    
4. What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
    
5. What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
    
6. What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
    
7. What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first black man from South Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
    
8. What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in 1900?
    
 
9. What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in 1922?
    
10. What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play "Jeffery" in 1993?
     
11. What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give up during the 1996 Olympics?
     
12. What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
     
13. What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
    The U.S.. 
14. What L.A. Laker star's height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic programs?
     
15. What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance beam?
     
 
16. What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
     
17. What sport is played with stones and brooms?
     
18. What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
     
19. What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
     
20. How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
     
21. What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta's 1996 Olympic festivities?
     
22. What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as "the pig"?
     
 
23. What event earned Norway's Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
     
24. What new women's team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
     
25. Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever?
     
26. What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal celebration lap through the late night streets of Atlanta?
     
27. What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at UCLA?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 122 - Olympic Trivia.

1. Three.
2. Hercules.
3. Evelyn Ashford
4. Peggy Fleming.
5. Avery Brundage.
6. The Dream Team.
7. The Marathon.
8. Golf.
 
9. Johnny Weissmuller.
10. Greg Louganis. 
11. Sex. 
12. Insbruck. 
13. The U.S.. 
14. Sahquille O'Neals's.
15. Olga Korbut.
16. Mary Slaney.
17. Curling.
18. Tug of War.
 
19. Synchronized swimming
20. One
21. Muhammad Ali.
22. The pommel horse. 
23. Speed skating. 
24. Beach Volleyball.
25. Bonnie Blair. 
26. Her gold medal. 
27. Rafer Johnson