WAWC-Winter Olympic Trivia!

[Gentled Ben]

Welcome to the annual White Ajah Winter Carnival, and welcome to Winter Olympic Trivia, where you will be trusted not to Google for the answers like I did to come up with the questions! 

 

Some sort of fabulous prizes will be awarded or something, and all kinds of fun will be had in the process!

 

I might prove to be more of a cross-country skier than a luge competitor, but I will try to acknowledge correct answers promptly and ask new questions right away. Let's begin, shall we?

 

1) Which amazing city turned down a chance to host the Winter Olympics after begging for the opportunity for the previost twenty years, and then asked again nearly forty years later only to be coldly turned away by the IOC? Hint: After the city's decision to decline hosting the Olympics after the IOC had awarded them the games, the Winter Olympics were then hosted that round in an entirely different country.  

[Mashiara Sedai]

You started off with a really tough one, Ben!  I'm going to guess St. Petersburg.

[Gentled Ben]

St. Petersburgh is a good guess, but it's not the correct one. This one might be too tough without Google. In fact, it almost certainly is, so Google is okay to use on this one, and I'll add some easier questions.

 

Another hint: The city is in North America

[Mashiara Sedai]

*googles*  Denver.  :P

[Gentled Ben]

Correct!

1 Point for Mashi

 

Question #2: Which country has won the most medals in the Winter Olympics?

[Mashiara Sedai]

*cheats on accident by reading Rhea's history post*

 

Norway.  :P

[Gentled Ben]

I read her post *right* after posting that question, lol.

 

1 point for Mashi! So far, Mashi has 2 points and is whupping everyone else, who between them, have a combined 0 points. You go, Mashi!

 

Question 3: Who is the most decorated Winter Olympic athlete of all time?

[Sooh]

Ole Einar Bjørndalen?

[Gentled Ben]

Yes! 1 point for Sooh!

I will have to get home from work before I can post the next question, though. I will try to post several at once.

[Gentled Ben]

Point total so far:

 

Mashiara Sedai: 2 points

Sooh: 1 point

[Gentled Ben]

Question #3: Which country won the first gold medal for men's hockey?

Question #4: Which country has won the most gold medals for men's hockey?

Question #5: What is the only country to have won medals at the Winter Olympics but not the Summer Olympics?

 

[Guest]

Canada for the 3 questions ?

[Gentled Ben]

Canada is not the correct answer for all three questions, sorry. Perhaps it is the correct answer for one or more of them, though. You will have to be more specific.

Edited January 16, 2018 by Gentled Ben

[Lessa Nikia]

Canada for questions 3 and 4

 

We have won some medals in the Summer Olympics thank you, just not as many

[Gentled Ben]

Correct! Oh Canada, you do play a mean game of hockey!

2 points for Lessa Nikia

 

Who can answer question #5?

[Mashiara Sedai]

For #5: Norway?

[Gentled Ben]

No, Norway has surely won more Winter medals than Summer, but they have won medals in both games. 

 

Oh good, another tough one!

 

I come up with some others to work on while folks figure out #5

[Gentled Ben]

Question #6: What is the only nation to have ever boycotted a Winter Olympics?

Question #7: Who is the only athlete to have won a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Olympics?

Question #8: Which two Winter Olympic sports were first featured during Summer Games?

[Gentled Ben]

Okay, I can see that I'm making these too difficult. You may Google for the answers to the other questions, and I'll ask some easier ones instead.

 

#9 What are the four indoor Winter Olympic sports?

#10 Two teams push 42 pound stones across the ice towards a target. Matches consist of 10 ends, and during each end a team scores one point for every stone of theirs which is closer to the center of the target than all of the opponent's stones. The sport is ________ ?

#11 Which sport is a two-day event, combining both ski jumping and cross-country skiing?

#12 When was the last time that the Summer and Winter Olympics were held during the same year?

[Ryrin]

On 1/17/2018 at 6:26 PM, Gentled Ben said:

Question #6: What is the only nation to have ever boycotted a Winter Olympics?

 

Russia?

[Gentled Ben]

The Soviet Union boycotted at least one Summer Olympics that I can recall, but no, neither Russia nor the former Soviet Union has ever boycotted the Winter Games. Good guess, though! That’s what I thought too until I read the answer.

[BFG]

#5 Liechtenstein?

#6 China?

Edited January 19, 2018 by BFG

[BFG]

#7 Eddie Eagan?

 

[Gentled Ben]

#5 Correct!

#6 Oh so close, so very close...

#7 Correct! 

You are crushing it! 2 points to Ravenclaw *cough* I mean BFG

[BFG]

Ben pls :(

 

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