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Olympics! Team up into countries, Celebrate the games by holding get creative and run events like an international themed day in a scrunched up paper shot put your workplace, inspired by the competition or line up plastic cups ’ participating to play skittles. Hold a “guess the countries. Assign colleagues a country” flag competition or, for a country and encourage them to more physical challenge, run a Wii make international cakes and treats, event, set up a sports scavenger decorate their work space and run hunt or hold an old school sports a collection. Or why not dress up as day in your local park. your favourite sporting hero (old or new) for the day? Can you play to the whistle and take on our Question of Sport Take the plunge for Alzheimer Quiz? Choose your teams, make Scotland and challenge yourself a donation to enter and put your and your colleagues to take part sports knowledge to the test to see in a sponsored swimathon. Get in who will win gold! touch with your local swimming pool to book time in the pool and choose the distance you would Brazil is famed for the iconic Mardi like to swim. You can collect Gras Festival, so don your feathers sponsorship using the form at the and beads and get into the samba end of this pack. spirit for Alzheimer Scotland. You could organise a themed bake sale, dress up day or decorate your desk Get into the spirit of the games like a carnival float, with a prize for and organise your own Workplace the best and most flamboyant! 1. How many balls are on a snooker 9. Gemma Gibbons won hearts at table at the start of play? the 2012 Olympics when she 2. In which town on the Thames mouthed “I love you mum” after is the Royal Regatta held every securing a silver medal - in which year? sport? 3. In cycling, what does BMX stand 10. How long is an Olympic size for? swimming pool? 4. In which city does the American 11. What do the five rings of the Football team, the 49ers play? Olympics emblem symbolise? 5. What colour is the innermost 12. What song did figure skaters zone of an archery target? Torvill and Dean skate to for their record breaking performance 6. In which two events did Dame during the 1984 Winter Kelly Holmes win gold medals at Olympics? the 2004 Olympic Games? 13. How many players are in a 7. At what race course is the Grand volleyball team? National held? 14. Which golf competition occurs 8. What is the name of the horn every two years with teams from used by spectators at the 2010 Europe and America competing? FIFA World Cup in South Africa which caused controversy due 15. Can you name the Olympic to the intensity of the sound it athletes in the following produces? pictures? 1. Which recent Olympic host city contains the renowned Forbidden City, an imperial palace for almost 500 years? 2. The only American state capital with a three-word name hosted the . What is it called? 3. The 2006 Winter Olympics were held in which sits on a river that shares it’s name with a character from the “Teletubbies”. What is the name of the river? 4. Which landmark in Los Angeles was erected in 1923 and composed of 13 parts until 1949 when 4 parts were removed leaving it in its current iconic form? 5. Who designed Barcelona’s famously incomplete Sagrada Familia?

1. What word links a sport film from 2009 to an inaugural sporting event organised by Prince Harry? 2. In which acclaimed film do Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo play former American Olympic wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz? 3. A 2006 film about the Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree shared its title with a famous train service - what was it? 4. In which film does the eponymous sports agent have the catchphrase “Show me the money!”? 5. Name one of the two presenters who hosted “A Question of Sport” before Sue Barker? 1. 22 2. Henley-on-Thames 3. British Motor Cross 4. San Francisco 5. Gold 6. 800 and 1500 metres 7. Aintree 8. Vuvuzela 9. Judo 10. 50 metres 11. The five continents that Olympic athletes are from 12. Bolero – Maurice Ravel 13. Six 14. The Ryder Cup 15. a) Laura Trott, Cycling b) Michael Phelps, Swimming c) Nadia Comaneci, Gymnastics d) Paula Radcliffe, Distance Runner

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Words associated with the Olympics and its sports are listed below. The words are missing their vowels; can you guess what the words are?

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