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FIELDS OF GLORY caused by the eruption of...? Connolly, the first modern premiered at...? a. 1908 1. In what city were the 2004 a. Etna b. Vesuvius c. Stromboli Olympic champion in 1896? a. b. Stockholm 1912 c. Antwerp 1920 Games held? a. Beijing 7. How many Games were British b. Australian c. American 19. Just one Intercalated b. Athens c. Barcelona cancelled due to World War II? 13. At what Olympics were gold Olympic Games (held in Athens 2. Where were the equestrian a. Two b. Three c. Four medals first awarded to the between Olympiads) was ever events for the 1956 8. Where were the sailing events victors? a. Athens 1896 b. Paris staged – in what year? a. 1898 Olympics held? a. Canada for Mexico City 1968 held? 1900 c. St Louis 1904 b. 1906 c. 1910 b. New Zealand c. Sweden a. Tijuana b. Cancun c. Acapulco 14. Who was ’s first 20. Joan Benoit won what event 3. Rio de Janeiro will host the 9. How many times have US Olympic champion? a. Edwin at LA in 1984, the first time Games in 2016. How many cities held the event? a. Twice Flack b. Donald Mackintosh women were allowed to compete times has the event been staged b. Three times c. Four times c. Fred Lane in it? a. Marathon b. 1500m in South America previously? 10. In what city and year were 15. At what Games did women swimming c. Pole vault a. Never b. Once c. Twice the first Games for disabled first compete? a. Paris 1900 b. 4. What city, due to host the athletes (later to become the London 1908 c. Stockholm 1912 COOL IN THE POOL Games in 1916, cancelled Paralympics) held? a. 1936 16. British rower Steven 21. Where were the swimming because of WWI? a. Tokyo b. London 1948 c. Helsinki 1952 Redgrave won gold medals in events at the 1900 Paris Games b. London c. Berlin how many successive Games? held? a. Ocean off Calais b. The 5. Asian cities have held the NUMBER ONE a. Four b. Five c. Six Seine c. First 50m Olympic pool Olympics three times – in 11. Baker Coroebus of Elis, first 17. In Paris in 1900, the first 22. How many gold medals did Tokyo, Beijing and…? a. New recorded Olympic champion in team sport was contested. It was…? Mark Spitz win at Munich 1972? Delhi b. Seoul c. Singapore 776BC, won what event? a. Foot a. Rugby b. Hockey c. Soccer a. Six b. Seven c. Eight 6. The 1908 Games, set for race b. Javelin c. Discus 18. The taking of the Olympic 23. Who broke Spitz’s record? Rome, were moved to London 12. What nationality was triple oath, releasing doves and flying a. Alexander Popov (1996)

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(2000) c. Michael Phelps (2008) 24. Australia’s Dawn Fraser won the first of her three successive gold medals for the 100m freestyle at what Olympics? a. Helsinki 1952 b. Melbourne 1956 c. Rome 1960 22 25. When did synchronised swimming become an official Olympic event? a. 1976 39 b. 1980 c. 1984 26. Matthew Mitcham won Australia’s first men’s diving gold since Dick Eve in...? a. 1924 50 b. 1948 c. 1972 27. What was the nickname of Eric Moussambani who swam a 100m heat at the 2000 Olympics in 1:52.72 (a record in Equatorial Guinea)? a. Marine Boy b. Eric 65 the Eel c. Submarine Eric 28. What nationality was 12-year-old Inge Sorensen, London Organising Committee character enters the Olympics won three gold medals at who won a bronze medal in for the 2012 Olympic Games? in a 2008 film? a. Asterix b. Helsinki in 1952, including for the 200m breaststroke in 1936, a. Prince William b. Sir Keith Bugs Bunny c. Homer Simpson his very first…? a. Steeplechase making her the youngest known Mills c. (Sebastian) Lord Coe b. 5000m c. Marathon individual medallist? a. Danish 35. Which of these Nazis won Running & 47. What was the cause of death b. American c. Swedish an Olympic Games Decoration jumping of American Florence Griffith- 29. Which of these movie for his administrative 41. In 1928, so many women Joyner, considered the fastest Tarzans was not an Olympic involvement in Berlin 1936? collapsed after the 800m foot woman runner of all time, at the gold-medal swimmer? a. Buster a. Joseph Goebbels b. Heinrich race, that it was banned until age of 38? a. Epilepsy b. Liver Crabbe b. Lex Barker c. Johnny Himmler c. Rudolf Hess when? a. 1948 b. 1956 c. 1960 cancer c. Drug overdose Weissmuller 42. The great Carl Lewis won 48. What distinguished South 30. Who won the “The Race of At the movies four gold medals at the 1984 LA African runner Zola Budd in LA the Century” – the 200m – at the 36. Who won the marathon Olympics – for the 100m, 200m, in 1984? a. Long pants b. Bare 2004 Olympics a. Ian Thorpe b. in the 1970 film The Games? 4x100m relay and…? a. Long feet c. One-piece suit Michael Phelps c. Grant Hackett a. Michael Crawford b. Ryan jump b. 400m c. 110m hurdles 49. The Fosbury flop is used in O’Neal c. Athol Compton 43. What was the nickname of what Olympic event? a. Pole Administrators 37. What was Leni Riefenstahl’s Fanny Blankers-Koen, the vault b. Triple jump c. High jump of note infamous film about the 1936 30-year-old Dutch mother of two 50. American Bob Beamon set 31. Who was the longest-serving Berlin Games? a. Triumph Of who won four gold medals at the a world record (8.9m) in the long president of the International The Will b. Olympia c. Glory 1948 Games? a. Magnificent jump at Mexico 1968 that was Olympic Committee? a. Juan 38. What is Eric Bana’s Mum b. Fabulous Fanny not beaten for how many years? Antonio Samaranch b. Pierre character Avner Kaufman in c. Flying Housewife a. 23 b. 36 c. 40 de Coubertin c. Lord Killanin the film Munich about the 1972 44. Which of these is not an 32. Avery Brundage, the only massacre? a. Israeli team Olympic decathlon event? Showing off non-European IOC president, was manager b. Mossad agent a. 200m b. Pole vault c. Discus 51. In 1912, Sweden introduced what nationality? a. American c. Palestinian terrorist 45. Olympic long-distance the demonstration sport of glima, b. Canadian c. Australian 39. Who wrote the stirring champions Hannes traditional Icelandic…? a. Sailing 33. Who is president of the music to Chariots Of Fire, about Kolehmainen, Paavo Nurmi b. Hockey c. Wrestling Australian Olympic Committee? two British athletes and the 1924 and Lasse Virén shared what 52. Basketball, an Olympic event a. Ron Harvey b. Michael Olympics? a. Jean Michel Jarre nickname? a. Winged Finn since 1936, first appeared as a Wenden c. John Coates b. John Williams c. Vangelis b. Flying Finn c. Super Finn demonstration sport in…? a. 1904 34. Who is chairman of the 40. What classic cartoon 46. Czech runner Emil Zátopek (St Louis) b. 1920 (Antwerp)

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c. 1932 (Los Angeles) Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall was 53. What was the martial art the first Olympic athlete to be Beijing staged as an adjunct to disqualified for using a the 2008 Games? Wing Chun 73 performance-enhancing a. b. Wushu c. Kung-fu substance (alcohol) at what 54. Which of these was never an Games? a. Rome 1960 b. Tokyo Olympic demonstration sport? 68 1964 c. Mexico 1968 a. Firefighting b. Motorcycling 73. The “fastest man alive”, c. Log rolling Canadian Ben Johnson, was 55. Melbourne’s two demo suspended for how long after sports were baseball and…? failing the drugs test after the a. Australian Rules football b. 100m at the 1988 Surfing c. Boomerang throwing Olympics? a. Two years b. Five years c. For life Flags, fire 74. Although banned, beta & anthems blockers are not considered 56. At London 1908, Finnish performance-enhancing in athletes, denied their own, which one of these sports? a. refused to march under what Fencing b. Archery c. Shooting flag? a. Norwegian b. Swedish 75. Following her stirring wins c. Russian at the 1996 Games, Irish 57. Australia’s first Olympic 27 swimmer Michelle Johnson champion was allegedly saluted would later be suspended for…? with what anthem? a. God Save 62 a. Testing positive to steroids The King b. The Austrian b. Blood doping c. Tampering anthem c. Waltzing Matilda a. Middleweight b. Light carried the hopes of which with a urine sample 58. At which Games was the heavyweight c. Heavyweight nation in 1976? a. Kenya torch spectacularly ignited by 63. At Montreal 1976, Nadia b. Wales c. New Zealand Great moments Paralympic archer Antonio Comăneci became the first 68. Jesse Owens, the African- 76. At Stockholm 1912, the Rebollo’s flaming arrow? woman gymnast to score a American sprinter who middleweight semifinal of a. Barcelona 1992 b. Los perfect 10. She was...? a. Russian triumphed at the 1936 Berlin Greco-Roman wrestling Angeles 1984 c. Moscow 1980 b. Czech c. Romanian Olympics, won how many gold between Estonian Martin Klein 59. What two divided countries 64. Which red-hot favourite medals? a. Three b. Four c. Five and Finland’s Alfred Asikainen marched under one flag at the Australian runner did Native 69. Great Britain’s Tanni lasted how long? a. 1 hour Sydney 2000 Games? a. North American Billy Mills upset in Grey-Thomson won 16 medals at b. 5 hours c. 11 hours and South Korea b. Ireland and the 10,000m at Tokyo in 1964? five Paralympics, despite having 77. Catherine Freeman’s 400m Northern Ireland c. Western a. b. Herb Elliott been confined to a wheelchair victory at Sydney 2000 was Samoa and American Samoa c. Allan Lawrence with…? a. Spina bifida Australia’s first track and field 60. The first named mascot, 65. England’s Daley Thompson b. Poliomyelitis c. Paraplegia gold medal since…? a. Debbie Waldi the dachshund, was won two Olympic gold medals 70. Weightlifter Karnam Flintoff-King b. Raelene Boyle created for which Games? and broke the world record four Malleswari won bronze at c. Glynis Nunn a. Amsterdam 1928 b. Berlin times in which track and field Sydney 2000, making her the 78. After Canada’s Lawrence 1936 c. Munich 1972 event? a. Pentathlon first woman medallist from Lemieux, a sailor at the 1988 b. Steeplechase c. Decathlon which country? a. Ivory Coast Games, stopped racing to Winning circle 66. Australian Bobby Pearce b. Sri Lanka c. India rescue two Singapore 61. American gymnast George went on to win gold in the single competitors whose craft Eyser won six medals at the sculls at the 1928 Amsterdam drug dopes had capsized, he was awarded 1904 Games despite having Games despite stopping on the 71. British-born American an honorary…? a. First place what handicap? a. Wooden leg canal during the quarterfinals Thomas Hicks was given b. Second place c. Third place b. Blind in one eye c. Club foot to avoid…? a. A family of ducks what drug to help him to the 79. Although coming last, 62. In the 1960 Rome Games, b. Another rower who had marathon finishing line at the Mongolia’s Pyambu Tuul Cassius Clay – later known as capsized c. An off-course barge 1904 Games? a. Benzedrine declared his marathon in 1992 Muhammad Ali – won a boxing 67. Middle-distance runner and b. Daytura c. Strychnine his second-greatest moment. gold medal in what division? champion miler John Walker 72. Swedish pentathlete Just six months previously, he

152 QANTAS july 2012 olympics quiz games had regained his…? a. Hearing 85. Which Australian medal- Not very Reichsmarks, but kept his medal b. Sight c. Use of his legs winning boxer said: “To be part sporting 96. Tanzania led a boycott of 22 80. In 1908, Italian Dorando of that winning team, standing 91. At the Melbourne 1956 African nations at the 1976 Pietri staggered into the in the ring for the final decision Games, the and Games in protest at…? a. New stadium at the end of the to be announced is something I Hungarian teams clashed Zealand’s rugby tour of South marathon and had to be helped will live with the rest of my life”? viciously in what sport? a. Soccer Africa b. The presence of Soviet to the line where he crossed…? a. Graham “Spike” Cheney b. b. Water polo c. Basketball and Cuban troops in Angola a. First b. Second c. Third Anthony Madigan c. Ollie Taylor 92. American Jim Thorpe was c. Lack of Olympic funding 81. Konrad Freiherr von stripped of the two gold medals 97. Iranian Arash Miresmaili Wangenheim gave the 1936 Out of left field he won at the 1912 Games after was disqualified before a judo Games some nobility, when he 86. Television broadcasts of it was revealed he had once bout against Israeli Ehud Vaks helped his team to a gold medal events and electronic scoring been paid for…? a. Playing in 2004 because he...? a. Failed despite having his arm in a sling for fencing first appeared at baseball b. Playing football a drug test b. Was overweight from a broken collarbone, in which Olympics? a. Berlin 1936 c. A foot race c. Insulted one of the judges what sport? a. Gymnastics b. London 1948 c. Helsinki 1952 93. At the 1900 Olympics, what 98. Ukraine army officer Boris b. Equestrianism c. Football 87. At this year’s games, the “sport” was contested for the Onischenko cheated in the 1976 82. No American basketball Omnium will be added to what first (and) last time? a. Fox (Montreal) modern pentathlon team had lost an Olympic match sport? a. Cycling b. Pistol hunting b. Pig shooting (bow by tampering with his…? a. Air until a highly suspect loss to the shooting c. Women’s gymnastics and arrow) c. Pigeon shooting pistol b. Riding crop c. Épée USSR in…? a. 1968 Mexico 88. What was unique about 94. At the 200m medal 99. Which country’s basketball b. 1972 Munich c. 1976 Montreal Princess Anne’s appearance at ceremony at Mexico 1968, team at the 2000 Paralympics 83. Japanese gymnast Shun the 1976 Montreal Olympics? Tommie Smith and John won gold, but was disqualified Fujimoto landed an almost a. She was spared a drug test Carlos…? a. Laughed during after 10 players were found to be flawless dismount from the b. She was spared a sex test the anthem b. Gave the Black able-bodied? a. Spain b. China rings at the 1976 Games to help c. She did not march Power salute c. Refused to shake c. Hungary Japan win the team gold despite 89. The IOF discontinued hands with the silver medallist 100. What advantage did Fred a…? a. Broken kneecap b. gender verification in what 95. During the Berlin 1936 Lorz have in “winning” the 1904 Broken ankle c. Fractured tibia year? a. 1998 b. 1999 c. 2000 cycling sprint final, German Olympics marathon? a. He was 84. In 2004, Birgit Fischer 90. The Olympic motto Toni Merkens fouled Dutchman given benzedrine in his water of won her eighth (translated from the Latin . He was...? b. Joined the other runners at kayaking gold medal: how many Citius, altius, fortius) is “Faster, a. Banned for five years the 15-mile mark c. Rode 11 years was it since her first? higher, …”? a. Braver b. Nobler b. Disqualified and stripped of miles (17.7km) of the race in his a. 20 b. 22 c. 24 c. Stronger his gold medal c. Fined 100 manager’s car. c 77 76

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