42 Games 43 27 68 62 16 77 77 58 The Hot 100 So you think you can tell an Omnium from a Fosbury flop? As the elite athletes limber up, James Bennett puts sports buffs through their paces with an Olympic Games blockbuster. FIELDS OF GLORY caused by the eruption of...? Connolly, the first modern premiered at...? a. London 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 Melbourne 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 Australia’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. Berlin 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) all photography: getty images because of the devastation jumper James Brendan of the Olympic flag were all b. Pieter van den Hoogenband JULy 2012 QANTAS 149 games olympics quiZ (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. 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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) JULy 2012 QANTAS 151 olympics quiZ games 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 sprint 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. 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