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1. What is the meaning of the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius?
Faster, Stronger, Higher
Stronger, Higher, Faster
Faster, Higher, Stronger
Higher, Stronger, Faster
2. What is the most populous country to have never won an Olympic gold medal?
Not only have Bangladesh never won gold, they have never even made it to the finals of any Olympic event in their history. This is despite having a population of over 165 million.
India
Pakistan
DR Congo
Bangladesh
3. What is the least populous country to have won an Olympic gold medal?
Liechtenstein has won 10 Olympic golds with a population of just 37,000. All of them have come at the Winter Olympics.
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
San Marino
Liechtenstein
4. How many silver medals did Michael Phelps win in his Olympic career?
He won 23 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes in his illustrious career. This is more gold medals than 108 countries.
3
2
1
4
5. In which year did an Asian country participate as an independent nation for the first time?
Japan was the first Asian country to compete as an independent country, at the 1912 Games.
1920
1904
1932
1912
6. Which country won the only silver medal ever awarded for cricket at the Olympics?
Only 2 teams competed, and a second-string Great Britain team beat France.
Great Britain
Netherlands
United States of America
France
7. Who is the first gymnast to score a 'Perfect 10' for a single routine at the Olympics?
Comăneci's feat was repeated just days later by the Soviet teenager, Nellie Kim.
Daniela Silivas
Nadia Comăneci
Alexander Dityatin
Nellie Kim
8. Which of these sports has never featured at the Olympics with a medal-round?
Kabaddi was however shown in the 1938 Games as a demonstration sport.
Kabaddi
Tug of War
Croquet
Pelota
9. Which athlete famously won a gold medal at the Marathon by running barefoot?
Bikila won a gold for Ethiopia in the next Olympics too, but with shoes.
Abebe Bikila
Abebe Wakgira
Moussa Said
Mohammed Said
10. Which swimmer was controversially given a silver medal despite getting a faster time than the gold-medallist?
The 3 judges ruled that Devitt had finished first, whilst the audience almost unanimously agreed that Larson came first. The judges' ruling stood.
Murray Rose
John Devitt
John Conrads
Lance Larson
11. In which city were the Winter Olympics held outside Europe and North America for the first time?
Tokyo
Sapporo
Nagano
Seoul
12. In which town were the inaugural Winter Olympics held?
Lake Placid
St. Moritz
Chamonix
Lillehammer
13. How many Olympic medals has the Russian Federation been stripped off as a result of doping violations?
This is more than 4 times the number of the next NOC with most medals stripped as a result of doping violations.
79
36
51
66
14. What is the total number of medals the USA Olympic Team has won in the Summer & Winter Olympic combined?
In addition, the USA Olympics team are the only team in the world to receive no government funding.
2519
1963
2827
1862
15. Which team once won over 85% of all the medals awarded during a single Olympics?
During the 1904 Olympics, USA won 239 medals, and all other countries won just 41.
Soviet Union
Sweden
Great Britain
United States of America
16. Only 2 countries boycotted both the 1980 Moscow and 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. One is Iran. Which is the other?
Albania boycotted in 1976 and 1988 in addition to the 1980 and 1984 Games.