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2. Olympic Games
40 Questions
Each Q carries one mark
Highlighted in Question and Answer slide – what’s
needed and what will get you points

3. 1. What did the man’s actions initiate in 1962?
(bigger pictures on next slide)
Bevis Read had a mediocre Olympic career – finishing 8th in
the Shot Put at the London Games in 1948. She was married
to MI6 Officer Harold Shergold, who happened to be a handler
for this man (in pic).

5. Cuban Missile Crisis
Oleg Penkovsky, a KGB colonel informed the United Kingdom and
United States about the Soviet Union placing missiles on Cuba, which
led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

6. 2. Despite USA’s dominance in the 4*400m relay,
there is only athlete (male or female) to have won
4 medals in the long relay. Identify him (and he is
not American)
If you google him, you are likely to stumble across entries about an American singer

7. Chris Brown

8. 3. Identify this illustrious roommate; what did
they all indulge in?
110m hurdler Jack Davis finished second, rather unluckily, after hitting
the ninth of ten hurdles when well placed for the gold medal at the
1952 Helsinki Olympics. His 3 other roommates felt it was because he
abstained from a tradition one of them (in pic) started.

9. Parry O’Brien; they all used the same shirt on the
day of their event (only instance of 3 Olympic
champions in individual events living in the same
room in the Village)
The day shot-putter Parry O'Brien took part in the final of his event in
Helsinki, it was rather cold, so he kept his university sweatshirt on under
his American vest. O'Brien won and, thinking it might bring them good
luck, he then loaned the rather sweaty sweatshirt to two of his room-
mates - discus thrower Sim Iness and javelin specialist Cyrus Young -
who duly won their events too. The fourth man in their room, 110-
metre hurdler Jack Davis, was then offered the lucky garment too - but,
he said, "By the time the shirt got to me it was kind of ripe, and
stretched out with wear."

10. 4. Which 2 current day sports would constitute the
ancient Olympic sport of Pankration?
A rendition of it is a widely followed sport on TV now

11. Wrestling and Boxing

12. 5. Having won the Olympic gold in 1972 and 1984,
she is the youngest and was the oldest till the lady
on right won in 2016 to win this event. Who?
What event?

13. Ulrike Meyfarth, Womens High Jump
# Part points for either

14. 6. While there have been some near-misses, these
three ladies from Estonia made history in Rio,
2016 when they competed in the Womens
Marathon. What was unique about their
participation?

15. Leila, Liina and Lily Luik from Estonia became the
first triplets to participate in the same event in the
Olympic Games

16. 7. Who is Amul celebrating in this ad?

17. Indian Paralympic Medalists from 2016

18. 8. Below is the competition record of a lesser
known sibling. Surname, for full points.

19. This is Nick Ovett, brother of the legendary Steve

20. 9. Volmari Iso Hollo is one of only two athletes to
have won the Olympic 3000m Steeplechase title
twice – while he set an unofficial World Record in
1936, he seemed set to do the same 4 years ago.
The final timing though is considerably off the
then WR mark – what happened? Why did Hollo
and others finishing the race take more time?

21. Official at the LA Games forgot to ring the bell;
athletes thus ended up running for 3460 metres.

22. 10. Ed Wood was an American Filmmaker who
specialized in intercutting stock footage.
Who/what paid homage to Wood in an iconic
sequence ‘played’ at a recent edition of the
Olympic Games?

23. The lack of continuity of the day/nighttime
continuity in the Queen Sketch at the opening
ceremony of the 2012 London Games was Danny
Boyle’s homage to Wood

24. 11. In picture is a 3 time Olympian in Ski Racing. In 1997 he
won the World Cup overall title by collecting points only in the
two speed disciplines, downhill and super G – a unique
achievement in WC history.
He is best remembered for a ‘pastime’ he took up post his
retirement in Olympic Skiing. Who is he? What event did he win
in that ‘pastime’ in 2006?

25. Luc Alphand; won the Dakar Rally in 2006

26. 12. Famous German designer Otl Uicher is
famously remembered for designing the logo
of the 1972 Munich Games. The organisers
also requested him to come up with a way to
help athletes navigate their way easily
through the Games village. What resulted
thus/what did Uicher come up with?

27. The Olympic Sports Pictograms

28. 13. What were people demanding? What was
the precedent?
After Lizzy Yarnold's win in the Women's Skeleton during the 2014
Winter Olympics in Sochi, vandals crudely painted something gold in
her hometown of Sevenoaks.
Despite an online petition attracting 43,000 signatures, the demands
for this commemorative were rejected for Lizzy.

29. Official Gold Post Box set up by the Royal Mail
Much like what happened for the Team GB gold medalists from 2012

30. 14. Who is the only person to win an Olympic
Gold medal and an Oscar?

31. Kobe Bryant

32. 15. How would you connect the a particular event
of the 1900 Paris Games to what you see on the
right?

33. Le Havre;
Site for Sailing events of 1900 Olympics. Also
Monet’s hometown and the subject of
“Impression, soleil levant”

34. 16. What practice is Janet Lynn credited with
initiating?
An account of the popularizing of this practice claims it was influenced
by the American figure skater Janet Lynn during the 1972 Winter
Olympics in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. She fell during a free-skate period, but
continued to smile even as she sat on the ice.
She became an overnight foreign celebrity in Japan. A peace activist,
Lynn frequently did ‘this’, thus being credited by some for having
popularized its use since the 1970s in amateur photographs.

35. The V sign

36. 17. What off-field incident sprung these 3
Olympians in to the limelight? Also, whose picture
would have completed the ensemble?

37. Lochtegate |Ryan Lochte

38. 18. How would you connect the following?

39. The first recipents (male and female) of the Val
Barker Trophy
Left – Louis Laurie
Right – Claressa Shields

40. 19. Identify this Cuban athlete, who after being
disqualified from his Bronze medal match, kicked
referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden in his face at the
2008 Beijing Games.

41. Angel Matos

42. 20. What was this Nobel Laureate’s grandson
first to do in Olympic history?
Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat,
humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. When he was young, he
was also a champion skier and ice skater, and led the team that made
the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888. Among his
initiatives was the Nanssen passport. His son Odd Nansen was among
founders of UNICEF.
He appears in this quiz because of his grandson – Eigil Nansen though.
What first did he achieve with respect to the Olympics?

43. Eigil Nansen lit the first Winter Olympic Flame
in 1952

44. Questions 21-30 are identifying Olympic
champions

45. 21. Only athlete to win the 100m, 200m and 400m
on Track at the Olympics (not necessarily in the
same edition)

46. Betty Cuthbert
100m & 200m at 1956 Melbourne
400m at 1964 Rome

47. 22. Hailing from the same country, they won the
giant slalom in 1994-98 and 1988-92 respectively.
Need both names for points

48. Deborah Compagnoni and Alberto Tomba

49. 23. Only medalist for erstwhile Soviet Union who
participated in the Olympics in this decade.

50. Afanasijs Kuzmins
9 appearances at the Summer Olympics, the most recent being at
London (2012)

51. 24. Tested positive for Marijuana – was stripped of
his gold medal, only to be returned later

52. Ross Rebagliati

53. 25. Only person to relegate Carl Lewis to a
silver medal at the Olympic Games.

54. Joe Deloach

55. 26. Detected deaf and with a speech disorder at an
early age didn’t deter this champion – is a 5 time
WNBA all star and a 2 time Olympic Gold Medalist.

56. Tamika Catchings

57. 27. First back to back winner of the Womens 500m
Speed Skating event; she was also the first female
to win the prestigious Oscar Mathisen Awrad.

58. Bonnie Blair

59. 28. Was pronounced dead after a plane crash, only
to recover and win the 4*100m relay at the Berlin
Games.

60. Betty Robinson

61. 29. Nicknamed the ‘Leap’, he was defending
champion when Bob Beamon destroyed the field in
Mexico City.

62. Lynn Davies

63. 30. First woman since Flo-Jo to win the 100
and 200m on Track.

64. Elaine Thompson

65. Questions 31-34 are identification too
35 is a connection between the previous 4 answers

66. 31.

67. 32.

68. 33.

69. 34.

70. 35. Connect 31-34

71. Sporting Moves named after OIympians
31. Dorothy Hamill – Hamill Camel
32. Olga Korbut – Korbut Turn
33. David Berkoff – Berkoff Blastoff
34. David Volz - Volzing

72. 36. How would you connect the following?
Go in to the list
together

73. Bronze Medal winners in events Indians
finished 4th at the Rio Games
•Dipa Karmakar
•Abhinav Bindra
•Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna

74. 37. Identify this exceptional figure skater.
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of two, the
doctors gave him six months to live, but the disease
began to correct itself. He began ice skating during
his teenage years, but had to quit because his
parents were unable to afford the costs.
Having self trained himself, he won a gold medal in
the 1984 Olympics.
Later, in 1997 he announced that he had testicular
cancer, and in 2004, he had a benign brain tumor –
he overcame both and still continues to skate.

75. Scott Hamilton

76. 38. What exhaustive list are these two
Olympians a part of?

77. Winning medals at the same venue across different
editions of the Olympics
Bibi Torriani - Bronze for the Swiss ice hockey
team in 1928 & 1948
John Heaton – Silver in Skeleton in 1928 & 1948

78. 39. In a time that the Amateur vs Professional
debate was at its peak, gymnast Alberto Braglia
was suspended by the Italian Federation for
practicing the sport for money. It took a lot of
deliberations for them to understand that it was
just his day job and he wasn’t practicing the sport
itself.
What did Braglia do for a living?

79. He was a Human Torpedo in a Circus

80. 40. Three of the six athletes from this sport to
have Metro Stations named after them at the
London Games (2012) are shown below. Name the
3 missing who would make this list exhaustive.

81. Dhyan Chand, Roop Singh and Leslie Claudius