This Winter Olympics Quiz Will Test Your Ice-Q

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• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

1. What city did Beijing defeat in a close vote to host the 2022 Olympics?

1. Stockholm, Sweden
2. Oslo, Norway
3. Almaty, Kazakhstan

2. Who was the last woman to win back-to-back gold medals in women’s figure skating?

1. Katarina Witt
2. Sonja Henie
3. Peggy Fleming

Which country did the U.S. defeat to win an unexpected gold medal in men’s curling in 2018?

1. Canada
2. Finland
3. Sweden

What skiing star rebounded from a terrible-looking crash in the men’s downhill in 1998 and won gold medals in that year’s super-G and giant slalom?

1. Tommy Moe
2. Fritz Strobl
3. Hermann Maier

Which sport returned to the Winter Olympics in 2002 for the first time since 1948?

1. Curling
2. Skeleton
3. Short track speedskating

Brian Boitano of the U.S. defeated Brian Orser of Canada to win the men’s figure skating title in 1988. Which future gold medalist finished third?

1. Evgeni Plushenko
2. Aleksei Urmanov
3. Viktor Petrenko

Who hosted the Winter Olympics the last time it was held the same year as the Summer Games?

1. Lillehammer, Norway
2. Albertville, France
3. Sarajevo, Bosnië-Hercogovina

8. Which of the following is the highest?

1. Total medals won by South Korea in short track speedskating
2. Total medals won by Norway in biathlon
3. Total medals won by the United States in snowboarding

Which sport uses the Gundersen method?

1. Nordic combined
2. Cross-country skiing
3. Biathlon

Which two countries finished 1-2 in the men’s 4x10km cross-country skiing relay for four straight Olympics from 1992-2002 – including three races in which the final margin was under a second?

1. Italy and Norway
2. Germany and Norway
3. Germany and Sweden

. What year was luge introduced to the Olympic program?

1. 1964
2. 1976
3. 1980

What is the only non-European country to win a gold medal in ski jumping?

1. Canada
2. Japan
3. United States

Who scored the tying and winning goals in Canada’s overtime victory over the U.S. for the 2014 women’s hockey gold medal?

1. Hayley Wickenheiser
2. Meghan Agosta
3. Marie-Philip Poulin

How many gold medals will be contested in freestyle skiing at the Beijing Olympics?

1. 6
2. 9
3. 13

Which Dutch speedskater has won 11 medals, the most by any Winter Olympian not representing Norway?

1. Ard Schenk
2. Sven Kramer
3. Ireen Wust

In 2018, snowboarder Shaun White gave the U.S. a milestone when he won the country’s 100th gold medal in Winter Games history. What sport did the first American gold come in, back in 1924?

1. Bobsled
2. Figure skating
3. Speedskating

Which star athlete did NOT win three gold medals in Pyeongchang in 2018?

1. French biathlete Martin Fourcade
2. Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjorgen
3. Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo

Which country’s entry finished one spot behind Jamaica in the two-man bobsled in 1988?

1. Monaco
2. Taiwan
3. New Zealand

This U.S. speedskater had a chance at a medal taken away when the 10,000m race was called off amid warm weather and melting ice. He then won two golds four years later.

1. Jack Shea
2. Irving Jaffee
3. Eric Heiden

Who marched as a flagbearer for the Netherlands at the opening ceremony?

1. Lindsay van Zundert and Kjeld Nuis
2. Suzanne Schulting and Patrick Roest
3. Ireen Wüst and Antoinette de Jong