Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Trivia Tuesday -- Olympic Games






This week's Trivia Tuesday features Olympic trivia in honor of the 2012 Olympic Games currently going on! =)

  1. The Olympics originated in Greece during the 8th Century BC.
  2. London is the first city to have hosted the Olympics three times (can you name the years?)
  3. There were more athletes than spectators at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris.
  4. Inge Sorensen (Denmark) won a bronze medal in the 200-meter breaststroke in 1936. She was only 12, making her the youngest medalist ever in an individual event. 
  5. Eddie Eagan (USA) is the only person to have won a gold medal in both the Summer and Winter Games (can you name the events?)
  6. George Eyser won 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze in gymnastics in the 1904 Games. What was so remarkable about this feat was the fact that he competed with a wooden prosthesis after his leg was run over by a train. 
  7. Nadia Comaneci was awarded 7 perfect scores of 10.0 during the 1976 Olympic Games, making her the first female in Olympic gymnastic history to do so. 
  8. Women competed for the first time in the 1900 Olympic Games. 
  9. The first time an actual pool was used during the Olympic Games was in the 1908 Olympics (coincidentally, held in London).
  10. The first team added to the Olympics was Football (the US version, not soccer!) in the 1900 Games.

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