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Summer Olympics Trivia Questions
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1. Which country won 3 gold medals in the first ever Taekwondo even at an Olympics at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?

2. What city hosted the first Olympics held in what was then called 'the Third World'?

3. Which discipline in the sailing events made it's Olympic debut at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?

4. How many disciplines make up the men's gymnastics competition at the Olympics?

5. Once Communist China joined the Olympics in 1980, Taiwan had to compete under a new name. Which one?

6. Who won plenty of Olympic races, but only won a single UK parliamentary election, in 1992?

7. Which even made its debut in an Olympics as the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing?

8. Belgian orthopaedic surgeon Jacques Rogge became IOC president in 2001, having competed in what sport in three Olympic games?

9. The Olympic torch relay began in 1936, when the flame was carried from Olympia in Greece to what host city?

10. Aldo Montano won a gold and silver medal for Italy in which event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens?

11. What nautical term describes the last runner in a relay race?

12. Popular in the northern of England and throughout Scotland and Wales, what is fell running?

13. What country's Kalenjin tribes have helped it dominate middle and long distance track events?

14. What Olympic legend, who was known for her long fingernails, died at age 38?

15. Each of these have won medals in the Summer and Winter Olympics, but who is the only one to win multiple medals in both?

16. In which Olympics did Mark Spitz win 7 gold medals?

17. What country won its first Olympic field hockey gold medal in 1928 and continued to dominate the game until the 1960s?

18. Kelly Holmes won the 800m and which other women's athletics event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens?

19. Zola Budd represented which country at the 1984 Olympics?

20. How long is an Olympic Swimming Pool?

21. What 'Sparrow form Minsk' went to Munich and became the first person ever to do a backward somersault on the uneven parallel bars?

22. Which of the following North Korean athlete who tested positive for drugs and was banned from the 2008 Olympics?

23. Although Stockholm refused to allow boxing at the 1912 Olympics, it did allow what other sport?

24. From 1900 to 1920, tug of war was part of the Olympics, as an even in what sport?

25. In the Olympic hammer throw, you're not actually throwing a hammer. What are you throwing?