Test your knowledge of Olympic history, symbols, sports, records, and legendary moments from the world's biggest sporting event.
Questions
12
Reward
120
XP
70
Entry
65
The Olympics are unusual in that most people's knowledge of them is about the ceremony rather than the sport. The rings, the flame, the motto, the medals, the opening parade: this iconography is more widely recognised than any individual event or athlete, which is why an Olympics quiz can sit comfortably at Easy. Twelve questions covering the revival of the modern Games in the late nineteenth century, the symbols and what they represent, the body that governs the whole thing, the medal hierarchy, and a handful of host cities and record-holders. The one thing worth saying is that almost everything here is about the modern Games rather than the ancient ones. The revival deliberately borrowed the name and the location of the original festival, but the traditions people think of as timeless were mostly invented in the twentieth century, and several are far newer than they look.
Background and what to expect. No answers given away.
The ancient festival ran for centuries and then stopped for roughly fifteen hundred years. The modern Games are a nineteenth-century reconstruction, deliberately staged first in the country where the original had been held.
That first modern edition and its host city come up here, and the four-year interval between Games was borrowed directly from the ancient cycle.
The rings represent the inhabited continents, and their colours were chosen so that every competing nation's flag would contain at least one of them. That is a design decision rather than an accident, and it explains the specific set.
The flame and its relay are similarly deliberate, connecting each Games back to the site of the original festival.
The Games are run by an international committee that selects host cities, recognises sports and administers the movement. It is known almost universally by its initials.
Questions about who decides things are asking about this body rather than about any national organisation.
The official motto is a short Latin phrase, usually quoted in translation as three comparative adjectives describing athletic ambition. A fourth word was added relatively recently.
It is one of the most quoted mottos in sport and among the easiest points here if you have seen it written out.
The events with the most medal opportunities produce the most decorated athletes, which is why the all-time medal leaderboard is dominated by competitors from sports where one athlete can enter many events.
A single performance at one Games in the late two-thousands set a record that still stands as the reference point for individual dominance.
The symbols carry specific meanings rather than decorative ones. Knowing what the rings depict is not the same as knowing how many there are or which colours are among them.
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