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The Olympics trivia questions
The Olympics mixes dated and undated questions: 11 of its 16 have a year, between 1896 and 2008, and 5 do not. The Life group of the picker lists it as “Summer, winter and the records”.
The Olympics: how the questions fall by date
The dates fall in 8 decades. Here is how many questions sit in each:
- 1890s: 1 question
- 1920s: 1 question
- 1930s: 1 question
- 1960s: 1 question
- 1970s: 1 question
- 1980s: 4 questions
- 1990s: 1 question
- 2000s: 1 question
What a The Olympics card looks like
Four choices, one answer. The first words of the questions break down as follows: 5 start with “Which”, 3 start with “The”, 1 start with “Before”. Each answer is followed by a fact of up to 24 words.
Each answer and its fact were verified against a source page before the question was added.
The Olympics samples and their answers
Two samples from The Olympics, chosen from the older questions. Neither is one of the ten the daily quiz is using around now.
Question (1896): The first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896 in which city?
Answer: Athens. Fourteen countries turned up, and a Greek water carrier won the marathon.
The wrong choices on the card were Paris, Rome, and London.
Checked against 1896 Summer Olympics (Wikipedia).
Question (1936): Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Games in which city?
Answer: Berlin. The 100 metres, the 200 metres, the long jump and the relay — no athlete at those Games won more.
The wrong choices on the card were Munich, Amsterdam, and Helsinki.
Checked against Jesse Owens (Wikipedia).
Further The Olympics questions, answers left out
The answers to these are not printed here: they are part of the game.
- Mark Spitz won seven swimming golds at which Olympic Games?
Pick The Olympics in Rewind
Rewind lets you narrow the day to what you like. Here that means opening Branches, ticking The Olympics with the other Life branches, and pressing Play these. A day needs ten questions in the selection, and this branch has 16 of its own.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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