OLYMPICS QUIZ 2012

Snatch, Clean, Jerk….

Quiz on Olympics

Rajan and Manish

• Olympics supposedly started in 776BC. Hence we have

plenty of material for 50 questions.

• Fairly long written quiz.

• Some questions have multiple parts. Each part carries a

point. (Arul Mani prelim scoring system will be followed)

• In case of ties, we use sudden death – from Q 1.

• There are no marks for handwriting, but please write

legibly.

• Points for each question is indicated in the relevant

question.

RULES

ANSWERS

QUESTION # 1 – 3 points

• The origins of this sport (X) is linked

to the decline of another ancient sport

(Y). The ancient sport eventually

became more popular in its current

format (Z).

• X is a former Olympic event. Since its

sole appearance at the 1900 Olympics,

it has served as a demonstration sport

at three different Summer Olympics.

• Name X, Y and Z

ANSWER

• X – Basque Pelota or Pelota

• Y – Jeu de Paume

• Z – Tennis

QUESTION # 2 – 1 point

• Janet Lynn had a terrible start to the 1972 Winter Olympics figure skating

competition. She fell during the free-skating period and finished 3rd in the

overall competition. Despite all this, her graceful diligence and persistence

resonated with the Japanese, making her an overnight celebrity. She was

also a peace activist and took every opportunity to reiterate her stance of

being against wars.

• She is sometimes credited with a cultural phenomena seen predominantly

in South East Asia. Many dispute this theory, but seems like a plausible

explanation nonetheless. What phenomenon?

ANSWER

• South East Asians default pose in photographs is with a V-sign.

Apparently Janet Lynn, was repeatedly seen flashing the V-sign in

the Japanese media and is credited for having popularized it in

South East Asia.


Identify this silver

medalist who is also

an author of three

books and a former

federal politician.

• He won the hockey silver as a part of the

men’s team in 1976.

• He also played 47 matches for Western

Australia.

ANSWER

Ric Charlesworth

QUESTION # 4 – 2 points• Two events made their debut for women at the 1984 LA Olympics.

• The winners of both the events are shown below. Name the two events.

ANSWER

• Women’s Marathon won by Joan Benoit.

• Rhythmic Gymnastics won by Lori Fung.

QUESTION # 5 – 1 point• On 2nd October 1924, Argentina played Uruguay on a

friendly match at Sportivos Barracas stadium. Close to 52,000

spectators attended the match, which was won by Argentina

2-1. Best remembered for scenes such as Uruguayan team

leaving the field with only 4 minutes to play.

• There were several reasons for leaving the field– main being

hostile Argentinean crowd. This match however is famous

for a particular incident (which also contributed to the

tension) which happened during the 15th minute of play.

• The player involved – Cesareo Onzari became famous for

this particular piece of beauty, although Onzari was not the

first to do this. What did he do whose name was christened

after this match? Just give me the name popularly known in

Latin America.

ANSWER

• Goal scored directly from a

corner kick. Since the goal was

made against the Olympic

champions, Uruguay – the name

Olympic goal stayed on.

Olympic Goal

QUESTION # 6 - 1 point

Identify this Olympic team (Be specific)

• Israeli contingent at the 1972 Munich Games

ANSWER


• Monday, 13 July 1908, the opening day of the First London

Olympics in the White City Stadium, was concluded with an

exhibition of this sport. The sport was the recent invention of

R.J. Mecredy, the editor of the Irish Cyclist.

• The match was only an exhibition match - the players were not

official Olympians. The Irish association team thrashed their

German opponents, 3 to 1.In the recent years India has been

one of the most successful countries at the International

championships of this sport. Name the sport.

ANSWER

Bicycle Polo

• This is Takeichi Nishi, the 1932

Olympics winner in the Show

Jumping individual competition. He

later died in 1945. We remember him

thanks to a revival through a 2006

movie. Which movie?


Letters from Iwo Jima

• Nishi commanded the 26th Tank

Regiment during the battle at Iwo Jima.

ANSWER

• In this video, there are two ex-Indian hockey players. They both

can be seen as the coach and manager of the Indian team in the

film. Name both the players.

QUESTION # 9 - 2 points

ANSWER

• Coach is Mir Ranjan Negi

• Manager is Zafar Iqbal

QUESTION # 10 – 2 points‚I had just turned 17 years of age and I thought that was good because I was not a boy anymore, and wrote that I was Chinese because I thought they might think that I was wise, but I decided not to put my name or address on the letter in case they thought it was a dumb idea. It was the Wednesday night when I wrote my letter and the Saturday was to be the _____ _____. The office for the Organising Committee was in Little Lonsdale Street, so I dropped my letter into their letter box late at night making sure no one saw me. By Saturday morning, I had not heard or read about any changes to the _____ ______ so I went to the movies that afternoon. When I came out, there was a crowd of people watching the television in a shop window, so I went over to see what they were watching – in those days very few people owned a set – I saw the _____ _____ and ……………………………………..

What did he watch? Which edition of Olympics was this?

ANSWER

• All the athletes had come together and intermingled as one nation, and were marching around the track laughing and waving to the crowd.

• 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

• The boy later revealed himself as ‘John Ian Wing’.

CLOSING

CEREMONY


Wiki snapshot of what?

Olympic Gold post boxes

• To commemorate the British Gold

Medal winners, Royal Mail decided to

paint the post boxes of the winners’

home town in Gold.

• Several of these boxes were later

vandalized including some high

profile ones like Jessica Ennis and

Andy Murray.

ANSWER

• At the 2009 IOC session in Copenhagen, this was

heralded as one of the comeback stories.

• This sport has seen only gold medal winners from North

America with USA winning 3 out of 4 that have been on

offer.

• The venue for this event in 2016 will be designed Hanse,

who has been called the Architect of the Year by the

sports magazine in 2009.

• What am I talking about?


ANSWER

RE-INTRODUCTION OF GOLF


• Who in the 1972 games won the 50m freestyle gold and

created a world record in the same event?

• He ended up participating in Javelin throw, precision

javelin throw and Slalom and was a finalist in all three

events.

• He became his country’s first ever individual gold medalist.

Muralikant Petkar• He was crippled during the 1965 war. He was originally a boxer

of repute.

• He participated in the 1968 paralympic games without much

success but became India’s first ever individual gold medal

winner at the 1972 Paralympic Games in Heidelberg, Germany.

• Despite searching for hours on the internet, I did not find a

single photo of this man.

ANSWER


WHAT DOES THIS MAP DEPICT?

ANSWER

• Route of Marathon at 1908 Olympics which became the

modern standard distance for the Marathon – 42 km, 385yds

yards.

• The 1900 Olympics had a live pigeon-shooting competition

where over 300 pigeons were killed.

• So somebody came up with an alternative to killing

pigeons and 2 variations of this are now Olympic sports.

• Identify the sport.


Trap Shooting• Olympic Trap and Double Trap are the current two variants.

ANSWER


• This was the snapshot used by the referees to award the gold and silver medalists at an event in 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Next day, several newspapers ran an article with condolences to the silver medalist ______.

• She had the best chance to win the gold here. Nevertheless, this was her first silver medal after a string of bronze medals in previous Olympic editions. Who is this athlete?

ANSWER

• Former Jamaican athlete who

currently represents Slovenia

since 2002. She holds the

record for the most Olympic

appearances (seven) of any

track and field athlete (1980-

2004).

Merlene Ottey


SIMPLE!!! NAME THE OLYMPIAN

ANSWER

• Sonja Henie – Ice skater and

a Winter Olympic champion

• She acted in few Hollywood

movies and this clip is from

the movie ‘Sun Valley

Serenade’.

Sonja Henie

• Snapshot from an athlete’s IAAF profile. This is her

performance in triple jump.

• Her father dropped a letter from her first name so that his

daughter would be the first in everything. Who is this

athlete?


Anju Bobby George

• She started her career as a triple

jumper and at one point of time

even held the national record in

Triple Jump. But realized, she had a

better shot at Long Jump.

• Her first name at the time of birth

was ‘Manju’.

ANSWER


• This particular book part of a series was released in the year 1968

(to coincide with the Mexico City Olympics). It was translated into

English in 1972 (to coincide with the Munich Olympics). The

story satirizes performance enhancing drug usage in sports. A

movie version of the book was released in 2008 (to coincide with

the Beijing Olympics). Just name the book.

ANSWER

Asterix at the Olympic Games

• David Weller is a retired Jamaican Olympic medalist. He

won a bronze in the 1980 Olympic games.

• In what way is his medal unique among all Jamaicans?


Non-Athletics Medal

• He is Jamaica’s only

non-Athletics medal

winner so far. He

won the bronze in

the 1000m Time

Trial.

ANSWER


CONNECT

1968

1984

+

+

ANSWER

• Singles winners when tennis was a demonstration sport.

• At 1968 Olympics – Manuel Santana & Helga Masthoff.

• At 1984 Olympics – Stefan Edberg & Steffi Graf.

This is a snapshot of a athlete’s performance at the

Paralympics. He is still remembered for a particular

feat of his at the Games. Identify the Para-athlete and

why is this guy remembered?

QUESTION # 22 - 2 points

Antonio Rebello – For his famous arrow

shot at the 1992 Barcelona Games.

ANSWER

QUESTION # 23 – 1 point• ‚I vividly remember the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. My mom woke my

younger brothers and me up at 4:00 in the morning to watch Jerry, the one-man ski team from _______. Jerry was a waiter with my older brothers at the Chart House in San Diego and a fantastic skier. Any way, there we were all cuddled on the couch waiting to see Jerry in his downhill run. We watched Jean Claude Killy, a couple of Americans and then when Jerry was to race, ABC cut to a commercial! The network thought an ____ skier was of no interest to the American viewers. Well, my mother gets up and goes to the phone in the kitchen (no cordless phones). She calls the local ABC station and wants to know who is responsible for scheduling that commercial break. After several more calls, my mother finally gets a hold of some one in New York City.

By the time she gets back to the living room and the

commercials are over, the sportscasters on that mountainside

in France are announcing that they will now replay the run

of______ skier, Jerry for his fans in San Diego,

California.‛ A friend narrating an incident on Jerry. What is

Jerry’s claim to fame?

ANSWER

• Jerry Bujakowski – The first

Indian winter Olympian.

• He is from Polish descent.

• Since he was born in India,

therefore qualified to be on the

Indian Olympic ski team.

First Indian Winter Olympian

• The 1968 Olympics games torch relay gave special

importance to these 3 places.

– Genoa, Italy

– Palos de la Frontera, Spain

– The island of San Salvador.

They supposedly represented the interaction between

Europe and the Americas.

Explain the importance of these 3 places.


Christopher Columbus

• The 1968 Olympics Torch relay was designed to follow the course

taken by Christopher Columbus. This was supposed to highlight

the interaction of Europe with the New World.

• Genoa – Birth Place of Columbus

• Palos de la Frontera – Place from where he embarked for his

journey.

• San Salvador – Columbus encountered land here first in his

journey.

ANSWER

This incident involving Knud Enemark Jensen at the 1960

Rome Olympics led to a significant development at the future

Games. What?


Tests for Doping

• Knud Enemark Jensen died during the 100km time trial at

the 1960 Olympic Games.

• During the autopsy they discovered traces of amphetamine

in his body.

• IOC initiated a committee to look into the matter in 1961

and they recommended mandatory drug testing at future

Olympic Games.

ANSWER

QUESTION # 26 – 3 points• The final words by X in the movie Y sums up ‘Z’: ‚All my life,

man and boy, I have operated under the assumption that the main idea in running was to win the race. Naturally, when I became a coach I tried to teach people how to do that. I tried to teach ‘Z’ how to do that. Tried like hell to teach ‘Z’ to do that. And ‘Z’ taught me. Taught me I was wrong.................. But he finally got it through my head that the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test to the ______ of the human heart. That he did… Nobody did it more often. Nobody did it better.‛

This is where the movie ends. (A 1990’s movie)

Name X, Y and Z (Character names for X and Z)

ANSWER

• X – Bill Bowerman (Founder of Nike)

• Y – Without Limits

• Z – Steve Prefontaine

• Sansarpur, the hockey factory, is part of the Jalandhar

Cantonment constituency. A lot of hockey fans are hopeful that it

may return to its glory days as X has been elected on a Shiromani

Akali Dal ticket.

• X has been trying to reform hockey after his retirement. He

contested in Hockey India elections before losing out to Vidhya

Stokes. Name X.


PARGAT SINGH

• The only Indian to be a captain at

2 Olympics – 1992 and 1996.

ANSWER


CONNECT ALL

THE FOUR

VISUALS TO AN

ATHLETE

ANSWER

• Chicago Bulls had drafted him in 1984.

• Dallas Cowboys had drafted him in 1984.

• Carol Lewis, sister and former Olympian.

• Lewis Carl Hamilton – named after Carl Lewis.

CARL LEWIS

• This is Frederick Lane from

Australia. He was one of

Australia’s early gold medal

winners.

• He won one of his 2 gold's in this

event, which was held only in the

1900 Olympics.

• It was a race over 200m but also

involved boats. What event is

this?


200m Obstacle Event

• Swimmers had to climb over a pole and a row of boats

and then swim under a third row of boats.

ANSWER


• At one time, X of Grand Rapids, Michigan was the best amateur

heavyweight in the world. This was in 1964, after he had twice

defeated another promising amateur named Y. He was on his way

to the 1964 Olympics Games in Tokyo but an injury sidelined

him. Y took his place as an alternate, won the Gold Medal and the

rest is history. Name X and Y.

ANSWER

X – Buster Mathis Sr.

Y – Joe Frazier

• A minor controversy erupted in 1992 when a judge accidently

entered 8.7 instead of 9.7 for Canadian Sylvie Frechette, which

cost her the first place. After appealing to the IOC, her medal was

upgraded to a gold which meant that this event had 2 gold medal

winners and 1 bronze medal winner. It was the last time this event

was played.

• This event would confuse a lot of people with its name. Some

might even wonder what the judges are trying to judge due to a

very confusing and misnomer sort of name for this event.

• Identify the event.


Solo Synchronized Swimming

• One person swimming cannot

be synchronized with anything

else.

• Pedants say that the

‚synchronized‛ part was

actually with the music.

ANSWER


Name the movie and Connect these two photographs

A B

ANSWER

1956 Olympic Champions of

Water Polo - Hungary

• Karoly Takacs was a sharp shooter and an Army man. He was

considered among the best in the world. But disaster struck in 1938.

Despite the setback, he taught himself to shoot again and was

considered a favourite for the 1940 Olympics.

• He finally managed to win the gold in 1948 Olympics and repeated

the feat in 1952 to become the first man to defend a shooting gold.

• In what way was Karoly Takacs unusual among shooters?


He shot left handed – Only left-hander

to win Olympic Gold• He was the top right handed

marksman in Hungary. During a

training exercise in 1938, his right

hand was badly injured when a

grenade exploded.

• He taught himself to shoot left handed

and won gold at the Olympics.

ANSWER

• More Than Gold, a Christian outreach organisation

that seeks to enable local churches to engage with

big sporting events in host cities around the world,

hosted the inaugural Legacy Award breakfast in

honour of this athlete in 2012. The Award honours

one male and one female Olympian who display

outstanding character at home, in their community

and on the field of competition.

• The male recipient of the award was the 2008

Olympic decathlon gold medallist from the USA,

Bryan Clay. The female athlete honoured at this

inaugural event was British rower and double

Olympic silver medallist, Debbie Flood.

• Who is the athlete after whom the award is named

after? (His memorial can be seen in the pic)


ANSWER

Eric Liddell


IDENTIFY THIS ‘REBELLIOUS’ OLYMPIAN

ANSWER

• Notorious for stealing the flag

by climbing the pole at the

Emperor’s Imperial palace

during 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

DAWN FRASER

• Like his more illustrious father, Ranjeet was a hurdler of high promise

and clocked 13.49s in an All-Comers athletic meet at Santa Barbara on

June 27, 1996. Since the timing was wind-assisted it has been credited as

a national record.

• With this Ranjeet effectively became the first person to break his father’s

long standing record. Ranjeet though left athletics to pursue a masters in

computer science and international relations. He is today a successful

businessman.

• Who is Ranjeet’s father?


Gurbachan Singh Randhawa

• Gurbachan Singh set the

national record for the 110m

hurdles in the 1964 Olympic

final. It remained an official

record till 2001 when it was

broken by Gurpreet Singh.

• Only recently did an Indian

breach the 14 second mark in

the 110m hurdles.

ANSWER


• This is a final table of a

sport which made its debut

at the 1912 Olympics.

• Name this US athlete whose

name has been blanked out

and which sport is this?

ANSWER

• Modern Pentathlon (pistol

shooting, fencing, 200 m freestyle

swimming, show jumping, and a

3 km cross-country run).

• George S Patton was famous as a

General for United States Army at

WW II. The movie 1970 ‘Patton’

is based on him.

Modern Pentathlon & George S Patton


• This gentleman on the right had taken up a herculean task of setting up this place as a Olympic venue. He managed it in such a way that, the event is remembered to be one of the most innovative Olympics to this date.

• Name him and which edition of Olympics am I talking about?

ANSWER

• Walt Disney

• 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics.

QUESTION # 39 – 1 point• Two of the landmark events occurred during this race.

• One was the first All-Black Athletics finals in an Olympic event.

• Name the other most significant event.

ANSWER

• Jim Hines becomes the first to

break the 10 second barrier in

the 100m race officially.

• Official reading read 9.95 s

which stood for the next 15

years. It was at the 1968 Mexico

City Olympics.

JIM HINES breaking the 10s barrier


• This is one of the controversial incidents of the recently concluded Summer Olympics. Here the referee is shown with a ‘black card’.

• Only two Olympic sports employs the use of ‘black cards’. Name the two sports.

ANSWER

BADMINTON AND FENCING


• Identify the man

encircled in green.

SPIRIDON LOUIS

• Winner of the marathon at the

1896 Olympics.

ANSWER


• She may have been the perfect athlete in her sport, she may have

become more famous than her country's most popular character and

been patronised by many including the most influential person in the

government, but the demands of her sporting schedule had repressed

her soul. She seldom smiled, never cried and as a teenager attempted

suicide by drinking bleach. On recovery, she said she was glad about

what she had done, because her time in hospital temporarily spared

her the rigours of training. In all she participated in two Olympic

Games. Who is this athlete?

ANSWER

NADIA COMANECI

• Image from a place called W-Bar in Beijing.

Who owns this place?


Jan - Ove Waldner

• Considered by many to be the

greatest Table Tennis player of

all time.

• He is the only non-Asian gold

medal winner in the table-

tennis event. He won gold in

1992.

ANSWER


What’s happening here? Connect the two photographs.

A B

ANSWER

• Jim Thorpe’s two gold medals won in 1912 is being reinstated after a gap of 67 years.

• His two gold medals were taken off in 1913 because he received money (playing in league) prior to taking part in the 1912 Olympics, thereby losing the amateur status.

• His daughter is receiving the medals.

• In the 1968 Olympics, India fielded a hockey team with 2

Gurbux Singh’s and 3 Balbir Singh’s.

• How were they differentiated by the All India Radio

Commentators? This was also used by the officials at the

Olympics while filling up the team sheets.


• ‚Balbir Services, Balbir Railways and Balbir

Punjab Police.‛ - Domestic teams.

ANSWER

• She made a much more

happy Olympic

appearance 36 years after

participating in one.

Who is the athlete in

question?


Princess Anne

• She presented her

daughter Princess Zara

Phillips with the silver

medal at this year’s

Olympics.

• Princess Anne had

finished 24th in her event

in 1976.

ANSWER


NAME THE OLYMPIAN IN THE VIDEO

ANSWER

KATARINA WITT – Winter

Olympic Champion.

• This was considered the biggest controversy of its time. He not

only bribed his way to ensure that the Olympics were postponed

by 2 years, but also bribed his way to Olympic Laurels.

• He competed in an Olympics but did not finish the race. He was

still proclaimed the winner on the grounds that he would have

won had he been able to complete the race.

• He died the following year, and his name was expunged from the

victor list.

• Who is this mahapurusha?


Nero, the Roman Emperor

• He participated in the games in

67AD. Died in 68AD.

• He participated in the 10 horse

chariot race in 67AD which nearly

killed him.

ANSWER


• Born in a Nazi occupied country, he chose ‘surgery’ as his

profession. Apart from being a 3-time Olympic veteran in sailing, he

was crowned as the national champion sixteen times. He has also

represented his country’s Rugby Union team. Who is this

Olympian?

ANSWER

• Jacques Rogge –

the current IOC

President.

• He participated in

the 1968, 1972 and

1976 Olympics.

QUESTION # 50 - STAGE II

• Connect questions 9, 18, 27, 36 and 45

• 1 point with just the Stage II.

• 2 points with two correct answers and Stage II.

• 3 points with three correct answers and Stage II.

• 4 points with four correct answers and Stage II.

• 5 points with five correct answers and Stage II.

Indian Flag bearers at the Opening

Ceremony• Zafar Iqbal – 1984 Olympics

• Anju Bobby George – 2004 Olympics

• Pargat Singh – 1992 Olympics

• Gurbachan Singh Randhawa – 1964

Olympics

• Balbir Singh Sr – 1952 & 1956

Olympics

ANSWER

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OLYMPICS QUIZ 2012