If you are heading to a trivia night around the time of the Olympic Games there is a good chance there will be questions about the Olympics. Here are some questions that I think would be suitable for a challenging Olympic Games quiz night. The answers are not here, that would make it too easy. The answers are mostly found throughout this site or require a bit more research.

  • Name two Olympic events that require an athlete to vault?
  • Name the only sport that still requires participants to have amateur status to participate in the Olympic Games.
  • What contests make up the heptathlon (or decathlon or modern pentathlon)?
  • Which is the only sport created specifically for the modern Olympic Games.
  • What are the five colors of the rings on the Olympic flag?
  • What is the meaning of the Olympic Games motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius'?
  • Name five Olympic sports in which the participants compete while sitting.
  • At one Olympic Games the track distances were measured in yards - which year?
  • What is interesting about the names of the host cities for the Olympics from 1968-1980.
  • Name the only nation to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Games.
  • What summer Olympic event was discontinued in the early 1900's because too many people thought it was cruel?
  • Name three Olympic events in which the athletes primarily travel backwards.olympic thrower
  • At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Gold medals were not awarded - what was awarded to the winners?
  • Name five ancient Olympic sports or events that are still in today's modern Olympics?
  • What did the athletes competing at the Ancient Olympics wear?
  • Over what distance are the mens athletics High Hurdles? And the women?
  • At the opening ceremony, which country always marches out first, and which country always marches last?
  • Pheidippides is said to have run from the city of Marathon to where?
  • What is the most populous country to never win an Olympic medal?
  • What is the distance of the modern Olympic marathon race?
  • Which two cities have has hosted the summer Olympics three times, and in what years?
  • Which country had their name mispronounced by officials in all three languages - French, English and Greek - during the opening ceremony in 2004.
  • When was the first Olympic Games to be held in Asia?
  • How many times have the Olympic games been canceled due to war? What years?
  • In which Olympic sport will you find a "rear naked choke"
  • In which two Olympic sports do men and women compete equally against each other.
  • Which country has won the lowest number of Olympic medals per capita.