This week’s Tuesday Trivia topic is the Summer Olympics.
The answers are below.
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Questions
1: In what city were the first modern-day Olympic Games held in 1896?
2: What year were women first permitted to compete in the Olympic Games?
3: What was the first U.S. city to host the Olympics?
4: Who is the oldest female athlete to win an Olympic gold medal?
5: An Olympic sport through 1920, what game involves two teams pulling on a rope in a test of strength?
6: Who is the youngest female athlete to win an individual Olympic medal?
7: Which Olympic Games were the first to be televised?
8: At the age of 14, this Romanian gymnast scored seven perfect 10.0 at the 1976 Olympic Games.
9: Known as "America's sweetheart," this Olympic gymnast took home five medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games.
10: With 28 medals, who is the most decorated Olympian of all time?
Answers
1: Athens, Greece.
2: 1900.
3: St. Louis, Missouri in 1904.
4: Eliza Pollock of the U.S. picked up a gold for archery in 1904 at the age of 63.
5: Tug-of-war.
6: Denmark's Inge Sorensen won for the breaststroke in 1936 at the age of 12.
7: Berlin in 1936.
8: Nadia Comaneci.
9: Mary Lou Retton.
10: Michael Phelps.