Winter Olympics Trivia
200 Trivia Questions & Answers
Which country hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics?
Italy Click to see the answer
How many Winter Olympic medals has Ole Einar Bjorndalen won?
13
Which country hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics?
France
Which country hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics?
United States
Which town hosted the 1948 Winter Olympics?
St. Moritz
How many Winter Olympic medals has Sven Fischer won?
8
Who opened the 1932 Winter Olympics?
Franklin D. Roosevelt Click to see the answer
How many Winter Olympic medals has Sixten Jernberg won?
9
How many Winter Olympic medals has Karin Enke won?
8
How many Winter Olympic medals has Uschi Disl won?
9
Which country hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Russia
Which city hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Innsbruck
Which US state is Winter Olympics star Casey Fitz Randolph from?
Wisconsin
Which country hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Norway
Which country hosted the 1924 Winter Olympics?
France
Which city hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Calgary Click to see the answer
Which city hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics?
Nagano
Which city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Salt Lake City
In what year did the Jamaican bobsled team first compete at the Winter Olympics?
1988
Which city hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics?
Sarajevo
Which country hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Canada
Which figure skater was stripped of her 1964 Winter Olympic medals?
Marika Kilius
Which country hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics?
Italy
Who is the oldest man to receive a Winter Olympics medal?
Anders Haugen
Which cross-country skier was stripped of his 2002 Winter Olympic medals?
Johann Muehlegg
Which politician boycotted the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Joachim Gauck
Which town hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Lillehammer
Which country will host the 2018 Winter Olympics?
Japan Click to see the answer
Which village hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics?
Lake Placid
The Winter Olympics are held every how many years?
4 years
Where has been elected host of the 2018 Winter Olympics?
Pyeongchang
In what year did ice hockey make its Olympic debut?
1920
Which film is based on the Jamaican Winter Olympic bobsled team?
Cool Runnings
Which figure skater was stripped of his 1964 Winter Olympic medals?
Hans-Jurgen Baumler
How old was Anders Haugen when he received his Winter Olympics medal?
83
The dormitory site for which Winter Olympics was turned into a prison?
1980
How many Winter Olympic medals has Apolo Anton Ohno won?
8
Which town hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics?
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Which country hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics?
United States
How many Winter Olympic medals has Raisa Smetanina won?
10
Which US state is Winter Olympics star Dan Jansen from?
Wisconsin
Which city hosted the 1976 Winter Olympics?
Innsbruck
In 2002, who became the first third generation Winter Olympian?
Jimmy Shea Click to see the answer
Who opened the 1928 Winter Olympics?
Edmund Schulthess
How many Winter Olympic medals has Stefania Belmondo won?
10
How many Winter Olympic medals has Ireen Wust won?
8
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, who was the first skater in history to successfully land a quad-triple-triple jump combination in competition?
Evgeni Plushenko
How many Winter Olympics sports are contested indoors?
4
How many Winter Olympic medals has Bjorn Daehlie won?
12
Which country hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics?
Switzerland
Which country hosted the 1998 Winter Olympics?
Japan
Which village hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics?
Lake Placid
How many Winter Olympic medals has Ricco Gross won?
8
Which US state is Winter Olympics star Chris Witty from?
Wisconsin
Which country hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Austria
Which athlete was stripped of her 2006 silver medal due to a positive drugs test?
Olga Medvedtseva
Which US state is Winter Olympics star Eric Heiden from?
Wisconsin
Which town hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics?
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Which was the first Winter Olympics to be televised?
1956
How many Winter Olympic medals has Kjetil Andre Aamodt won?
8
How many Winter Olympic medals has Lyubov Yegorova won?
9
Which alpine skier was stripped of his 2002 Winter Olympic medal?
Alain Baxter
Which ski resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics?
Squaw Valley
Which country hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics?
France
Which professional skier was ejected from the 1972 Winter Olympics?
Karl Schranz
How many Winter Olympic medals has Marit Bjorgen won?
10
Which country hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics?
United States
Which city hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics?
Turin
Which town hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics?
Albertville
Which country hosted the 1936 Winter Olympics?
Germany
Which country has hosted the most Winter Olympic games?
United States Click to see the answer
Which country has the most Winter Olympic medals?
Norway
Which ice dancer competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics aged 11 years, 256 days?
Liu Luyang
Which of these cross-country skiers was stripped of her 2002 Winter Olympic medals?
Larisa Lazutina
Who opened the 1956 Winter Olympics?
Giovanni Gronchi
How old was figure skater Beatrice Hustiu when she competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
11
Which city hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Vancouver Click to see the answer
When was man-made snow first used in the Winter Olympics?
1980
Which speedskater was disqualified for cross-tracking at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Kim Dong-sung
Who was the victor in the 'greatest controversy in the history of the Winter Olympics'?
Jean-Claude Killy
How many times has United States hosted the Winter Olympics?
4
Who opened the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Adolf Scharf
Who won the first skeleton Winter Olympic gold medal in 1928?
Jennison Heaton
In which Winter Olympics was gender testing introduced?
1968
In 1994, who became the youngest ever female gold medalist in a Winter Olympics team event?
Kim Yun-mi
Which country hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics?
Norway Click to see the answer
Who opened the 1976 Winter Olympics?
Rudolf Kirchschlager
Which former football star was also a member of the 1992 US men's Olympic bobsled team?
Herschel Walker
Who won a Summer Olympic gold medal in 1920 and a Winter Olympic gold medal in 1932?
Eddie Eagan
Which country hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics?
United States
How many Winter Olympic medals has Galina Kulakova won?
8
How old was Robin Welsh when he won curling gold at the 1924 Winter Olympics?
54
How old was Marcelle Matthews when she competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics?
11
The Winter Olympic medal for first place must be gilded with at leasthow much pure gold?
6g
How many times has Canada hosted the Winter Olympics?
2
Which luger lost his life while training for the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki
Who won the men's gold in the 2002 return of the skeleton to the Winter Olympics?
Jimmy Shea
How many times has the Winter Olympics been held in North America?
6 Click to see the answer
Which country hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics?
Yugoslavia
Who won a Summer Olympic gold medal in 1988 and a Winter Olympic silver medal in 1988?
Christa Luding
Which ice hockey player was stripped of his 2014 Winter Olympic medals?
Nicklas Backstrom
Which was the first Winter Olympics held by the sea?
2010
In what year were the Winter Olympic medals first presented after each competition?
1932
As of 2014, how many Winter Olympic games have there been?
22
Which country hosted the 1948 Winter Olympics?
Switzerland
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, who became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track and long track speed skating?
Haralds Silovs
In what year was the first Winter Olympics to be held in a different country from the Summer Olympics?
1928
How many countries in the Southern Hemisphere have hosted the Winter Olympics?
0
What year's Winter Olympic torch was the first to go into space?
2014
Which town hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Grenoble
In 2002, who became the oldest female Winter Olympic medalist?
Cheryl Noble
In 1992, who made history by becoming the youngest male Winter Olympic champion?
Toni Nieminen
How many times has Italy hosted the Winter Olympics?
2 Click to see the answer
Who opened the 1968 Winter Olympics?
Charles de Gaulle
How many times has Japan hosted the Winter Olympics?
2
Who opened the 1936 Winter Olympics?
Adolf Hitler
In 2006, who became the first African-American athlete to win Winter Olympic gold in an individual event?
Shani Davis
The Winter Olympics is held predominantly in which month?
February
At the 1964 Winter Olympics, which female athlete won 4 gold medals?
Lidiya Skoblikova
Who was the first athlete to medal in the same event in five straight Winter Olympics games?
Georg Hackl
How many times has Austria hosted the Winter Olympics?
2
Who opened the 1972 Winter Olympics?
Emperor Hirohito
How many Winter Olympic medals has Claudia Pechstein won?
9
Which country hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Canada
At the 1928 Winter Olympics, who made history when she won the figure skating competition at the age of 15?
Sonja Henie
In 1972, who won a Winter Olympic gold medal at aged 35?
Magnar Solberg
Which country hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics?
Japan
Who won a Summer Olympic gold medal in 1924 and a Winter Olympic silver medal in 1936?
Jacob Tullin Thams
Which of the following is a real figure skating move named after a former Olympic gold medal winner?
Hamill Camel
How many Winter Olympic medals has Gunda Niemann won?
8
Which Winter Olympic skier was criticized by her government for a sexy photo shoot?
Jackie Chamoun
The diameter of a Winter Olympic medal must be at least what?
70mm
Which country won the most medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Russia
Who won the United States' first Winter Olympic medal in the Nordic combined event?
Johnny Spillane
In what year were computers first used to tabulate Winter Olympics results?
1960
Who won a Summer Olympic bronze medal in 1996 and a Winter Olympic bronze medal in 2002?
Clara Hughes
Which skier lost his life while training for the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Ross Milne
Which speed-skater died at the 1992 Winter Olympics after colliding with a snow grooming vehicle?
Nicolas Bochatay
Who was disqualified from the 1998 Winter Olympics for marijuana use?
Ross Rebagliati
Which country hosted the 1976 Winter Olympics?
Austria
Which town hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Sochi
Who opened the 1948 Winter Olympics?
Enrico Celio
Who opened the 1960 Winter Olympics?
Richard Nixon
Who opened the 1980 Winter Olympics?
Walter Mondale
How many Winter Olympic medals has Viktor Ahn won?
8
In 1998, who became the youngest ever female gold medalist in a Winter Olympics individual event?
Tara Lipinski
In what year was the first time the Winter Olympics speed skating events were held indoors?
1988
Which city hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics?
Oslo
In 2006, who won a Winter Olympic gold medal at aged 39?
Duff Gibson Click to see the answer
Who won a bronze medal in figure skating at the 1908 Olympics aged 44?
Geoffrey Hall-Say
Who opened the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Jeanne Sauve
The oldest male medalist in an individual event at the Winter is who?
Martin Stixrud
Who was the first black athlete to win a Winter Olympic medal?
Debi Thomas
Who was the first person to win a medal in the same event in Summer and Winter Olympics?
Gillis Grafstrom
How many times has United Kingdom hosted the Winter Olympics?
0 Click to see the answer
In what year was the first Winter Olympics hosted in a national capital city?
1952
How old was Matias Stinnes when entered in the luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
57
In 2014, which of these shared first place in the women's downhill event in alpine skiing?
Dominique Gisin
Who was the first black athlete to earn a Winter Olympics gold?
Vonetta Flowers
Which was the first Winter Olympics host city to hold the opening and closing ceremonies indoors?
Vancouver
Who was 11 years, 73 days old when she competed in ladies singles figure skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics?
Cecilia Colledge
Which was the first Winter Olympics to have a mascot?
1968
Austrian team doctor Jorg Oberhammer died in a ski collision during the which Winter Olympics?
1988
Who is the oldest ever participant at the Winter Olympics?
Carl August Kronlund Click to see the answer
Who opened the 1992 Winter Olympics?
Francois Mitterrand
In 2014, who became the second oldest Winter Olympian ever?
Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Who won bronze in the figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics, aged 14?
Scott Allen
Which was the first city to host the Winter Olympics twice?
St. Moritz
The thickness of a Winter Olympic medal must be at least what?
3mm
How many times has Switzerland hosted the Winter Olympics?
2
In what event did Kim Yun-mi win a Winter Olympic gold?
Speed skating
Who opened the 2006 Winter Olympics?
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Who was the first black male Winter Olympics gold medal winner?
Jarome Iginia
Who was the youngest ever male competitor at the Winter Olympics?
Alain Giletti
Who opened the 1994 Winter Olympics?
Harald V
Who won gold in the team event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi aged 15?
Yulia Lipnitskaya Click to see the answer
Which was the first Winter Olympics to have events held before the opening ceremony?
2014
Who opened the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Vladimir Putin
How many times has the Winter Olympics been held in continent
3
How many times has France hosted the Winter Olympics?
3
Who won gold in the luge at the 2006 Winter Olympics, aged 36?
Sylke Otto
Who was the last American to win an alpine skiing gold medal?
Picabo Street
Winter Olympic lugers often reach maximom speeds of approximately what?
90 mph
Which was the first country to host the Winter Olympics twice?
Switzerland
Who died in a training run crash just prior to the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Nodar Kumaritashvili
Who opened the 1998 Winter Olympics?
Emperor Akihito
Which was the first Winter Olympics to be held in a socialist country?
1984
Who won gold in the luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics, aged 36?
Steffi Martin
In 2014, who became the oldest ever individual male gold medalist at the Winter Olympics?
Ole Einar Bjorndalen
How old was Tom Doe when he won a silver medal in bobsled at the 1928 Winter Olympics?
15
Who was the first ice hockey player to win an Olympic gold medal and a Stanley Cup in the same year?
Ken Morrow
Which town hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics?
Sapporo
Who opened the 2002 Winter Olympics?
George W. Bush
Who opened the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Michaëlle Jean
How many times has the Winter Olympics been held in Europe?
14
Who was the first person to win five individual gold medals in one Winter Olympic Games?
Eric Heiden
Who won gold in the 4 x 5km cross-country relay, at the 1992 Games, aged 39?
Raisa Smetanina
Who opened the 1984 Winter Olympics?
Mika Spiljak
Who was the first Winter Olympic female gold medalist?
Herma Szabo
How many times has Norway hosted the Winter Olympics?
2
