This is my attempt to capture all of the excitement of the Winter Olympics in five short trivia questions. I’m pretty confident I will succeed.
- Of the four men’s ice hockey teams in the medal rounds of the 1980 Winter Olympics, one did not earn a medal. Which one?
- What is the product of the longest interval and shortest intervals (in years) between two successive Winter Olympics?
- What city that hosted the 1972 games is also the namesake of the beer shown below?
- What sport had the results of its first Olympic appearance (in 1924) retroactively made official in 2006? Though the sport made several other Olympic appearances in the interim, it was not made an ongoing official Olympic sport until 1998.
- What Olympic figure skater, pictured below at age 13, has been involved in a low key media war with Mike Pence since the opening of the Pyeongchang games?
Answers
- Sweden
- 24 (12 x 2)
- Sapporo, Japan
- curling
- Adam Rippon
