olympics Trivia Quiz # 20

Hawkeye’s team won at the last moment when Donald Penobscot ran into netting giving victory the other side.

He was cut from the 1960 team. He played for the 1964 and 1968 teams.

In individual Olympic events, the award for first place is a gold (silver gilt, with six grams of fine gold) medal, and obviously silver for second and bronze for third.

She also won the gold at Sydney.

Phillippe won two bronzes for France in 1994 and 1998.

Spiridon Louis was the only Greek athlete to win a gold medal in the track and field events of the first Modern Games.

The others were not in the top five. Germany won 35 medals, including 12 Gold, 16 Silver, and 7 Bronze. They outdid the United States by 1 medal.

Fill in the blank questions are a tough question to provide to the quiz players in the proper and a standardized format. There are many issues with a FITB answer. First of all, they are not case-sensitive. This means that an author does not have display, "Mark Spitz & mark spitz". For the author to require the answer of, "Mark Spitz or Spitz", requires the quiz player to type exactly that in their answer, which is not the proper format. When seeking a FITB answer with the option of Mark Spitz, using the name of the person, "Mark Spitz & Spitz" would be the correct option for the author to use. And in this case, the author should have provided in their hint (located below the answer options), "Two words or just surname". If the author chooses to provide an additional hint after the 'Two words or just surname', this is fine also. The 'hint' is used only for the FITB type question. This example is also used for an author seeking a team name. For example, "Vancouver Canucks & Canucks" would be a viable answer. However, "Detroit Red Wings" would not be allowed because FITB answers may not contain more than two words. Also, no punctuation of any kind is allowed in a FITB answer. Another issue with FITB questions is that an author should not use an answer which has an almost impossible name to spell. If the answer to an author's question is baseball's "Mark Grudzielanek", the quiz player may know the answer but is penalized because they could not spell it correctly. This is not fair to the quizzer. If you cannot avoid these issues, then change your question to a true-false or multiple choice question.

The Olympic torch was inspired by the myth of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. The idea of a torch relay was broached by Carl Deim and first used in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.