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Some more imp MCQS For olympic games
When ancient Olympic games first held?
(a) 776 BC
(b) 780 BC
(c) 790 BC
(d) 800 BC
Answer – (a)
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Who is the founder of ancient Olympic Games?
(a) Zues
(b) Coroebus
(c) Apollo
(d) Hercales
Answer – (d)
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Where were the first Olympic games held?
(a) Athens
(b) Antwerp
(c) Olympia
(d) Barcelona
Answer – (c)
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Who was the founder of the Modern Olympics?
(a) Phidias
(b) Alexander
(c) Pierre de Coubertin
(d) L. Aemilius Cato
Answer – (c)
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The Ancient Olympic Games were made a part of the religious festival in the honour of which mythological deity?
(a) Heracles
(b) Eros
(c) Zues
(d) Perseus
Answer – (c)
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In which year was the Olympic flag raised for the first time?
(a) 1916
(b) 1920
(c) 1924
(d) 1932
Answer – (b)
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Which of the following was placed on the head of a winner of the ancient Greek Olympics?
(a) An olive branch wreath
(b) Gold medal
(c) Silver medal
(d) Bronze medal
Answer – (a)
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When and where did the first olympic torch relay take place?
(a) 1940, Munich
(b) 1932, Stockholm
(c) 1944, Finland
(d) 1936, Berlin
Answer – (d)
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What is the meaning of the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius?
(a) Faster, Higher, Stronger
(b) Braver, Faster, Higher
(c) Higher, Stronger, Faster
(d) Stronger, Braver, Faster
Answer – (a)
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Which ceremony marks the end of the Olympic games?
(a) Lighting Fireworks
(b) Extinguishing the Olympic flame
(c) Releasing pigeons into the sky
(d) Playing musical bands
Answer – (b)
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In which year were women allowed to participate in the Olympic games?
(a) 1908
(b) 1912
(c) 1900
(d) 1924
Answer – (c)
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In which year were the Olympics games shown on television for the first time?
(a) 1948
(b) 1952
(c) 1956
(d) 1936
Answer – (d)
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Name the American who was forced to return the gold medal he won at the 1972 Olympics?
(a) Ben Jonhson
(b) Jim Thorpe
(c) Rick DeMont
(d) David Bolen
Answer – (c)
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In which year were the formal drug tests introduced in the Olympic Games?
(a) 1956
(b) 1960
(c) 1968
(d) 1972
Answer – (c)
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The first athlete failed in a gender test.
(a) Santhi Soundarajan
(b) Ewa Kłobukowska
(c) Jim Thorpe
(d) Hermann Ratjen
Answer – (b)
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The Olympic flame was first lit during which year of the modern era?
(a) 1928
(b) 1924
(c) 1932
(d) 1936
Answer – (a)
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Where is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, the IOC?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) Lausanne
(c) London
(d) Sydney
Answer – (b)
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In which year of the Modern Olympics were the Winter Games added?
(a) 1936
(b) 1920
(c) 1916
(d) 1924
Answer – (d)
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In which of the following three years were the Olympic Games not held?
(a) 1912, 1936 and 1940
(b) 1936, 1940 and 1944
(c) 1916, 1936 and 1940
(d) 1916, 1940 and 1944
Answer -(b)
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In which year was the modern Marathon’standardised’ to a length of 42,195 metres