Olympics trivia: Summer and Winter Games questions for real fans

Part of the free Ball Knowledge daily sports quiz.

Host cities, medal tables, the Dream Team, the Miracle on Ice, and the countries that have won Olympic medals in hockey, basketball and tennis. Ball Knowledge's Olympic prompts each have a long list of correct answers, and the rarer the one you give, the more it scores. Anybody can name the United States. Naming the country that won a single surprise medal is what earns a Certified Scout.

How to play the Olympic questions

Olympic prompts appear in the Daily Mix, seven prompts a day across every sport, with 25 seconds each and unlimited guesses.
Online, choose Olympics as the category in a Shot Clock room and play only Olympic questions with 2 to 8 friends.
Answers score 20 to 100 points depending on how rare they are among real players.

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Questions you might see

There are 26 Olympic prompts in the game. A sample, with the answers left for you to find:

Summer and Winter Games

Name a country that won 9 or more gold medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Name a country that won 5 or more gold medals at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
Name a city that has hosted (or co-hosted) the Winter Olympics, through 2026.
Name a sport on the Paris 2024 Olympic program.

Basketball

Name a player on the 2008 USA Olympic men's basketball team (the "Redeem Team").
Name a player on the 2016 USA Olympic men's basketball team.
Name a player on the 2024 USA Olympic men's basketball team.
Name a country that has won a medal in Olympic men's basketball, through 2024.

Hockey

Name a country that has won a medal in Olympic men's ice hockey, through 2026.
Name a player on the 1980 US Olympic men's hockey team (the "Miracle on Ice").
Name a country or team that has won Olympic gold in men's ice hockey.

Soccer

Name a country that has won Olympic gold in men's football (soccer), through 2024.

Golf

Name a golfer who won an Olympic medal, 2016 through 2024.

Tennis

Name a man who won Olympic singles gold in tennis from 1988 through 2024.
Name a woman who won Olympic singles gold in tennis from 1988 through 2024.
Name a tennis player who won an Olympic singles medal from 2008 through 2024.

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