QUESTIONS
1 Who founded the modern Olympic Games?
2 Name the other two years that Paris hosted the games?
3 Who or what are The Phryges at the current games?
4 Which Paris landmark was built for the World’s Fair of 1889?
5 What is an English translation of the Latin motto of the Olympic Games – Citius, Altius, Fortius?
6 What is the Pere Lachaise in Paris?
7 True or false – Tug Of War was an Olympic sport?
8 Which iconic singer performed at the Eiffel Tower during a very wet opening ceremony?
9 Kyogle’s Athol McQueen represented Australia in the Olympics in what sport?
10 Coraki-raised Warren “Buster” Birmingham represented Australia in the Olympics in what sport?
ANSWERS
1 Pierre de Coubertin.
2 1900 and 1924.
3 The official mascots of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
4 The Eiffel Tower.
5 Faster, Higher, Stronger.
6 A cemetery.
7 True – five times between 1900 and 1920.
8 Celine Dion.
9 Boxing at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.
10 Hockey – he and his team won a silver medal at his second Olympics in Barcelona in 1992. He described Coraki as a total hockey town.
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