Stadiums That Became Something Else
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Stadiums That Became Something Else — Daily trivia Thursday, April 30, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01What did Arsenal's Highbury Stadium largely become after the club moved to the Emirates?
- AA shopping mall
- BA luxury apartment complex
- CA public park and museum
- DAn indoor sports arena
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A luxury apartment complex
Highbury Square kept the two listed Art Deco stands as apartment blocks and turned the pitch into a communal garden, with a gym and swimming pool underneath it. It has around 650 flats.
Q 02The Richfield Coliseum, the Cleveland Cavaliers' home between Cleveland and Akron until 1994, was demolished in 1999 and its site became what?
- AA shopping outlet mall
- BAn Amazon fulfilment warehouse
- CA community college campus
- DA meadow in a national park
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A meadow in a national park
The National Park Service bought the vacant arena, tore it down and let the footprint and parking lots return to grassland inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Two years later there was no visible trace of the building, and the meadow is now popular with birders.
Q 03Houston's Summit arena, former home of the Rockets, was converted into what?
- AA mega-church worship center
- BA convention center
- CA concert hall
- DA university sports complex
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A mega-church worship center
Known as The Summit and later the Compaq Center, the arena hosted four NBA Finals before Lakewood Church spent $95 million converting it, adding five storeys, and then bought the building outright from the city in 2010 for $7.5 million.
Q 04After the 2008 Olympics, Beijing's bubble-skinned National Aquatics Center was partly repurposed as what?
- AA national museum of sports
- BA luxury hotel and spa
- CA public indoor water park
- DA government administrative building
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A public indoor water park
The 2010 renovation carved out a 12,000 square metre water park with seven-storey slides and a wave machine, while keeping the Olympic pools. The building was later reconfigured as the 'Ice Cube' for curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Q 05Into what retail establishment was the Memphis Pyramid, a former basketball arena, converted?
- AAn IKEA furniture store
- BA Bass Pro Shops 'superstore'
- CA Walmart Supercenter
- DA major automotive dealership
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A Bass Pro Shops 'superstore'
The 32-storey pyramid now holds a 100-room hotel, a bowling alley, an archery range and 600,000 gallons of water features, and the tallest freestanding elevator in America carries visitors to an observation deck at the apex.
Q 06Montreal's Olympic velodrome from the 1976 Games was reopened in 1992 as what?
- AAn indoor museum of living ecosystems
- BA permanent circus arena
- CA casino and concert hall
- DA hockey practice facility
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An indoor museum of living ecosystems
The Biodome lets visitors walk through five recreated ecosystems of the Americas, from a tropical rainforest to sub-Antarctic islands, all under the roof that once covered track cycling and judo.
Q 07What unexpected role did Athens' Galatsi Olympic Hall, a 2004 venue, take on in 2015?
- AA refugee camp
- BA shopping outlet center
- CA film studio complex
- DA technology research park
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A refugee camp
The 6,200-seat hall that staged table tennis and rhythmic gymnastics in 2004 became a temporary shelter for migrants in autumn 2015, one of several Athens Olympic venues pressed into emergency use during the crisis.
Q 08What does Helsinki's Tennispalatsi, built for the cancelled 1940 Olympics, house today?
- AA performing arts theater
- BA public library and archives
- CA culinary school and restaurant complex
- DA multiplex cinema and art museum
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A multiplex cinema and art museum
The 1940 Games were cancelled by war, but Tennispalatsi did get its Olympic moment hosting basketball preliminaries in 1952. Today its four former tennis courts hold a Finnkino multiplex and the Helsinki Art Museum.
Q 09What is the planned use for the site of San Francisco's Candlestick Park, demolished in 2015?
- AA new waterfront amusement park
- BA large-scale renewable energy facility
- COffice space redevelopment
- DA historical preservation site and monument
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Office space redevelopment
An 'urban outlet' mall with housing announced in 2014 was suspended in 2018, leaving office space as the plan for the site where the Beatles played their last full concert in 1966.
Q 10After Rome fell, which French city's amphitheatre became a walled town of 200+ houses and two chapels?
- ALyon
- BNîmes
- CArles
- DOrange
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Arles
The houses stayed inside the arena until the 1820s, when they were expropriated and cleared; the first event held in the emptied arena, in 1830, was a bull race celebrating the capture of Algiers.
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