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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
A luxury apartment complex. Highbury Square kept the listed Art Deco East and West Stands as flats and turned the old pitch into gardens.
Q 02What did the site of the Richfield Coliseum, the Cavaliers' old arena between Cleveland and Akron, become?
- 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
A meadow in a national park. The arena was torn down and its lots returned to grassland in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which now draws bobolinks and eastern meadowlarks.
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
A mega-church worship center. Lakewood Church moved into the former Compaq Center, the Rockets' old home, and later bought the arena outright from the city.
Q 04After the 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
A public indoor water park. The 2010 revamp added seven-storey slides and a wave machine beside the Olympic pools, and in 2022 the building hosted curling as the 'Ice Cube'.
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'
A Bass Pro Shops 'superstore'. The 32-storey former arena now holds a megastore with archery ranges, a hotel and an observation deck at its apex.
Q 06Montreal's Olympic velodrome was reopened 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
An indoor museum of living ecosystems. The Biodome lets visitors walk through five recreated ecosystems of the Americas under the roof that once covered track cycling and judo.
Q 07What unexpected role did Athens' Galatsi Olympic Hall 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
A refugee camp. The hall that staged table tennis and rhythmic gymnastics at the 2004 Games became a temporary shelter for migrants in autumn 2015.
Q 08What does Helsinki's Tennispalatsi, built for an Olympics that was later cancelled, 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
A multiplex cinema and art museum. Built for the cancelled 1940 Games, it hosted basketball at the 1952 Olympics and now holds a Finnkino multiplex and the Helsinki Art Museum.
Q 09As of 2019, what was planned for the site of San Francisco's demolished Candlestick Park?
- 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
Office space redevelopment. Developers shelved a planned outlet mall in favour of offices on 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
- BParis
- CArles
- DOrange
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Arles
Arles. The houses were expropriated from 1826, and the first show in the emptied arena, in 1830, was a bull race celebrating the capture of Algiers.
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