Lindsey Vonn
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50 free Lindsey Vonn trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Lindsey Vonn is one of the most decorated ski racers in history: an Olympic downhill champion, a four-time overall World Cup winner and, for years, the woman with more World Cup victories than any other. Her career is also a story of crashes, surgeries and comebacks, including a return to the top of the sport in her forties. This quiz collects fun facts about Lindsey Vonn from both sides of the finish line. You will meet the races and records that made her name, the rivals and mentors who shaped her, and the stranger moments: unusual prizes, odd injuries, television cameos and business ventures. It is written for ski fans, Olympic watchers and anyone curious about the person behind the helmet. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing more than when you started.
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Q 01Before her 2010 Olympic gold, Lindsey Vonn treated a badly bruised shin by wrapping it in which food?
Cheese
Cheese was the surprise remedy: Vonn applied a soft curd called topfen to draw out the swelling. A week after revealing it she was Olympic champion.
Q 02After a 2005 downhill win in Val d'Isère, France, Lindsey Vonn chose to keep which unusual prize?
A cow
A cow named Olympe was the prize, and Vonn boarded her with an Austrian farmer. By 2014 she owned a small herd.
Q 03Which Masters champion did Lindsey Vonn date from March 2013 to May 2015?
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods and Vonn were together for just over two years, a stretch in which injury kept her out of the Sochi Olympics.
Q 04Lindsey Vonn became the first American woman to win Olympic downhill gold at which Canadian city's Games?
Vancouver
Vancouver staged the 2010 Games, with the ski races at Whistler. Warm weather delayed the downhill, giving Vonn's injured shin extra days to heal.
Q 05At the 2009 World Championships, Lindsey Vonn needed thumb surgery after a mishap with which object?
A champagne bottle
A champagne bottle sliced her thumb during a photo opportunity after her downhill gold. She said she would probably never open one again.
Q 06Lindsey Vonn's younger siblings include her sister Karin and which kind of multiple-birth set?
Triplets
Triplets Dylan, Laura and Reed complete the family, making Vonn the eldest of five. The whole family eventually relocated for her ski career.
Q 07Lindsey Vonn's women's record of 82 World Cup wins was broken in January 2023 by which fellow American?
Mikaela Shiffrin
Mikaela Shiffrin passed Vonn's 82 wins and then the all-time mark of 86. Vonn's total had stood as the women's record since her 2019 retirement.
Q 08Lindsey Vonn played a teachers' union assistant in the 2010 finale of which long-running New York crime drama?
Law & Order
Law & Order was Vonn's favourite show, and she had lobbied for years to appear in it. Creator Dick Wolf invited her after her Olympic medals.
Q 09In 2012 skiing's governing body rejected Lindsey Vonn's request to do what at a World Cup downhill in Canada?
Race against the men
Vonn asked to race against the men on a course she had dominated, but the federation ruled that one gender cannot enter the other's races.
Q 10Lindsey Vonn co-directed a 2022 documentary about which childhood hero, the 1998 Olympic super-G champion?
Picabo Street
Picabo Street met Vonn when the future champion was nine and later became her mentor. The film, made with Frank Marshall, is simply titled Picabo.
Q 11Thomas Vonn, a fellow 2002 Olympian who coached Lindsey Vonn to her 2010 gold, was then her what?
Husband
Husband Thomas Vonn gave her the surname she kept after their divorce was finalised in 2013. The two ski racers had married in Utah in 2007.
Q 12Lindsey Vonn, raised in Minnesota and Colorado, speaks which second language fluently?
German
German is part of Vonn's family tree as well as her vocabulary: her mother had German as well as Norwegian ancestry.
Q 13Lindsey Vonn's family moved from Minnesota in the late 1990s so she could train at which Colorado resort town?
Vail
Vail became home, and after her Olympic gold the resort renamed its International run Lindsey's in her honour.
Q 21Sidelined by injury, Lindsey Vonn covered the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a correspondent for which network?
NBC
NBC News put Vonn on air for the Games she had hoped to race in; she had pulled out only a month before the opening ceremony.
Q 22Lindsey Vonn grew up in suburban Burnsville but was born in which Minnesota city in October 1984?
Saint Paul
Saint Paul was her birthplace; her father, a former national junior champion, had her racing close to home from an early age.
Q 23Under which maiden name did Lindsey Vonn make her Olympic debut and win her first World Cup race?
Kildow
Kildow was the name on the results sheet until her 2007 wedding; she has raced as Vonn ever since, even after her divorce.
Q 14Lindsey Vonn raced the 2018 Olympics with the initials of her late grandfather, a veteran of which conflict?
Korean War
The Korean War had taken him to the host country decades earlier, and Vonn later scattered some of his ashes near the Olympic course.
Q 15Lindsey Vonn won the slalom at Italy's Trofeo Topolino, a junior race named after which Disney character?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse is Topolino in Italian. In 1999 Vonn became the first American girl to win the slalom at the prestigious international junior event.
Q 16Which operation in April 2024 ended Lindsey Vonn's chronic pain and cleared the way for her racing comeback?
A knee replacement
A knee replacement using titanium parts, done with robotic assistance, stopped the pain that had ended her career. A month later she was planning her return.
Q 17Where were the Winter Games at which Lindsey Vonn made her Olympic debut on home snow aged 17?
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City 2002 saw the teenager race two events under her maiden name, with sixth place in the combined her best result.
Q 18Which NHL defenseman, already her fiancé, did Lindsey Vonn propose to on Christmas Day 2019?
P. K. Subban
P. K. Subban and Vonn were engaged for over a year before announcing their split in December 2020, saying they remained friends.
Q 19At which Canadian resort did Lindsey Vonn win 18 World Cup races, including her very first in December 2004?
Lake Louise
Lake Louise in Alberta suited her so well that fans playfully renamed it Lake Lindsey. She swept all three races of a weekend there three times.
Q 20Lindsey Vonn retired in 2019 four wins short of which slalom great's then-record 86 World Cup victories?
Ingemar Stenmark
Ingemar Stenmark granted Vonn's farewell wish by presenting her with flowers after the last race before her 2019 retirement.
Q 24Which longtime American rival from Lake Tahoe took silver behind Lindsey Vonn in the 2010 Olympic downhill?
Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso finished 0.56 seconds back for an American one-two, then added a second silver in the super combined.
Q 25By 2016 Lindsey Vonn had won 20 of which trophy, awarded to skiing's World Cup season champions?
A crystal globe
A crystal globe goes to each overall and discipline champion; the big one for the overall title weighs nine kilograms. Vonn's 20 passed the old record of 19.
Q 26Lindsey Vonn has invested in Angel City FC and the Utah Royals, clubs that play in which women's league?
NWSL
NWSL side Angel City, based in Los Angeles, announced Vonn among its star-studded ownership group in 2020, two years before its first season.
Q 27Lindsey Vonn, who finished high school online, later took a four-day business course at which university?
Harvard
Harvard Business School runs the short programme on the business of entertainment, media and sports; Vonn never attended a traditional four-year college.
Q 28Which network released the 2019 documentary Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, about her farewell campaign?
HBO
HBO followed Vonn through her injury-hit 2019 season; the film earned two Sports Emmy nominations and led on to her memoir.
Q 29Lindsey Vonn's 2008 overall title completed a US World Cup sweep with which men's champion from New Hampshire?
Bode Miller
Bode Miller and Vonn gave the United States both overall titles in the same season for the first time in 25 years.
Q 30Lindsey Vonn learned to race under coach Erich Sailer at which tiny suburban Minnesota ski area?
Buck Hill
Buck Hill in Burnsville drops just 310 feet and shares its summit with a water tower, yet Sailer's programme also produced slalom racer Kristina Koznick.