Q 01/05

Which city's Summer Games staged figure skating's Olympic debut, 16 years before any Winter Games?

A) Paris

B) London

C) Stockholm

D) Antwerp

Answer · why

B) London

London held the events in late October 1908 at the Prince's Skating Club in Knightsbridge, three months after the main stadium events had finished in ...

Q 02/05

Which two-time Olympic champion's fans showered the ice with Winnie-the-Pooh toys after every skate?

A) Yuzuru Hanyu

B) Shoma Uno

C) Patrick Chan

D) Javier Fernández

Answer · why

A) Yuzuru Hanyu

Yuzuru Hanyu began carrying a Winnie-the-Pooh tissue box to competitions in 2010, and his supporters made the bear their gift of choice. He was the fi...

Q 03/05

Which British ice dancers got a 6.0 from every judge for artistic impression with a 1984 Boléro?

A) Barber and Slater

B) Towler and Ford

C) Torvill and Dean

D) Coomes and Buckland

Answer · why

C) Torvill and Dean

Torvill and Dean kept their blades off the ice for the first 18 seconds, because their music ran over the limit and the clock only started when a skat...

Q 04/05

Which jump, the oldest and hardest in figure skating, is the only one with a forward takeoff?

A) Salchow

B) Loop

C) Flip

D) Axel

Answer · why

D) Axel

Axel jumps gain an extra half turn from that takeoff, so a triple is really three and a half revolutions. Its Norwegian inventor first landed one in 1...

Q 05/05

Which American won 1994 Olympic silver weeks after an attacker hit her leg with a baton in Detroit?

A) Nancy Kerrigan

B) Nicole Bobek

C) Tonia Kwiatkowski

D) Elaine Zayak

Answer · why

A) Nancy Kerrigan

Nancy Kerrigan was hit in a corridor of the Cobo Arena, at the US Championships, by a man hired by a rival's ex-husband. She recovered in time to fini...