Q 01/05

The stadium for the 1896 Athens Olympics had been rebuilt in what material?

A) Granite

B) Limestone

C) Marble

D) Brick

Answer · why

C) Marble

Marble, and white: the ancient stadium had long lain in disrepair when George Averoff, a wealthy Greek living in Egypt, paid for the rebuilding with a...

Q 02/05

Who is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games?

A) Pierre de Coubertin

B) Demetrius Vikelas

C) William Penny Brookes

D) Evangelos Zappas

Answer · why

A) Pierre de Coubertin

Pierre de Coubertin left one last instruction when he died in 1937: his body was buried in Lausanne, but his heart was removed and sealed in a monumen...

Q 03/05

The Wenlock Olympian Games, which inspired the modern Olympics' founder, began in which country?

A) Greece

B) Wales

C) England

D) Scotland

Answer · why

C) England

England's Shropshire town of Much Wenlock first staged them in 1850, the idea of the local doctor William Penny Brookes, and London 2012 named its one...

Q 04/05

Where was the 1894 congress that founded the IOC held?

A) The Sorbonne, Paris

B) Lausanne's town hall

C) Athens' Zappeion

D) Much Wenlock's hall

Answer · why

A) The Sorbonne, Paris

The Sorbonne, Paris, hosted a congress billed as a debate on amateurism in sport; reviving the Olympics began as a single item on the programme, and i...

Q 05/05

The early IOC wanted each president to come from where?

A) The next host country

B) The last host country

C) A neutral country

D) Its founder's country

Answer · why

A) The next host country

The next host country: Greece was about to stage the first Games, so the writer Demetrius Vikelas took the chair, and he gave it up to a Frenchman onc...