Sports Quiz – July 26, 2024

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Questions

1. As of the 2020 Tokyo Games, what country has won the most Olympic gold medals in men’s field hockey?
2. What country defeated the U.S. Men’s Basketball Team 89-81 in the semifinals of the 2004 Athens Olympic tournament?
3. At the 2012 London Games, Pavlos Kontides won the first Olympic medal, a silver, for the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. In what sport did Kontides compete?
4. What country swept the medals in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics?
5. After being criticized for racing against horses to make money, what Olympic athlete said, “I had four gold medals, but you can’t eat four gold medals.”
6. America’s Victor Montalvo and Lithuania’s Dominika “Nicka” Banevic are elite athletes competing in what Olympic sport?
7. During the 1960s, Tamara Press won two Olympic gold medals in the shot put and one gold medal in the discus throw competing for what country?

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1. India, with eight.
2. Argentina.
3. Sailing.
4. Jamaica.
5. Jesse Owens.
6. Breaking, or breakdancing.
7. The Soviet Union.

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