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Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jagger, this site has lots of trivia:
Olympic Almanac

<edited to say, this site has even very trivial trivia, lol. example: first olympics held in a year not divisible by 4 (Athens 1906) i'm bookmarking the site, it's really interesting!>

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the links and suggestions. I still haven't found the answers so I will post the questions here and see if anyone knows them.

These are yesterdays and todays questions, there will be 2 questions each day.

Which country in addition to Greece has competed in all games since 1896?

When did women start to participate in the Olympic Games?
Part of this same question is

What were the first two events these female Olympians participated in?

Who was the host of the first Winter Olympic Games?

What was the age of the oldest woman ever to compete in the Olympics?

Have fun searching, my fingers are sore from checking out so many different sites to no avail.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Chamonix France hosted the first Olympic winter games in 1924.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks Mak1

I also found that woman first competed in 1900 and they played lawn tennis and golf

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lorna Johnstone, Equestrian, 1972
British Equestrian, Lorna Johnstone was 70 years and 5 days old when she rode at the 1972 Games, thus being the oldest woman ever to compete at an Olympic Games.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great Britain is one of only five countries which has never failed to be represented at the Olympic Games since 1896: Australia, France, Greece and Switzerland being the others. Of these, only France, Great Britain and Switzerland have also been present at all Olympic Winter Games.

Women in the Olympics - a brief history

The 20th May 2000 marks the 100th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. It also marks the centenary of women’s participation in the modern Olympics. Three events were available for women at the 1900 Olympic Games: golf, tennis and yachting.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
from *this site*

The UK has a long and proud Olympic heritage, and one which has featured competition, organisation and inspiration.

We are one of just five countries to have competed at every Olympic Games. Only Australia, France, Greece and Switzerland share that distinction

<phew...We've solved the first 2 days' questions. Bring 'em on!>


Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Found Here How many countries have taken part in every Summer Games since 1896?
Only five - Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece and Switzerland.}

still checking on the Winter Games

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, um Deesandy....dunno if it's part of your Jessics routine BUT...I'm female...yeah I know, the name...it's cos I like Rupert the big bear from Survivor...or not so big any more, since he's lost quite a bit of weight.

p.s. I often click on peoples' names to see their gender...it's only once in a while they don't say.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
WOW guys and gals you are great. I've searched for hours trying to find this information and you all found it in minutes.

I'm still concerned about the first question, there is only suppose to be one correct answer and it sounds like there are several different countries that have competed in all the games since 1896.



Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
it's Australia, Jagger
See here
ETA, if I had to have guesses it would have been Switzerland. Go figure.

Zules
Member

08-21-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is a question being asked here on a local radio station on a daily contest called "You Can't Win". They've been asking for over a week now and no one has answered correctly. Does anyone know.....

Other than their affiliation with the NFL, what do Junior Seau, Phil Simms and Norve Turner all have in common?

I can't remember all the wrong answers but a couple were:

They're all men
They all have the same agent

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Lumbele, I will go with Audtralia, but I will also make a copy of one of the other articles incase others come up with any of those countries.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good luck, Jagger!

Deesandy
Member

08-12-2003

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Rupertbear, it's a good thing you are female, I wouldn't want my husband to get jealous!

I've been a bit bored these days, and goofing off in here too much instead of doing things like housework, etc.

Unlike Jessica's husband, mine does not do housework! (much)

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry, Zules, I can't come up with anything on your Seau-Simms-Turner question.

Zules
Member

08-21-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for tryin' Lum!

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also was looking for stuff on these 3 guys, and I came up with zilch, I thought it would have to do with their charaties or religion but the closest I could come up to was Seau and Turner both have a connection with Seuu charity, no mention of Turner in the link.

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What the heck is this supposed to mean???
biscuit affix referential antebell..
This was the subject of a spam mail sent by "Katrina Schultz". These things just crack me up. I only used to get one every other day or so, now I'm getting two or three a day. I hate spam!! Is this so it makes it past the spam blockers? I wish I could have a "jibberish" setting on mine. GRR! I hate setting up safe lists for fear of missing someone I do want to hear from.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mygetaway I have never heard of that expression, but will all the spam e-mails out there it doesn't surprise me. So what was in the e-mail?


Todays Olympic questions are

Which Olympic games did drug testing make it's debut. My guess is 1968 in Mexico City, but I have no proof of it, just a guess.

Second question is

Which Olympics games were the first to be televised?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In 1967, the International Olympic Committee became the first sports organisation in the world to establish a Medical Commission, together with the international Cycling Union. Their mission was to put in place a medical control service for the 1968 Olympic and Olympic Winter Games.

Since their first telecast in 1960, the Olympic games have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship with television.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the answers Dra, I am going to use the 1968 as the first one.

But on the second question that would be for US coverage, it actually started in Germany during 1936.

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jagger, I don't open them, I delete them right away.

Jagger
Member

08-07-2002

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK the last of the Olympic questions.

What is the difference between the vaulting horse used it the men's and women's gymnastics.

My guess is the height/the men's is higher, but that is a guess.



Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The men have to clear it vertically, while the women horizontally.