Olympic Games Host Locations Trivia Quiz

Answer: Los Angeles

Following withdrawals of almost all delegations from the bid process, Paris and Los Angeles were the only remaining bids for 2024. The IOC's Executive Board convened an Extraordinary Session, several days before the Lima Session, to discuss the bid processes for both 2024 and 2028.

They arranged for a simultaneous double allocation of hosting rights for both Summer Olympics editions: 2024 to Paris and 2028 to Los Angeles.

Answer: Albertville 1992

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania competed in the Winter Olympics as independent nations anew in 1992.

Before their annexation:
Latvia competed in 1924-1928-1932-1936;
Estonia in 1920-1924-1928-1932-1936; and
Lithuania in 1924 and 1928.

Answer: Arnhem, Netherlands

The designated sixth Summer Paralympics, the 1980 Olympics for the Disabled in Arnhem, the Netherlands were the first Paralympics to see athletes with cerebral palsy compete.

Answer: False

To address Australia's strict quarantine policies, the IOC formally selected Stockholm, Sweden two years before the Summer 1956 edition to organize the equestrian events. They took place in June 1956, more than 5 months before the rest of the Games were held in Melbourne.
[note: the canoe and rowing events were held in Ballarat, a city located 115km (70 miles) west of Melbourne]

Answer: Rome, Italy

The ninth International Stoke Mandeville Games that took place in Rome, Italy in 1960 were retroactively called also the first Summer Paralympics. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was established 29 years later.

Answer: Kobe, Japan

The 1920 Summer Olympics were mostly held in Antwerp, Belgium. However, the shooting and boxing events were held miles away in Ostend. Manaus was one of the six cities to host the football preliminaries for the 2016 edition. Surfing events for the 2024 Paris Games took place in Tahiti, French Polynesia.

Answer: False

Three countries hosted both in the same year: France, USA and Germany.

1924 - France - Winter edition in Chamonix and Summer edition in Paris.
1932 - USA - Winter edition in Lake Placid and Summer edition in Los Angeles.
1936 - Germany - Winter edition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Summer edition in Berlin.

Japan were scheduled to host both in 1940 - the Winter edition in Sapporo and the Summer edition in Tokyo. These Games were cancelled due to World War II.

After the 1992 Winter Olympics the two Olympics went "out of cycle". The next edition of the Winter Games was in 1994 in Norway (and then every four years thereafter), while the Summer Olympics continued to take place every leap year (the 1996 edition was in Atlanta).

Answer: Athens, Greece

The 2004 Summer Olympics saw a landmark return of the modern Olympic Games to its birthplace and to where the first-ever modern Olympics were held (1896. The first Torch Relay to be conducted worldwide toured past and future Olympic host cities, such as Centennial Olympic Games hosts Atlanta (USA) and 2008 hosts Beijing (China), as well as Cairo (Egypt), Geneva (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and the last international leg stop Nicosia (Cyprus).

Answer: Nagano 1998

Curling first featured in the inaugural 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, whose competition results were not deemed official by the IOC until 2006. The 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid in New York, United States then hosted curling as a demonstration sport.

Answer: Rome, Italy

Before the Summer 1908 edition took place actually in London, United Kingdom, Rome was suffering financially following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 that caused more than 100 casualties.