Golden Girls of the Winter Games Quiz

Answer: Win a gold medal at three different Olympic games

Sonja Henie won Olympic titles at St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928), Lake Placid, USA (1932), and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria (1936). Her father was a wealthy Oslo furrier who was able to provide Sonja with skating teachers in Germany, England, Switzerland and Austria, as well as studying ballet in London.

Hungarian Aladar Gerevich won fencing gold medals at six games - he took the championship in Team Sabre in 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 and the Individual Sabre gold in 1952.

Answer: Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott was the first non-European to win a World Championship in figure skating and the first woman to land a double lutz in competition. In her 40s, Scott became an accomplished equestrienne.

Australia's Evonne Goolagong won 14 Grand Slam tennis tournaments in the 1970s and 80s. Peggy Fleming is the women's figure skating champion from the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France - the only US athlete to win a gold medal at those games.

Answer: The death spiral

In a death spiral the man holds the lady's hand to support her while her body is almost parallel to the ice with her head dropped back so it is almost touching the surface. The Protopopovs, as they were known after they married, are cited as inventing the Cosmic, Life and Love spirals.

Their Olympic wins were in 1964 and 1968 in Innsbruck, Austria and Grenoble, France, respectively. They continued to perform well into their 60s.

Answer: Jayne Torvill

After their gold medal performance at Sarajevo, Torvill and Dean became professional dancers. They also won a bronze medal at the 1994 games in Lillehammer when rules on professional participation were changed. Jayne Torvill was named an OBE (Officer Of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000. Six years later she and Dean began starring in the British television program "Dancing on Ice."

Virginia Wade is a former professional tennis player from the U. K. and a member of the Tennis Hall of Fame. Tenley Albright won the figure skating gold in 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, the first American to do so. Australian Margaret Smith Court is one of professional tennis' most lauded players.

Answer: Speed skating

Blair made her Olympic debut in 1984, though she did not medal. She won gold in the 500 meters race in 1988, 1992 and 1994. She also won the 1000 meters in 1992 and 1994, as well as a bronze in that event in 1988. When Blair was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (2004) she was the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time.

Answer: Biathlon

Misersky won the Individual 15 km biathlon and Reztsova took the gold in the Sprint 7 km comptetion. The Pursuit (10 km) and Mass Start (12.5 km) events were added to the women's competition in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

EUN (French for Equipe Unifiée), or The Unified Team, was made up of 15 eastern European countries formerly in the Soviet bloc. Skijoring, a sport involving an athlete on skiis being pulled by horses, dogs or a machine, was demonstrated the 1928 Winter Olympics. There is no such event as Alpine combined, though the Nordic combined is a combination of cross country skiing and ski jumping.

Answer: Oksana Baiul

Kerrigan placed second at the '94 games while Harding came in a distant eighth after more drama when she stopped her freestyle program to re-tie her skate laces. Ukranian Oksana Baiul was only 16 years old when she edged out Kerrigan for the gold medal. Following the '94 Games she moved to the USA and skated professionally.

Midori Ito of Japan was the first woman to land a triple/triple jump combination and a triple axel in competition; she placed second behind Kristi Yamaguchi at the '92 Games in Albertville. American Michelle Kwan won the World Championships five times and garnered silver In Nagano and bronze In Salt Lake City, but never claimed Olympic gold. Austria's Beatrix Schuba was the figure skating winner at the 1972 games in Sapporo.

Answer: Picabo Street

Pronounced "Peek-a-boo", Street was named for the town of Picabo, Idaho, USA. She also took the silver medal in the Slalom at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. A ski run at the Sun Valley resort in Idaho is named "Picabo's Street."

Answer: It was awarded only after the French judge admitted to cheating

Sale and Pelletier skated a flawless long program at the '02 Games while their rivals, the Russian pair of Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, had an obvious stumble. When the latter was announced as having captured the gold the arena erupted in boos. After an investigation, it was determined that the French judge had given her first place vote to the Russians in exchange for a first-place vote for the French ice dancing team.

When her vote was thrown out, a tie resulted and both pairs were awarded the gold medal.

Answer: Janica Kosteliæ

Janica Kosteliæ was also the first woman to win three gold medals and four total medals in alpine skiing at one Olympic game. She took the gold in the Slalom, Grand Slalom and Combined, as well as a silver in the Super G at the 2002 games in Salt Lake City. At Turin in 2006 Kosteliæ captured her record setting fourth Olympic gold when she won the Combined.

Illya Kuryakin was David McCallum's character in the 1960s television spy show "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Slobodan Milosovic was the president of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Maria Sharapova is a top ranked Russian tennis player.