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1. Which city hosted the Winter Games only two years after the previous Winter Games had been held?
2. Collecting three gold medals, US sprinter Wilma Rudolph was a major star of the Summer Games hosted in this city.
3. Which town may thank the people of Colorado that it was allowed to host the Winter Games for a second time?
4. Which of these cities has NOT hosted the Olympic Games?
5. Which city that arranged the 1992 Summer Games? It was the hometown of the IOC president at the time, and a fresh attraction of the Games was a US "Dream Team" in basketball.
6. At the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, a violent terrorist action that claimed the lives of 11 athletes and one policeman totally overshadowed what took place in the arenas. What was the name of the terrorist group responsible for the action?
7. The 1908 Summer Games in London took place over a period of five months, and the status of the competitions was so obscure that several athletes died without knowing they had ever participated in the Olympics?
8. Which of these countries had two or more Olympic host cities during the 20th century?
9. Nagano saw two new official sports join the Olympic programme as the city hosted the 1998 Winter Games. One of them was snowboard. What was the other sport?
10. Which city that had its Olympic experience flawed by an African boycott caused by a rugby team from New Zealand?
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