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1. Which sport involves athletes riding down an ice track seated two or four to a sled?
2. Two teams push 42 pound stones across the ice towards a target. Matches consist of 10 ends, and during each end a team scores one point for every stone of theirs which is closer to the center of the target than all of the opponent's stones. The sport is ________ ?
3. Which sport is a two day event, involving both ski jumping and cross country skiing?
4. In which sport do athletes ski cross country with pauses to shoot at targets, with competitors skiing penalty loops or receiving a time penalty?
5. This adjective is used to describe an event in both cross-country skiing and biathlon. The contestants start with a sprint, which is used to determine start times for a second race. Whoever crosses the finish line first in the second race wins. The adjective is ________ ?
6. Athletes race down a track of ice on their stomachs head first.
7. In which event do athletes race down an ice track singly or in pairs, sliding on their backs?
8. Athletes in this type of skiing competed in Aerials and Moguls. The event is ________ ?
9. Introduced at the 1998 Winter Olympics, what is the name of the event in which athletes compete in the halfpipe and parallel giant slalom?
10. Events in this type of alpine skiing included the 'Giant' and 'Super G'. What type of skiing?
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