This Sports GK quiz on Olympic Games puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
The first recorded ancient Olympic Games are dated to which year?
The ancient Games were held at Olympia in Greece in honour of Zeus, and 776 BCE is the earliest celebration for which a written record of the winner survives.
Read the full explanation →Who is regarded as the founder of the modern Olympic Games?
The French educationist believed that sport built character in the young, and at a congress at the Sorbonne in Paris he founded the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, which led directly to the first modern Games at Athens in 1896.
Read the full explanation →The first modern Olympic Games in 1896 were held in which city?
Greece was chosen for the first modern Games because the ancient festival had been held there, and the event took place in 1896, two years after the International Olympic Committee was founded.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee located?
The International Olympic Committee moved its headquarters there during the First World War and has remained in the city since, which is why Lausanne is also called the Olympic Capital and houses the Olympic Museum.
Read the full explanation →The Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius means which of the following?
The three Latin words were suggested to Pierre de Coubertin by his friend Henri Didon, a French priest and educator who used them for the pupils at his school, and Coubertin adopted them for the Olympic movement.
Read the full explanation →The five interlaced rings on the Olympic flag represent which of the following?
Pierre de Coubertin designed the symbol in 1913, and the rings are interlaced to show the meeting of athletes from every part of the world at the Games.
Read the full explanation →The first Winter Olympic Games were held in 1924 at which place?
The event held there in 1924 was recognised afterwards as the first Winter Olympic Games, and it created a separate cycle for sports played on snow and ice.
Read the full explanation →Who won India's first individual Olympic medal after independence?
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav won a bronze medal in wrestling at the Helsinki Games of 1952, the first individual Olympic medal won by an Indian after independence, at a time when India's Olympic reputation rested entirely on the hockey team.
Read the full explanation →India won its first Olympic gold medal in which sport?
The Indian men's hockey team won the gold medal at the Amsterdam Games of 1928 and then kept winning, taking eight Olympic golds in all, in 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964 and 1980.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal?
She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Games of 2000, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian woman, and the achievement is the standard one-line fact set from this chapter.
Read the full explanation →Abhinav Bindra won India's first individual Olympic gold medal in which event?
Abhinav Bindra won that event at the Beijing Games of 2008, giving India its first individual Olympic gold medal in any sport and its first gold of any kind since the hockey team's win in 1980.
Read the full explanation →The modern Olympic torch relay, carrying the flame from Olympia to the host city, was introduced at which Games?
The flame itself had been lit at earlier Games, but the relay in which runners carry the torch from Olympia in Greece all the way to the host city began at Berlin, and it has been part of every Olympics since.
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