{"id":64,"date":"2026-09-16T03:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/sport-olympics-quiz-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T03:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:45:21","slug":"sport-olympics-quiz-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/sport-olympics-quiz-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport Quiz: 18 Questions on the Olympics and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once you move past football, sport questions spread wide: an Olympic host city, a tennis surface, a boxing weight class. That breadth is what makes the category useful in a quiz \u2014 almost everyone knows something, and nobody knows all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy sport questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. How often are the summer Olympic Games held?<\/strong> \u2014 Every four years<\/li>\n\n
  2. How many players are in a basketball team on court?<\/strong> \u2014 Five<\/li>\n\n
  3. In which sport would you use a shuttlecock?<\/strong> \u2014 Badminton<\/li>\n\n
  4. What colour are the Olympic rings on a white background?<\/strong> \u2014 Blue, yellow, black, green and red<\/li>\n\n
  5. How many holes are in a full round of golf?<\/strong> \u2014 Eighteen<\/li>\n\n
  6. In which sport is the Tour de France contested?<\/strong> \u2014 Cycling<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Medium sport questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Which country has hosted the summer Olympics most often?<\/strong> \u2014 The United States<\/li>\n\n
    2. On which surface is Wimbledon played?<\/strong> \u2014 Grass<\/li>\n\n
    3. How long is a marathon?<\/strong> \u2014 42.195 kilometres<\/li>\n\n
    4. In which sport is the Ryder Cup contested?<\/strong> \u2014 Golf<\/li>\n\n
    5. Which athlete holds the 100m world record?<\/strong> \u2014 Usain Bolt<\/li>\n\n
    6. How many rings are on the Olympic flag?<\/strong> \u2014 Five<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Hard sport questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Which city hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896?<\/strong> \u2014 Athens<\/li>\n\n
      2. What is the maximum break in snooker?<\/strong> \u2014 147<\/li>\n\n
      3. Which country invented the sport of judo?<\/strong> \u2014 Japan<\/li>\n\n
      4. In Formula One, what flag signals the end of a race?<\/strong> \u2014 The chequered flag<\/li>\n\n
      5. How many weight divisions are in professional boxing, broadly?<\/strong> \u2014 Seventeen<\/li>\n\n
      6. Which nation won the first Rugby World Cup in 1987?<\/strong> \u2014 New Zealand<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Play on the Millionaire Trivia app<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        Olympic host cities are worth learning as a list \u2014 they come up in nearly every general knowledge round, not just sport ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Olympics, tennis, athletics and motorsport \u2014 eighteen sport questions with answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/millionairegame.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}