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Summer or Winter, to win individual gold at five straight Games, from Turin 2006 to Beijing 2022.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "m2rzpvxc00f" }, { "id": "ot-speed-skating-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "speed-skating", "netherlands", "medal-record" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, how many of the 36 total speed skating medals did the Netherlands sweep?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "23 medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "18 medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "28 medals" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Dutch dominance peaked at Sochi 2014, where they won 23 of the 36 speed skating medals available, part of a career total exceeding 130 Olympic speed skating medals.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" 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}, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "35 gold medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "20 gold medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "50 gold medals" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "15 gold medals" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Germany's more than 35 luge golds make it the sport's dominant superpower, including a clean sweep of sliding events at Beijing 2022.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "4wz9rj1qib9jp" }, { "id": "ot-sliding-sports-3", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "luge", "felix-loch" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "At Vancouver 2010, at what age did Germany's Felix Loch become the youngest Olympic luge champion?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "20 years old" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "18 years old" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "22 years old" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "25 years old" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Loch won his first of three Olympic luge golds at just 20, the youngest men's singles champion in Olympic history.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "wcjoox6gw6xp" }, { "id": "ot-sliding-sports-4", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "sliding-sports", "track-speed" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Olympic sliding sports send athletes down the ice chute at speeds topping about how fast?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "90 mph (145 km/h)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "60 mph (95 km/h)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "120 mph (195 km/h)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "40 mph (65 km/h)" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "Bobsled, luge, and skeleton competitors can top 90 mph (145 km/h) while pulling forces up to 5G in banked turns.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "i15oyv1yldv0n" }, { "id": "ot-sliding-sports-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "bobsled", "cool-runnings" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Whose improbable 1988 Calgary Olympic debut inspired the film Cool Runnings?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Jamaican Bobsled Team" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Night Train crew" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Kaillie Humphries' team" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "German Luge Team" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The Jamaican Bobsled Team's Calgary 1988 debut, and their crash on the final run, inspired the 1993 film Cool Runnings.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "vn6uloe3ginq" }, { "id": "ot-alpine-sweep-1", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "alpine-skiing", "olympic-history" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which Austrian skier swept all three men's alpine gold medals (downhill, giant slalom, slalom) at Cortina d'Ampezzo 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Bjørgen (15) and Bjørndalen (14) won more overall in later eras, while fellow Norwegian nordic skier Ulvang won fewer.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "14xrruh1vrlkrv" }, { "id": "ot-pantheon-5", "shape": "mcq", "tags": [ "national-records", "usa" ], "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which nation is the only one to win at least one gold medal at every single Winter Olympics from 1924 through 2022?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "United States" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Norway" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Canada" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Austria" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The USA has won gold at every Winter Games since 1924 — a streak no other nation, including all-time medal leader Norway, has matched.", "source": { "label": "Winter Olympic Trivia: Frozen Glories, Miracle Ice & Alpine Royalty — Objective Test" }, "uid": "1f86szk19tc7qk" } ] }