Classmate Facts # 105 - Olympics Trivia

1. At the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, one notable game is "ear pulling". In this event, two people sit down facing each other with twine looped around each other's ear - right ear to right ear, left to left. The two then begin their own unique version of tug-of-war!

2. Q. What's common between Flamingo, Crane and Fishtail? A. They are all positions in the Olympic event Synchronized Swimming.

3. Emperor Nero was declared the winner of the chariot race in A.D. 67 even though there were no other entrants in the race and he didn't even finish!

Classmate Facts # 104 - Olympics Trivia

1. Tug-pf-War was an Olympic event from 1900 to 1920.

2. The Sydney 2000 Olympics was the only second Olympic Games to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.

3. In the ancient Olympics, the philosopher Plato was a double winner of the Pankriation (a form of ancient martial arts).

Classmate Facts # 103 - Olympics Trivia

1. For many years, the ancient Olympics Games consisted of only one race, a sprint of 192 metres called the "stadian." A second race of 400 metres was added 50 years later.

2. You will be surprised at some of the odd and even weird events that have been part of the Olympic Games at some time. Some of the discontinued events are tug-of-war, Live pigeon shooting, rope climbing and one-hand weightlifting!

3. For his victory in the long jump, in the 1900 Summer Olympics , Alvin Kraezlein was ounched in the face by his rival Myer Prinstein! (Prinstein was allegedly annoyed because he was prevented from competing in the final scheduled for Sunday.

Classmate Facts # 102 - Olympics Trivia

1. Which country's Olympic basketball team does Chicago Bulls star Toni Kukoc play for? A. Croatia's.

2. Olympic Swimmer Dawn Fraser startled the Japanese at Tokyo when she climbed the flagpole at the emperor's palace to talk the flag as a souvenir! (Later she was penalized for this misdemenour).

3. When Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn won his sixth Olympic medal at the 1920 Antwerp Games he was 72 years and 280 days old!

Classmate Facts # 101 - Olympics Trivia

1. In his boxing career of 62 fights Wilfred Benitz won 52 matches! He is the youngest person ever to have won a world boxing championship!

2. Gymnasiums were introduced in 900 B.C. and Greek athletes practised there to the accompaniment of music.

3. The last Olympic gold medals that were made entirely out of gold were awarded in 1912.

4. Most athletes at the 1900 Olympic Games held in Paris had a tough time! The discus and hammer throwers found that there wasn't enough room to throw, so their shots landed in the trees! No track was laid, races took place on an uneven field of grass littered with trees, also for the hurdle races, the hurdles were made out of broken telephone poles! The Olympics were organised that year because Paris was also hosting the World Exhibition at the same time. This caused extra pressure on their infrastructural resources.

Classmate Facts # 100 - Olympics Trivia

A 100 POSTS IN THIS SERIES!!!! WAY TO GO @ THE FACTORIUM!!

1. In 648 B.C. horses were first introduced into sports with the entrance of riders in the Olympic Games.

2. Sports command the biggest television audience, led by the Summer Olympics, World Cup (Soccer) and Formula One Racing.

3. The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 males but no female competitors.

Classmate Facts # 99 - That's Funny!

1. Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck that wears a crown. When this quirky fact became public knowledge, the sales of rubber ducks increased by 80%!

2. 85% of people can curl their tongue into a tube. The remaining 15% get annoyed that they can't.

3. Coca-Cola was invented by a pharmacist, and during his lifetime the soft drink had been used nly for medical purposes!

4. The call of a blue whale is louder than a jumbo-jet!

5. Koala bears and human beings have so similar looking fingerprints that they could be easily confused at a crime scene.