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- Egypt
- Greece
- Turkey
- Italy
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Correct answer: B. Greece
The ancient festival took place at Olympia, a sanctuary of Zeus in Greece.
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In which country were the ancient Olympic Games held?Read the answer and worked solution →Who founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894?Read the answer and worked solution →What do the five Olympic rings stand for?Read the answer and worked solution →Why were the Olympic flag's five colours chosen?Read the answer and worked solution →Months before each Games, where is the Olympic flame lit?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the Olympic torch relay first held?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did the first Winter Olympic Games take place?Read the answer and worked solution →Who organised the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games that grew into the Paralympics?Read the answer and worked solution →Athletes of which ages compete at the Youth Olympic Games?Read the answer and worked solution →Which nation traditionally enters first in the opening parade of athletes?Read the answer and worked solution →Besides the host's and next host's flags, whose flag is raised at the closing ceremony?Read the answer and worked solution →In legend, Heracles walked 200 steps in a straight line. What did he call that distance?Read the answer and worked solution →After Athens in 1896, which city hosted the second modern Olympics?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Summer Olympic medals are usually presented during the closing ceremony?Read the answer and worked solution →How is the first Olympic torch lit using the sun?Read the answer and worked solution →The Olympic flag was flown for the first time at which Games?Read the answer and worked solution →What shape was the mascot of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?Read the answer and worked solution →Which animal was Misha, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics?Read the answer and worked solution →In which city was Alfred Nobel born in 1833?Read the answer and worked solution →Of Alfred Nobel's 355 inventions, which one is the most famous?Read the answer and worked solution →Alfred Nobel's will of 1895 created prizes in how many fields?Read the answer and worked solution →Which subject was named in Alfred Nobel's 1895 will for a prize?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Nobel Prize in Physics honoured the discovery of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who won the first Nobel Prize in Literature?Read the answer and worked solution →Emil von Behring won the first medicine prize for a treatment against which disease?Read the answer and worked solution →Jean Henri Dunant shared the first Peace Prize for founding which group?Read the answer and worked solution →Who normally hands a Nobel diploma to a laureate in physics or chemistry?Read the answer and worked solution →Who hands the Nobel Peace Prize diploma to the laureate?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose portrait appears on the front of the Nobel medals?Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1980, Nobel medals were struck in how many carat gold?Read the answer and worked solution →
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Who founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894?
- Ludwig Guttmann
- Pierre de Coubertin
- Jacques Rogge
- Evangelos Zappas
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Correct answer: B. Pierre de Coubertin
Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France set up the IOC, which then organised the first modern Games.
What do the five Olympic rings stand for?
- Five founders of the IOC
- Five inhabited continents united
- Five sports of the first Games
- Five ancient Greek temples
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Correct answer: B. Five inhabited continents united
The interlocked rings show the unity of the inhabited continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
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