The Crimson's Winter Olympics Quiz

Who was the Captain of the United States Hockey Team in 1960?

Name the only member of the U.S. gold medal winning hockey squad who played in the NHL.

Who was the first Olympic biathlon Champion?

When and where were the first Winter Olympics held?

Name the American who won the 500-meter speed skating, the first event held, in the first Winter Olympics.

When and where were the Winter Olympics held in the United States for the first time?

The week it was supposed to hold the Winter Olympics this Tyrolean City experienced its mildest February in 58 years. Name that city.

In the 1964 Winter Games four countries were represented for the first time. Which ones?

Who was the only American to win a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Games?

Who was the youngest athlete to win a medal in the Winter Olympics?

Who were the first two Americans to win medals in Alpine skiing?

Who was the first non-Scandinavian to win a Nordic Individual Men's event?

Who won the U.S. team's only gold in 1968?

Name the two skiers disqualified from the 1972 games.

Name the man who became the first Spaniard to win a gold medal at the Winter Games.

Name the town which produced Anne Henning and Dianne Holum.

Which Vermont High School graduated Bill Koch?

Although the medal came 50 years late, this man was the first American to win a medal in Nordic skiing. Name him.

What Harvard Alumnus was the first non-varsity athlete to be a member of both the Varsity Club and the Harvard Hall of Fame?

Which move did Dick Button perfect just prior to his 1952 figure skating performance which enabled him to secure a gold medal?

What Harvard athlete will compete in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games for the United States team?

What 1972 Olympian founded the Eliot House Jimmy Fund Show?

In 1956 and 1960 two brothers turned in gold medal exhibitions in figure skating. Who were they?

What is the name of the form used by 1976 gold medal downhill skier Franz Klammer?

Who won the cross-country skiing medal for the United States?

This 1976 gold medalist in the women's downhill participated in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics without winning a medal. Name her.

In 1968 this Italian bobsledder finally captured gold in his fourth Olympics. What is his name?

Who were the three Americans who tied for second place at the 1968 games in the 500-meter speed-skating race?

Which U.S. speedskater won three golds in '72?

What was the title of Sonja Henie's first movie?

Name the only three-time womasn's figure-skating champion.

Who was the U.S. housewife who won the 1948 woman's slalom?

The gold-medal winning U.S. ice hockey squad included two sets of brothers...name them.

Who formally opened the 1960 Games at Squaw Valley?

In what city were the 1976 Olympic Games originally scheduled?

Who was the oldest man to ever appear in the Winter Olympics?

Name the exiled Jew who returned from France to lead the German hockey squad to the 1936 bronze medal.

Which games were called the "Hotel Olympics?"

In which Olympics was the U.S.O.C. embarrassed by the appearance of two hockey squads claiming to represent the U.S.?

Name the two participants in the 1964 Games who were killed soon after a Swiss avalanche struck during the filming of a movie.

Who was the first American woman to take a gold in Olympic speed-skating?

Name the U.S. woman who scored an upset victory at the 1972 Games in the slalom.

"The Flying Dutchman" was a triple gold-medalist in '72. Name him.

When were the Olympic Games televised for the first time?

A Dartmouth student representing Japan finished second in the two-run slalom. Name him.

1960 figure-skating gold-medalist Carol Heiss married another former gold-medalist soon after the games. Who?

Name the U.S. woman who twice broke the world record on her way to a gold medal in the 1972 running of the 500-meter event.

In what year was luge added to the Winter Olympic program?

Who was the first man to win the giant slalom after it was added in 1952?

Which two portly Germans made waves when their bobsled won a gold medal in '48 with the team's two heaviest members aboard?

What unusual method did authorities at the 1960 games use to encourage snowfall?

Who was the first American to win two gold medals in Olympic skiing?

In which event did U.S. skier Andrea Mead Lawrence's husband participate in the 1952 Winter Games?

An alpine skiing triple--what is it?

Who was the first non-Scandinavian to win 3 golds in a single Winter Olympics?

Name the Radcliffe student who won the 1956 women's figure-skating gold medal.

Only once has a U.S. hockey squad won the gold. What year?

What is the only country to win the Biathlon Relay?

Name the two members of the 1976 U.S. Winter Olympic team who later married.

What slogan persuaded the IOC to award the 1960 games to Squaw Valley?

Who was the "Hothouse Champion" and what ever became of his medals?

Which were the first Winter Games to be broadcast over the radio?

Who was the first triple gold medalist in one Winter Olympics?

Name the former gold medalist who coached Sonja Henie.

Why did Canada protest Britain's 1936 hockey gold medal?

Name the highranking U.S. official who has threatened to make this quiz irrelevant.

What man shamed the U.S. into attending the 1936 Olympics?

Who was the first winner of the men's luge?

Who was the first winner of the Women's luge?

Name the only three time winner of the men's figure skating competition.

Other than Canada, only one other country has won the hockey gold medal more than once. Name that country.

What famous cartoonist designed the opening ceremonies for the 1960 Winter Olympic Games?

Who was the blitz from Kitz?

Name the Soviet woman who won four gold medals at the 1964 Winter Games?

Name the U.S. skater who won the men's 1000 meter event the first time it was held.

In 1972 only one man prevented "the Flying Dutchman" from a complete sweep of the men's speed skating events. Name that man.

What chronic ailment makes Bill Koch's races even more difficult than they would be for a healthy person?