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[cheekbones3]

I know, I can't spell accommodation. But in the quiz tonight, of all thirteen teams that were there, only one of them actually spelt "Donington" correctly for an answer. Impressive!

Question of the week: Which two Olympic sports moved from the Summer games to the Winter games when they were created in 1924?

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[kynon.livejournal.com]

Ice hockey?

Um, dunno. Some sort of skating?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Curling and figure skating?

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Triathalon? - or whatever the one with the shooting is called. And probably something obvious like downhill skiing.

[http://users.livejournal.com/dee_/]

The team of students we were helping made me feel old, but they gave us sweeties :-) This was obviously a question after the music round, by which time we'd left feeling quite knowledgeable (& knowing that the next questions would be harder, hehe).

[chuma.livejournal.com]

The Rifle Shooting and Skiing is Biathalon, though Top Gear did it so much better ;)

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Yep, ice hockey and figure skating. Nice one!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Ice hockey and figure skating.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Ice hockey and figure skating - I'm not sure they could ahve wangeld skiing into any summer event!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

They finished well down, but not embarrassingly far away!

[http://users.livejournal.com/dee_/]

You should have seen their music round before they handed it over to us! Mind you, I did mistake Gene Pitney for Roy Orbison *sighs at self* Apparently 19 year old students are too young to remember The Verve though, which made me feel very old :-(

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, but back then if they didn't have a seperate "summer" and "winter" olympics it'd have just been "olympics" and not seasonally specific sports.

Not sure how they would have skied in the summer, though... I was getting confused by the story of how some Austrian cavalry officer invented the winter olympics to contain all the skills needed when fighting in the winter. I may have dreamt that story.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Eek, that is scary.

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

The original games were based on the old Greek Olympic games, so I doubt there was much skiing then, even if it wasn't specifically summer games :O)

I think you may indeed have dreamt that, although I can't confirm it!