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How was the Olympic flame lit during the ancient Games?
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Who became the first black African to win the first track and field gold medal?
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Which figure skater received love letters after her performance in the Olympics?
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Which diver hit his head on the board and still went to win the gold in the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
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Which game is South Korea's national sport?
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Which female Bulgarian weightlifter was thrown out of the Syndey Games?
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Who created the men's long jump record of 8.9 metres at the 1968 Olympics?
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How many gold medals is America's Marion Jones trying to win at the Sydney Olympics?
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What history did weightlifter Martinho De Araujo create despite finishing last?
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Sameer Dad scored two goals in India's 3-0 victory over Argentina. Who scored the other goal?
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What is the nickname of Boxer Kim Ki Suk ?
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Whose record did Inge de Bruijn break on way to the women's 100 metres buttefly gold at the Sydney Games?
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Whose wife was Maria Teresa Salisachs, who died recently at Barcelona?
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What is the shoe size of Australian swimming sensation Ian Thorpe?
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Afghan athletes will be missing from the Sydney Games since which Olympics?
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When was the Indian Olympic Association formed?
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In which event will Abhinav Bindra, one of the youngest Indian athletes, feature?
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Name the first Indian athlete ever to win an Olympic medal?
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''I'm not going to let people walk all over me,''. Which tennis star said this?
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What product will be promoted by Dhanraj Pillay on his hockey stick? Is it a liquor, condom or mineral water?
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Name the artist who designed the Sydney 2000 medals?
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Who broke the nine-year-old record of Edwin Moses while winning the 400-metre hurdles?
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Which gymnast won six gold medals in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics?
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Who set world records in the 80-metre hurdles, javelin, and high jump at the 1932 Olympics?
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At which Olympics did the archery team light the cauldron with a flaming arrow?
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Why was the 1972 Games come to be known as the 'Black September'?
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Which British athlete became the oldest man ever to have won the 100-metre dash in 1992?
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Which gymnast performed the first backward somersault on the uneven bars, a "loop", and later had it named after her?
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40 per cent of which nation's Olympic contingent chose to defect after the 1956 Games?
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How is James Cleveland better known as in the world of athletics?
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For the use of which drug was Ben Johnson disqualified during the 1988 Seoul Olympics ?
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How many Summer Olympics have been cancelled due to World Wars?
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Who won the controversial 3000-metre race in 1984 when Mary Decker bumped into Zola Budd?
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Who was the first athlete to win gold medals in the same event in four consecutive Olympics?
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Which Romanian gymnast won three gold medals in 1976, by scoring a perfect 10?
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Who is the only other Indian individual to win an Olympic medal apart from wrestler K D Jhadav?
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Which nation's national anthem is played at the closing ceremony of every Olympics?
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Who won the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984?
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Where would have the 1940 and 1944 Olympics be held had they not been cancelled because of World War-II?
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Who was the first track athlete, male or female, to successfully defend an Olympic title, in a sprint event?
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Which nation was banned from the Games in 1964 by the International Olympic Committee and for what reason?
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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which famous Indian sport was a demonstration event?
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What was the prize awarded to the winner of the only sprint race held in the original Olympics?
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How many times did an athlete have to win an event, in ancient Greece, to qualify for having a statue erected in his honour?
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