Name: ______

Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada

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  1. The Mascots of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are Miga, Quatchi, and Sumi.
  2. Quatchi is a ______.
  3. What sport does he dream of playing and which position? ______
  4. Sumi is the animal spirit.
  5. What is his hat? ______
  6. What do his legs represent? ______
  7. What is Sumi’s favorite food? ______
  8. Miga is a sea bear.
  9. What is his favorite sport? ______
  10. What is the legend of the sea bear? ______
  11. What is the name of the rare white or cream-colored sub-species of black bear? ______
  12. Where does it live? ______
  13. When and where were the first winter Olympic games? ______
  14. At Vancouver, more than 80 countries will be represented with about 2500 athletes. How many countries participated in the first Winter Olympic Games? ______
  15. How many athletes participated with the first Winter Olympics? ______
  16. How many countries in the southern hemisphere have hosted the winter Olympics? ______
  17. Which country has won the most medals in the winter Olympics? ______
  18. What is the biathlon? ______
  19. What is Nordic combined? ______
  20. Women athletes could compete in only figure skating until 1948 when skiing opened as a competitive sport for women. As of 2007, the USA has never won a medal in which three winter Olympic events? ______
  21. Other than curling, what are the only other three winter Olympic sports held indoors? ______
  22. Which Caribbean island nation first competed in the winter Olympic’s bobsled event at Calgary, Canada, in 1988. ______
  23. Which two countries south of the equator are the only ones to win medals at Winter Olympic Games? ______
  24. Canada is the second largest country in the world, after the country of Russia. What is the capital of Canada which is found in Ontario? ______
  25. With 10 provinces and 3 territories, Vancouver, Canada’s third largest city after Toronto and Montreal, is found where? ______
  26. The tallest mountain in Canada is the ______, which is 19,850 ft. tall.
  27. ______is the longest river in Canada, at 2635 miles. It is found in the Northwest Territories.
  28. The flag of Canada has a red maple leaf, the national symbol. What is the national animal of Canada? ______
  29. Who named the land of Canada? ______
  30. What did the word, “Kanata” mean in the Huron-Iroquois language? ______
  31. The first Olympic games were held in ______in the country of ______. At the first games, the only events were ______. Held in honor of the Greek chief god Zeus, what did Emperor Theodosius I do in 394 AD?
  32. In ______the first Modern Olympics were held in ______, the capital of Greece. ______countries took part in ______events. Why didn’t Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the International Olympic Committee in 1894, allow women to participate?
  33. What are the colors of the five rings on the Olympic Flag? (blue, yellow, black, green, and red) on a white ground. The rings represent the ______parts of the world that were joined together for the Olympics. What does the motto of the Olympic Games mean in English?
  34. Winners received a wreath made of ______called a ______. ______were not allowed to compete or attend. What events were called equestrian events? ______