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Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, Canada
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- The Mascots of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are Miga, Quatchi, and Sumi.
- Quatchi is a ______.
- What sport does he dream of playing and which position? ______
- Sumi is the animal spirit.
- What is his hat? ______
- What do his legs represent? ______
- What is Sumi’s favorite food? ______
- Miga is a sea bear.
- What is his favorite sport? ______
- What is the legend of the sea bear? ______
- What is the name of the rare white or cream-colored sub-species of black bear? ______
- Where does it live? ______
- When and where were the first winter Olympic games? ______
- At Vancouver, more than 80 countries will be represented with about 2500 athletes. How many countries participated in the first Winter Olympic Games? ______
- How many athletes participated with the first Winter Olympics? ______
- How many countries in the southern hemisphere have hosted the winter Olympics? ______
- Which country has won the most medals in the winter Olympics? ______
- What is the biathlon? ______
- What is Nordic combined? ______
- 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? ______
- Other than curling, what are the only other three winter Olympic sports held indoors? ______
- Which Caribbean island nation first competed in the winter Olympic’s bobsled event at Calgary, Canada, in 1988. ______
- Which two countries south of the equator are the only ones to win medals at Winter Olympic Games? ______
- 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? ______
- With 10 provinces and 3 territories, Vancouver, Canada’s third largest city after Toronto and Montreal, is found where? ______
- The tallest mountain in Canada is the ______, which is 19,850 ft. tall.
- ______is the longest river in Canada, at 2635 miles. It is found in the Northwest Territories.
- The flag of Canada has a red maple leaf, the national symbol. What is the national animal of Canada? ______
- Who named the land of Canada? ______
- What did the word, “Kanata” mean in the Huron-Iroquois language? ______
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- Winners received a wreath made of ______called a ______. ______were not allowed to compete or attend. What events were called equestrian events? ______