Trivia Today - Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Is everyone excited about the Winter Olympics? According to the NBC Media Guide, the events in Sochi will receive 1539+ hours of coverage across six NBCUniversal platforms - NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network and NBC Olympics.com.

I guess that means that anytime you want your Olympic Games fix, you can certainly find it!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

HINT: (1863-1937), French Educator, primarily responsible for the revival of the Olympic Games in 1894.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The first eight athletes in each Winter Olympic event receive a diploma from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The first three finishers receive both a medal and a diploma.

The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. The modern Summer Olympics began in Athens in 1896.

The Olympic motto is "Citius, Altius, Fortius," which in English means "Faster, Higher Stronger". Pierre de Coubertin, considered the father of the modern Olympic games, proposed it in 1894 after hearing the words said by Dominican priest Henri Didon years earlier.

The last year that the Winter Games and Summer Games were held in the same year was 1992. The Summer Games were in Barcelona, Spain and the Winter Games were in Albertville, France.

The walls of the halfpipe for the Halfpipe Snowboarding event are 22 feet high. The halfpipe will also be used for Ski Halfpipe for the first time this Olympics.

The 2018 Winter Olympics be held in PyeongChang, South Korea. It will be the first time the Winter Games are held in South Korea. The country hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988.

http://www.chicagonow.com/tween-us/2014/01/winter-olympics-trivia/


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."

ANSWER: Pierre de Coubertin.

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