5. Can you name the North American city that, in 1901, was unanimously awarded the 1904 Summer Olympic Games by the IOC, only to have them then given to St. Louis, so as to coincide with the 1904 World's Fair?
From Quiz Muffin's Common Bond Quiz #4
Answer:
Chicago
A great deal of angst developed between Chicago and St. Louis as to the respective attendances being threatened by each other. St.Louis moved to stage its own athletics carnival in opposition to the, then, fledgling Olympic Games which had started its modern era just eight years earlier and didn't have the massive following that it now has. The IOC then asked US president Theodore Roosevelt to arbitrate the situation, and he decided on St. Louis to host the games. The "windy city" has had no luck in winning back the nomination, as its bids for the Summer Olympics in 1952 and 1956 were unsuccessful, and just recently Chicago's bid for the 2016 games was thwarted when the IOC eliminated it on the first ballot.