Hot. Cool. Yours. - Sochi 2014 Quiz

Answer: one of the snowflakes didn't turn into an Olympic ring

Five large, white snowflakes were hung in the stadium, and they opened into the five Olympic rings. One of the rings, however, did not open all the way. During the closing ceremony, when a group of people formed the rings on the floor, the same ring was delayed in opening, making a reference to the malfunction during the opening ceremony.

Answer: 7

A new record of 88 nations took part in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, with 2,873 individual athletes. Seven of these countries were taking part for the first time. They were Dominica, Malta, Paraguay, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, and Zimbabwe.

Answer: men's snowboard slopestyle

Sage Kotsenburg received the gold medal in men's snowboard slopestyle. Stale Sandbech of Norway won silver and Mark McMorris of Canada won bronze. 2014 was the first year that snowboard slopestyle was an Olympic event.

Answer: Russia

2014 was the first year that team figure skating was an event. It consisted of a men's short program, a pair's short program, an ice dance short program, a ladies short program, a pairs free program, men's free program, ice dance free program, and ladies free program. Canada received the silver medal and the United States won bronze.

Answer: True

In men's ice hockey, Sweden received the silver medal and Finland the bronze. In women's ice hockey, the USA won silver and Switzerland won the bronze medal.
Canada also won the two gold medals in men's and women's ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

Answer: Norway

2014 was the first year with a mixed relay event in biathlon. The members of the Norwegian team who won the gold were Tora Berger, Tiril Eckhoff, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, and Emil Hegle Svendsen. The Czech Republic won silver and Italy received bronze.

Answer: women's ski jumping

The 2014 Olympics were the first to have a ski jumping event for women. Carina Vogt of Germany won the gold medal in the women's normal hill individual. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz of Austria got silver and Coline Mattel of France got bronze.

In ski jumping, there was only one event for women, but the men had three: individual normal hill, individual large hill, and team large hill.

Answer: True

Representatives of the Netherlands won the gold medal in men's 500 meters, men's 1000 meters, men's 5000 meters, men's 10000 meters, men's team pursuit, women's 1500 meters, women's 3000 meters, and women's team pursuit. Including silver and bronze medals, the Netherlands won twenty-three of the thirty-six speed skating medals.

At the 2014 Olympics overall, the Netherlands won twenty-four medals (making them fifth on the list of countries with the most medals). The one they did not win in speed skating was a bronze in the short track speed skating men's 1000 meters event, which was won by Sjinkie Knegt.

Answer: Russia

The members of the Russian team were Alexandr Zubkov, Dmitry Trunenkov, Alexey Negodaylo, and Alexey Voyevoda. Latvia won the silver medal and the United States won the bronze medal.

The two other bobsleigh events were two-man and two-woman. Russia also won the two-man event and Canada won the two-woman one.

Answer: Russia

Russia, the host country, won thirty-three medals overall: thirteen gold, eleven silver, and nine bronze. The United States won the second most medals with twenty-eight: nine gold, seven silver, and twelve bronze. Norway had the third highest amount of medals with twenty-six: eleven gold, five silver, and ten bronze. All together, 295 medals were awarded during these Olympics.