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6 2020 Tokyo quizzes and 60 2020 Tokyo trivia questions.
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  2020 Summer Olympic Games: Top 10 Nations    
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206 nations took part in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games hosted by Tokyo, held from 23 Jul to 8 August 2021.
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  Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games    
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"United by Emotion". The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games took place from 23 July to 8 August 2021. A total of 11,090 athletes from 205 nations competed in 339 events offered in 33 sports. How much can you recall?
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  Game On at the Olympics   popular trivia quiz  
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In 2016 it was announced that five new sports would debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games so, The Drop Bears decided to take a look at other sports and when they also called "Game On" at the Games.
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  2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics    
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The athletics events were held from 31st July to 8th August 2021 mainly at Tokyo Olympic Stadium. There were some unexpected winners during the ten-day events.
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  2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1    
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Interesting highlights of Tokyo Olympics held from July to August 2021 featuring new events and surprise medal winners.
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  2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming    
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The swimming events were dominated by the Americans and Australians. The competitions took place from 25th July to 6th August 2020 at Tokyo Olympic Aquatics Centre.
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trivia question Quick Question
Norway won the men's 1500m and what other men's event in a new world record time?

From Quiz "2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics"





2020 Tokyo Trivia Questions
1. There were 48 events in athletics which was one more than Rio 2016. Poland won the new event the 4 x 400m mixed relay. Which country was the surprise silver medallist?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: Dominican Republic

Poland won the historic first gold medal of the event ahead of Dominican Republic, the surprise silver medal winner, and United States winning the bronze. The men were the lead and anchor runners with the second and third run by the women.

2. There were 37 events in swimming. How many events were competed for the first time?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: 3

There were three new events: men's 800m freestyle, women's 1500 m freestyle and the mixed 4 x 100 m medley relay. U.S. swimmer Robert Finke won the men's 800m freestyle new event. He completed a double on the long distance event with the victory in the 1500m freestyle. Katie Ledecky of USA won the women's 1500 m freestyle new event and the 800 m freestyle. Great Britain won the mixed 4 x 100 m medley relay finshing ahead of China and Australia.

3. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games marked the first instance in the history of the Olympic Games, in which the international multi-sport event was postponed and held one year later than the originally scheduled dates. What event caused the delay?

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Japan reported its first COVID-19 case on 16 January 2020. In March 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG) announced that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, originally scheduled to be held from 24 July to 9 August 2020, would take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021.

4. Which small nation won their first ever Olympic medal (bronze in shooting)?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: San Marino

Female trap shooter Alessandra Perilli won a bronze medal, the first ever Olympic for her country. She then partnered Gian Marco Berti to win the second medal, a silver in mixed trap shooting event.

5. Judo was introduced as a Summer Olympic sport in Tokyo in 1964. However only male judoka (experts in Judo) participated until the 1992 Olympics in which European city?

From Quiz Game On at the Olympics

Answer: Barcelona

Fourteen weight classes were contested for Judo at the Barcelona Olympics, with France, Spain, Cuba, South Korea and China winners of gold in the women's events, and the Unified Team (former Soviet Republics), Brazil, Japan, Poland and Hungary triumphant in the men's events. Female judoka had participated in the previous Games, in Seoul, where it was included, only, as a demonstration sport.

6. The winners of both 400m events for men and women came from what island nation?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: Bahamas

Bahamas won both events: Steven Gardiner won the men's event with compatriot, Shaunae Miller-Uibo winning the women's event. Shaune successfully defended the title she won at Rio 2016. Kirani James won the bronze medal. He won this event at London 2012 and the silver medal at Rio 2016 to complete his collection of all the three types of medals.

7. Ahmed Hafnaoui surprisingly won the men's 400m freestyle event (he was the slowest qualifier). What African country is he from?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: Tunisia

Tunisian Ahmed Hafnaoui (born 4 December 2002) was ranked no. 16th in the world in this event. He became the third swimmer to win a gold medal swimming from the 8th lane which was for the slowest qualifier. The previous two were: Franziska van Almsick (Germany), who won the 200m freestyle gold medal from Lane 8 at the 1994 FINA World Championships , held in Rome. Keiren Perkins (Australia) won the 1500m freestyle gold medal from Lane 8 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

8. Philippines won their first gold medal in Olympic history in what event?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: Weightlifting

Philippines first participated in 1924 Games at Paris. Hidilyn Diaz won the gold in the women's 55 kg category in weightlifting. She won a silver medal in 53 kg weight division in 2016 Rio Olympics.

9. Which country won the men's 100m sprint and 4 x 100m relay after domination by Jamaica in the last three Games at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: Italy

Marcell Jacobs won the event in a time of 9.8 sec, ahead of American Fred Kerley with a time of 9.84 sec and Canadian Andre de Grasse in 9.89 sec. All three runners clocked their personal best times. Jacobs won his second gold when Italy won the relay event in 37.50 sec. They pipped Great Britain by 0.01 sec. with Canada in third place. USA did not qualify for the final.

10. Which country won the men's 4 x 200m freestyle relay? They were the only team to finish under 7 minutes.

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: Great Britain

Great Britain finished in 6 mins. 58.58 sec in a new European record to win the event with ROC in second place and Australia third.

11. Due to a doping issue, athletes from which country competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games under the acronym ROC?

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: Russia

Founded in 1911, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) is Russia's National Olympic Committee. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a ban to all Russian athletes in 2019, prohibiting them from participating in any international sport events for a period of four years. The decision was made after WADA found that Russia had manipulated the laboratory data that was submitted to WADA.

12. Majlenda Kelmindi won the first gold medal for Kosovo at Rio 2016. Kosovo won two gold medals in what same event at Tokyo 2020?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: Judo

Kosovo won two golds from Judo: Distria Kraniqi in women's 48 kg weight class and Nora Gjakova in women's 57 kg weight class. At the 2016 Rio, Majlenda Kelmindi won the women's 52 kg weight class

13. Which event was a clean sweep of the podium by one country?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: Women's 100 m

Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah won the event in OR time of 10.61 sec. beating the previous record held Florence Griffith Joyner of 10.62 sec, set over 30 years earlier at the 1988 Seoul. Compatriots Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the silver in 10.74 sec and Shericka Jackson the bronze in 10.76 sec. Elaine Thompson-Herah became the first woman to become a double-double winner of the 100m and 200m sprints. She won the two events at 2016 Rio. She won her third gold medal with Jamaica winning the 4 x 100m relay.

14. The women's 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle were won by Australia. Which team from Asia won the silver medals in both events, for the first time in Olympic history?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: Hong Kong

Sioban Haughey (born 31 October 1997) was born in Hong Kong shortly after the handover to China. Her father is Irish and her mother is from Hong Kong. Emma McKeon won the 100m and Ariarne Titmus won the 200m.

15. Which nation did not send a delegation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games? This country also did not participate in the Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games.

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: North Korea

North Korea did not participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, due to COVID-19 concerns. North Korea boycotted both the Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games.

16. Skateboarding was the new event introduced at the Tokyo Olympics. What nation won the first two gold medals in the street event for men and women?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: Japan

Yuto Horigome won the gold medal in the men's event. Momiji Nishiya (born 2007) became the youngest person at the age of 13 to win a gold medal in the women's event.

17. What a load of shuttlecock! Which sport had to wait until the Barcelona Summer Olympic Games in 1992 to make its long-awaited Games debut?

From Quiz Game On at the Olympics

Answer: Badminton

1992 was the official debut for badminton at the Games but it didn't represent its first appearance there. It was introduced in 1972 at Munich as a demonstration sport. In its first Games there were four events; singles and doubles for both the men and women. A mixed doubles event was introduced in 1996 at the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games.

18. The gold medal was shared by two male athletes in what event?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: High jump

Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy shared the gold medal in high jump. Both athletes cleared the height of 2.37m with the same number of attempts. Maksim Nedaesekau of Belarus won the bronze with the same height but he lost on the countback.

19. South African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker created a new world record in what women's event?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: 200 m breaststroke

Tatjana Schoenmaker (born 9 July 1997) broke the world record in 200m breaststroke in a time of 2 min. 18.95 sec. She won a silver medal in 100m breaststroke behind American Lydia Jacoby. Thee previous world record of 2:19.11 had stood for almost 8 years -- it was held by Rikke Moller Pedersen (Denmark), set on 1 August 2013.

20. With an overall score of 466.20 points, Quan Hongchan of China broke the Olympic record set by Chen Ruolin (447.70 points) in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Which event did Quan Hongchan compete in?

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: Women's 10 metre platform diving

Quan Hongchan was born in Guangdong, China in 2007. At a very young age of 14, she performed three (out of five) perfect dives in the final round of the women's 10 meter platform diving event in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

21. Turkmenistan became the last ex-Soviet country to win their first Olympics medal, in what event?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: Weightlifting

Polina Guryeva won the silver medal in women's 59 kg weight class in weightlifting. Turkmenistan first participated in the 1966 Games at Atlanta.

22. Robin would not have been impressed when which sport was withheld from the Olympic Games programme for more than fifty years until its return in 1972?

From Quiz Game On at the Olympics

Answer: Archery

Archery made its Olympic debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France and remained for the next two Olympiads before its removal. It returned for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium before disappearing again. It was ignored until the Games came to Munich in 1972. In the years since then to 2016, South Korea has proven to be the most dominant country in the sport securing 39 medals overall (23 gold) with next best being the United States 16 medals (8 gold).

23. Kenya dominated the men's 3000m steeplechase event winning this event nine times in succession. Which country won this event for the first time?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: Morocco

Soufiane El Bakkali became the first Moroccan athlete to win this event. Kenyan athletes won this event nine times in succession from 1984 to 2016, Since the event was introduced at the 1920 Olympics, a Kenyan won it eleven times.

24. Which country finished 0.4 sec ahead of the USA to win the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: China

China finished in a new world record time of 7 min. 40.33 sec to win the event. United States were second in 7 min. 40.73 sec and Australia were third in 7 min. 41.29 sec.

25. Momiji Nishiya, a 13-year-old Japanese athlete, won a gold medal in a sport that made its debut in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. What sport is being described?

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: Skateboarding

Momiji Nishiya was born in Osaka, Japan in 2007. She won the women's street event. The four sports introduced in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.

26. The sport of 3x3 basketball was a new event at the Tokyo Olympics. Which were the two countries that won the men and women titles?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #1

Answer: Latvia and USA

Latvia won the men's event beating ROC 21-18 in the gold medal match. USA defeated ROC in the women's event 18-15 to win the gold. ROC = Russian Olympics Committee.

27. Since the Summer Olympics commenced in the Modern Era, fencing has been contested. However, what year did women's foil debut? Many events took place in Olympic Stadium of Colombes.

From Quiz Game On at the Olympics

Answer: Paris, 1924

The rules around foils are quite strict; the target is restricted to the torso, and double touches are disqualified. Points are only scored electronically with the tip of the foil, and in the Olympics, these hits are electronically scored. A bout is won when one competitor reaches fifteen points. A contest is usually nine bouts. In 1924, twenty three nations had contestants in fencing. Wheelchair fencing became a part of the Summer Paralympics in 1960.

28. Monica Plug won the first gold medal for Puerto Rico in women's singles in tennis at Rio 2016. They won their second gold medal in which women's event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #3 : Athletics

Answer: 100m hurdles

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.37 sec. She finished ahead of American Kendra Harrison and Jamaican Megan Tapper.

29. What team won both the 100m and 200m men's backstroke events?

From Quiz 2020 Tokyo Olympics Highlights #2 : Swimming

Answer: Russian Olympic Committee (ROC)

Evgeny Rykov (born 23 September 1996) won the two backstroke events. He beat favorite American Ryan Murphy who won the bronze medal in 100m event and silver in the 200m event.

30. Caeleb Dressel won five gold medals in swimming in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games. Which country did he represent?

From Quiz Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Answer: USA

Caeleb Remel Dressel was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, USA, in 1996. He won gold medals in the following five events: 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, 100 metre freestyle, 100 metre butterfly, 50 metre freestyle, and 4 x 100 metre medley.

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