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Day 3 Quiz: Time's Up for Wednesday's Olympic Quiz!

How did you do, Verona-Cedar Grove Patch readers?

 

Verona-Cedar Grove readers have had several hours to ponder our daily Olympic quiz.

We asked four questions today and now it's time to see how you fared.

Hundreds of world-class athletes are preparing to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning Friday.

Patch is celebrating the start of the games by posting Olympic trivia questions all this week in the morning and providing the answers at night.

1. Which of these cities has never hosted the Games?

Answer: Madrid.
Moscow hosted in 1980, Seoul in 1988 and Melbourne in 1956.

2. True or false. The United States has never won a gold medal in any fencing event still being held.

Answer: True.

3. When were women first allowed to compete in the modern Olympics?

Answer: 1900.

4. One of the events in which men compete directly with women is Sailing. Which is the other?

Answer: Equestrian 


How well do you know your Olympic trivia? Let Verona-Cedar Grove Patch know how well you did in our comments section. Good luck. 


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