Cold Weather Games
- Question: In what sport would one find a loppet?
- Answer: A loppet is a cross-country ski run.
- Question: What might one see posted at a ski tournament?
- Answer: In skiing, an alpine combined is the total score derived from slalom and downhill events.
- Question: The captain of a curling team is called:
- Answer: In curling, a game played on ice, the captain is called a skip.
- Question: What is the name of the prize awarded the National Hockey League champions?
- Answer: Lord Stanley awarded the first prize named for him in 1893 to Canada’s championship hockey team. The Stanley Cup was made international in 1914.
- Question: What is the object that hockey players send across the ice called?
- Answer: Hockey players use a rubber disc called a puck. Getting it into the opposing team’s goal earns a point.
- Question: What sport was the first to be made an event in the Winter Olympic Games?
- Answer: Figure skating was named an official sport of the Winter Olympics in 1908.
- Question: Which of these relates to skiing?
- Answer: The abstemmen is the position of the body before a skiier makes a stem turn, an important move in downhill racing.
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