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Answers: Test Your Olympic Knowledge Part Three

Answers to Friday's Olympic quiz.

Posted by Jennifer Sloat (Editor), July 31, 2012 at 10:21 am

As promised, here are the answers to Patch's Olympic quiz, which was posted on Friday. Be sure to also come back to Patch for another quiz.

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: FALSE

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

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