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1. Which decathlete was the youngest to win a gold medal in the Olympics?

2. During which Games was the first Olympic Village built to accommodate competitors and officials?

3. Who is the only athlete to win a gold medal in different sports in both the Summer and the Winter Olympics?

4. How many rounds were fought in ancient Olympic boxing matches?

5. Who was the first woman swimmer to win gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games?

6. Who among these sailors won four consecutive gold medals in Olympic Finn Class sailing?

7. Which of these siblings combined to win five Olympic track-and-field gold medals during a career in which they set 26 world records?

8. Who won the Olympic marathon in 1972 in Munich, West Germany, becoming the first American in 64 years to win the event?

9. Which British athlete won the gold medal for the decathlon at successive Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984?

10. Who won gold medals in freestyle wrestling in three consecutive Olympics?

11. Who won nine Olympic gold medals during the 1980s and 1990s, including four gold medals at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles?

12. Who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome while running barefoot, setting an unofficial world record?

13. Who won gold medals in two 400-metre events at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, setting a world record in one that lasted two decades?

14. Which athlete was stripped of decathlon and pentathlon gold medals won at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden?

15. The ancient Olympic Games were abolished in what year?

16. The modern Olympic Games were first held in what year?

17. Who was the first to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event?

18. Who was the first man to win the Olympic gold medal in both the 200-metre and the 400-metre races?

19. Who was the first to win a medal in both swimming and diving in the same Olympics?

20. Who earned gold medals in the 3-metre springboard and 10-metre platform diving events at both the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games?

21. Which of these was an athletic and musical competition in honour of Apollo in ancient Greece?

22. How many times has Great Britain hosted the Olympic Games?

23. Who is considered the architect of the modern Olympics?

24. During the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which team enters the stadium first?