Winter Sports Quiz: Trivia Questions and Answers
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1. What is the name of the Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting?
Biathlon
2. Which country is considered the birthplace of modern ice hockey?
Canada
3. A sport in which players run on the ice and rub it with brushes?
Curling
4. In which year did figure skaters compete in the Olympics for the first time?
In 1908
5. Who is considered the inventor of the snowboard? He stapled two skis together for his daughter and produced what is known as a snurf, which can actually be considered the first snowboard.
Sherman Poppen
6. In what year and in what country was the first hockey game played?
In 1875 in Canada
7. What does the machine whose name is Resurfacer do?
Restores the surface of the ice
8. Who is Vladislav Tretiak?
A prominent Soviet ice hockey player, goalkeeper and coach.
9. What is the name of the world's first female figure skater?
Irina Slutskaya
10. Who doesn't play hockey?
Coward