Trivia: Test Your Olympic Knowledge
The Summer Olympics begin on July 27, but how well do you know the Games?
A Bethel Park native has qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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From Michael Phelps winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to Nadia Comăneci receiving the first perfect 10 in 1976, there have been several unforgettable moments in Olympic history.
As hundreds of world-class athletes prepare to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning July 27, Patch is celebrating the start of the games by posting Olympic trivia questions.
Guess by voting in the polls below. The correct answers will be posted in this story by 5 p.m. today. That way, you'll be able to see how you did.
Amanda Harnocz
4:54 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012
Here's the answers!
1. Seven.
2. He won all these medals even though he had a wooden leg.
3. Golf. It was an Olympic event in 1900 and 1904.
4. Tarzan. Johnny Weismuller, who won two swimming gold medals, in 1924 and in 1928. Buster Crabbe, who won a swimming bronze in 1928. Hermann Brix, who won silver in the shot put in 1928. Glen Morris, who took gold in the decathlon in 1936."