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Last Week's Quiz

Created by Eli Robinson
Edited by Jonpaul Guinn

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  • Submit your answers by 2:30pm ET 2/25/26
  • Don't cheat. Cheating is bad. Using Google/AI/ChatGPT/Gemini IS cheating.
  • Trivia graders don't care about spelling (but try your hardest)
  • No negative points for incorrect responses (so guess to your heart's content)
  • Email [email protected] for clarification on any questions

The Winter Olympics are here, so it’s time for the quadrennial tradition of people using all sorts of words we don’t usually use like “bobsleigh” and “triple axel”.



Funny enough, it turns out that we often use a lot of Winter Olympic words and we just repurpose them for alpine competition.

In today’s game, we have replaced an Olympic word with its “normal” definition. You tell us the word that’s being defined.

SPORTS & GAMES Q1. Creating Coils: Skips, stones, and sweeps are all part of what Olympic sport that translates to “forming into coils or ringlets”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q2. Earth Extremities: Among the equipment athletes need to win gold in cross-country skiing are skis, boots, bindings, and a set of what “extremities of an axis of a sphere and especially of the earth's axis”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q3. Flat Fish: Ice hockey is one of a couple different sports where you’ll see athletes wearing what “family of rays with the pectoral fins greatly developed giving the fish a flat diamond shape”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q4. Covering Craftiness: Speaking of hockey, if a single player scores three goals in a game, then it’s said that they have accomplished what “crafty procedure or practice involving a covering for the head”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q5. Fund Facilitation: At the Cortina Sliding Centre, lugers will navigate 16 curves that all have different degrees of what “business conducted or services offered by an establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q6. Vertebrate Vehicles: Lugers aren’t the only ones heading down the track. Don’t forget the bobsledders, and the sliders competing in what “bony or more or less cartilaginous framework supporting the soft tissues and protecting the internal organs of a vertebrate”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q7. Powerful People: I think skiing a smooth course sounds a lot more fun than what Olympic discipline that purposely has “important or powerful people, especially in the motion picture or media industry” littered on the course to make navigation more difficult?



SPORTS & GAMES Q8. Aerial Alliums: As if that wasn’t difficult enough, aerialists ski as fast as they can down a mountain before launching themselves up what type of 15+ foot “Allium tricoccum”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q9. Single Skis: Getting shot at while skiing would stink but the event’s Norwegian military roots are kind of visible due to the serpentine movement of what “water skiing technique where the towee uses a single ski”?



SPORTS & GAMES Q10. Bodacious Boarders: Boarders like Chloe Kim and Scotty James specialize in getting big air as they head down the 180 degree version of what “device for smoking usually consisting of a tube having a bowl at one end and a mouthpiece at the other”?



TIEBREAKER Fast Feats: If you think this quiz went fast, try doing it on skis! Like French skier Simon Billy who, in 2023, set the world record for fastest skiing speed ever recorded at how many miles per hour?

Quiz is closed and your answers are now locked! Graders are grading and results will be sent on 2/25/26