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How many Olympic sports can you name?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by JakeandElwood, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    There are 32 and you have eight minutes to name them.
    http://www.sporcle.com/games/olympicsports2008.php
     
  2. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    Got 27 of 32. I typed in field hockey, and it didn't accept it. Bullshit. Also missed weightlifting (duh!), cycling, modern pentathlon and table tennis.
     
  3. Cadet

    Cadet Guest

    22 of 32. It was picky, so it didn't accept the one I spelled wrong and the one I didn't have the exact term for.
     
  4. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    28, and I'm kicking myself over three I didn't get. Table tennis, Weightlifting and Water Polo I should have had, Kayaking, I don't think would have occured to me.
     
  5. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Volleyball
    Basketball
    Baseball
    Softball
    Track and Field
    Swimming
    Cycling
    Wrestling
    Team handball
    Diving
    Synch Swimming
    Tennis
    Archery
    Fencing
    Shooting
    Gymnastics
    Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Soccer
    Ping Pong
    Rowing
    Kayak
    Sailing
    Badminton
    Modern Pentathlon
    Equestrian
    Boxing
    Water Polo
    Whitewater
    Field Hockey
    Weightlifting
    Beach Volleyball


    That's all I've got.
     
  6. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    In the actual test, some of those are grouped: Volleyball/Beach volleyball, both types of gymnastics, I think whitewater counts the same as kayaking.
     
  7. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    I'd probably lose for typing ping pong instead of table tennis too.
     
  8. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Maybe, but at least you thought of it, unlike me.
     
  9. Walter_Sobchak

    Walter_Sobchak Active Member

    I got 24/32. It definitely helps that it's in alphabetical order so you can figure out some of the ones you're missing. Don't think I would have gotten archery without that, for example.

    I stupidly missed gymnastics. Ugh. Other than that, I missed hockey (I also typed in field hockey), handball, trampoline, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing and shooting.
     
  10. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    You know, I typed in field hockey first, and then when it got rejected just called it hockey, since that's what it's called in the rest of the world.
     
  11. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Trampoline is a sport?
     
  12. Cadet

    Cadet Guest

    I tried "rifle" and "pistol" but didn't think to try "shooting."
     
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