2022 Winter Games by CoenM

Champion(s):

helene
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.


Runner(s)-Up:

GrahamJ
The real world is complex, so remember your origin.


Quiz Description

It's never too early.

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Questions:

Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Games, becoming the first national capital to host the Winter Games since what EUROPEAN CITY did so in 1952?

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Oslo

After several potential hosts dropped out due to a lack of support at home, Beijing was awarded the Games by besting what FORMER CAPITAL OF KAZAKHSTAN in IOC voting?

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Almaty

What VENUE from the 2008 Summer Games will host the opening and closing ceremonies?

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Beijing National Stadium (The Bird's Nest)

The Beijing National Aquatics Center (aka the Water Cube) will be renovated to fit a 4000 seat venue for what SPORT?

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Curling

There being a noticeable lack of mountains in Beijing proper, what DISTRICT northwest of the city will host alpine skiing and the sliding sports? According to the organizing committee's website, the district has become better connected to the world by hosting the "World Car Camping Conference and the International Conference on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics in 2014, and the World Potato Congress in 2015."

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Yanqing

The Zhangjiakou cluster will host what SPORT, which is expected to offer events for women, ending its status as the last male-only sport at the Winter Olympics?

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Nordic combined

What TWO WORDS complete the English translation of the Games' motto: "Joyful Rendezvous Upon Pure [BLANK] and [BLANK]"?

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Ice, Snow

Pictured here, the official emblem for the 2022 Games has a design inspired by the Chinese character for what WORD?

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winter

What SPORT could nearly triple its event total from PyeongChang, as its federation has proposed adding seven additional events for 2022, including natural track races for men and women, doubles for women, and sprint single and doubles for men and women?

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luge

What SPORT, which looks like ice hockey played on a football field-sized ice sheet using sticks and a ball reminiscent of field hockey, may make its first Olympic appearance since being a demonstration sport in 1952?

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bandy

Part of the infrastructure improvements for these Games is a new international airport, known for now as Beijing Daxing International Airport, whose terminal building was designed by what ARCHITECT, dubbed "Queen of the curve" by The Guardian, the first woman to ever win the Pritziker Architecture Prize?

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Zaha Hadid

While China vaulted to the top of the medals table at the 2008 Summer Games, they seem less poised to repeat this feat in 2022, as they only won one gold medal in PyeongChang, when Wu Dajing set a world record at what DISTANCE in short track speed skating?

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500 meters