Ice Dancing! by Erica

Champion(s):

Michalle


Runner(s)-Up:

grnwaz


Quiz Description

We ALL love ice dancing and now you can answer some questions about it.

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Questions:

We all know Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir got gold in Pyeongchang. Which pairs got silver and bronze?

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Papadakis/Cizeron; Shib "sibs".

Torvill and Dean famously bent the timing rules to dance to Bolero during the 1983-84 season, including at the Sarajevo Olympics. Which composer wrote Bolero?

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Ravel

Currently, skaters perform a Short Dance, including a set pattern dance, and a Free Dance. Name one of the two dances that were combined in 2010 to become the Short Dance.

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Compulsory; Original

Pattern dances have some fun names! Fill in two of these blanks. ____ Samba; ____ Polka; Cha Cha _____; _____ Blues

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Silver, Yankee, Congelado, Midnight

Certain countries are powerhouses in ice dancing; recently, this has included the Americans and the Canadians. What country's athletes failed to medal at the 2018 Olympics for the first time since the inception of the sport in 1976?

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Russia

Two US Olympic silver medalists are now married. She's been an Olympic commentator since 2016 and he got fifth in 2014's Dancing with the Stars season. Who are they?

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Tanith Belbin and Charlie White.

We all love when the Shibutani's do twizzles, right? Even when it's been the same sequence for 3 consecutive seasons? Anyway, what American candy company currently produces Twizzlers?

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Hershey

At the 2002 Salt Lake City olympics, the Canadian pairs team was awarded a gold after allegations of vote-fixing came to light, when the French judge claimed she was pressured to give the Russians the gold in exchange for a French advantage in ice dancing. What were the names of the Canadian couple, whose plight was quickly parodied on SNL?

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Jamie Sale and David Pelletier

This move is "the two-foot equivalents of rockers and counters, in the same way that mohawk turns are the two-foot equivalents of three turns and brackets" (source: wikipedia). They are an integral part of this year's pattern dance, the Rhumba, and the commentators mentioned them frequently. How close were you listening?

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Choctaws

What is the name of the series of 6 international competitions (plus a final) that occur in the fall of the year and which are used both as predictors for the World Championships and, in Olympic years, an additional qualifying tournament.

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Grand Prix

When Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir get married, how many Olympic medals - and what types - will they have in their home?

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6 gold, 4 silver

Many of the top ice dance teams have trained under coaches Marina Zueva and Igor Shpilband. What midwestern state do they now call home?

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Michigan