Winter Sports on Ice and Snow

What this quiz asks

• How many players does each ice hockey team normally have on the ice at once, including the goaltender?
• Which Caribbean country's bobsleigh team made its Olympic debut at Calgary 1988 and inspired the film Cool Runnings?
• In skeleton, do riders slide down the ice track head first and lying face down?
• Telemark skiing, with its free heel and deep kneeling turn, takes its name from a region of which country?
• Up to and including 2026, the Winter Olympics had been held in the Southern Hemisphere at least once.
• At the 1980 Winter Olympics, the US ice hockey team's 'Miracle on Ice' was a win over which team?
• This sport made its debut on the Winter Olympic programme at which Games?
• Which figure-skating jump is the only one taken off while moving forwards, giving it an extra half rotation?
• Select ALL of these that are Nordic skiing events.
• Roughly how long is an ice hockey rink, in metres?
• Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won ice dance gold at Sarajevo 1984 skating to which piece of music?
• Women's ski jumping made its Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
• Order these alpine skiing events by the typical speed of the racers, fastest first.
• Which Norwegian figure skater won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936 and later became a Hollywood film star?
• Select ALL of these countries that had hosted the Winter Olympics by 2026.
• Figure skating dropped its perfect score of 6.0 after a judging scandal at which Winter Olympics?
• How many speed-skating gold medals did American Eric Heiden win at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid?
• The first recorded organised indoor ice hockey game was played in 1875 in which city?
• The V-style of ski jumping, with the skis spread apart in flight, was popularised in the late 1980s by a jumper from which country?
• The Cresta Run, the historic ice track for head-first tobogganing, is in which Swiss resort?