The prompts for Fibbing Friday this week are:
As we have a fortnight of the Olympics, here are the other 10 questions in the newsletter this month. Fib away for gold my friends!
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In which four years have the modern Olympics been cancelled? During the four years when they chose not to stage them.
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When were women first permitted to compete in the modern Olympics? During the Second World War when all of the men chose to enter the sharp-shooting events.
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When did the first Refugee team make its debut? When the original fugee team retired.
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What does the Olympic motto “Citius, altius, fortius” mean? This city is impossible to fortify.
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What do the five Olympic rings represent? Five of the seven rings of Saturn. Two had already been claimed by MasterCard.
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Who is the most decorated modern Olympian, with 23 Olympic gold medals? Liberace
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Which two countries discovered they had the same flag at the 1936 Olympics? Liberia and the U.S. They had an arm-wrestling match and Liberia lost, so had to remove 47 of its stars. It got to keep all its stripes.
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At the 1908 Olympics the City of London Police team won the gold medal in which event? Bobby Sledding
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Which city will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028? Draper, South Dakota
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Who founded the modern Olympics? I don’t believe it was ever lost.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 