¶ Brian's Olympic Fever and Quiz
So you're thinking about running , but not sure how to take the first step . My name is Brian Patterson and I'm here to help . Welcome to Brian's Rompod . Welcome back to brian's run pod , and it's me , your host , brian patterson .
Welcome you to the second part of my chat with my good friends john and paul and I'm not talking about the beatles , um , anyway , we're as near as good to the next best thing . Basically , in the second part , we continue our discussion about the Olympics and we do another first on Brian's Rompod . A quiz , would you believe it ?
Let's , so let's , lace up your running shoes and listen to this enjoyable discussion , and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did . You know all the time to watch things , but also , I just think the way we consume entertainment is different now , do you think because of the times we're living in , like you know , like certain countries ?
aren't included . I don't know if Russia is included , or is it ?
included as an Olympic team or something like that . Does that kind of dilute the Olympics experience for you ? Or you know , you still think it's kind of you know the best of the best you know are competing at an elite level . Yeah , I mean , I think you strip it back to what it is you know , to what the Olympics was originally . You know it hasn't changed .
It's still people running against each other or throwing something or you know a test of strength or whatever , and actually that's quite pure . You know , if you think about how you know and I know training will have changed , the facilities will have changed , the way we measure things will have changed .
But actually the 100 metres is eight people in a final running as fast as they can to get 100 meters away , and that you know that that can be done . Whether you're canadian from you know indonesia wherever . I think I think it's a great . You know that that is a great level of it and I think a lot of other sports and things have changed massively .
You think of football , you know var and just everything it you know . I suspect if you looked at that from you know what it was 100 odd years ago it would look completely different , but running 100 meters doesn't change much . People are quicker now you know , it's very pure reform yeah , performance correct and and it's a very you know , I think this .
I mean , I'm not a huge fan of boxing , but I get the sort of quite simple challenge in it . It's a duel , isn't it ? It's two big lumps trying to , or little guys . Other Tories yeah exactly , and I think there's lots of elements of the Olympics that are very much like that , of elements of olympics that are very much like that .
Yeah , yeah , I mean in terms of your , because your son's a lot older now . He's 12 , isn't ? he and not yet , yeah , not yet oh , yeah , oh , of course , you are his godfather , brian but we'll let you off next month , nearly by the time this one out .
He may will be 12 .
Yeah , we'll let you off , yeah so do you think the in that experience kind of translate downs to them , you know ? So what do you think , paul ?
well , it's interesting , isn't it ? Yeah , adam doesn't need much encouragement to take an interest in sport generally , but actually the last olympics he would have been 11 . I don't think he got particularly enthusiastic about them .
So maybe my challenge this time around is to sit and try and engage him , because I'm a big believer that , you know , sport is a great thing to . It's a great thing at work to talk about , you know , in terms of finding common ground , yeah , it's also quite inspiring , I I think , for young people to see that when you put a lot in , you get something out .
So this whole piece around your performance being a product of an awful lot of hard work , training , discipline , conditioning , diet , sacrifices so I think this year I'm going to set myself a bit of a challenge to make sure that I'm engaging him on the Olympics as much as I do with football and cricket I'm also a great when I was growing up with it a great
belief of kind of like , when you're at play , you kind of replicate the people you see on tv sort of thing being .
You know , because you know . I remember anna when she was small , pretending to run like kelly holmes or whether it was that 2004 , that kind of thing yes and I think that kind of pretend you know you're playing with it yes it's quite important yeah , so , yeah .
So they put themselves in the other individual's shoes yeah . Adam's probably a little bit the other side of that now in terms of his age group , but I still think there's an awful lot of inspiration to come from watching sports people yes , exactly , exactly , inspiration .
That's probably what it is , yeah and one of the big things I think is with Olympic athletes . Yes , they're different to what they were 20 years ago in terms of the remuneration they get from different sources and the level of backing . But they're not . You know you are overpaid premiership . They're not millionaire premiership footballers .
Yeah , you know they are , they're not millionaire premiership footballers . They are still people that are predominantly focusing on their sport .
I'm not saying that a lot of footballers don't , but I think , going back to John's point , there's a lot more purity there in terms of a lot of the disciplines that are there in the Olympic arena , in terms of the level of funding that these individuals have and the fact that sport is at the heart of what they do , as opposed to the way they get remunerated
for it . Certainly , in a lot of the marginal sports , and I'd probably say in a lot of the areas of athletics as well , I only found out the other day , lottery funding was thanks to John Major , was it yes ?
Good old John Major .
Was it yes , good old John .
Major . Yeah , I think he got the idea because he was into his cricket . Yeah , chelsea and cricket , big sportsman . Anyway , that's an aside , so not that this is a we're encroaching into a political debate Our election special on the 4th of July .
Sorry , we are moving book , we are moving . We are in purdah now , aren't we ? Yeah , yeah , yeah . Sorry , I can't say anything .
No , just strike that from the record yes , yes right , so right . I did kind of prepare a little quiz so I could either do a and it's a really simple . You know you shouldn't say it's simple , because now Paul and I are under pressure .
So I could either do I ask you one question , john , and then if you can't get a question , then it goes over to Confirm a friend . I can pass it on to Paul , or I can leave it . Just ask both of you or it's however you want to do it . I can pass it on to Paul , or I can leave it .
Just ask both of you , or it's however you want to do it , but you will get . I mean , I'm sure you'll get you'll definitely get all of these right , do them alternately , because we've been doing the questions alternately .
Yeah , you want to do it alternately .
We can just hope one of us doesn't have a complete brain freeze . Okay , I did actually test these out with Katie , my wife . Did Katie get them all right ? No , not all of them . No , no , no , oh , oh , he's looking at the back . I'm not cheating . I'm not cheating .
I mean what ?
is this ? So there's 20 questions . Oh wow , okay , so there'll be 10 each , so we'll start off with a really easy one .
I'll take that , okay
¶ Olympic Trivia Game Show
, john okay .
so in which city was the first modern olympic games held in 1896 ? I'm going to say athens . Correct , right over to you , did Paul ? Did you know that I would have got that ? Okay , right , paul . What five colours are on the Olympic rings ?
Okay , black , black , yellow , green , red , blue .
Correct , easy one . This one for you , paul . I mean John , you've got one wrong . How often are the Summer Olympic Games held ? They're held every four years , brian , right . Okay , over to you , paul . Which country has won the most Olympic medals overall ?
Is this Summer Olympics ? Only , only , yeah , I suppose .
Yeah , I'm gonna say usa , yep , correct , right thinking might be a tricky one , but I'm first of all on this question . You can get a bonus point . I'll tell you why . Okay , so what is the olympic motto ? Bonus point is is , if you can say it in greek , I've got a clue . Do you know what the olympic motto is ? No , I've got a clue .
Pull I'm just having a bit of a thing , can you not ? Can you not reach down and grab your 2012 ?
just don , just don't ever think about it . No , I don't .
No , faster , higher , stronger , yeah , okay , I'll be honest , I've never heard that . Oh really .
Never heard that , oh well .
I think they do it on , have it on , I don't know , sometimes on the stadium or something . Right , Paul ? In which year did women first compete in the Olympics ?
Oh gosh , I say I said well , I need to get my year picks 1950 .
It's funny Kate said that 1900 . Just 50 years out , paul .
Yeah , Level pegging , I think so .
John , which sport around it ? Then that are your level pegings , I think .
These are trickier than you doubt , Brian , by the way .
So , john , which sport is nicknamed the Queen of the Olympic Games ? Which sport ? Which sport is nicknamed the Queen of the Olympic Games ? This is a complete guess . The Queen of the Olympic Games ? I don't know , something like equestrian . Is that a sport ? Hang on , that's not a sport , that's an event , isn't it ?
Let me get a sport tennis , athletics , we've got okay . Track and field , alright , okay . Which , paul ? Which country hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics ? I can't even remember . This is terrible isn't it we probably should have Swatted up Before this Just even a cursory Japan Correct , correct .
When was , when was , when was , by this point , do you know when was the previous Time ? It oh because it was all , of course , it was all Covid , in fact . Do you know the previous time it was hosted in Japan , tokyo ? I think it was all COVID . Do you know the previous time it was hosted in Japan , tokyo ? I think it was in my lifetime .
I'm not sure it was . I'm going to go 72 .
64 . All right , definitely not in my life . All right , okay , right , john , who is the most decorated Olympian of all time ? I think it's Michael Phelps , correct , right , paul ? What is the name of the Olympic Flames journey from Greece to the host city called ? So we had it coming through .
Yeah . Turkey didn't we yeah , the old torch relay .
The Olympic torch relay .
All remembered .
Yeah , very good , right , john . A little bit tricky this one , but in which year were the first Winter Olympics games held ? Can I have a clue ? They're clearly not in the same year as the . Well , up until I don't know a certain point they were held in the same year . I can't remember which year . Oh , they did used to be in the same year .
So yeah , that's right , I'm going to go .
58 . 24 , 1924 . You knew that , paul , didn't you ? No , right , next one for you , paul . Which country won the first gold medal in the Model Olympics ? First gold medal In 1896 . Yeah , which country won the first gold medal in the model olympics ? First gold medal in 1896 ? Yeah , which country ?
won the first gold medal in the modern olympics .
Great Britain , United States , really wanted you to get that right , John . How many sports were included in the first modern olympic games ? And I can probably say you can say I'll take a correct answer if you say under so many or Under a thousand .
No , no , no no , no , no , God , that's just silly , isn't it ?
No , let's say between you know between that . So , because I don't even know how many sports they're on now . There weren't that many , it was , there was not many at all . What sort of range am I allowed ? Are we talking like 5 or 10 ? How many ? So if I said like between 15 and 20 , that's not my answer .
By the way no , no , no , I'm just testing , yeah , yeah if you were doing , if you were doing that kind of thing between yeah , so yeah it would .
There was not not many sports come on , john , you can get this did you think 1896 .
Okay , between 10 and 15 . If you said 5 to 10 . I was going to say 5 to 10 right how many was it , it was 9 . Round it up to 10 , 10 to 15 is correct . Right , you may not know this , Paul who was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field in a single Olympics . Now , if you don't know this , then I don't mind .
You know , no . First American woman to win three gold medals . I've got two in my head , florence Griffiths .
Yes , that's what I was thinking of . No , he hasn't said that . He hasn't said that . He said he had another one in his head as well .
Or Mary Degastainy . They were the two .
Wilma Rudolph .
Oh , I wouldn't have got that .
Right , so you should get this one . These are easy , Paul . Where do we get to the tough ones ?
I've forgotten about Wilma .
Right . So now , john , what Olympic sport combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting ? Is it the modern pentathlon ? I've got that completely wrong , haven't I ? This is an Olympicic , this is a winter olympic , oh right . Oh , I don't know , I don't know , it is the biath .
Biathlon , oh , barton crikey there's a bit of a clue there with two events in all , right , okay .
So , paul , in what year did the Olympics first feature a mascot ? So it's quite recent in the last 40 years . Let's go for 50 years , right Thanks ?
That's just interesting . I just got this inkling that it might have been might possibly have been Montreal in 1976 . 72 it was the Munich games well , that's not in the last 50 years oh , dear , ron .
I think you've lost this quiz , got my name wrong and then gave him a double .
Oh dear Right . Basic maths .
Oh , brilliant . Okay , All right . So , john , here we go . Yeah , so which city is the only one to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times ?
I think I know this , I think yeah .
So ones that spring to mind would be Tokyo , paris , la , maybe Athens , because a few were there . But I'm going to say , I'm going to say Tokyo , I'm going to say London Correct , is it London ?
Yes , Well I didn't know that .
What was it 1900 . Well , london , correct . Is it London ? Yes , well , I didn't know that ?
what was it ?
1900 . That's the only well . Paris had done it three times after yeah , but they haven't hosted it . Paris had never hosted it no they have yeah no , no , but I'm saying , that was my question , paul will . Paris . Will they be the next ?
one , I think .
I don't think so . No , they did .
19 was it 19 , 1904 ? John's looking at the programme , the Olympic programme he's making his crews he's not looking at his famous saying .
The motto isn't anywhere on the official programme right Paul , who is the youngest individual gold medalist in the history of the Olympic Games , and if you . If you know this , then you deserve light . Well , it's going to be somebody .
I think this might be Fanny Reeson , but I haven't got a clue .
No , marjorie Gestrig diving in 1936 .
I was going to say give him a chance to answer .
I was going to say he's rolling off the tongue Right Now . This is an easy one .
Now you've got this one .
John , what is the name of the international organisation that governs the Olympic Games ? Now I'm confused . I'm going to confuse it with the cricket one . Which the cricket one is ? Is it the IOC , Correct ? Yeah , okay , I was going to confuse it with the ICC .
So the cricket one you said it is the cricket one , it's not the IOC .
No , the Olympics . One is yeah , don't play your local games , paul , right Now .
Last one for you , paul Well for both of us because he's done the second , which Olympic event is known for its five discipline challenge , including fencing , swimming , equestrian show , jumping and combined event of pistol shooting and cross-country running so it's got five events in it , isn't it ?
and it's quite new . It's the biathlon . Paint is the . I think it might be the modern pentathlon .
Correct . Well done . I think we can say it's a tie . No , I think Paul won by two , I was keeping count .
Well done , paul .
Were you keeping count . Well , maybe it was one , I don't know , but you definitely shaded it .
¶ Podcast Guest Thanked for Participation
Thanks for the really easy question .
Thanks , brian . We now have a quiz for you . The good news is that I never keep going on about things , so John will never hear about this quiz ever again .
Anyway , well , anyway , thanks very much for agreeing to come on the podcast . I really hope you enjoyed it . Thanks very much for agreeing to come on the podcast .
I really hope you enjoyed it thanks very much , little bit of a glitch in between halfway through where it stopped recording , but anyway , I think we got around that yeah , thanks to John's expertise unfortunately it cut off at the bit where I got all the quiz questions right , so we then had to re-record and make it look more genuine by letting Paul win .
So yeah , so I hope all our listeners have enjoyed today . Anyway , I just want to say again thanks very much , thank you pleasure .
Thank you , Brian , nice to see you alright , cheerio , cheerio .
Okay , thanks , bye , bye .