Can you name the Winter Olympic events based on these 5-word descriptions? by Hejman

Five Words	Event
Five G's; Sledding; Head First
Salchow, axel- a triple lutz!
Rocks, sweepers: Chess on ice
Skates; Mass start; Small rink
Push, run, jump sit, steer
On skis: Real fast: Gates
Fugitive from the X Games
Passing, shooting, icing checking- Scoring!

Five Words	Event
Downhill; Need speed for liftoff
Ski, ski, ski, ski- Shoot!
Sledding; feet first; bodytight suits
Skate- Fast as you can
Big air; Acrobats on skiis
Ski fast; on flat ground
Cross country, plus ski jump
Ballroom on ice; No jumps

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Gimme 5: Winter Olympics Events Quiz

by Hejman

Created Feb 9, 2010 in Sports
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	jonesjeffum:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 06:19 GMT		0 points
	ballroom

	PYTHON37:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 07:14 GMT		-2 points
	Just jumping should work for ski jumping.

	Hejman:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 11:51 GMT		6 points
	Spelling and jumping corrected. I was always better at jumping than spelling anyway.

	huey782:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 15:57 GMT		10 points
	I can see this getting published on Friday.

	Hejman:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 16:07 GMT		2 points
	Thanks huey782, I certainly wouldn't be opposed to that.

	benjiman:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 16:09 GMT		2 points
	Didn't get Ice Dancing as it didn't accept Ice dance. Can this be changed?

	Hejman:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 18:41 GMT		3 points
	Benjiman- Ice Dance seems a logical alternative, I'll add it as an accepted answer.

	trivial:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 19:04 GMT		1 point
	"Skis" not "skiis." To be technical, the figure skating with jumps is called freestyle and the one without is ice dancing. They are both disciplines of figure skating.

	starrynight:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 20:19 GMT		3 points
	Nominated ; )

	Hejman:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 20:42 GMT		4 points
	Thanks, starrynight. I have corrected my double strike on the "i" in ski, trivial. You comment about figure skating is anything but, well.. trivial. You're absolutely right that ice dancing is an event in the figure skating discipline. I checked several sources and could not find the use of "freestyle" as applied to figure skating. I may just be missing it. There is, of course, the "free skate" which is a part of the figure skating competition, but the official Olympic site just refers to the events as "men's figure skating", "women's figure skating", "pairs figure skating" and "ice dancing." I included ice dancing for a variety of reasons, but I must admit that one of them was just to give me an even 16 answers. I think what I'll do is make "freestyle" an accepted answer for "figure skating" and "figure skating" an accepted alternate for ice dancing since it is a figure skating event. It wasn't my goal to be tricky or clever there.

	trivial:	Feb 10th, 2010 at 21:02 GMT		2 points
	Yeah, I don't think you really need to change anything on the skating stuff. It was clear what you were going for, I just wanted to point out that ice dancing is still considered part of figure skating.

	darthconnie:	Feb 13th, 2010 at 13:00 GMT		0 points
	It is Axel not axle

	uefa81glory:	Feb 28th, 2010 at 18:29 GMT		0 points
	moguls?

	Hejman:	Feb 28th, 2010 at 23:13 GMT		2 points
	Moguls are an event in Alpine Skiing.

	admo:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 01:17 GMT		0 points
	too easy

	Mortz:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 00:54 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz, but you shouldn't separate ice dancing and figure skating unless you also separate the freestyle disciplines like mogul and aerial.

	Mortz:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 00:56 GMT		1 point
	Hejman: Moguls got nothing to do with alpine skiing, it is part of the freestyle skiing program.

	Hejman:	Mar 20th, 2010 at 01:01 GMT		2 points
	You're absolutely right Mortz, I just wrote "alpine" instead of "freestyle" there- thanks for the correction. As to the separation of "ice dancing", I think addressed that (as best as possible) in my February 11th comment, above.

	SuperSebastian:	Apr 17th, 2010 at 23:38 GMT		1 point
	Cross Country is a hint for Nordic Combined, but it seems odd to have that hint and the answer to the previous question is Cross-Country skiing.

	Hejman:	Apr 18th, 2010 at 00:43 GMT		1 point
	@SuperSebastian- consider a friendly nudge in the right direction on the previous answer.

	TubeChat:	May 5th, 2010 at 16:10 GMT		1 point
	Curling is shuffleboard on ice, not chess

	Hejman:	May 6th, 2010 at 03:08 GMT		1 point
	Actually, TubeChat, while curling certainly resembles shuffleboard, it's nickname really is, "Chess on ice": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling.

	pantherfan:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 23:55 GMT		1 point
	Curling is a combination of bowling and household chores...good quiz.