Can you name the Winter Olympic Host Countries?

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Winter Olympic Host Countries Quiz

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Published: February 16th, 2010
Category: Geography
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Tags: Olympics Quizzes, Country Quizzes, host, winter, Winter Olympics, Host Countries

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	yippeeyappee:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:44 GMT	10 points
	I remember being totally inspired by the Sarajevo torch ceremony - that young girl at the top was radiant with pride!

	geodude:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:44 GMT	2 points
	i always miss yugoslavia, it's incredible :(

	pbrown:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:46 GMT	26 points
	These olympic quizzes have been awesome

	chikka2:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	8 points
	I remember the Lillehammer gnomes popping up out of the snow. Unique!

	shakescene:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:52 GMT	16 points
	(Joins a hundred others in beating own forehead with soggy Olympic mascot.) How could I forget Sarajevo 1984? (Torvill & Dean may never forgive me.)

	cheezguyty:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 19:56 GMT	16 points
	Could you accept Bosnia and Herzegovina for Yugoslavia? Also, perhaps Russia as a bonus? (they will host the 2014 Winter Olympics)

	moegoldberg:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:03 GMT	21 points
	I second Russia as a bonus answer

	Golden:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:05 GMT	1 point
	I third that notion too! Go Sochi!

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	mendelevium:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:09 GMT	5 points
	i wonder if Vancouver will receive the same boom Sarajevo received after they hosted the olympics

	TheBigE1980:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:22 GMT	44 points
	@cheezguyty: When Sarajevo hosted, it was in the country of Yugoslavia, so I don't think that B&H should be accepted.

	Hejman:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:26 GMT	7 points
	Keep the Olympic quizzes coming!

	evelyn3372:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:28 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! Interesting that there are only a few countries that have hosted the Winter Olympics. I missed Yugoslavia. I always forget the "former countries" in these quizzes!

	Morbo:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:37 GMT	14 points
	@mendelevium: Did you mean a figurative or literal "boom"?

	kbaker1819:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:37 GMT	0 points
	How have .9% of people not gotten this year's country?

	zwieblekopf:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:47 GMT	8 points
	@truthless_czar, it that's the case I should be excused from knowing any president before reagan because I wasn't alive then

	Gleece:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 20:54 GMT	2 points
	While Sarajevo was part of Yugoslavia when it hosted the games, the Olympics are officially hosted by cities rather than by countries. For that reason, I would accept Bosnia & Herzegovina as an answer. Sarajevo, and not Yugoslavia, was the host of the games, and it was Sarajevo that was the host, and Sarajevo is in B&H.

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	km3t:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 21:13 GMT	17 points
	Montreal games were in the summer, Stu.

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	croverja:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 21:44 GMT	28 points
	In case anyone was wondering what .9 percent missed Canada, I missed it. While watching the Olympics.

	y2jdilemma:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 21:53 GMT	5 points
	Imagine why surprise when I typed Finland and it didnt come up and realized Helsinki hosted the Summer Games.

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	Esme:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	7 points
	It's always amazing to me that Sweden and Finland have hosted Summer Olympiads but not Winter. And if it weren't for the cancelled '40 and '44 Games, Japan and Italy could each move up a notch. (There's an Axis joke in there somewhere, but I'm not touching it.)

	Hejman:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 23:10 GMT	15 points
	The argument that cities host the Olympics and not countries would be fine if this quiz didn't ask you to name the COUNTRIES in which the winter games have been held. If you read the instructions there's not really an argument to be made based on cities.

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	DirtyKash:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 23:54 GMT	10 points
	MovieDynamic: but only twice for the Winter Olympics. Calgary 88 and Vancouver 10.

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	MovieDynamic:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 00:27 GMT	16 points
	Oh yeah. Should I delete that comment? Vote up for yes, down for no.

	caramba:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 00:41 GMT	6 points
	@MovieDynamic: You make me laugh and that's worth something

	kiwitahi:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 01:04 GMT	5 points
	Interesting that the Winter Olympics have never been held in the Southern Hemisphere, even though there are plenty of great ski places. 2018 maybe?

	spottedcow:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 02:18 GMT	1 point
	@kiwitahi: I agree...but with the opposite seasons down there, I guess it would be to much of a hassle to move the winter olympics to the "summer"

	MechTimber:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 02:26 GMT	4 points
	@Esmw I imagine it would be unlikely Italy and japan would have more than one if WW2 had not canceled the Olympics as the Olympics awarded to those cities were awarded again to make up for missing it the first time.

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	icing:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 03:22 GMT	13 points
	Having grown up near Lake Placid, NY, which hosted both the '32 and '80 games, I'm wondering if mendelevium is being sarcastic or serious? Many people think that hosting the Olympics stimulates the local economies, but actually, it often saddles cities with mind-boggling debt, and in the case of Upstate New York, we now have a bunch of outdated venues that are hard to re-develop. You just don't get a lot of biathlete tourists or retirees on bobsleigh excursions ...