Snow Skills

The Winter Olympic Games will have been held 20 times when Torino 2006 begins on February 10. These locations make for great apres ski conversation including good trivia challenges.

Good trivia questions include what cities have hosted the Games more than once and and when? Have the Olympics been held in Italy before? In 1994, the International Olympic Committee changed the cycle of Summer and Winter Games being in the same year: where were those Games held? How many times have the Games been held in North America and where? Where are the next Winter Olympic Games scheduled to be held after Torino?

You can answer those questions and make up your own from the following list. Here, in chronological order, are the 20 Winter Games of the modern Olympics:

1924 - Chamonix, France
1928 - St. Moritz, Switzerland
1932 - Lake Placid, New York, USA
1936 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1940 - Canceled
1944 - Canceled
1948 - St. Moritz, Switzerland
1952 - Oslo, Norway
1956 - Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
1960 - Squaw Valley, California, USA
1964 - Innsbruck, Austria
1968 - Grenoble, France
1972 - Sapporo, Japan
1976 - Innsbruck, Austria
1980 - Lake Placid, New York, USA
1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1988 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1992 - Albertville, France
1994 - Lillehammer, Norway
1998 - Nagano, Japan
2002 - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2006 - Turin, Italy
Scheduled:
2010 - Vancouver, Canada