Winnipeg has the Jets, the Bombers and the Goldeyes — three sports teams with plenty of hometown fans.
The city also has its fair share of sports media who battle for the sports scoop every day, but who is the expert?
It’s a question the Morning News wanted to get to the bottom of.
Global News put CJOB’s Jim Toth, the Winnipeg Sun‘s Kirk Penton and of course our very own Derek Taylor to the test.
In a Morning News three-part series, Global News sports director Joe Pascucci tested the men’s knowledge of the Olympics, Manitoba sports trivia and even a wildcard section.
So who came out on top?
After Round 1, Derek Taylor was in the lead with three points while Jim Toth and Kirk Penton were on the scoreboard with one each.
If you want to test your knowledge, the full list of questions for the Olympic section is below.
Round 2 will air March 4.
Questions:
- Where were the first Winter Olympics held?
- When was the last time Olympic gold medals were made entirely out of gold?
- Which if these was NOT an official Olympic Sport? Polo, motor boating, darts
- What does the Olympic motto “Citius, Altius, Fortius” mean?
- What country has won the most gold medals at the Winter Olympics all time?
- What are the only two countries south of the equator to win Olympic medals in the Winter Olympics?
- Entering the 2014 Sochi Olympics, what was the only Winter Games sport in which the U.S.A. had never won a medal?
- Name the last player from Winnipeg to score a hat trick for Canada in hockey — and against which team he scored.
- What year were women allowed to compete in the Olympics?
- What was the name of the Winnipeg team that won Olympic hockey gold at the 1932 Winter Games?
Answers
- 1924 in Chamonix, France
- 1912
- Darts (motor boating 1908, polo 1900-1936)
- Faster, Higher, Stronger
- Norway — 313 (Before Sochi; U.S.A. second with 274)
- Australia and New Zealand
- Biathlon
- Carey Wilson, 1984 versus the U.S.
- 1900 in Paris
- The Winnipegs
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