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  • For which edition of the Olympic Winter Games was the Schneemann mascot created?

  • Why was a beaver chosen as the mascot for the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games?

  • What is the particularity of the Lake Placid 1980 Olympic Games mascot, Roni the Raccoon?

  • Who is Mikhail Potapych Toptygin, a.k.a. Misha?

  • Why can we say that the three mascots for the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Games perfectly represent the Olympic motto (citius, altius, fortius)?

  • For which edition of the Olympic Games were three mascots created, representing a platypus, a spiny anteater (echidna) and a kookaburra?

  • To which edition of the Olympic Games are the mascots Athina and Phivos linked?

  • What do Neve and Gliz, the two mascots of the Turin 2006 Olympic Games, represent?

  • What was the source of inspiration for the mascots of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games?

  • What is the meaning of Lyo and Merly, the names of the mascots for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore?

  • Which character in Norwegian mythology is the basis for this costume, used at the Opening Ceremony of the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer?

  • What was the role of the people wearing this coat at the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing?

  • How did the person dressed in this costume move during the Opening Ceremony of the Torino 2006 Olympic Games?

  • What is the meaning of these tiny objects sewn onto the skirt worn by the flag-bearer for the Italian team at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin?

  • What is the message of the official poster for the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960?

  • At which Games was this torch, designed and produced by Pininfarina, carried into the Olympic Stadium by famous skier Alberto Tomba?

  • For which edition of the Olympic Games was a flame lit in Olympia and a relay organised to the host city for the first time since the Games were re-established in 1896?

  • Why is the London 1948 Olympic Games Torch Relay considered as the “Relay of Peace”?

  • Although the Olympic Torch Relay has existed since 1936 for the Summer Games, in what year was the same tradition started for the Winter Games?

  • Which Finnish athlete, suspended by the International Athletics Federations in 1932, was the last torchbearer of the flame at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games?

  • For what reason did the Olympic flame, represented by this torch, travel to two different destinations (Melbourne and Stockholm) at the 1956 edition of the Summer Games?

  • Why was the Olympic flame lit in Rome and not Olympia before the Relay of the Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956 Games?

  • Where did famous Italian archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri find the inspiration to design the torch for the Rome 1960 Olympic Games?

  • What is wrong with the caption (VIII Olympic Winter Games 1960 Olympia to Squaw Valley) engraved on the torch of the Squaw Valley 1960 Winter Games?

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