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SportsWhere Were They Held?
Every major event carries a place tag: a city, a country, a ground. Below: the links that turn an event name into a location.
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How to play
Read the event, then tap where it was held.
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SportsWhat you are actually practicing
Every major sporting event is tied to a place, and the place is not always the country you would guess. The Olympics jump continents every four years, the World Cup visits a new host each time, and tennis and motor racing have traditional homes that barely change.
The questions work because the pairing is fixed rather than random. Once you know that the Tour de France began in France, that Wimbledon is in London, and that the Stanley Cup belongs to ice hockey, you can answer a large share of the set without looking anything up.
How the game works
You are shown an event and four possible hosts. Pick the one it belongs to. A wrong pick shows the answer straight away, so every mistake still teaches you something.
Easy covers the handful of events with the strongest associations. Medium widens the pool. Hard uses the full list, including the more obscure World Cup editions and the traditional venues of tennis and motor racing.
The links worth knowing
Olympic Games: Athens 1896, Paris 1900, St Louis 1904, London 1908, Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924, Amsterdam 1928, Los Angeles 1932, Berlin 1936, London 1948, Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956, Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, Munich 1972, Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024.
FIFA World Cup: Uruguay 1930, Italy 1934 and 1938, Brazil 1950, Switzerland 1954, Brazil 1958 and 1962, England 1966, Brazil 1970, West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978, Italy 1982, Argentina 1986, West Germany 1990, Brazil 1994, France 1998, Brazil 2002, Italy 2006, Spain 2010, Germany 2014, France 2018, Argentina 2022, Qatar 2022.
Traditional homes: Wimbledon and the All England Club in London; the Masters at Augusta; the Indy 500 in Indianapolis; the Daytona 500 in Florida; the Ashes between England and Australia; the Copa America for South American national sides; the Stanley Cup for ice hockey; the Tour de France yellow jersey for the overall leader.
How to get faster
Say the whole pairing out loud once. "The Olympic Games in 1936, Berlin" is far stickier than a flash of memory. Most people who struggle with this set have simply never met the less famous host cities, so the fix is exposure rather than effort.
A note on the awkward ones
The United States has hosted the Summer Olympics four times, and Germany has hosted the World Cup as West Germany in 1974 and as unified Germany in 2014. Where a question uses an old name, read it as the name in use at the time.