Dokimasia

🏅 The Games

Champions, records and the arenas that made them.

Arena: Athletics (19) · Football (19) · Olympic story (19) · Court & racket (22) · Ring & mat (9) · Wheels & water (13) · Minds & boards (9) · Field & rink (6).

Swifter, higher, stronger — and lettered. The Games bank holds one hundred and sixteen questions across eight arenas, and it examines sport the way the society examines everything: as history with a scoreboard. Athletics opens with the immortal numbers — the hundred-metre records, the four-minute mile and the medical student who broke it — and the Olympic story runs alongside, from the aristocrat who revived the Games in 1896 to the politics that kept interrupting them. Football fields nineteen questions including the only nation to appear at every World Cup; court and racket sports hold twenty-two more, where grand-slam arithmetic is its own dialect. The smaller arenas reward the genuinely lettered: the ring and the mat, wheels and water, field and rink, and a board-and-minds corner where chess and its grandmasters sit beside the physical games without apology. The phrasing names deeds, not just names — the gymnast with more world-championship medals than anyone, the sprinter whose 1988 record still stands — so the bank tests whether you know what was done, not merely who is famous. A third rates easy, a fair quarter hard. Decoys share the arena, misses join the drill pool, and the whole bank feeds the daily examination, where a sport question among the five is many a streak's obituary.