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A L S O++T O D A Y

Cold war
By Gary Kamiya
The Czechs battle the Russians on ice

Plus
The Christlike and redemptive powers of ice hockey
By Cintra Wilson
Our second Salon correspondent in Nagano reflects on Olympic evolution, personality cults and Russian mafiosi

_______IF YOU CAN ANSWER THESE 20 QUESTIONS, YOU'VE

_______WATCHED WAY TOO MUCH OF THE OLYMPICS.

BY JOYCE MILLMAN | The Winter Olympics are almost over. In just five days, the flame will be extinguished, the athletes will say farewell to Nagano and CBS's Jim Nantz will be returned to his cryogenic sleep chamber. How closely were you paying attention? It's time for the 1998 Winter Games pop quiz.

1. The sumo wrestler who performed a ritual dance to ward off evil spirits during the opening ceremonies was named

• a.) Akebono
• b.) Sonny Bono
• c.) Yoko Ono
• d.) Puff Daddy

2. True or false: The Olympics are a just a two-week commercial for Tom Selleck's new sitcom.

3. The road to hell is paved with

• a.) asphalt
• b.) yellow bricks
• c.) NASA heat shields
• d.) ice dancing judges

4. Which of the following is not a legitimate position in pairs figure skating?

• a.) The man carries the woman above his head like a set of barbells
• b.) The man wears the woman around his ankles like yesterday's underwear
• c.) The man drags the woman across the ice like a dead deer
• d.) The woman grips the man by the waistband of his pants and pitches him across the rink

5. Which of the following "women's features" appeared every afternoon on TNT's Olympics broadcasts?

• a.) snowboarding and curling
• b.) ironing boarding and hair curling
• c.) figure skating gossip and Japanese cooking
• d.) reruns of "Oprah"

6. Russia's gold-medal-winning figure skater, Ilia Kulik, is a dead ringer for which celebrity?

• a.) Leonardo DiCaprio
• b.) Macaulay Culkin
• c.) Prince William
• d.) Kate Moss

7. Who did CBS commentator Scott Hamilton refer to as "a crystal vase"?

• a.) Cammi Granato
• b.) Yelena Berezhnaya
• c.) Michelle Kwan
• d.) Todd Eldredge

8. Which Olympics star is tougher than Todd Eldredge?

• a.) Elvis Stojko
• b.) Tara Lipinski
• c.) David Letterman's mother
• d.) All of the above

9. Picabo Street is

• a.) the lipstick type
• b.) the Chapstick type
• c.) the title of an old Prince song
• d.) a crystal vase

10. If an Olympic event occurs today in Nagano, it will appear on CBS

• a.) tomorrow
• b.) yesterday
• c.) next week
• d.) Feb. 18, 2002

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