The question was what do the 5 olympic rings designate? I answered the world's continents. The answer on the card named the continents, (which I could've done) but my boyfriend would not give me the answer nor did he tell me to be more specific. How would you have decided? BTW: We are playing "Battle of the Sexes" in which I held a slight lead.
2006-12-30 05:49:15 · 10 answers · asked by -Tequila17 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
That would be acceptable for me as an answer. Certainly if I needed more information, i would ask
2006-12-30 05:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 16⤊ 0⤋
The olympic rings: There are five interlacing rings to represent the universality of the Olympic Movement and Olympic Games. They were proposed by Pierre de Courbetin in 1914, and represent the five continents. The colors used in the Olympic flat are white ground, blue, black, red, yellow and green because those are the six colors that appear on the national flags in 1931.
When making up the flag, the five inhabited continents were used (with the Americans making one continent).
2006-12-30 08:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by istitch2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a guy so you will get this from a guy's point of view. I can see where he is coming from though that there are 7 continents and only 5 rings so you may have to know that the Americas are considered one continent and that Antarctica is omitted. I would have asked you to be more specific. The fact that he did not ask you to be more specific with your answer made the question unusable, so you take another question. I think the proper course of action now is to berate his masculinity and tell him that a "REAL man knows how to be graceful in defeat." :) He'll be less of an a*$hole about it next time. It just a game why be such a stickler on it?!?!?
2006-12-30 06:05:08 · answer #3 · answered by Angry Marsupial 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The five rings signify the five continents that have residents (North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia. The five colors of the rings are based on the most prevalent colors of the national flags around the world.
I would have looked at the answer to be five; I see the listing of the continents just as a way to specify them. As Antarctica is actually a continent, you cannot answer just "the Continents", the number needs to be used.
2006-12-30 08:28:59 · answer #4 · answered by jpbofohio 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As wiggle said the Baron Pierre de Coubertin created the olympic rings in 1913. But was adopetd in 1914 and first displayed in 1920 Antwerp Games.
The Olympic symbol of five interlocked rings represents the five original continents of:
Africa
America (North & South)
Asia
Australia
Europe
The five colors of the rings blue, black and red (top) and yellow and green (bottom) were chosen since one of these colors can be found in the flag of each competing nation.
2006-12-30 12:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by reka_poti 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are mostly right. To be more specific, they stand for: The Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Antarctica is not counted because it does not participate in the Olympics (nobody lives there), and North and South America are counted as one.
2006-12-30 05:58:46 · answer #6 · answered by Jack 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
the rings do indeed signify the continents, the colors are all primary, so all other colors(as in national flags) can be derived from a combination of them
2006-12-30 10:40:45 · answer #7 · answered by c t 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your boyfriend is being a dink. You should have been given the opportunity, at least.
2006-12-30 07:41:55 · answer #8 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if he wasn't going to give you that, he should have asked you to clarify or name them... cause if you couldn't name them, then you shouldn't have gotten it, but if you did know them, then you're boyfriend is an ***
2006-12-30 06:21:10 · answer #9 · answered by Curious Blair 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
clearly you were right and once again a male has to be a sissy about it. Hope you finished with a huge lead! :)
2006-12-30 05:52:52 · answer #10 · answered by pollywog 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋