| UK | Only country to have won gold at every Winter Games (2) |
| UNITEDSTATES | Only country to have won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics (6,6) |
| FIJI | Only country to have won gold in the men's rugby sevens at the Olympics (4) |
| ED | ___ Eagan is one of only two who have won gold at both Summer & Winter Games (2) |
| BRITAIN | Only country to have won at least one gold at every modern Summer Olympics |
| CUTHBERT | Surname of the only Olympian A to have won gold in 100m, 200m and 400m events (8) |
| STEVEREDGRAVE | Only Briton to have won golds at five consecutive Olympic Games |
| GBR | Only team with a gold at every Summer Olympics: Abbr. |
| IRELAND | Only country to have a musical instrument (the harp) as its national emblem |
| CHINA | Only country to finish top three in gold medals at both the 2020 Summer and 2022 Winter Olympics |
| PAKISTAN | Only country to border Iran, China and the Arabian Sea |
| ERITREA | Only African country to have no privately owned news media |
| SEASONALLY | Add salt to everything - you start every winter, say |
| HENIE | Chamonix, France, hosted the Winter Games, also in 1924; this 11-year-old Norwegian didn't medal, but she won gold at the next three Games |
| TALKTURKEY | Pursue leaderless country to have real discussions |
| SYRIA | First Arab country to have sanctions imposed on it by the Arab League |
| WOMENSHALFPIPE | At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, American Hannah Teter won gold at this event |
| ICERINK | Every winter the Grand Palais in Paris becomes the world's biggest indoor ____ |
| DEW | Earliest signs of damp every winter (3) |
| CATHY | Australian sprinter who won gold at the Sydney Games in 2000, ... Freeman |
