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Figure Skating · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.3

Great Pairs and Dance Teams

2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

Irina Rodnina and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1RodninaTake a test

  1. She won in 1972 with Ulanov and in 1976 and 1980 with Zaitsev.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  2. With Ulanov and Zaitsev she won ten World titles and 11 European titles.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  3. Coach and former champion Stanislav Zhuk searched the Soviet Union and found Alexander Zaitsev.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  4. The music stopped mid-program; they kept going in silence, earned a standing ovation and won.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  5. Ulanov had fallen in love with Liudmila Smirnova, who later became his wife, so the pair split.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  6. She coached in the USSR and from 1990 in the USA, then entered politics in Russia's State Duma.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  7. Rodnina and Zaitsev won six straight World titles between 1973 and 1978.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · recall

  8. Sapporo 1972, Prague 1973, Innsbruck 1976, Lake Placid 1980.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · applied

  9. Zhuk coached her from 1963 with Ulanov; Zaitsev came in after 1972.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · applied

  10. C has gold at all three Games. A and B miss one, D wins only in 1980.

    Source: Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina · applied

Test 2Virtue and MoirTake a test

  1. They became the first North American ice dancers to be crowned Olympic champions.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  2. Their free skate was set to Mahler's Symphony No. 5.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  3. They won silver in ice dance and in the inaugural Olympic team event.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  4. PyeongChang brought them the double they had missed in Sochi: first place in both events.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  5. With two golds in 2018 they became the first figure skaters to own five Olympic medals.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  6. They moved to Montreal in 2016 to work with two-time World silver medallists Dubreuil and Lauzon.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  7. Their Flamenco-inspired original dance brought the house down in Vancouver.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · recall

  8. One gold in 2010, two silvers in 2014 and two golds in 2018: five in all.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · applied

  9. World juniors in 2006, Vancouver 2010, a break after Sochi, then Montreal in 2016.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · applied

  10. B has one gold, then two silvers, then two golds. The other rows do not match.

    Source: Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue · applied

Sources

Olympics.com athlete pages (Button, Ito, Hanyu, Witt, Rodnina); Olympic.ca athlete pages (Browning, Virtue); ISU, Figure skating jumps explained (2026); Olympedia, Figure Skating overview. Every fact is recorded with its source in docs/FIGURE_SKATING_VERIFIED_FACTS.md. Records that can still move are not keyed. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Olympics.com, Irina Rodnina10
  • Olympic.ca, Tessa Virtue10