We Answered Extremely Random Questions People Had About The Olympics at 2:57 pm NPR See, the thing about the Summer Olympics is that it comes every four years. And that's a long enough span of time for us to forget the things we thought we knew. ("Tell me again, how they figure out the order of countries in the parade of nations.") So, as you sit on your couch cheering on sports you didn't think you cared about during the Tokyo Games, we're here to answer all those random questions that keep popping up in your brain. We'll keep the answers short â like 50 words or less â so you can skim this list during those commercial breaks. (And if you have more, tweet it to us with the hashtag #NPRanswers and we'll keep growing this list).