American football (NFL) trivia
NFL trivia tests both casual viewers and the obsessives who memorize draft picks. These questions cover the canon.
Q1.How many points is a touchdown worth in the NFL, before any extra-point attempt?Tap to reveal
Answer: 6
After scoring, the team chooses between a one-point kick and a two-point conversion play from the two-yard line.
Q2.Which NFL team plays its home games at Lambeau Field?Tap to reveal
Answer: Green Bay Packers
The Packers are the only publicly owned, non-profit franchise among the major professional leagues in the United States.
Q3.What is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl?Tap to reveal
Answer: Vince Lombardi Trophy
Tiffany & Co. makes a new sterling silver trophy every year, and the winning team keeps it permanently.
Q4.Which quarterback has won the most Super Bowls as a player, with seven?Tap to reveal
Answer: Tom Brady
Six of those titles came with the New England Patriots and the seventh with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the 2020 season.
Q5.Which team completed the only perfect season in NFL history, going undefeated through Super Bowl VII in the 1972 season?Tap to reveal
Answer: Miami Dolphins
The 2007 Patriots came closest to matching it, going 18-0 before losing Super Bowl XLII to the New York Giants.
Q6.Which team lost to the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl in January 1967?Tap to reveal
Answer: Kansas City Chiefs
The game was officially called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game and was broadcast simultaneously by CBS and NBC.
Q7.Which NFL franchise has appeared in the most Super Bowls, with eleven?Tap to reveal
Answer: New England Patriots
The Patriots lost their first two appearances, in 1986 and 1997, before winning six of the next nine.
Q8.The NFL's Most Valuable Player award, presented since 1957, is voted on by which news organization?Tap to reveal
Answer: Associated Press
The same organization also selects the league's All-Pro teams and the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year awards.
Q9.Which New Orleans Saints kicker's 63-yard field goal in 1970 stood as the NFL record for 43 years?Tap to reveal
Answer: Tom Dempsey
Dempsey was born without toes on his kicking foot and used a specially made flat-fronted shoe, and his mark was not beaten until Matt Prater's 64-yarder in 2013.
Q10.Which running back set the NFL single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards in 1984?Tap to reveal
Answer: Eric Dickerson
He did it for the Los Angeles Rams in a 16-game season, and the record has survived the schedule's expansion to 17 games.
Basketball (NBA) trivia
NBA trivia spans 75+ years. The records keep shifting as new stars overtake old ones — which makes the era-specific trivia more fun.
Q1.Which NBA team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden?Tap to reveal
Answer: New York Knicks
The Knicks and the Boston Celtics are the only two founding 1946 franchises still playing in their original cities.
Q2.Which player, nicknamed His Airness, won six championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s?Tap to reveal
Answer: Michael Jordan
He was named Finals MVP in all six of those series, a record no other player has matched.
Q3.How long is the shot clock in the NBA?Tap to reveal
Answer: 24 seconds
It was introduced in 1954 to stop teams stalling with the ball, and scoring jumped by more than a dozen points per game the next season.
Q4.Which team won eight consecutive NBA championships from 1959 to 1966?Tap to reveal
Answer: Boston Celtics
Bill Russell played on every one of them and finished his career with eleven titles in thirteen seasons.
Q5.Who scored 100 points in a single NBA game in 1962?Tap to reveal
Answer: Wilt Chamberlain
He did it for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the game was never televised.
Q6.Who overtook Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA's all-time leading regular-season scorer in February 2023?Tap to reveal
Answer: LeBron James
Abdul-Jabbar had held the record since 1984, when he passed Wilt Chamberlain.
Q7.The first game of the league that became the NBA was played in 1946 in which Canadian city?Tap to reveal
Answer: Toronto
The Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, and the Huskies folded after a single season.
Q8.Which point guard holds the NBA record for career assists, with more than 15,000?Tap to reveal
Answer: John Stockton
He and Karl Malone spent eighteen seasons together with the Utah Jazz, running the pick-and-roll into two NBA Finals.
Q9.Which center was selected first overall in the 1984 NBA Draft, ahead of Michael Jordan?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon
Jordan went third, after the Portland Trail Blazers used the second pick on Sam Bowie.
Q10.Which Lakers guard did designer Alan Siegel say he used as the model for the NBA logo silhouette?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jerry West
The league has never officially confirmed the identity of the player in the logo.
Soccer / Football (the global game)
Soccer/football trivia is global — questions vary wildly between regions. These are the universal ones.
Q1.Which country has won the FIFA World Cup the most times, with five titles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Brazil
Brazil is also the only nation to have qualified for every edition of the tournament.
Q2.In what year was the first FIFA World Cup held, in Uruguay?Tap to reveal
Answer: 1930
The hosts beat Argentina 4-2 in the final in Montevideo, and only thirteen teams took part.
Q3.Which Argentine forward captained his country to the 2022 World Cup title?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lionel Messi
The final against France finished 3-3 after extra time and was decided by a penalty shootout.
Q4.Which club has won the European Cup and Champions League more times than any other?Tap to reveal
Answer: Real Madrid
Real won the first five editions of the competition between 1956 and 1960.
Q5.Which Portuguese forward is the all-time leading goalscorer in men's international football?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cristiano Ronaldo
He also holds the record for the most appearances for a men's national team, having passed 200 caps.
Q6.Which English club went unbeaten through the entire 2003-04 Premier League season?Tap to reveal
Answer: Arsenal
The Invincibles finished with 26 wins and 12 draws and were presented with a special gold version of the trophy.
Q7.Which country won the first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991?Tap to reveal
Answer: United States
The tournament was held in China and the final was a 2-1 win over Norway.
Q8.Diego Maradona's Hand of God goal at the 1986 World Cup came against which nation?Tap to reveal
Answer: England
Four minutes later in the same match he dribbled past five defenders to score what became known as the Goal of the Century.
Q9.Which Cameroonian striker celebrated his 1990 World Cup goals by dancing at the corner flag at the age of 38?Tap to reveal
Answer: Roger Milla
Cameroon became the first African team to reach a World Cup quarter-final at that tournament.
Q10.Which Scottish club did Sir Alex Ferguson lead to the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup before joining Manchester United?Tap to reveal
Answer: Aberdeen
They beat Real Madrid 2-1 after extra time in the final in Gothenburg.
Olympics & global sports
Olympics trivia rewards people who pay attention every 4 years — and the deep-dive history of the games themselves.
Q1.How many rings are on the Olympic flag?Tap to reveal
Answer: 5
Pierre de Coubertin designed the flag in 1913 to represent the five inhabited continents united by sport.
Q2.Which city hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics?Tap to reveal
Answer: Paris
It was the city's third Summer Games, after 1900 and 1924.
Q3.Which Jamaican sprinter holds the men's 100 metres world record of 9.58 seconds?Tap to reveal
Answer: Usain Bolt
He set the mark at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin rather than at an Olympic Games.
Q4.Which swimmer has won the most Olympic gold medals, with 23?Tap to reveal
Answer: Michael Phelps
Eight of them came at the 2008 Beijing Games alone, still the record for a single Olympics.
Q5.In which country were the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896?Tap to reveal
Answer: Greece
The marathon at those Athens Games was won by a local water carrier, Spyridon Louis.
Q6.Which country has won the men's Cricket World Cup the most times?Tap to reveal
Answer: Australia
Their sixth title came in 2023 in Ahmedabad, where they beat hosts India in the final.
Q7.Which country's rugby union team is nicknamed the All Blacks?Tap to reveal
Answer: New Zealand
Before each match the team performs the haka, a traditional Maori challenge.
Q8.Which British driver shares the record of seven Formula One world championships with Michael Schumacher?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lewis Hamilton
His first title came with McLaren in 2008 and the other six with Mercedes.
Q9.Which American town hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics, home of the Miracle on Ice hockey upset?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lake Placid
The same small town in New York had already hosted the Winter Games in 1932.
Q10.Which Romanian gymnast scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history at the 1976 Montreal Games?Tap to reveal
Answer: Nadia Comaneci
The scoreboard could only display three digits, so her score appeared as 1.00.
Tennis & individual sports
Tennis trivia rewards depth of recall — Grand Slam history goes back over 140 years.
Q1.Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is played on grass courts?Tap to reveal
Answer: Wimbledon
It is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, first held in 1877.
Q2.What is the word for a score of zero in tennis?Tap to reveal
Answer: Love
One popular explanation traces it to the French word l'oeuf, meaning egg, for the shape of a zero.
Q3.Which Spanish player is known as the King of Clay for his 14 French Open titles?Tap to reveal
Answer: Rafael Nadal
All 14 came between 2005 and 2022, and he finished his career with a 112-4 record at Roland Garros.
Q4.Who holds the record for the most men's Grand Slam singles titles, with 24?Tap to reveal
Answer: Novak Djokovic
He is the only man to have won each of the four majors at least three times.
Q5.Which American won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any woman in the Open Era?Tap to reveal
Answer: Serena Williams
Her last one, the 2017 Australian Open, was won while she was pregnant.
Q6.Which golfer has won the most major championships, with 18?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jack Nicklaus
Tiger Woods is second with 15, the last of them at the 2019 Masters.
Q7.Which heavyweight boxer was born with the name Cassius Clay?Tap to reveal
Answer: Muhammad Ali
He announced the new name in 1964, days after beating Sonny Liston for the world title.
Q8.How many points is the black ball worth in snooker?Tap to reveal
Answer: 7
A maximum break of 147 requires potting fifteen reds, each followed by a black, and then all six colours in order.
Q9.Who was the last man to win all four tennis Grand Slam singles titles in one calendar year, in 1969?Tap to reveal
Answer: Rod Laver
He had also done it in 1962 as an amateur, making him the only player to complete the feat twice.
Q10.Who was the first athlete to run a mile in under four minutes, in 1954?Tap to reveal
Answer: Roger Bannister
His record set in Oxford lasted just 46 days before Australia's John Landy ran faster.
How sports trivia divides and unites
Sports trivia is the most regional category. NFL questions land in North America; soccer questions land everywhere else. The best sports trivia nights mix global games (Olympics, soccer) with the local favorites (NFL in US, cricket in UK/Australia/India).
The Trivio.NET app has 53+ sports quiz packs in its Sports category, organized by sport, era, and event. Free in the app — daily questions rotate through different sports.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the easiest sports trivia category?
Olympics — globally known events with clear winners. Tennis Grand Slams are also accessible because the 4 tournaments are universally recognized.
How can I make sports trivia work for non-fans?
Mix in trivia about athletes' backstories, controversies, and records that anyone can appreciate (Olympic medal counts, Hall of Fame inductions).
Where can I find sports trivia question packs?
Trivio.NET's Sports category has 53+ quiz packs covering football, basketball, soccer, Olympics, tennis and individual sports.
Are these sports trivia questions current?
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