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50 free Aaron Rodgers trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Aaron Rodgers left high school with no Division I offers, played a year at a junior college 15 miles from home, got to Cal because a coach was scouting somebody else, then sat in the draft green room while 23 teams passed on him. Three years behind Brett Favre followed, and then he became the most efficient passer the NFL has seen: a Super Bowl MVP, four league MVPs, the highest single-season passer rating ever and a record 402 straight throws without an interception. These 50 questions cover the whole ride: Chico and Pleasant Valley High, Jeff Tedford, the 49ers' Alex Smith pick, the Championship Belt, the Boyz II Men bet, R-E-L-A-X, the Miracle in Motown, the six-touchdown half against Chicago, the 2011 15-1 season, the State Farm ads, Celebrity Jeopardy!, the Milwaukee Bucks stake, the four-snap Jets debut, the 500th touchdown pass and the Steelers' No. 8. Easy questions stick to the headlines; the expert tier asks about Vonta Leach, the 13 screws, the 93-yard touchdown and 12/12/12. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a football night.
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Q 01Which star receiver, Rodgers's favourite target in Green Bay, was reunited with him by a 2024 trade from the Raiders?
Davante Adams
Davante Adams. His new team gave up a conditional third-round pick to reunite a pair who had already connected for more than 60 touchdowns in eight seasons together.
Q 02Which quarterback did the 49ers take first overall instead of Rodgers in 2005?
Alex Smith
Alex Smith. Rodgers had grown up a 49ers fan and expected to go first, but San Francisco preferred the Utah quarterback and left him waiting for hours until the 24th pick.
Q 03Which legendary quarterback did Rodgers back up for his first three NFL seasons?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre. He announced his retirement in March 2008, changed his mind that summer and was traded away, which finally made Rodgers the starter after three years of waiting.
Q 04In which city was Rodgers born?
Chico
Chico. The family moved away to Ukiah and then Oregon while he was a boy, but came back in 1997, and Rodgers became the starting quarterback at the town's Pleasant Valley High School.
Q 05Rodgers played his freshman college season at which junior college?
Butte
Butte. With no major college wanting him, he spent one season at the community college near home and led it to a 10-1 record and a No. 2 national ranking, which finally got him noticed.
Q 06In 2004 Rodgers tied an NCAA record by completing 23 straight passes in a narrow loss to which top-ranked team?
USC
USC. Rodgers drove his team to first-and-goal with under two minutes left, but four plays failed and the Trojans held on 23-17, the only defeat of that regular season.
Q 07Which Cal head coach discovered Rodgers at junior college?
Jeff Tedford
Jeff Tedford. He was watching film of a tight end he wanted to recruit, asked his staff who the quarterback was, and was surprised that no major program had gone after him.
Q 08Rodgers won his first start for Cal against which Midwestern school, which had declined to offer him a scholarship?
Illinois
Illinois. Rodgers had gone to its team camp hoping for an offer and got only the chance to walk on, so in 2003 he made his first start for Cal against it and won 31-24.
Q 09Which team did Rodgers beat in Super Bowl XLV, earning the game's MVP award?
Steelers
Steelers. Rodgers threw for 304 yards and three touchdowns in the 31-25 win, and fourteen years later he signed to play for the team he had beaten.
Q 10Rodgers's four NFL MVP awards are second only to the five won by which quarterback?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning. Rodgers won in 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021, and collected the last of them for the same season in which the league fined him for breaking its COVID-19 rules.
Q 11Rodgers's 2011 season set an NFL single-season record in which statistic?
Passer rating
Passer rating. He finished at 122.5 even though he was rested for the final game, when his backup Matt Flynn stepped in and threw six touchdown passes in his place.
Q 12How did the 2011 Packers' 15-1 season come to an end?
A home loss in their first playoff game
A home loss in their first playoff game. The New York Giants won 37-20 at Lambeau Field, a year after Green Bay's title, and went on to win the Super Bowl themselves.
Q 13Which team ended the Packers' 19-game winning streak in December 2011?
Kansas City Chiefs
Q 21Rodgers's sideline throw to Jared Cook set up the field goal that beat which top seed in January 2017?
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys. On third-and-20 with 12 seconds left and the score tied at 31, Cook dragged his toes inbounds, and Mason Crosby's 51-yard kick won it as time expired.
Q 22Which receiver caught Rodgers' career-long 93-yard touchdown pass in 2011?
Jordy Nelson
Jordy Nelson. It came against the Rams, and the pair went on to share 65 touchdowns, a Packers record until Rodgers broke it himself with another receiver ten years later.
Q 23Which head coach put Rodgers through a six-hour-a-day "quarterback school" in 2006?
Mike McCarthy
Kansas City Chiefs. They were 5-8 and had fired their head coach six days earlier, yet under interim boss Romeo Crennel they won 19-14 to end Green Bay's hopes of a perfect season.
Q 14Before TV ads renamed it the Discount Double Check, what did Rodgers and his teammates call his touchdown celebration?
The Championship Belt
The Championship Belt. After a score Rodgers mimes fastening an invisible title belt around his waist, and he was still doing it in 2021, moments before a famous outburst at a rival crowd.
Q 15Which insurance company made Rodgers a long-time commercial spokesman?
State Farm
State Farm. Its 'Discount Double Check' ads borrowed his touchdown routine, and later spots had Jake from State Farm offering him a special 'Rodgers Rate'.
Q 16After a 1-2 start in 2014, Rodgers told fans to do what, spelling it out letter by letter?
R-E-L-A-X
R-E-L-A-X. 'We're going to be OK,' he added, and the Packers bore him out by winning 11 of their last 13 games while he collected his second MVP award.
Q 17In 2016, with the Packers at 4-6, Rodgers predicted they could do what?
Run the table
Run the table. The Packers had just lost four in a row, yet they won their last six games to take the division and then two playoff games to reach the NFC title game.
Q 18Who caught the 61-yard Hail Mary known as the "Miracle in Motown" in 2015?
Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers. The tight end caught it in the end zone on an untimed down, awarded only because a Lions defender had grabbed the quarterback's face mask on what should have been the last play.
Q 19Against which team did Rodgers throw six touchdown passes in the first half in 2014?
Chicago Bears
Chicago Bears. Green Bay led 42-0 at half-time, so by the middle of the third quarter Rodgers was done for the night, keeping warm by the sideline heaters on the way to a 55-14 win.
Q 20Rodgers's 402 straight passes without an interception in 2018 broke the NFL record of which quarterback?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady. Brady's streak had ended at 358; Rodgers ran his to 402 before safety Eddie Jackson finally picked him off in Week 15.
Mike McCarthy. The new coach also ordered him to cut his body fat, and Rodgers admits they butted heads that first year; two decades later the pair were reunited at a new team.
Q 24Rodgers won the 2025 AFC North title on the final night of the season by beating which rival 26-24?
Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Ravens. Rodgers, 42, threw the go-ahead touchdown with 55 seconds left, and the title was safe only when Baltimore's kicker missed from 44 yards as time ran out.
Q 25A rumored 2007 trade would have sent Rodgers to the Raiders for which receiver?
Randy Moss
Randy Moss. Green Bay's general manager insisted a swap had never been discussed, and weeks later Oakland sent Moss to New England for a fourth-round pick instead.
Q 26Rodgers' first playoff game, a 51-45 overtime loss in January 2010, was against whom?
Arizona Cardinals
Arizona Cardinals. Rodgers threw for 423 yards and four touchdowns to wipe out a 21-point deficit, only to be stripped of the ball in overtime, and Karlos Dansby ran the fumble in to win it.
Q 27Rodgers lost a 2012 bet with which R&B group and had to wear a 49ers jersey at practice?
Boyz II Men
Boyz II Men. Rodgers, a friend of the group, agreed to wear the rival quarterback's jersey for a week if San Francisco won the 2012 opener, and the 49ers did, 30-22.
Q 28Which NBA team did Rodgers buy a limited stake in, in 2018?
Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks. The deal was announced while Rodgers sat courtside at a playoff game against Boston, and three years later the team he had bought into were NBA champions.
Q 29Rodgers guest-hosted which game show for two weeks in April 2021?
Jeopardy
Jeopardy. He had already won the celebrity edition of the quiz in 2015, beating the investor Kevin O'Leary and the astronaut Mark Kelly.
Q 30Which actress confirmed in 2021 that she was engaged to Rodgers?
Shailene Woodley
Shailene Woodley. She broke the news on The Tonight Show, laughing that she had never expected to be engaged to 'someone who throws balls for a living'.