Blackhawks Trivia
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49 free Blackhawks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Blackhawks are an Original Six team with six Stanley Cups, a made-up curse that lasted 40 years, and a goal song by a Scottish indie band. This quiz covers the whole story: Major McLaughlin naming the club after his army division, the Hull-Mikita years, Bobby Orr's brief stay, Dollar Bill Wirtz's TV blackout, and the Toews-Kane dynasty that brought three Cups in six seasons, right up to Connor Bedard. It works for a United Center pre-game, a Chicago sports bar quiz, or a hockey fan testing a friend. The first questions are easy for anyone who watched the 2010s teams; the later ones dig into 1930s goaltenders, the 1992 winning streak and the front office. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the Blackhawks and their Stanley Cup Finals, and each question links to the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Through the 2025 season, how many Stanley Cups had the Blackhawks won?
Six
Six: 1934, 1938 and 1961, then a 49-year wait before three more arrived inside six seasons, in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
Q 02Which arena have the Blackhawks called home since the 1994-95 season?
United Center
United Center went up across the street from Chicago Stadium, the world's largest indoor arena when it opened in 1929, and the old building was torn down in 1995.
Q 03Which city, like Chicago, has an Original Six team?
New York
New York's Rangers joined in the same 1926 expansion as Chicago, so neither club is original: the name only describes the six teams left when the league shrank in 1942.
Q 04What do Blackhawks fans traditionally do during the national anthem before home games?
Cheer and applaud throughout
Cheer and applaud throughout: the roar began in the 1985 playoffs, when fans tried to lift a team that had lost the first two games to Edmonton, and it has drowned out the singer ever since.
Q 05Original owner Frederic McLaughlin took the Black Hawks name directly from what?
His WWI Army division
His WWI Army division was nicknamed the Blackhawk Division after the Sauk leader Black Hawk, whom the team says the name honours; McLaughlin had commanded one of its machine-gun battalions.
Q 06Which coach supposedly cursed the Black Hawks never to finish first?
Pete Muldoon
Pete Muldoon's curse is a fable invented years after he left the team in 1927, yet Chicago really did go until 1967 without finishing first.
Q 07Which Black Hawk swept the scoring, MVP and sportsmanship trophies as Chicago finished first in 1966-67?
Stan Mikita
Stan Mikita had served 154 penalty minutes two seasons earlier; in 1966-67 he took just 12 and became the first player to win all three trophies in one year.
Q 08Late in the lost 1936-37 season, Black Hawks owner Frederic McLaughlin had his team do what?
Ice an all-American-born lineup
Ice an all-American-born lineup: the patriotic owner tried it in the season's final games, and a year later Chicago won the Stanley Cup under an American coach who had been a baseball umpire.
Q 09Which Black Hawks goaltender shut out Detroit in the deciding game of the 1934 Stanley Cup Final?
Charlie Gardiner
Charlie Gardiner, also the team's captain, won the decider 1–0 in double overtime; two months later he was dead at 29.
Q 10Whom did the Black Hawks beat in the 1938 Stanley Cup Final?
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs lost the opener to Alfie Moore, a minor-leaguer standing in for Mike Karakas and his broken toe; Karakas returned in a steel-toed skate to win the last two games.
Q 11Which owner turned the Blackhawks around after taking control in 2007?
Rocky Wirtz
Rocky Wirtz mended fences with retired stars who had fallen out with the club, bringing them back as ambassadors, and saw the Blackhawks win three Stanley Cups in six seasons.
Q 12Which policy of owner Bill Wirtz did the Blackhawks scrap soon after his death in 2007?
Refusing to televise home games locally
Refusing to televise home games locally kept them off Chicago screens for years; once the games went back on local TV, the club began a sellout streak that lasted until 2021.
Q 13Which Black Hawks goalie, nicknamed Mr. Goalie, started a record 502 consecutive games?
Glenn Hall
Q 21Which Blackhawks anthem singer survived being shot in the throat after a home game in April 1994?
Wayne Messmer
Wayne Messmer was shot at point-blank range as he drove away, steered himself back to get help, recovered his voice, and was singing the anthem at the World Series in 2016.
Q 22Which future superstar relieved Chicago's starting goalie in Game 4 of the 1992 Stanley Cup Final?
Dominik Hasek
Dominik Hasek came off the bench seven minutes in and shone in a 6–5 defeat; Chicago traded him away two months later, and he went on to win six Vezina Trophies elsewhere.
Q 23Which nickname did Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews go by?
Captain Serious
Glenn Hall kept the streak alive from 1955 to 1962 without ever wearing a mask, and despite being sick with nerves before games; he said he played better that way.
Q 14Which 1960s stick fashion did Bobby Hull help start?
Curved blades
Curved blades, soon called banana blades, sent pucks swerving so wildly that Chicago's own goalie complained that the shots no longer flew true.
Q 15Bobby Hull left the Black Hawks in 1972 for a million-dollar contract with which WHA team?
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets' signing gave the upstart league its first superstar and pushed salaries up across the NHL, as clubs paid more to stop their own players following him.
Q 16Which future superstar did Chicago trade to Boston in 1967 along with Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield?
Phil Esposito
Phil Esposito won five scoring titles and two Stanley Cups in Boston; the three players Chicago got back, Pit Martin, Gilles Marotte and Jack Norris, never won one there.
Q 17Which goalie won the Calder Trophy with 15 shutouts as a Black Hawks rookie in 1969-70?
Tony Esposito
Tony Esposito had just won the Stanley Cup as a Montreal backup; the Canadiens left him unprotected, Chicago claimed him, and he became the league's best rookie within a year.
Q 18Which legendary defenseman played only 26 games for the Black Hawks after arriving from Boston in 1976?
Bobby Orr
Bobby Orr's knees were already wrecked: he managed 20 games in 1976-77, missed the whole of the next season, then retired at 30 after six more.
Q 19Which eighth seed swept the top-seeded Blackhawks out of the 2017 playoffs, a first in NHL history?
Nashville Predators
The Nashville Predators allowed three goals in the four games and shut Chicago out twice on its own ice, an upset that carried them all the way to that year's Stanley Cup Final.
Q 20Which team swept the Blackhawks in the 1992 Final after Chicago's record 11 straight playoff wins?
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's sweep made it 11 wins in a row for the Penguins too, equalling the record Chicago had only just set, and Mario Lemieux lifted a second straight Cup.
Captain Serious was handed the captaincy at 20, after a single NHL season; within two years he had led Chicago to the Stanley Cup and won Olympic gold with Canada.
Q 24Patrick Kane, the first overall pick of the 2007 draft, was born and raised in which city?
Buffalo
Buffalo raised him on Sabres games, but at 14 he left home for Michigan to play elite youth hockey, lodging with the family of former NHL player Pat Verbeek.
Q 25Which coach replaced Denis Savard four games into the Blackhawks' 2008-09 season?
Joel Quenneville
Joel Quenneville had joined only a month earlier as a scout; in his second season behind the bench, Chicago won its first Stanley Cup in 49 years.
Q 26Where did the Blackhawks host the 2009 Winter Classic?
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field saw Chicago lead 3–1 after one period, only for Detroit to score five goals in a row and win 6–4 on New Year's Day.
Q 27Which free agent signed a 12-year, $62.8 million deal with Chicago before the 2009-10 season?
Marian Hossa
Marian Hossa had lost the previous two Finals, with Pittsburgh and then Detroit; in Chicago he reached a third in a row with a third team, and finally lifted the Cup.
Q 28Whom did the Blackhawks beat in six games to win the 2010 Stanley Cup?
Philadelphia Flyers
The Philadelphia Flyers lost in overtime of Game 6 on a shot almost nobody saw go in: for a few seconds the scorer was nearly alone in knowing the Cup was won.
Q 29Who was the first Blackhawk ever to win the Conn Smythe Trophy, in 2010?
Jonathan Toews
Jonathan Toews was named playoff MVP without scoring a goal in the Final itself: he had three assists in the six games, but 29 points in 22 across the whole run.
Q 30Which two Blackhawks scored 17 seconds apart to win the 2013 Stanley Cup in Boston?
Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland
Bryan Bickell tied the game with 76 seconds left and Dave Bolland scored 17 seconds later; until then Boston had been leading and on course to force a seventh game.