Cornhole Trivia
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43 free Cornhole trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Cornhole is the rare backyard game with a rulebook, a pro tour and its own slang. This quiz covers all of it: how far apart the boards go, what a regulation bag weighs, why a bag in the hole is sometimes called a Drano, and how the game got from an 1883 patent for 'Parlor Quoits' to prime-time on ESPN. Use it at a tailgate, a family reunion or a league night. The early questions are the ones every casual player should get; the later ones dig into the American Cornhole League and Organization, the World Cup, and strategy terms like hammer, bully bag and backstop. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on cornhole and the American Cornhole League, and each question links to the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In cornhole, how many points is a bag that goes through the hole worth?
Three
Three. The bag counts however it gets there: one knocked in by a later throw, even an opponent's, scores the same as a clean shot.
Q 02Under standard rules, a cornhole game is played until one side reaches or passes what score?
21
21. The total is only checked when an inning ends, and official rules ask for no two-point margin, so 21-20 is a win.
Q 03What is the diameter of the hole in a regulation cornhole board?
6 inches
6 inches. A regulation bag also measures 6 inches across, so the hole gives it no room to spare.
Q 04What are the dimensions of a regulation cornhole board?
2 by 4 feet
2 by 4 feet. The back edge sits 12 inches off the ground and the front about 3, and the hole is cut near the high end, so a sliding bag has to climb to it.
Q 05How far apart do the front edges of the two boards sit on a regulation cornhole court?
27 feet
27 feet. Each board's front edge doubles as the foul line, so a thrower may not step past it until the bag has landed.
Q 06What scoring system does cornhole use, under which only one side can score in any inning?
Cancellation
Cancellation. Each inning the lower total is subtracted from the higher, so if both sides throw 12 points, nobody scores at all.
Q 07Heyliger de Windt's 1883 patent showed a board much like today's cornhole board, but with a hole of which shape?
Square
Square. De Windt wanted a cheap, noiseless game for indoors, so his players tossed cloth bags of beans at a slanted board.
Q 08Which magazine ran a 1974 build-it-yourself project called 'bean-bag bull's-eye', a close cousin of cornhole?
Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics. Its September 1974 issue offered the game among 'four projects you'll find fun and handy', decades before anyone played it for prize money on television.
Q 09Which city's west side is widely credited as the birthplace of the modern game of cornhole?
Cincinnati
Cincinnati. Players there were calling it cornhole decades before the name spread, and its first rule-making bodies appeared only in the 2000s.
Q 10Which sausage maker put its name on American Cornhole League championships aired by ESPN?
Johnsonville
Johnsonville. The exposure paid off for the players too: with ESPN airtime behind it, the league kept raising its prize money.
Q 11Which Heisman-winning quarterback lent his name to the ACO's Cornhole Classic of 2006, held in his NFL team's city?
Carson Palmer
Carson Palmer. The ACO's founder teamed up with the quarterback for the event, months before the body crowned its first national champion.
Q 12In which state is the American Cornhole Organization, founded in 2005, headquartered?
Ohio
Ohio. The ACO calls itself the sport's governing body, though another sanctioning body, the American Cornhole Association, had been formed two years earlier.
Q 13The ACL cornhole world championships have been a showpiece of ESPN's 'The Ocho', a channel idea borrowed from which comedy film?
Dodgeball
Q 21In cornhole, an inning in which both sides score exactly the same is called what?
A wash
A wash. Rulebooks also call it a push, and since nobody's total moves, the same side keeps the first throw for the next inning.
Q 22In cornhole slang, what is 'cornfusion'?
A dispute over an inning's score
A dispute over an inning's score. To head it off, the rules bar anyone from moving a bag before the count is settled.
Q 23In cornhole slang, a bag in the hole is sometimes nicknamed after which drain-clearing product?
Drano
Drano. Enough of them and the hole can back up: when bags pile up underneath, a player may ask for them to be raked clear before the next throw.
Dodgeball. The 2004 film joked about an ESPN8 for contests that are 'almost a sport'; ESPN made the gag real in 2017, and cornhole became one of its mainstays.
Q 14Under ACL rules, roughly how much does a regulation cornhole bag weigh?
One pound
One pound. The ACL's window is 15.5 to 16.5 ounces, and players may not restitch or refill a bag once it leaves the maker.
Q 15Tournament cornhole bags are now filled with what, so they keep their weight and shape?
Plastic resin
Plastic resin. Corn-filled bags, usually said to have given the game its name, break down with use, so both major rulebooks now expect resin instead.
Q 16In cornhole, what is a bag called that rests partly on the board while also touching the ground?
Dirt bag
Dirt bag. Also called a dirty bag, it scores nothing, and neither does a bag that hits the ground first and bounces up onto the board.
Q 17What do cornhole players call a bag that drops straight into the hole without touching the board?
Airmail
Airmail. Because it never touches the board, it is the usual way past an opponent's blocker, and some players call it a swish.
Q 18In cornhole, a bag that stays on the board at the end of an inning, scoring one point, is called what?
Woody
Woody. It only counts if it is still on the board when the inning ends, so an opponent can wipe out the point by knocking it off.
Q 19In cornhole, what is a 'four-bagger'?
Sinking every bag in a single round
Sinking every bag in a single round is the most one side can score in an inning; players also call it a gusher or a double deuce.
Q 20In cornhole, a shutout in which the losing side never scores is known by which name?
Skunk
Skunk. Many house rules don't make the losers play it out: once the score reaches 11-0, the game is simply called.
Q 24In cornhole, which side throws first in a new inning?
Whoever scored last time
Whoever scored last time leads off, so a side on a hot streak keeps throwing first until the other side wins an inning.
Q 25In cornhole slang, what is a 'Sally'?
A throw that falls short
A throw that falls short. Glossaries also call it a corn patty; either way the bag never reaches the board, so it scores nothing.
Q 26In cornhole doubles, where does a player's partner stand?
Directly opposite, at the other board
Directly opposite, at the other board. Partners face each other down one lane, so each spends the game duelling the opponent standing beside them.
Q 27Which comedy duo posted a music video called 'The Cornhole Song' on YouTube in the late 2000s?
Rhett & Link
Rhett & Link. The North Carolina pair sang the game's praises years before they became the hosts of Good Mythical Morning.
Q 28The ACL created a national governing body, USA Cornhole, to pursue which long-term goal for the sport?
A place in the Olympics
A place in the Olympics. The world body shares the aim and is building the kind of federation the International Olympic Committee requires before it recognises a sport.
Q 29In cornhole slang, who are 'the police'?
The referees
The referees. In official play they are the ones called to a court to rule on a close call or watch for foot fouls.
Q 30What do cornhole players call a bag that comes to rest on the board just beyond the hole?
A backstop
A backstop. An overshoot is not wasted: later sliders can run into it and stay on the board instead of sliding off the far end.