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50 free Eli Manning trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Eli Manning spent his entire sixteen-season NFL career as quarterback of the New York Giants, and few players have had a stranger mix of highs and lows. He forced his way to New York on draft day, never missed a game through injury, led the league in interceptions more than once, and still walked away with two Super Bowl MVP trophies after a pair of famous upsets. This quiz covers the whole story: his football family and college years, the 2004 draft, the teammates on the other end of his most replayed throws, the coaches and rivals, the records he set and the ones he just missed. It also follows him into retirement, where the quiet quarterback turned out to be a natural on television. The early questions suit anyone who watched those championship runs. Later sets are for Giants diehards who remember his rookie starts and the odd corners of his career.
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Q 01Which team drafted Eli Manning first overall in 2004 after he said he would not play there?
San Diego Chargers
The San Diego Chargers picked him anyway, then dealt him to the New York Giants during the draft for another rookie quarterback and three picks.
Q 02Which previously unbeaten team did Eli Manning's Giants upset 17–14 in Super Bowl XLII?
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots had been the first team to win all 16 regular-season games and were heavy favorites. Manning's late drive ended the perfect season.
Q 03Which receiver pinned an Eli Manning pass to his helmet on the winning drive of Super Bowl XLII?
David Tyree
David Tyree made the grab after Manning slipped away from several pass rushers on third-and-5, a play remembered ever since as the Helmet Catch.
Q 04Eli Manning played college football for which team, where his father Archie was already a folk hero?
Ole Miss Rebels
Ole Miss Rebels fans got 81 touchdown passes from him and, in his senior year, the school's first ten-win season since 1971.
Q 05Which long-running TV show did Eli Manning host in May 2012, months after winning Super Bowl XLVI?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live gave him the twentieth episode of its 37th season, with Rihanna as the musical guest.
Q 06Eli Manning was born in which city, where he later starred at Isidore Newman School?
New Orleans
New Orleans is where he threw for a school-record 7,389 yards in high school, a mark that stood until 2022.
Q 07Which head coach won two Super Bowls with Eli Manning before stepping down after the 2015 season?
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin coached him for 12 seasons and backed him in 2011, when Manning was criticized for calling himself an elite quarterback.
Q 08Eli Manning won Super Bowl XLVI in the home stadium of which team, then his brother Peyton's?
Indianapolis Colts
The Indianapolis Colts play at Lucas Oil Stadium. The brothers never met in a Super Bowl, though Peyton won all three of their regular-season games.
Q 09Eli Manning went undercover as walk-on Chad Powers at which university's football tryouts in 2022?
Penn State
Penn State hosted the stunt for a television project, and it was later expanded into a scripted Hulu series named after the character.
Q 10In a 2011 radio interview, Eli Manning put himself in the same elite class as which quarterback?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady was the name host Michael Kay put to him, and the answer brought criticism because Manning had thrown 25 interceptions the season before.
Q 11Which quarterback did the Giants draft in 2004 and trade away the same day to land Eli Manning?
Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers went the other way along with three draft picks, one of which was used on kicker Nate Kaeding.
Q 12Which member of the Manning family broke Eli Manning's high school passing record in 2022?
Arch
Arch is his nephew, and he passed the 7,389-yard mark at the same school 24 years after his uncle's last season there.
Q 13Eli Manning and his brother Peyton began hosting the Manningcast in 2021 for which broadcaster?
ESPN
ESPN ran it as an alternate broadcast of Monday Night Football, with the brothers talking to celebrity guests while they watched.
Q 21Which receiver caught Eli Manning's winning touchdown pass with 35 seconds left in Super Bowl XLII?
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress scored from 13 yards out four plays after the famous third-down escape, capping a 12-play, 83-yard drive.
Q 22Eli Manning's 35 touchdown passes in 2015 fell one short of which quarterback's Giants season record?
Y. A. Tittle
Y. A. Tittle's 36 stayed the Giants record, though Manning's 35 were a career high and tied for second among NFL quarterbacks that year.
Q 23Which running back reluctantly fell across the goal line to win Super Bowl XLVI for Eli Manning?
Ahmad Bradshaw
Q 14Eli Manning and Larry Fitzgerald were named the first co-winners in a decade of which NFL award?
Walter Payton Man of the Year
Walter Payton Man of the Year recognizes work off the field; Manning had led a five-year campaign to build children's clinics that carry his name.
Q 15Which late-night host welcomed Eli Manning as a guest on the Wednesday after Super Bowl XLII?
David Letterman
David Letterman taped the Late Show in Manhattan, a short trip for the Giants quarterback three days after the win in Arizona.
Q 16Eli Manning and brother Peyton helped deliver 30,000 pounds of relief supplies after which 2005 hurricane?
Katrina
Katrina had flooded the city where the brothers grew up, and their shipment included water, Gatorade, baby formula and pillows.
Q 17Eli Manning and his brother Peyton co-starred in commercials for NFLShop.com and which snack brand?
Oreo
Oreo cast the brothers together, while Eli's own sponsors over the years have included a watchmaker, a car dealer group and an insurer.
Q 18Which actor plays the title role in Chad Powers, the 2025 Hulu series based on an Eli Manning sketch?
Glen Powell
Glen Powell took the part that Manning had first played in disguise at a real college tryout three years earlier.
Q 19Which rookie caught an Eli Manning touchdown pass one-handed on Sunday Night Football in 2014?
Odell Beckham
Odell Beckham Jr. made the grab while falling backwards, and pundits and fellow athletes called it the greatest catch ever made.
Q 20Which receiver caught Eli Manning's record-tying 99-yard touchdown pass against the Jets in 2011?
Victor Cruz
Victor Cruz went the length of the field in a late-season win over the crosstown Jets, part of his franchise-record 1,536 receiving yards that year.
Ahmad Bradshaw was meant to stop short so the Giants could run down the clock, but the defense stepped aside and his momentum carried him in.
Q 24Which team did Eli Manning's Giants beat in overtime in the bitterly cold 2007 NFC Championship Game?
Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers fans sat through one of the coldest postseason games in NFL history, and the 23–20 result sent the Giants to their first Super Bowl in seven years.
Q 25Eli Manning was sacked six times but beat which team in overtime in the 2011 NFC Championship Game?
San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers defenders hit him all game, yet he completed a franchise playoff-record 32 passes in the 20–17 win.
Q 26Eli Manning ran in the first NFL regular-season touchdown scored outside North America in which city?
London
London hosted the Giants and Dolphins at a rain-soaked Wembley Stadium in 2007, where Manning passed for only 59 yards but scored on a 10-yard run.
Q 27Which veteran quarterback did rookie Eli Manning replace as the Giants' starter in November 2004?
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner came back in relief a few weeks later, when Manning was benched with a 0.0 passer rating, then left the Giants after the season.
Q 28Which quarterback started in place of Eli Manning in 2017, ending his streak of 210 consecutive starts?
Geno Smith
Geno Smith got one start: the move caused a backlash from former Giants, the head coach was fired within days, and Manning was starting again the next week.
Q 29Which first-round rookie replaced Eli Manning as the Giants' starting quarterback in Week 3 of 2019?
Daniel Jones
Daniel Jones was drafted that spring, and Manning was told of the pick as it was being made; an injury to the rookie later gave Manning two farewell starts.
Q 30When Eli Manning's 210 straight starts ended in 2017, which quarterback's 297 was the only longer streak?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre started 297 in a row. Manning turned down an offer to start one more game just to extend his own run, saying that would tarnish it.