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95 free Extreme Sports trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
15 free extreme sports trivia questions with answers. Are you an adrenaline junkie who lives for extreme sports? Put your knowledge to the test with our challenging 95-question trivia quiz covering skateboarding, BASE jumping, surfing, mountaineering, and more. From legendary athletes to iconic moments in extreme sports history, this quiz will separate the true enthusiasts from casual fans.
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Q 01At which Portuguese town did Sebastian Steudtner surf a record 86-foot wave in October 2020?
Nazaré
An underwater canyon off Nazaré's Praia do Norte funnels and focuses Atlantic swells into monsters, which is why big-wave surfers descend on the town every winter.
Q 02Peʻahi, the Maui break where jet skis tow surfers into giant waves, goes by which nickname?
Jaws
Jaws got its name in 1975 from three Maui surfers who watched it turn huge and dangerous without warning and thought of that year's shark film.
Q 03Snowboarding made its Olympic debut in 1998 at the Winter Games in which city?
Nagano
Nagano's first giant slalom champion, Canada's Ross Rebagliati, was stripped of his gold after testing positive for cannabis, then got it back two days later because the drug was not on the banned list.
Q 04Which peak's 1865 first ascent by Edward Whymper's party ended with four deaths on the descent?
Matterhorn
Whymper's party reached the Matterhorn's summit on 14 July 1865, but a rope broke on the way down and Croz, Hadow, Hudson and Lord Francis Douglas fell to their deaths.
Q 05Which country is widely recognized as the origin of modern commercial bungee jumping?
New Zealand
A.J. Hackett opened the world's first permanent commercial bungee site at New Zealand's Kawarau Gorge bridge near Queenstown in 1988, a year after his publicity jump from the Eiffel Tower.
Q 06Which extreme sport uses fabric membranes between arms and legs to glide during a skydive?
Wingsuit flying
Wingsuit flying trades vertical speed for horizontal glide thanks to the suit's extra surface area, and flights can start from an aircraft or from a fixed cliff or structure.
Q 07What is the primary philosophy behind the discipline of Parkour?
Efficient navigation through any environment
Efficient navigation through any environment is the whole idea: getting from one point to another as fast and fluidly as possible using only the body, a goal inherited from French military obstacle-course training.
Q 08Which activity involves balancing along flat webbing tensioned between two anchor points?
Slacklining
Slacklining is a sport and art that involves balancing on a piece of webbing, which is rigged with less tension than a tightrope, allowing for more dynamic movement.
Q 09Freerunning pioneer Sébastien Foucan plays the bomb-maker James Bond chases across a construction site in which film?
Casino Royale
Casino Royale (2006) sends Daniel Craig's Bond after Foucan's bomb-maker through a Madagascar building site; Foucan's style had been named freerunning three years earlier for the British film Jump London.
Q 10Which water sport pairs a small board with a steerable canopy flown on long lines?
Kitesurfing
Kitesurfing became practical thanks to French brothers Bruno and Dominique Legaignoux, who patented an inflatable kite in the mid-1980s: its air-filled tubes let a crashed kite relaunch from the water.
Q 11Which activity sends a crew of paddlers down river rapids in a large inflatable boat?
Whitewater rafting
Whitewater rafting grades its rapids on a six-class scale, and the sport owes its boats to the army: early outfitters ran rivers in rubber rafts sold off as military surplus after the Second World War.
Q 12Which sport races dirt bikes over jumps and bumps on enclosed off-road circuits?
Motocross
Motocross blends the French 'motocyclette' with 'cross-country', yet the sport is British: riders there began racing over rough ground in the 1920s and called it scrambling until the French name caught on.
Q 13Which legendary skateboarder is widely recognized for completing the first documented '900' trick?
Tony Hawk
Q 21Which El Capitan route did Alex Honnold climb alone and without a rope in June 2017?
Freerider
Freerider took Honnold 3 hours 56 minutes on 3 June 2017; as with his other big solos, he had first rehearsed the route on ropes, and a crew of fellow climbers filmed the ascent for Free Solo.
Q 22Felix Baumgartner's 2012 Red Bull Stratos jump made him the first human to do what without engine power?
Break the sound barrier
He was the first to break the sound barrier in free fall, reaching Mach 1.25 after stepping off 39 km above New Mexico; he spun out of control early on but steadied himself without the drogue chute that would have cost him the record.
Q 23Whose 1960 highest-altitude jump record did Felix Baumgartner break, with that man mentoring him at mission control?
Tony Hawk landed the first documented 900, a two-and-a-half-revolution aerial, in the Best Trick contest at the 1999 X Games in San Francisco, and repeated it in 2016 at age 48.
Q 14In the extreme sport of BASE jumping, what does the acronym BASE stand for?
Building, Antenna, Span, Earth
BASE stands for Building, Antenna, Span, Earth, the four fixed launch points ('span' means bridges, 'earth' means cliffs); jumps start far lower than skydives, leaving little time to fix a problem.
Q 15The first X Games, in 1995, held events in Newport in which US state?
Rhode Island
Rhode Island staged the first Extreme Games from 24 June to 1 July 1995; street luge, a medal event that week, was later dropped from the Games.
Q 16Which broadcaster founded the X Games?
ESPN
ESPN created the Extreme Games in 1995, shortened the name to the X Games a year later, and sold the event to the investment firm MSP Sports Capital in late 2022.
Q 17From which structure did the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club make the first modern bungee jumps on 1 April 1979?
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Club members leapt from Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge on 1 April 1979, inspired by the vine jumpers of Pentecost Island; they were arrested soon afterwards and promptly took their elastic ropes to America.
Q 18The land-diving ritual behind bungee jumping takes place on Pentecost Island in which country?
Vanuatu
Pentecost Island is in Vanuatu, where men leap from wooden towers 20 to 30 metres high with vines tied to their ankles; a good dive is believed to bring a rich yam harvest.
Q 19Which bridge on the Zambia–Zimbabwe border hosts a 111-metre bungee jump over the Zambezi?
Victoria Falls Bridge
Victoria Falls Bridge stands where Cecil Rhodes wanted it, close enough for passing trains to catch the spray of the falls, though he died before work began; jumpers now drop 111 metres from it.
Q 20Which filmmaker filmed jumps from El Capitan in 1978 and helped coin the BASE acronym?
Carl Boenish
Carl Boenish filmed the 1978 El Capitan jumps that launched the sport and coined its name with his wife Jean and two friends; he died on a jump in 1984, a day after the couple leapt together for a Guinness television special.
Joseph Kittinger
Joseph Kittinger jumped from 31,300 metres in August 1960 with one hand swollen to twice its size: a glove seal had failed on the way up, and he kept quiet so the ground crew would not abort.
Q 24Which skateboard company did Tony Hawk co-found with Per Welinder in 1992?
Birdhouse
Birdhouse was born in a slump: when Tony Hawk and fellow Powell Peralta pro Per Welinder founded it in 1992, vert skating had collapsed, Hawk had refinanced his house and he thought his own career was nearly over.
Q 25What was skateboarding nicknamed in its early California years?
Sidewalk surfing
Sidewalk surfing was the idea: California surfers wanted something to do when the waves were flat, so the first skaters copied surfing moves on the pavement, often barefoot.
Q 26The 1965 forerunner of the snowboard, invented by Sherman Poppen for his daughters, was called what?
The Snurfer
The Snurfer, named by Poppen's wife Nancy from 'snow' and 'surfer', began as two skis bolted together on Christmas Day 1965; Brunswick licensed it as a toy, and about a million were sold by the end of the 1970s.
Q 27Which snowboarder won Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006, 2010 and 2018?
Shaun White
Shaun White took the third on his very last run in 2018, landing back-to-back 1440s to overtake Japan's Ayumu Hirano, four years after he had missed the podium altogether.
Q 28Which Frenchman is credited as the founder of parkour, building on training passed down by his firefighter father?
David Belle
David Belle learned from his father Raymond, an elite Paris firefighter schooled in the French military's obstacle-course method; David and his friends, who called themselves the Yamakasi, turned it into parkour.
Q 29What were practitioners of parkour historically called?
Traceurs
Traceurs comes from the French verb 'tracer', to trace a path; it began as the name of one early group of practitioners, which included Sébastien Foucan, before it spread to everyone who trains.
Q 30In 2006, Travis Pastrana became the first rider to land which trick in competition?
A double backflip
Pastrana landed the first double backflip in competition in the Moto X Best Trick final at the 2006 X Games, scoring 98.60; in 2018 he recreated three of Evel Knievel's most famous jumps live on television.