Golden State Warriors Trivia
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106 free Golden State Warriors trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Golden State Warriors trivia quiz covers all seven championships and everything between: the Philadelphia Warriors of Joe Fulks and Paul Arizin, Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point night in Hershey, the move west, Rick Barry and the 1975 sweep of the Bullets, the Sleepy Floyd game, Run TMC, the Sprewell choking, We Believe, and the Curry-Thompson-Green dynasty from 73–9 to Kevin Durant and the 2022 title. Expect easy questions on the arena, the nickname and the biggest names, plenty of history for regular fans, and hard ones about the Robert Parish trade, the Todd Fuller pick, who coined 'Splash Brothers' and the second-round pick that became Draymond Green. Uniforms from 'The City' to 'The Town' also get a turn. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources before it went in, so when you miss one you can trust the explanation. Play it solo or run it as a round at your next Dub Nation watch party. For the wider league, our NBA trivia page is the natural next stop.
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Q 01In which city were the Warriors founded in 1946?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia was home until the 1962 move west; the owners borrowed the Warriors name from an earlier pro team that had played in the city in the 1920s.
Q 02What is the name of the San Francisco arena the Warriors have played in since 2019?
Chase Center
Chase Center opened in the Mission Bay district in September 2019 after an earlier plan for Piers 30 and 32 on the waterfront met with vocal opposition.
Q 03The 1971 name Golden State covered a plan to split home games between the Bay Area and which city?
San Diego
San Diego had just lost the Rockets to Houston, so the Warriors' owner planned to share his team with the city and picked a name that covered all of California; only a handful of games were ever played there.
Q 04Which top overall pick did the Warriors acquire on draft night in 1993 for Penny Hardaway and three future first-rounders?
Chris Webber
Chris Webber won Rookie of the Year with the Warriors, then fell out with coach Don Nelson and was traded after a single season.
Q 05Which future Hall of Famer did the Warriors draft fifth in 1998, then swap on draft night for Antawn Jamison?
Vince Carter
Vince Carter went to Toronto for Antawn Jamison, his North Carolina teammate taken one pick earlier; Carter won Rookie of the Year and later reached the Hall of Fame.
Q 06In which Pennsylvania town did Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points for the Warriors on March 2, 1962?
Hershey
Hershey hosted a few Warriors 'home' games to win new fans; that night a career 51% free-throw shooter made 28 of 32 in a 169–147 rout of the New York Knicks.
Q 07Which team received Wilt Chamberlain when the Warriors traded him in January 1965?
Philadelphia 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers sent three players and $150,000 for Chamberlain in January 1965; the Warriors slumped to 17–63, and Wilt's 76ers beat them in the 1967 Finals.
Q 08Which radio and TV producer joined the group that bought the Warriors in 1962, then owned the team until 1986?
Franklin Mieuli
Franklin Mieuli was one of 33 investors who paid Eddie Gottlieb $850,000 and took the team west; he soon bought out enough partners to control the club, and kept it until 1986.
Q 09Which 1965 draft pick won Rookie of the Year and later Finals MVP with the Warriors, with an ABA stint between?
Rick Barry
Rick Barry won Rookie of the Year in 1966, jumped to the ABA and sat out 1967–68 under a court order honouring his option year, then returned in 1972 and was Finals MVP in 1975.
Q 10Which heavily favoured team did the Warriors sweep in the 1975 NBA Finals?
Washington Bullets
Washington Bullets won 60 games to the Warriors' 48, yet never won a game in the series; a booking clash even pushed the Warriors' home games out of their own arena to the Cow Palace.
Q 11Who coached the Warriors to the 1975 championship and won 557 games with the franchise?
Al Attles
Al Attles never saw his team clinch that title: he was ejected from the deciding game for charging onto the court at an opponent who had fouled his star player hard.
Q 12Which Hall of Fame centre did the Warriors trade to Boston in 1980, along with the draft pick that became Kevin McHale?
Robert Parish
Robert Parish and that pick went east for two first-round choices, one used first overall on Joe Barry Carroll; Boston won three titles in the 1980s with Parish and McHale up front.
Q 13Which Warrior set playoff records with 29 points in a quarter against the Lakers in 1987?
Sleepy Floyd
Q 21Monta Ellis was suspended for 30 games in 2008 after injuring himself doing what?
Riding a moped
Riding a moped in Mississippi in August 2008, Ellis tore ankle ligaments; because his new six-year contract barred such activities, the team suspended him for 30 games without pay.
Q 22Which team passed on Stephen Curry twice in the 2009 draft?
Minnesota Timberwolves
Minnesota Timberwolves held picks 5 and 6 and spent both on point guards, Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn; Flynn lasted only three NBA seasons, while Curry went 7th to the Warriors.
Q 23Which tech billionaire lost out when Joe Lacob and Peter Guber bought the Warriors for a then-record $450 million in 2010?
Larry Ellison
Sleepy Floyd scored 29 of his 51 points in the fourth quarter of Game 4, handing the eventual champions their only loss of the series and sparing the Warriors a sweep.
Q 14The 'Run TMC' trio of the early 1990s consisted of Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and which guard?
Mitch Richmond
Mitch Richmond was the M: the trio, nicknamed after Run-D.M.C., lasted two seasons before Don Nelson traded Richmond to Sacramento for rookie Billy Owens in November 1991.
Q 15Which future MVP went fifth in the 1995 draft, four picks after the Warriors took Joe Smith first overall?
Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett fell to Minnesota as the first player in two decades drafted straight from high school; Joe Smith was traded away in his third Warriors season.
Q 16Which coach did Latrell Sprewell choke at a practice in December 1997, earning a season-long suspension?
P. J. Carlesimo
P. J. Carlesimo was grabbed by the throat by Sprewell at practice on 1 December 1997; the NBA suspended Sprewell for the rest of the season, and the Warriors traded him to the Knicks in 1999.
Q 17Which future MVP went 13th in the 1996 draft, two picks after the Warriors chose centre Todd Fuller?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was taken 13th by Charlotte and dealt to the Lakers; the Warriors' choice at 11, Todd Fuller, averaged 3.7 points across five NBA seasons.
Q 18What became the Warriors' slogan during their late-season surge to the 2007 playoffs?
We Believe
We Believe took hold as Don Nelson's team went 16–5 down the stretch, climbing from 26–35 to 42–40 and ending a run of 12 seasons without a playoff game.
Q 19Which top seed did the eighth-seed Warriors upset in 2007, a first in a seven-game series?
Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks won 67 games behind MVP Dirk Nowitzki, then lost in six to a Warriors team coached by Don Nelson, who had run the Mavericks until 2005.
Q 20Which 50-win team took the West's last 2008 playoff spot ahead of the Warriors?
Denver Nuggets
Denver Nuggets edged them by two games in a West where all eight playoff teams won at least 50; in the East that year, Atlanta got in with 37 wins.
Larry Ellison said afterwards that he had been the highest bidder; the banker who ran the sale replied that his offer arrived well after the deadline.
Q 24Which Harvard guard signed with the Warriors in 2010?
Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Lin, undrafted out of Harvard, signed with his hometown team in July 2010 but was waived after one season; two months later 'Linsanity' erupted with the Knicks.
Q 25Which All-Star centre, recovering from a torn Achilles, joined the champion Warriors on a one-year, $5.3 million deal in 2018?
DeMarcus Cousins
DeMarcus Cousins said he received no offers when free agency opened, so he phoned the Warriors' general manager himself and took the mid-level exception.
Q 26Klay Thompson played three college seasons at which Pac-10 school?
Washington State
Washington State's leading scorer played the same position as Monta Ellis, the Warriors' top scorer, and the team traded Ellis nine months after the draft.
Q 27Injuries to which joint limited Stephen Curry to 26 games in 2011–12, months before his four-year, $44 million extension?
Ankle
Ankle and foot injuries cost Curry 40 of that lockout season's 66 games; he went on to win both his MVP awards while still on that contract.
Q 28The 'Splash Brothers' nickname plays on the Bash Brothers of which baseball team?
Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics sluggers Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire were the Bash Brothers; a Warriors website writer adapted the name in a half-time tweet in December 2012, and it stuck.
Q 29Whom did the Warriors hire in May 2014 to replace Mark Jackson?
Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr, a five-time champion as a player with Chicago and San Antonio, took the job in May 2014 after turning down the Knicks, and won the title in his first season.
Q 30Stephen Curry's 2015 MVP made him the first Warrior to win the award since whom?
Wilt Chamberlain in 1960
Wilt Chamberlain in 1960 won it as a rookie, then shocked fans by saying he might retire over the rough treatment he took from defenders; no Warrior won it again for 55 years.