60 free Golden State Warriors trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 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
They won the BAA's first championship there and stayed until Franklin Mieuli moved them west in 1962.
Q 02What is the name of the San Francisco arena the Warriors have played in since 2019?
Chase Center
It sits in Mission Bay after an earlier plan for Piers 30 and 32 met with vocal opposition.
Q 03In which year did the franchise change its geographic name from San Francisco to Golden State?
1971
The name was meant to suggest the team represented all of California; almost all home games moved to Oakland that season.
Q 04Which early star led the Warriors to the BAA's inaugural championship in 1946–47?
Joe Fulks
They beat the Chicago Stags four games to one, and the NBA counts it as its own first title.
Q 05Which team did the Warriors beat four games to one to win the 1956 championship?
Fort Wayne Pistons
Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and Neil Johnston were the stars of that Philadelphia team.
Q 06In which Pennsylvania town did Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points for the Warriors on March 2, 1962?
Hershey
It was a 'home' game on a neutral court against the New York Knicks.
Q 07Which team received Wilt Chamberlain when the Warriors traded him in January 1965?
Philadelphia 76ers
Golden State got three players and $150,000 and finished 17–63; Wilt then beat them in the 1967 Finals.
Q 08Which owner bought the Warriors in 1962 and moved them to San Francisco?
Franklin Mieuli
The team played most of its early Bay Area games at the Cow Palace in Daly City.
Q 09Which 1965 draft pick won Rookie of the Year and later Finals MVP with the Warriors, with an ABA stint between?
Rick Barry
He sat out 1967–68 over unpaid bonuses, joined the Oakland Oaks, and returned in 1972.
Q 10Which heavily favoured team did the Warriors sweep in the 1975 NBA Finals?
Washington Bullets
Al Attles coached the team, and Rick Barry was named Finals MVP.
Q 11Who coached the Warriors to the 1975 championship and won 557 games with the franchise?
Al Attles
He won 557 games as Warriors head coach and later moved into the front office as general manager.
Q 12In 1980 the Warriors traded Robert Parish and the McHale pick for the pick used on which centre?
Joe Barry Carroll
The deal handed the Celtics two Hall of Fame frontcourt players.
Q 13Which Warriors guard set playoff records with 29 points in a quarter against the Lakers in 1987?
Sleepy Floyd
He finished with 51 in a game still shown in the NBA's Greatest Games series.
Q 21Monta Ellis was suspended for 30 games in 2008 after injuring himself doing what?
Riding a moped
The vehicle violated the terms of his contract.
Q 22With which pick did the Warriors select Stephen Curry from Davidson in the 2009 draft?
7th
He finished second in Rookie of the Year voting to Tyreke Evans.
Q 23For what then-record price did Joe Lacob and Peter Guber buy the Warriors from Chris Cohan in 2010?
$450 million
The 19-person group included Chamath Palihapitiya, whose 2022 comments about Uyghurs the team disowned.
Q 14The 'Run TMC' trio of the early 1990s consisted of Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and which guard?
Mitch Richmond
The nickname riffed on Run-D.M.C.; the trio lasted only two seasons before Richmond went to Sacramento for Billy Owens.
Q 15Which player did the Warriors take first overall in 1995, the season Chris Cohan took over as owner?
Joe Smith
Cohan's turbulent 16-year tenure produced one playoff appearance.
Q 16Which coach did Latrell Sprewell choke at a practice in December 1997, earning a season-long suspension?
P. J. Carlesimo
The newspaper headline read 'WARRIORS HIT ROCK BOTTOM'; Sprewell was dealt to the Knicks in 1999.
Q 17Which centre did the Warriors draft in 1996 over Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Jermaine O'Neal?
Todd Fuller
The next year they took Adonal Foyle while Tracy McGrady was still available.
Q 18What became the Warriors' slogan during their late-2007 surge to the playoffs?
We Believe
They went 16–5 down the stretch under Don Nelson after starting 26–35.
Q 19Which top seed did the eighth-seed Warriors upset in 2007, a first in a seven-game series?
Dallas Mavericks
Baron Davis led the way; Golden State had swept the regular-season series too.
Q 20What was the Warriors' 2007–08 record, the best ever for a team that missed a 16-team playoff?
48–34
Every Western playoff team won 50 games that season, leaving Golden State two games short.
Q 24Which Harvard guard signed with the Warriors in 2010, the first Taiwanese-American in the NBA?
Jeremy Lin
'Linsanity' erupted two years later with the Knicks.
Q 25Draymond Green was drafted with a 2012 second-round pick the Warriors acquired in a trade for which forward?
Troy Murphy
Green went 35th overall; Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli came in the same draft.
Q 26With which pick did the Warriors take Klay Thompson in 2011?
11th
He and Curry were dubbed the 'Splash Brothers' by team employee Brian Witt.
Q 27How big was the 'risky' rookie-scale extension Stephen Curry signed in 2012?
Four seasons, $44 million
His injury history made writers nervous, but the cheap deal freed money to keep the core together.
Q 28What was the rallying cry of the 2012–13 Warriors, echoing the slogan of the 2007 team?
We Belong
They made the playoffs for the first time since 2007 and beat Denver in six.
Q 29Which team employee coined the nickname 'Splash Brothers' for Curry and Thompson?
Brian Witt
Their 483 threes in 2012–13 broke the duo record of 435 held by Nick Anderson and Dennis Scott.
Q 30Whom did the Warriors hire in May 2014 to replace Mark Jackson, in his first head-coaching job?
Steve Kerr
He was a five-time champion as a player and the NBA's career three-point accuracy leader at .454.