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This Packers trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and covers more than a century of Green Bay football: the meat-packing company that paid for the first uniforms, Curly Lambeau's 1929 champions, Vince Lombardi's Titletown dynasty and the Ice Bowl, then the Ron Wolf rebuild that brought Brett Favre and Reggie White, and the Aaron Rodgers years through Super Bowl XLV. There are questions on Lambeau Field's records, the Lambeau Leap, cheeseheads and the Bears rivalry too. It is written for Packers fans and shareholders of every vintage. Around a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are for people who know their Seven Blocks of Granite from their Fourth and 26. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01The Packers are unique among major US pro sports teams for being what?
Non-profit and community-owned
The Packers are a non-profit, community-owned corporation: more than five million shares are held by some 537,000 fans, the stock pays no dividends and cannot be resold for profit.
Q 02What kind of business paid for the Packers' first uniforms in 1919?
A meat packer
Curly Lambeau's employer, the Indian Packing Company, was a meat packer whose $500 for uniforms gave the team its name; Acme Packing later bought it and 'ACME PACKERS' went on the jerseys.
Q 03How many NFL championships, pre-Super Bowl titles included, had the Packers won by 2011?
13
The Packers' 13 titles combine nine pre-Super Bowl championships, starting with Lambeau's 1929 team, plus Super Bowl wins I, II, XXXI and XLV.
Q 04The Packers' first NFL title, in 1929, came with what regular-season record?
12–0–1
The 1929 Packers went 12–0–1, the only blemish a scoreless tie with the Frankford Yellow Jackets, while allowing just 22 points all season.
Q 05Green Bay picked up the nickname 'Titletown' in which year?
1961
Green Bay became 'Titletown USA' after hosting and winning the 1961 NFL Championship Game 37–0, the first of Lombardi's five titles in seven seasons.
Q 06What was Lambeau Field informally called during its first eight seasons?
New City Stadium
It opened in 1957 as City Stadium, informally 'New City Stadium' to distinguish it from the old one at East High School, and was renamed Lambeau Field in 1965 shortly after Curly Lambeau's death.
Q 07Lambeau Field holds what distinction among NFL venues?
Oldest continually operating stadium
Lambeau Field is the oldest continually operating NFL stadium, home to the Packers every season since it opened in 1957 at a cost of $960,000.
Q 08The Packers have sold out every home game since which year?
1960
Every Packers home game has sold out since 1960, the year after Lombardi arrived; by the 2010s the season-ticket waiting list had passed 100,000 names, a wait measured in decades.
Q 09Roughly what was the kickoff temperature at the 1967 'Ice Bowl' NFL Championship Game against Dallas?
About −13 °F
The temperature at kickoff on 31 December 1967 was about −13 °F, with wind chill near −48 °F; the field's underground heating system failed and the turf froze solid.
Q 10The Ice Bowl was won on what play with 13 seconds left?
A quarterback sneak
The quarterback sneak, run behind Jerry Kramer's block on Jethro Pugh, gave the Packers a 21–17 win and their third straight NFL title.
Q 11Which Packers quarterback was MVP of both Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II?
Bart Starr
Bart Starr was MVP of both of the first two Super Bowls, throwing for 250 yards in the 35–10 win over Kansas City in the first.
Q 12The Packers' Super Bowl I and II MVP quarterback was drafted in 1956 in which round?
17th
The future two-time Super Bowl MVP went in the 17th round, 200th overall, of the 1956 draft after barely playing as a senior at Alabama.
Q 13Super Bowl II, Vince Lombardi's last game as Packers coach, was a 33–14 win over which AFL champion?
Oakland Raiders
The Packers beat the Oakland Raiders 33–14 at Miami's Orange Bowl on 14 January 1968; Lombardi stepped down as coach weeks later, staying a year as general manager.
Q 21Where did Packers linebacker Ray Nitschke play college football?
Illinois
Nitschke played fullback and linebacker at Illinois before the Packers drafted him in 1958; the team's outdoor practice field across from Lambeau was named Ray Nitschke Field in his honour.
Q 22General manager Ron Wolf's first big moves in 1992 included trading for which backup quarterback?
Brett Favre
Wolf sent a first-round pick to Atlanta for Brett Favre, then a little-used backup, weeks after firing Lindy Infante and hiring Mike Holmgren from the 49ers.
Q 23Which team did the Packers beat in the NFC Championship Game to reach Super Bowl XXXI?
Carolina Panthers
Q 14Before Green Bay, Vince Lombardi was an assistant with which NFL team?
New York Giants
He came to the Giants after five seasons at Army under Red Blaik.
Q 15As a Fordham guard in 1936, Lombardi was one of the offensive linemen nicknamed what?
Seven Blocks of Granite
Lombardi was a guard in Fordham's 'Seven Blocks of Granite', the 1936 line whose nickname was popularised by the university's publicist Tim Cohane.
Q 16After leaving Green Bay, Lombardi coached one final season for which team before his death in 1970?
Washington Redskins
Lombardi coached the Washington Redskins to a 7–5–2 record in 1969, their first winning season since 1955, and died of cancer the following September; he never had a losing season.
Q 17The Vince Lombardi Trophy design was first sketched by a Tiffany & Co. executive on what?
A cocktail napkin
Tiffany's Oscar Riedner sketched the design on a cocktail napkin during a 1966 lunch with Pete Rozelle: a regulation-size football in kicking position atop a triangular stand.
Q 18Paul Hornung, the 'Golden Boy', missed the 1963 season for what reason?
A gambling suspension
He was the first Heisman winner to be named NFL MVP.
Q 19Fullback Jim Taylor won the NFL MVP in 1962 after doing what?
Winning the rushing title
He had led the SEC in scoring at LSU in 1956 and 1957.
Q 20Don Hutson, the 1930s Packers end nicknamed 'the Alabama Antelope', is credited with inventing what?
Pass patterns
Hutson is credited with inventing modern pass patterns, the timed routes that made him the first great receiver; he led the league in receptions in eight seasons and won NFL titles in 1936, 1939 and 1944.
The Packers beat the Carolina Panthers at a frozen Lambeau Field in the January 1997 NFC Championship Game, scoring 30 points, to earn their first Super Bowl trip in 29 years.
Q 24The quarterback Ron Wolf traded for in 1992 played college football for which programme?
Southern Miss
The Kiln, Mississippi native played at Southern Miss, where he started as a freshman, before Atlanta drafted him in the second round in 1991.
Q 25How many consecutive AP MVP awards did Green Bay's 1990s quarterback win?
Three
He won the AP MVP in 1995, 1996 and 1997 (the last shared with Barry Sanders), three straight, a feat no other player had matched through the 2024 season.
Q 26The Packers signed which prized free agent defensive end in 1993, nicknamed 'the Minister of Defense'?
Reggie White
Reggie White, an ordained minister who had starred for the Eagles, signed a $17 million deal in April 1993 and became the face of NFL free agency.
Q 27The Lambeau Leap was popularised in December 1993 by which safety after a fumble-return touchdown?
LeRoy Butler
LeRoy Butler took a lateral from a teammate's fumble recovery against the Los Angeles Raiders and jumped into the stands; the NFL later exempted the leap from its celebration crackdown.
Q 28Who returned a kickoff a then-record 99 yards for a touchdown to seal Super Bowl XXXI?
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard's 99-yard return came right after the opposition had cut the lead to six, and made him the first special-teams player named Super Bowl MVP; he totalled 244 return yards.
Q 29Super Bowl XXXI was a 35–21 win over which team?
New England Patriots
The Packers beat the New England Patriots 35–21 in New Orleans on 26 January 1997, ending a 29-year title drought stretching back to Super Bowl II.
Q 30Mike Holmgren later spent a decade as head coach of which team after leaving the Packers?
Seattle Seahawks
Holmgren coached the Seattle Seahawks from 1999 to 2008, taking them to Super Bowl XL, after leaving Green Bay following the 1998 season.