50 free Hull City trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Hull City trivia quiz covers the whole story of the Tigers, from the club's 1904 foundation in a rugby league town to the Premier League seasons, the 2014 FA Cup final and the play-off wins at Wembley. You will find questions on Anlaby Road, Boothferry Park and the MKM Stadium, on Chris Chilton, Raich Carter, Dean Windass and Steve Bruce, and on the fights off the pitch too, including the tennis-ball protest and the failed Hull Tigers rename. The early questions are the ones any Hull supporter should get; later ones dig into club records, cup oddities and the kind of detail that settles arguments in the pub: the first team ever knocked out of a cup on penalties, the fish-trade Christmas exemption, and who scored the first goal at the KC Stadium. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the club, its grounds and its players, and each question carries a citation. It works as a solo test or as a ready-made Hull City round for a quiz night.
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Q 01Which big cat gives Hull City their nickname?
Tiger
The Hull Daily Mail coined the nickname in March 1905 in response to the striped kit.
Q 02Which two colours make up Hull City's traditional home kit?
Black and amber
Despite a persistent myth about early white shirts, the club wore black and amber stripes from the very beginning.
Q 03In which year was Hull City founded?
1904
For the 120th anniversary in 2024, the club sold exactly 1,904 commemorative all-black shirts.
Q 04Which stadium was Hull City's home from 1946 until 2002?
Boothferry Park
By the 1990s the cash-strapped club had let supermarkets Iceland and Kwik Save open stores inside the ground's structure.
Q 05The MKM Stadium is shared with which rugby league club?
Hull F.C.
It is a return of sorts: Hull City's very first friendlies in 1904 were played at the rugby club's ground, the Boulevard.
Q 06Who scored the only goal in the 2008 play-off final that sent Hull City to the top flight?
Dean Windass
Windass was 39 years old and Hull-born; he later became the club's oldest-ever goalscorer in the Premier League.
Q 07Who did the Tigers beat in the 2008 Championship play-off final?
Bristol City
Hull had thrashed Watford 6–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals to get there.
Q 08Who was Hull City's manager when they first reached the Premier League in 2008?
Phil Brown
Brown was placed on gardening leave in March 2010 and replaced by Iain Dowie, whose curious job title was 'Temporary Football Management Consultant'.
Q 09Hull City lost their first FA Cup final, in 2014, to which club?
Arsenal
James Chester and Curtis Davies had Hull 2–0 up inside ten minutes before Aaron Ramsey completed the comeback in extra time.
Q 10Which manager led Hull City to two Premier League promotions, an FA Cup final and Europe from 2012 to 2016?
Steve Bruce
Bruce resigned in July 2016 amid an alleged rift with the owners, weeks after winning the play-off final.
Q 11Which ex-Barcelona midfielder scored Hull City's first top-flight goal, against Fulham in 2008?
Geovanni
That autumn Hull won away at two of London's biggest clubs and briefly sat joint-second in the table.
Q 12Who is Hull City's record goalscorer, with 222 goals in all competitions?
Chris Chilton
His strike partner Ken Wagstaff is second on both the league and all-competitions lists.
Q 13Who holds Hull City's appearance record, with 579 games in all competitions?
Andy Davidson
Davidson was part of the celebrated 1965–66 Third Division title side under Cliff Britton.
Q 21Hull City's biggest ever competitive win was 11–1 in 1939 against which club?
Carlisle United
The record away win is 8–2 at Stalybridge Celtic in the FA Cup in 1932.
Q 22Hull have twice lost 8–0, in 1911 and again in July 2020. Who inflicted the 2020 defeat?
Wigan Athletic
Hull lost 16 of their last 20 games that pandemic-hit season and went down to League One.
Q 23Duane Darby set a club record by scoring how many goals in an FA Cup replay against Whitby Town in 1996?
Six
Twelve goals in one tie, at a time when the club could barely pay its bills.
Q 14Which owner tried and failed to rename the club 'Hull Tigers'?
Assem Allam
He argued that 'City' was too common a name and said that if he owned Manchester City he would rename them 'Manchester Hunter'.
Q 15In April 2014, which body rejected the club's application to change its name?
The FA Council
Supporters had rallied under the banner 'City Till We Die'; the owner replied that they could 'die as soon as they want'.
Q 16Which Turkish media mogul completed a takeover of Hull City in January 2022?
Acun Ilıcalı
He later sacked Liam Rosenior despite a near-play-off season, citing a difference in 'football philosophy'.
Q 17Hull City contest the Humber derby with Scunthorpe United and which other club?
Grimsby Town
Many Hull fans regard Leeds United as bigger opponents than either Lincolnshire club, an enmity Leeds do not return.
Q 18Why were Hull City and a Lincolnshire neighbour once excused league football on Christmas Day?
The demands of the fish trade
Both ports were among the largest fishing centres in the country when Hull joined the Second Division in 1905.
Q 19What kind of ground was the Circle, Hull City's temporary home after the Boulevard?
Cricket
The MKM Stadium was later built about 100 metres from the site of the old Circle.
Q 20What was the name of Hull City's first permanent home, opened in March 1906?
Anlaby Road
The club's record 11–1 win was recorded there in January 1939.
Q 24What did Hull fans throw onto the pitch at Bolton in 1998 in football's first protest of its kind?
Tennis balls
The owner at the time was a former tennis player who wanted to move the club back to the Boulevard and merge it with Hull F.C.
Q 25Which former British Davis Cup captain owned Hull City from 1997 to 1998?
David Lloyd
In 2000 he had the bailiffs lock the club out of its own ground, which he still owned, over unpaid rent.
Q 26Which former Liverpool midfielder became Hull City's first non-British or Irish manager in 2002?
Jan Mølby
He lasted just six months before Peter Taylor took over and began the climb to the Premier League.
Q 27In 1970 Hull became the first team eliminated from a cup competition on penalties. Which competition?
The Watney Cup
Hull did reach the final of the same competition in 1973, finishing runners-up.
Q 28Which former England international was player-manager when Hull won the Third Division North in 1948–49?
Raich Carter
That same season the ground drew its record crowd of 55,019 for an FA Cup tie.
Q 29Hull's record home attendance of 55,019 came in a 1949 FA Cup tie against which club?
Manchester United
The MKM Stadium record is a more modest 25,030, set against Liverpool on the last day of 2009–10.
Q 30Roughly how much did the KC Stadium cost to build in 2002?
£44 million
Most of the money came from Hull City Council, which had sold part of its stake in Kingston Communications.