Hull City Trivia
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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
Hull City are the Tigers, a nickname earned in their first seasons because their striped home shirts were likened to a tiger's coat.
Q 02Which two colours make up Hull City's traditional home kit?
Black and amber
Black and amber striped shirts have been Hull City's home colours for most of their history, though plain amber shirts with black shorts have featured in several eras.
Q 03In which year was Hull City founded?
1904
Hull City were founded in June 1904 and played their first match that September, a friendly against Notts County at the Boulevard, the home of the city's rugby club.
Q 04Which stadium was Hull City's home from 1946 until 2002?
Boothferry Park
Boothferry Park opened in August 1946 and was Hull City's home until December 2002; by the 1980s a supermarket had been built into the ground behind one goal.
Q 05The MKM Stadium is shared with which rugby league club?
Hull F.C.
Hull F.C., the city's west-side rugby league club, moved into the new stadium alongside the football club when it opened in December 2002; City's first games were played at Hull F.C.'s old Boulevard ground.
Q 06Who scored the only goal in the 2008 play-off final that sent Hull City to the top flight?
Dean Windass
Dean Windass, a 39-year-old Hull-born striker, volleyed the only goal of the 2008 play-off final at Wembley to send the club into the top flight for the first time.
Q 07Who did the Tigers beat in the 2008 Championship play-off final?
Bristol City
Hull beat Bristol City 1-0 at Wembley on 24 May 2008, having thrashed Watford 6-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals.
Q 08Who was Hull City's manager when they first reached the Premier League in 2008?
Phil Brown
Phil Brown took Hull up via the 2008 play-offs and kept them in the Premier League in 2009, delivering his famous on-pitch half-time team talk at Manchester City on Boxing Day 2008.
Q 09Hull City lost their first FA Cup final, in 2014, to which club?
Arsenal
Arsenal won 3-2 after extra time; James Chester and Curtis Davies had Hull 2-0 up inside ten minutes before Aaron Ramsey's 109th-minute winner.
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 11Who scored Hull City's first top-flight goal, against Fulham in August 2008?
Geovanni
Geovanni, formerly of Barcelona and Manchester City, scored Hull's first top-flight goal in a 2-1 opening-day win over Fulham on 16 August 2008.
Q 12Who is Hull City's record goalscorer, with 222 goals in all competitions?
Chris Chilton
Chris Chilton scored 222 goals for Hull City between 1960 and 1971, a club record, with strike partner Ken Wagstaff second on the list.
Q 13Who holds Hull City's appearance record, with 579 games in all competitions?
Andy Davidson
Andy Davidson, a Scottish full-back, made a club-record 579 appearances for Hull City, the last of them in 1967, despite breaking his leg three times during his career.
Q 21Hull City's biggest ever competitive win was 11–1 in 1939 against which club?
Carlisle United
Hull City beat Carlisle United 11-1 at home on 14 January 1939 in the Third Division North, the club's biggest win in any competition.
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
Duane Darby scored six of Hull's goals in an 8-4 extra-time win over Whitby Town in November 1996, a club record for a single match.
Q 14Which owner tried and failed to rename the club 'Hull Tigers'?
Assem Allam
Assem Allam, the Egyptian-born owner who bought the club in 2010, argued 'City' was too common a name and said he would have renamed Manchester City 'Manchester Hunter'.
Q 15In April 2014, which body rejected the club's application to change its name?
The FA Council
The FA Council voted the name-change application down in April 2014; fans had campaigned as 'City Till We Die', and the owner said they could 'die as soon as they want'.
Q 16Which Turkish media mogul completed a takeover of Hull City in January 2022?
Acun Ilıcalı
Acun Ilıcalı, a television presenter and producer, completed his takeover in January 2022 and sacked Liam Rosenior in May 2024 despite a seventh-place finish, citing differing 'football philosophy'.
Q 17Hull City contest the Humber derby with Scunthorpe United and which other club?
Grimsby Town
Grimsby Town, across the estuary in North East Lincolnshire, complete the Humber derby trio with Hull and Scunthorpe; the Humber Bridge has linked the two banks since 1981.
Q 18Why were Hull City and a Lincolnshire neighbour once excused league football on Christmas Day?
The demands of the fish trade
Both Hull and their Lincolnshire neighbour were among Britain's biggest fishing ports, and the demands of the fish trade over the festive period earned them exemption from Christmas Day fixtures.
Q 19What kind of ground was the Circle, Hull City's temporary home after the Boulevard?
Cricket
The Circle was the home of Hull Cricket Club; City played there for the 1905-06 season before moving next door, and the club's current stadium was later built in the same corner of West Park.
Q 20What was the name of Hull City's first permanent home, opened in March 1906?
Anlaby Road
Anlaby Road was Hull City's home from March 1906 until wartime bomb damage forced a move in the 1940s; 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 to protest the owner?
Tennis balls
Hundreds of tennis balls were thrown onto the pitch at Bolton's Reebok Stadium in 1998 in protest at the club's owner, a former tennis player whose plans for the club the fans bitterly opposed.
Q 25Which former British Davis Cup captain owned Hull City from 1997 to 1998?
David Lloyd
David Lloyd, the former Davis Cup captain and fitness-club founder, bought the club in 1997, sold it in late 1998 but kept the ground, and in 2000 had bailiffs lock the team out over unpaid rent.
Q 26Who became Hull City's first manager from outside Britain and Ireland in 2002?
Jan Mølby
Jan Mølby, the Danish former Liverpool midfielder, was appointed in April 2002 and sacked that October; Peter Taylor then took over and began the climb to the Premier League.
Q 27Hull lost English football's first penalty shoot-out in 1970 in which competition?
The Watney Cup
Hull went out of the Watney Cup in 1970 in the first penalty shoot-out in English football, with Denis Law the first player to miss; Hull later lost the 1973 final to Stoke City.
Q 28Which former England international was player-manager when Hull won the Third Division North in 1948–49?
Raich Carter
Raich Carter, the former Sunderland, Derby and England inside-forward, was player-manager as Hull won the 1948-49 Third Division North title.
Q 29Hull's record home attendance of 55,019 came in a 1949 FA Cup tie against which club?
Manchester United
Manchester United won the 1949 FA Cup sixth-round tie 1-0 in front of 55,019, a Hull City crowd that was never matched again.
Q 30Roughly how much did the KC Stadium cost to build in 2002?
£44 million
The KC Stadium cost about £44 million, most of it provided by Hull City Council from the sale of part of its stake in Kingston Communications, and it opened in December 2002.