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40 free Hull FC trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
For 107 years, Hull FC at the Boulevard meant packed terraces, a speedway track around the pitch and a crowd that sang its own anthem. The ground has gone, but the stories have not: a record signing whose name sold tickets, a cup the club could not win in London for more than half a century, and a derby that splits the city along a river. This quiz covers the club from its 1865 beginnings to the Super League era. Expect questions on the old ground and what became of it, the nicknames and the song, famous Challenge Cup finals, record breakers, coaches who made history and the players who lifted trophies in black and white. It is pitched for anyone who follows rugby league in the city, from those who remember the old terraces to newer fans. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few tales worth retelling on derby day.
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Q 01Which Gene Autry song did Hull FC fans adopt after singing it to goal-kicker Joe Oliver?
Old Faithful
Old Faithful suited Oliver, a full-back so dependable with the boot in the early 1930s that the crowd burst into the song at a match, and it has been the club's battle cry ever since.
Q 02Before the 1980 all-Hull Wembley final, what did a famous homemade sign on the road out of Hull ask?
Turn the lights off
Turn the lights off was the request to the last one out of the city, on a cardboard sign three fans propped against a lamppost the night before Hull Kingston Rovers won 10–5.
Q 03Which Hull FC winger, the club's record try scorer, was Great Britain's first black captain?
Clive Sullivan
Clive Sullivan led Great Britain to the 1972 World Cup, scoring a length-of-the-field try in the final, and the main road into the city is now named Clive Sullivan Way.
Q 04Which feat did Hull FC's 1978–79 Division Two side achieve on the way to promotion?
Won every league match
Hull FC won every league match, 26 out of 26, to go straight back up under new coach Arthur Bunting, and within four years they were champions of the top flight.
Q 05Which nickname did Hull FC take from the street where the main entrance to The Boulevard stood?
The Airlie Birds
The Airlie Birds comes from Airlie Street, and the name outlived the ground: the club left The Boulevard after 107 years, and the demolition crews moved in during 2010.
Q 06Which posthumous medal went to Jack Harrison, scorer of a Hull FC record 52 tries in one season?
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross honoured Harrison's lone dash at an enemy machine gun at Oppy Wood in 1917, made to save the men of his pinned-down company; his body was never found.
Q 07Hull FC represent which side of the River Hull, with Hull Kingston Rovers on the other bank?
West
West of the river has been Hull FC territory since the 1890s, when the club took over The Boulevard and Hull Kingston Rovers, the ground's first tenants, moved across the city.
Q 08Hull FC won the 2005 Challenge Cup final 25–24 in which city, used while Wembley was rebuilt?
Cardiff
Cardiff's Millennium Stadium held 74,213 for a final that Hull, the underdogs, stole with a converted try three minutes from time, their first Challenge Cup win for 23 years.
Q 09Which club did Hull FC beat 12–10 in 2016 to win a Challenge Cup final at Wembley for the first time?
Warrington Wolves
Warrington Wolves were the victims as Hull finally won at the national stadium, having failed to win any of their eight previous finals there in a run stretching back to 1959.
Q 10During rugby league's 1990s rebranding craze, Hull FC were briefly renamed after which animal?
Sharks
Sharks was the name the club carried in the late 1990s after being left out of the first Super League season; it won promotion in 1997, and plain Hull FC returned for the 2000 campaign.
Q 11Which part of The Boulevard, home of Hull FC's loudest singing, was named after its entry price?
The Threepenny Stand
The Threepenny Stand cost three old pence to enter when the ground opened; after the 1985 Bradford City fire the wooden structure was shut, then reopened with fans kept to its bottom four steps.
Q 12The Boulevard stood close to Hessle Road, linking Hull FC with which of the city's former industries?
Fishing
Fishing was the trade of the streets around the ground, and the bond with its people ran deep: a memorial on the site honours fans whose ashes were scattered at the stadium.
Q 13Hull FC's 1980s stars Gary Kemble, James Leuluai and Dane O'Hara all came from which country?
New Zealand
Q 21Which former Leeds and Great Britain forward captained Hull FC to Wembley wins in both 2016 and 2017?
Gareth Ellis
Gareth Ellis came back from three seasons as an Australian club's player of the year to lead Hull, then came out of retirement in 2019 to help them end a 13-game losing run.
Q 22Which fullback, a former bricklayer, scored Hull FC's winning try in the 2016 Challenge Cup final?
Jamie Shaul
Jamie Shaul's try settled a 12–10 final, and he was back a year later as Hull kept the trophy, the first time the club had won it in successive seasons.
Q 23Whose late try won Hull FC the 2005 Challenge Cup before he defected to Hull Kingston Rovers?
Paul Cooke
New Zealand supplied all three in 1981, and its national side were also the last visitors Hull FC faced at The Boulevard, winning 28–11 there in October 2002.
Q 14Besides rugby league and speedway, which sport did The Boulevard stage, outlasting Hull FC's stay?
Greyhound racing
Greyhound racing first came to the ground in 1927 and returned once the rugby club had moved out, saving the stadium from closure until the last race was run in June 2009.
Q 15Which coach led Hull FC to their first Wembley win, then was sacked on live television in 2020?
Lee Radford
Lee Radford's exit was announced by the club's chief executive in a TV interview minutes after a 38–4 home defeat; he had won the Challenge Cup in 2016 and again in 2017.
Q 16Which Australian scrum-half, a Parramatta great, played for Hull FC in the 1985 Challenge Cup final?
Peter Sterling
Peter Sterling was such a hot favourite for man of the match that Hull bookmakers reportedly stopped taking bets, yet the award went to his Parramatta half-back partner, playing for Wigan.
Q 17Which Hull FC scrum-half was named man of the match in both the 2016 and 2017 Challenge Cup finals?
Marc Sneyd
Marc Sneyd's left boot earned him the Lance Todd Trophy two years running, only the second player to manage it, and in 2019 he kicked Super League's first golden-point winner.
Q 18Which tireless Hull FC hooker, the club's captain from 2018, became its first Man of Steel in 2016?
Danny Houghton
Danny Houghton made a try-saving tackle in the last minutes of that year's Challenge Cup final, and in 2021 he set a record with 85 tackles in a single match.
Q 19Which club beat Hull FC 26–4 at Old Trafford in the 2006 Super League Grand Final?
St Helens
St Helens spoiled a season in which Hull won 13 league games in a row and took more than 20,000 fans to Manchester for the club's first Grand Final.
Q 20The Man of Steel award was renamed in 2014 for which former Hull FC fullback and cancer fundraiser?
Steve Prescott
Steve Prescott was given months to live in 2006 yet survived for seven more years, raising almost half a million pounds through his foundation and earning an MBE.
Paul Cooke had grown up supporting the rivals, and his 2007 switch brought a misconduct verdict and a six-game ban for approaching them while under contract.
Q 24Which coach, architect of Sheffield Eagles' 1998 cup shock, won the 2005 Challenge Cup with Hull FC?
John Kear
John Kear had only stepped up from assistant that year, yet he was sacked the following April after a poor start and the holders' exit from the cup at the first hurdle.
Q 25Which underdogs beat strong favourites Hull FC 14–12 at Wembley in 1983, a famous Challenge Cup upset?
Featherstone Rovers
Featherstone Rovers stunned a side who held the cup and won the league title that year; of the three finals Hull reached that season, only the Yorkshire Cup came home.
Q 26After a 14–14 Wembley draw, Hull FC won the 1982 Challenge Cup replay at which football ground?
Elland Road
Elland Road, home of Leeds United, saw Hull beat Widnes 18–9 in front of 41,171, bringing the cup back to The Boulevard for the first time since 1914.
Q 27Which Hull FC forward, never dropped in 15 seasons, later coached both Hull clubs and Great Britain?
Johnny Whiteley
Johnny Whiteley made 417 appearances for his only club after growing up in a house hit by a bomb in the Hull Blitz, and he entered the sport's Hall of Fame in 2018.
Q 28Which Welshman became the first black professional coach in British team sport while at Hull FC?
Roy Francis
Roy Francis was years ahead of his time, using psychology and laying on transport for players' families, and his Hull FC sides were crowned league champions twice.
Q 29Which star, bought from Hunslet for a record £600 in 1913, did Hull FC name on their match posters?
Billy Batten
Billy Batten was famous for hurdling tacklers, a leap later outlawed as dangerous, and his presence reportedly added £500 to the gate receipts at each game.
Q 30Which centre, a Hull FC debutant at 17, joined Leeds in 1987 for a then world-record £155,000?
Garry Schofield
Garry Schofield went on to win the 1990 Golden Boot as the world's best player and the Man of Steel award a year later, both in Leeds colours.