Jacksonville Jaguars Trivia
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43 free Jacksonville Jaguars trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Jacksonville Jaguars trivia quiz covers the franchise from Touchdown Jacksonville! and the 1993 vote that beat St. Louis, through Tom Coughlin's startling early years — an AFC Championship Game in season two, the 14–2 team of 1999 and the 62–7 demolition of Dan Marino's Dolphins — to the long lean stretch, Sacksonville and the Myles Jack game, and the arrival of Trevor Lawrence and Liam Coen. There are questions on the players fans still argue about — Mark Brunell, Tony Boselli, Fred Taylor, Jimmy Smith, Maurice Jones-Drew, Blake Bortles, Josh Hines-Allen — and on the things only Jaguars fans know: the teal tongue, the Ford lawsuit that never happened, Jaxson de Ville's bungee jumps, the pools in the end zone, the London games and Shad Khan's other team, Fulham. Questions run from easy to hard with the difficulty shown on each one. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation.
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Q 01The Jaguars joined the NFL in 1995 as an expansion team alongside which other franchise?
Carolina Panthers
Carolina Panthers and Jaguars alike tore up the expansion script: in 1996, only their second season, both reached their conference championship games.
Q 02Which city was favourite for the second 1993 NFL expansion franchise before Jacksonville won it?
St. Louis
St. Louis and Baltimore got their teams anyway a few years later, by taking the Rams and Browns from other cities.
Q 03What was the name of the ownership group organised in 1989 to bring the NFL to north-east Florida?
Touchdown Jacksonville!
Touchdown Jacksonville! pulled out of the race in July 1993 in a row with the city over stadium renovations, then got back in when fans bought 10,000 club seats in 10 days.
Q 04Owner Wayne Weaver said the teal tongue on the Jaguars' logo came from what?
Feeding Panthers to his team
Feeding Panthers to his team was Weaver's joke about the snarling cat's head, adopted after carmaker Jaguar objected that the original leaping cat looked too much like its own.
Q 05Who was the Jaguars' first head coach, hired in February 1994?
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin kept the clocks in the team building five minutes fast so players turned up early; staff put them right the day after the Jaguars fired him from the front office in 2019.
Q 06The Jaguars' first-ever draft pick, second overall in 1995, was which future Hall of Fame tackle?
Tony Boselli
Tony Boselli went first again in 2002, when Houston took him to open its expansion draft, but a wrecked shoulder meant he never played a down for the Texans.
Q 07Which veteran quarterback, the Jaguars' first expansion-draft pick, threw the franchise's first touchdown pass in 1995?
Steve Beuerlein
Steve Beuerlein hit Randy Jordan for 71 yards in Cincinnati, then sprained his knee before half-time; Mark Brunell came on and ran in the franchise's first rushing touchdown.
Q 08Left-handed quarterback Mark Brunell came to Jacksonville after being drafted by which team?
Green Bay Packers
Green Bay Packers starter Brett Favre never missed a game, so Brunell threw just 27 passes there before becoming the Jaguars' first-ever trade, for third- and fifth-round picks.
Q 09Who beat the Jaguars 20–6 in the AFC Championship Game after the 1996 season?
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots won 20–6 at Foxboro in January 1997, a week after Jacksonville had stunned Denver 30–27; the Jaguars had won five straight just to make the playoffs at 9–7.
Q 10The Jaguars' 62–7 divisional-round win in January 2000 was the last game of which quarterback's career?
Dan Marino
Dan Marino completed just 11 of 25 passes with two interceptions and lost a fumble that was run in for a touchdown, as Jacksonville went 38–0 up inside 18 minutes.
Q 11Which running back became the first Jaguar to rush for 1,000 yards, in 1998, and holds the franchise record?
Fred Taylor
Fred Taylor ran for more than 11,000 yards as a Jaguar yet made just one Pro Bowl, in his tenth season, and only as an injury replacement.
Q 12Which Jaguars 1,000-yard receiver of 1996-97 had begun his career winning two Super Bowls with Dallas?
Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith nearly died of an infection after having his appendix out in 1993, was cut by two teams, and reached Jacksonville only as a street free agent after a tryout.
Q 13The Jaguars moved from the AFC Central to which division in the 2002 realignment?
AFC South
Q 21Trevor Lawrence, the first overall pick in 2021, won a national championship as a freshman at which college?
Clemson
Lawrence led Clemson to a 44–16 rout of Alabama in the January 2019 national championship game as a true freshman and was the consensus top prospect of the 2021 draft.
Q 22In the 2022 wild-card round the Jaguars erased a 27–0 deficit to beat which team 31–30?
Chargers
Chargers defenders intercepted Trevor Lawrence four times in the first half; he answered with four touchdown passes, and Riley Patterson's field goal won it as time expired.
Q 23Doug Pederson arrived in Jacksonville in 2022 having won a championship as head coach of which team?
Philadelphia Eagles
The AFC South, created in the 2002 realignment, grouped Jacksonville with Indianapolis, the expansion Houston Texans and the former Houston Oilers, ending the twice-a-year Steelers rivalry.
Q 14Which quarterback did the Jaguars take seventh overall in 2003, to eventually replace Mark Brunell?
Byron Leftwich
Byron Leftwich fell to Jacksonville when Minnesota, busy working on a trade, let its 15 minutes run out at No. 7 and the Jaguars rushed their card in.
Q 15Which running back led the NFL in rushing for Jacksonville in 2011?
Maurice Jones-Drew
Maurice Jones-Drew chose No. 32 because 32 teams, his own included, passed on him in the first round of the 2006 draft.
Q 16Which head coach went 14–48 before the Jaguars fired him in December 2016?
Gus Bradley
Gus Bradley made his name running Seattle's defence as its Legion of Boom secondary took shape, and Seattle won the Super Bowl the season after he left for Jacksonville.
Q 17Which quarterback set Jaguars single-season records with 4,428 passing yards and 35 touchdowns in 2015?
Blake Bortles
Blake Bortles set both marks in only his second season, yet the Jaguars still finished 5–11.
Q 18What nickname did the Jaguars' dominant 2017 defense earn?
Sacksonville
Sacksonville, coined for a pass rush that piled up 55 sacks, carried the 2017 team to 10–6, a first division title since 1999 and a 45–42 divisional-round win at Pittsburgh.
Q 19Which Jaguar's fumble recovery was controversially blown dead in the 2017 AFC Championship Game?
Myles Jack
Myles Jack stripped Dion Lewis and scooped the ball up with open field ahead, but the play was ruled down by contact; the hosts then rallied from 20–10 down in the fourth quarter to win 24–20.
Q 20Which 0–13 team's two December 2020 wins handed the 1–15 Jaguars the first overall draft pick?
Jets
Jets wins over the Rams and Browns dropped New York to the second pick, so Trevor Lawrence, the prize of the 2021 draft, went to Jacksonville instead.
Philadelphia Eagles won that title with his boldest call, the Philly Special: a fourth-and-goal trick play that ended with the quarterback catching a touchdown pass.
Q 24For which team was Liam Coen offensive coordinator in 2024, the season before the Jaguars made him head coach?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers finished in the NFL's top five for both points and yards in his only season calling their plays, which earned him the Jacksonville job.
Q 25Which pass rusher set the Jaguars' single-season sack record with 17.5 in 2023?
Josh Hines-Allen
Josh Hines-Allen, who played as Josh Allen until adding his mother's surname in 2024, set the club record with 17.5 sacks in 2023 and made the Pro Bowl; the Kentucky product went seventh overall in 2019.
Q 26Who bought the Jaguars from Wayne Weaver in 2012?
Shahid Khan
Shahid Khan arrived alone from Pakistan at 16 to study engineering, then built his fortune on a one-piece truck bumper his start-up made.
Q 27Which English football club did the Jaguars' owner buy in 2013?
Fulham
Fulham had a Michael Jackson statue outside their ground; the new owner removed it within months, and when the club went down that season his predecessor blamed the missing statue.
Q 28From 2013 the Jaguars agreed to play one home game a year at which English stadium?
Wembley
Wembley nearly became the Jaguars owner's own: in 2018 he made an offer to buy the stadium from the Football Association, then withdrew it six months later when English football would not back the sale.
Q 29What unusual amenity was added to the north end zone of the Jaguars' stadium in the 2014 renovation?
Swimming pools
Swimming pools and their party deck replaced thousands of seats in a stadium too big for its market: since 2005 the club had covered upper sections with tarps to avoid local TV blackouts.
Q 30The Jaguars' stadium was built on the site of which famous old venue?
The Gator Bowl
The old Gator Bowl was torn down to its west upper deck and rebuilt in 1994–95 as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, later carrying the Alltel, EverBank and TIAA Bank names.