Josh Allen Trivia
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49 free Josh Allen trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Josh Allen got zero Division I scholarship offers out of high school, spent a year at Reedley College, and had to email every FBS coaching staff in the country before Wyoming took a chance on him. Seven years later he was the NFL's Most Valuable Player and the league's all-time leader in quarterback rushing touchdowns, having dragged the Buffalo Bills to their first division title in a quarter century. This quiz covers the whole story: the 3,000-acre cotton farm near Firebaugh, the mass email, Craig Bohl's visit, the trade up to No. 7 in the 2018 draft, the hurdle over Anthony Barr, the 13-seconds heartbreak against Kansas City, the record-breaking 2024 MVP season, the $330 million contract, the Hailee Steinfeld wedding and the fan donations that named a hospital wing after his grandmother. Some questions are easy for any Bills Mafia member; the ones about specific records and stat lines are for people who watch every snap. Every answer is checked against a reference source and each question links to where the fact was confirmed.
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Q 01Josh Allen grew up on a 3,000-acre farm near which California town?
Firebaugh
Firebaugh is a farm town in California's Central Valley where Allen bused tables at his mother's restaurant and worked the family's fields through high school.
Q 02Along with cantaloupes and wheat, which crop did Josh Allen's family grow on their California farm?
Cotton
Cotton grew on the family's roughly 3,000 acres, and Josh and his brother were sent into those fields to work while they were growing up.
Q 03How many NCAA Division I scholarship offers did Josh Allen receive out of high school?
Zero
Zero: no FBS or FCS program offered. He was far lighter then and had skipped the elite quarterback camps to play baseball and basketball.
Q 04Which college program did Josh Allen root for as a kid but fail to get a scholarship from?
Fresno State
Fresno State, the local Bulldogs he grew up supporting, passed on him under head coach Tim DeRuyter both out of high school and again after junior college.
Q 05Where did Josh Allen play his one season of junior-college football before transferring to Wyoming?
Reedley
Reedley College, where an assistant coach was married to his cousin, took him in; he came off the bench in the fourth game, ran for four touchdowns and soon had the starting job.
Q 06How did Josh Allen try to catch bigger programs' attention near the end of his junior-college season?
Emailed every FBS coaching staff
Emailed every FBS coaching staff: head coaches, coordinators and position coaches all got the same plea, and only Eastern Michigan and Wyoming came back with scholarship offers.
Q 07Which Wyoming head coach traveled to the Allen family farm to recruit Josh in person?
Craig Bohl
Craig Bohl made the trip himself in December 2014 and told the family at their kitchen table that Josh would be the face of Wyoming football.
Q 08Wyoming's offensive coordinator compared Josh Allen to which quarterback he had recruited at North Dakota State?
Carson Wentz
Carson Wentz was coordinator Brent Vigen's comparison because the two shared a story: small-town, three-sport athletes who blossomed late and slipped past the recruiters.
Q 09What injury cut short Josh Allen's first season at Wyoming in his first start?
A broken collarbone
A broken collarbone early in his first start ended his 2015 season; he and his coaches came to call it a blessing, since he spent the year adding muscle and learning the offense.
Q 10Which bowl game did Josh Allen win with Wyoming in December 2017, his final college game?
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Wyoming beat Central Michigan 37-14 in Boise, and Allen, named the game's MVP, announced on the spot that he was skipping his senior season for the NFL draft.
Q 11What first-in-program-history honor did Wyoming announce for Josh Allen in 2025?
His No. 17 jersey retired
His No. 17 jersey retired at halftime of a November home game against Nevada; Allen could be in Laramie for it because the Bills had played on Thursday night that week.
Q 12With which pick of the 2018 NFL draft did the Bills select Josh Allen?
7th
7th overall, after Buffalo traded up from the 12th pick to get him; Baker Mayfield had gone first and Sam Darnold third, making Allen the third quarterback off the board.
Q 13Which team did the Bills trade with on draft night in 2018 to move up for Josh Allen?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Q 21Allen played the 2020 win over Seattle one day after what personal loss?
The death of his grandmother
The death of his grandmother, Patricia Allen, came the day before the 44-34 win over Seattle; fans responded with donations to Oishei Children's Hospital, which later named a pediatric wing for her.
Q 22Which Bills general manager traded up to draft Josh Allen in 2018?
Brandon Beane
Brandon Beane, running his first draft as Bills general manager, moved up the board twice to get his quarterback: in a March trade with Cincinnati, then again on draft night.
Q 23Who beat Josh Allen for the 2020 NFL MVP award, with Allen finishing second?
Aaron Rodgers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took Buffalo's first-round pick and two second-rounders to swap places, then spent the pick they got back on nose tackle Vita Vea.
Q 14Which quarterback did Allen replace to make his NFL debut in Week 1 of 2018?
Nathan Peterman
Nathan Peterman was benched during a 47-3 Week 1 loss in 2018 with a 0.0 passer rating; Allen took over and was named the starter that week.
Q 15Which Vikings linebacker did Josh Allen famously hurdle for a first down as a rookie in 2018?
Anthony Barr
Anthony Barr was the linebacker Allen leapt clean over on third-and-9, in a 27-6 win in Minnesota by a Bills team that had arrived as a 16½-point underdog.
Q 16Which Jaguars cornerback called Josh Allen 'trash' months before Allen ran for 99 yards to beat Jacksonville in 2018?
Jalen Ramsey
Jalen Ramsey had called Allen 'trash' in a preseason GQ interview; in his first game back from an elbow injury, Allen ran in the go-ahead touchdown, and his 99 rushing yards set a Bills record for a quarterback.
Q 17Which unwanted statistic did Josh Allen lead all qualified NFL passers in during both 2018 and 2019?
Lowest completion percentage
Lowest completion percentage among qualified passers was his in both seasons, which made 2020 startling: he jumped into the league's top five for accuracy.
Q 18What did Josh Allen do, unusually for a quarterback, in the 2019 Wild Card loss to Houston?
Caught a touchdown pass
Caught a touchdown pass: receiver John Brown threw him the 16-yard score on a trick play, before Buffalo let a 16-0 lead slip and lost 22-19 in overtime.
Q 19Who coached Buffalo's last AFC East champions before Josh Allen's 2020 team?
Marv Levy
Marv Levy's 1995 team had been Buffalo's last division champion, before Allen was even born; the 48-19 win in Denver that clinched the 2020 title also ended New England's run of 11 straight AFC East titles.
Q 20Whose Bills record for touchdown passes in a season did Josh Allen break in 2020?
Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly's 33 touchdown passes had stood since 1991; Allen's fourth of the night broke the record in a 38-9 win that made Buffalo the first AFC East team in two decades to sweep New England.
Aaron Rodgers took 44 of the 50 first-place votes and Allen four, a distant second that stood as his best finish until he won the award himself four seasons later.
Q 24Why was the Bills' 47-17 playoff rout of New England in January 2022 called a 'perfect offensive game'?
A touchdown on every possession
A touchdown on every possession: seven drives, seven touchdowns, with no punts, field goals or turnovers, and Josh Allen threw more touchdown passes (five) than incompletions (four).
Q 25In the '13 seconds' loss to Kansas City in January 2022, all four of Allen's touchdown passes went to whom?
Gabe Davis
Gabe Davis caught all four, a playoff record; the last put Buffalo ahead with 13 seconds left, but Kansas City tied it as time expired and won the overtime coin toss, so Allen never touched the ball again.
Q 26Whose record for highest passer rating in a single postseason did Josh Allen break in 2021–22?
Joe Montana
Joe Montana set his 146.4 while winning the Super Bowl after the 1989 season; Allen's 149.0 came from nine touchdown passes and no interceptions in a postseason that lasted only two games.
Q 27In 2021 Josh Allen was sacked and intercepted by an opposing defender who shared what with him?
His exact name
His exact name: the Jaguars' Josh Allen sacked the Bills' Josh Allen, intercepted him and recovered his fumble in a 9-6 Jacksonville upset, the first known case of a player sacking his namesake.
Q 28Josh Allen's 98-yard touchdown pass in 2022 tied a Bills record set by which quarterback?
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Ryan Fitzpatrick had thrown his 98-yarder to Terrell Owens more than a decade earlier; Allen matched it from his own 2-yard line on the third snap of a 38-3 rout.
Q 29Which Bills player's on-field emergency made the 2022 Cincinnati game a no-contest?
Damar Hamlin
Damar Hamlin, a Bills safety, went into cardiac arrest after a tackle in Cincinnati on January 2, 2023; the game was never resumed, and he left the hospital nine days later.
Q 30Against which team did Josh Allen post his first perfect 158.3 passer rating in 2023?
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins arrived unbeaten, a week after scoring 70 points on Denver; Allen went 21 of 25 for 320 yards and four touchdowns, and ran for a fifth, in a 48-20 win.