Kabaddi Trivia
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48 free Kabaddi trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kabaddi is the rare sport where holding your breath is part of the rulebook. A lone raider crosses into enemy territory chanting the game's name, tags as many defenders as possible and has to get home before the whole defence wrestles him to the mat. It is a village game of the Indian subcontinent that became an Asian Games medal sport, the centrepiece of a television league watched by hundreds of millions, and lately a World Cup staged in Europe. These 48 questions take the rules first: court markings, scoring terms, the reserves on the bench and the made-for-television tweaks the professional league added. Then come the Pro Kabaddi League's champions, record raiders, auction prices and expansion teams, followed by the international game: Asian Games upsets, the competing World Cups, the circle-style code and the sport's origins and many regional names. Play it to see whether you know a super raid from an empty one, hand it to a trivia night that wants something beyond cricket, or print it for a classroom.
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Q 01Which epic's tale of Abhimanyu's doomed raid on an enemy formation is often likened to kabaddi?
Mahabharata
Mahabharata tells how Abhimanyu broke alone into the enemy's chakravyuha formation and could not get back out, the same lone raid into hostile ground that the sport asks of every raider.
Q 02An Amravati institute's 1930s demonstration at which city's Olympic Games gave kabaddi its first international exposure?
Berlin
Berlin's 1936 Games were the stage: the Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, an Indian physical-training institute, sent a team to show the sport, and two years later it joined India's own national games.
Q 03How many players does each kabaddi side field on court, with reserves waiting to be substituted?
7
7 players a side take the court and raid in turn, since raids alternate between the two teams for the whole match, with tagged or tackled players sitting out until their side scores.
Q 04What is a kabaddi raider's repeated 'kabaddi, kabaddi', proof that the raid is made on a single breath, called?
Cant
Cant has to stay loud and clear for the whole raid; a raider who lets it lapse is penalised, and the other side takes a point.
Q 05What is it called when a kabaddi side puts every opponent off court, earning two extra points?
All out
All out is declared when the last defender goes off; the scoring side banks two extra points and the whole opposing team walks back on court to start again.
Q 06What is a Pro Kabaddi stop by three or fewer defenders called, worth two points instead of one?
Super tackle
Super tackle points reward a depleted defence: the bonus applies only while a side has three or fewer players left on court, handing the team under most pressure a way back.
Q 07What does Pro Kabaddi call the raid that follows a team's two empty raids in a row?
Do-or-die raid
Do-or-die raid means what it says: the raider must come back with a point, or he is declared out and the defending side takes the point instead.
Q 08What does Pro Kabaddi call a defender's haul of five or more tackle points in a single match?
High 5
High 5 is part of the scoring vocabulary of a league whose rules, its founder said, were tweaked to make matches 'more televisual' and easier for viewers to follow.
Q 09Which country handed India its first Asian Games kabaddi defeat, in a 2018 group match in Jakarta?
South Korea
South Korea won 24–23, India's first loss since the sport joined the Games in 1990, and the Koreans went on to take their first silver while India settled for bronze.
Q 10Kabaddi is the official national game of which South Asian country?
Bangladesh
Bangladesh gave the game that status in 1972, the year after independence, and its teams have since collected a string of Asian Games medals without ever taking the gold.
Q 11If five tie-break raids each leave a Pro Kabaddi playoff level, what single attempt then decides the match?
Golden raid
Golden raid goes to the side that wins a coin toss once five raids apiece have failed to split the teams, turning a whole playoff into a single attack.
Q 12What are a kabaddi court's side strips called, live only after the raider has touched a defender?
Lobbies
Lobbies widen the pitch only after contact: before a raider touches anyone, stepping into them means going out, but once a defender is tagged the chase can spill into them.
Q 13Stepping past which line with six or more defenders on court earns a kabaddi raider an extra point?
Bonus line
Q 21Which 2017 expansion franchise won its first Pro Kabaddi title in the 2024 final?
Haryana Steelers
Haryana Steelers had lost the previous final to Puneri Paltan by three points, then became the first of the four sides added in 2017 to lift the trophy.
Q 22Which cricket legend was unveiled as co-owner of the Tamil Thalaivas at their 2017 launch?
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar came in as co-owner when the Chennai side launched in 2017, one of four new franchises that took the league from eight teams to twelve.
Q 23Which city's John Cain Arena hosted a Pro Kabaddi exhibition the day before the 2024 final?
Melbourne
Bonus line sits a metre deeper in the defenders' half than the mark every raid must reach, and the point counts only if the raider's trailing foot is off the ground as he steps over it.
Q 14Which 2020 Hindi film stars Kangana Ranaut as a mother who returns to top-level kabaddi?
Panga
Panga's kabaddi was learned, not faked: Ranaut and the actors playing her team-mates spent months training in the sport for their roles.
Q 15Which name does western India traditionally use for kabaddi?
Hu-tu-tu
Hu-tu-tu is the western Indian name, while eastern India says ha-do-do and the south chedu-gudu; whatever the word, a raider repeats it aloud to prove no breath was taken.
Q 16Which Indian state drew up kabaddi's first written rules in 1921?
Maharashtra
Maharashtra's 1921 rulebook was amended two years later and used at the first all-India tournament, the start of the sport's move from village game to organised competition.
Q 17Which broadcaster has aired Pro Kabaddi since the league's 2014 debut?
Star Sports
Star Sports has shown the league from its first season, and in 2015 its parent Star India went further, buying 74% of Mashal Sports, the company that owns the competition.
Q 18The first Pro Kabaddi season drew 435 million viewers, second in India only to which competition?
Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League cricket was the only competition ahead of it, fitting company for a league that copied the IPL's city-franchise model down to the player auction.
Q 19Which India captain was the priciest buy at the first Pro Kabaddi auction, going for ₹12.80 lakh?
Rakesh Kumar
Rakesh Kumar's record fee, paid by the Bihar franchise, was dwarfed within four years, when the top price at auction passed ₹1.5 crore, more than ten times as much.
Q 20Which Bollywood actor owns the Jaipur Pink Panthers, winners of the first Pro Kabaddi title?
Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan bought in when the league launched in 2014 with eight city franchises, and his side won the title at the first attempt, then waited eight years for a second.
Melbourne staged two exhibition matches that night, one of them pitting a league all-star side against the Aussie Raiders, a team of former Australian rules footballers.
Q 24Which Screwvala-owned side won Pro Kabaddi's second season, a year after losing the first final?
U Mumba
U Mumba, run by Ronnie Screwvala's Unilazer Ventures, beat Bengaluru Bulls in the 2015 final, then lost a third straight final the following season by just three points.
Q 25Which 'Dubki King' raider was the first to reach 1,000 Pro Kabaddi points, during the 2019 season?
Pardeep Narwal
Pardeep Narwal's dubki is a duck beneath the defenders' outstretched arms, and it kept working: he was also first past 1,500 raid points in 2022 and 1,600 a year later.
Q 26Which Iranian left-corner defender was 2018's costliest foreign buy at ₹1 crore, then 2025's MVP?
Fazel Atrachali
Fazel Atrachali, the first player to 500 tackle points, was signed by Dabang Delhi at his ₹30 lakh base price for 2025 and repaid them as MVP of their title-winning season.
Q 27Which Iranian defender became Pro Kabaddi's costliest overseas signing at ₹2.35 crore in 2023?
Mohammad Reza Shadloui
Mohammad Reza Shadloui repaid Puneri Paltan at once, finishing as the league's top tackler as they won their first title, then moved on again for more than ₹2 crore.
Q 28Which 'Hi-Flyer' raider cost a record ₹2.26 crore in 2022, only to hurt a knee in his first match?
Pawan Sehrawat
Pawan Sehrawat's injury ended his season after one match for Tamil Thalaivas, yet a year later Telugu Titans paid ₹2.60 crore for him, breaking his own record.
Q 29Which teenage raider won the 2019 Pro Kabaddi MVP award, with a Super 10 in 22 of his 23 matches?
Naveen Kumar
Naveen Kumar, the 'Naveen Express', is a bus driver's son who was 19 that season, and his raiding carried Dabang Delhi all the way to the final, where they finished runners-up.
Q 30Which 'Raid Machine' was the first player to reach 500 Pro Kabaddi raid points?
Rahul Chaudhari
Rahul Chaudhari began his career as a defender before turning raider, and with Telugu Titans he went on to be first past 700 and 800 raid points as well.