50 free Lacrosse trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
43 free Lacrosse trivia questions with answers. Lacrosse is North America's oldest organised sport, and this quiz covers it from the Creator's game to the 2028 Olympics. It starts with the Indigenous origins: games of hundreds of players, the Mohawk and Choctaw names, the Jesuit who called it la crosse, the 1834 Montreal demonstration and Queen Victoria's approval. Then the Montreal dentist who wrote the rules and the 1867 match that first used them. The modern game follows: how many players in field, women's and box lacrosse, the size of the field and the goal, the solid rubber ball, the box shot clock, the sixes format built for Los Angeles 2028, and the two Olympics where lacrosse was a medal sport. Plus the Haudenosaunee Nationals and their passports, the NCAA's first champion, the Tewaaraton, Jim Brown and Gary Gait, and the founding of the PLL and NLL. Easy questions suit new fans and youth players; harder ones will test coaches. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the sport, its history and its leagues, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01Lacrosse's Indigenous origins date back to at least which century?
12th
Some accounts put the earliest games around 1100 AD.
Q 02Which French Jesuit missionary saw Huron players in 1637 and coined the name 'la crosse'?
Jean de Brébeuf
The name refers to the shape of the playing implement in French.
Q 03The name 'la crosse' means what in French?
The stick
Some link it to the crosier, a bishop's staff, which the early sticks resembled.
Q 04Indigenous nations described lacrosse as being played 'for' whom?
The Creator
One version of the game was called baggataway.
Q 05Traditional Indigenous lacrosse games could involve how many players?
Hundreds
A huge mob would swarm the ball and slowly move it across the field.
Q 06The Mohawk word for their game, tewa:aráton, means what?
It has a dual net
'Little brother of war' is the Choctaw name; 'bump hips' is the Ojibwe.
Q 07Which Canadian dentist founded the Montreal Lacrosse Club in 1856 and codified the game's rules?
William George Beers
He shortened the game and cut teams to 12 players a side.
Q 08The first game under Beers's rules, in 1867, saw Upper Canada College lose 3-1 to which side?
Toronto Cricket Club
Beers had reduced the number of players per team to 12.
Q 09A team of Caughnawaga Mohawk players demonstrated lacrosse in Montreal in which year?
1834
By 1900 there were dozens of clubs across Canada, the US, England, Australia and New Zealand.
Q 10Which monarch watched an exhibition game in 1876 and called it 'very pretty to watch'?
Queen Victoria
Her endorsement led English girls' schools to adopt the sport in the 1890s.
Q 11How many players does each team field in men's field lacrosse?
Ten
Three attackmen, three midfielders, three defensemen and a goalie.
Q 12How many players are on a women's lacrosse team?
Twelve
The women's game bans body contact but allows stick-to-stick contact.
Q 13A box lacrosse team consists of a goalie plus how many runners?
Five
It is played on a hockey rink with the ice removed or covered.
Q 14What are the dimensions of a men's field lacrosse field?
Q 21What protective equipment are US women's field players required to wear?
Eyewear and a mouthguard
Goggles became mandatory in the US in 2002 but are not required internationally.
Q 22In which two Olympic Games was lacrosse a full medal sport?
1904 and 1908
It returned as a demonstration event in 1928, 1932 and 1948.
Q 23Only which two nations competed in the 1908 Olympic lacrosse tournament in London?
Canada and Great Britain
Canada has won three of the five Olympic lacrosse medals ever awarded.
110 by 60 yards
The goals are 6 feet square and 80 yards apart.
Q 15How big is a lacrosse goal?
6 by 6 feet
The goalie's stick head can be up to 12 inches wide.
Q 16What is a lacrosse ball made of?
Solid rubber
The intercrosse ball, by contrast, is larger, softer and hollow.
Q 17How long is the shot clock in box lacrosse?
30 seconds
The tight confines and the clock make it a very fast game.
Q 18How many official versions of lacrosse are there?
Five
Field, women's, box, sixes and intercrosse.
Q 19Box lacrosse originated in which decade, in Canada?
1930s
It remains more popular there than the field game.
Q 20The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at St Leonards School in which country?
Scotland
Louisa Lumsden brought it to the school in St Andrews.
Q 24In which format was lacrosse added to the programme of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?
Sixes
It marks the sport's first Olympic appearance since 1908.
Q 25Lacrosse sixes was created in which year by World Lacrosse to win Olympic inclusion?
2021
It uses six players a side on a smaller field.
Q 26World Lacrosse uniquely recognises which groups as sovereign members?
First Nations and Native American tribes
The Haudenosaunee Nationals compete under their own flag.
Q 27The Iroquois team dropped 'Iroquois' from its name in 2022 in favour of what?
Haudenosaunee Nationals
The team was formed by the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee in 1983.
Q 28The Nationals travel on what kind of passport, which has caused repeated visa problems?
Haudenosaunee passports
Their trip to the 2018 World Championship in Israel was delayed by passport issues.
Q 29Besides Canada and the US, which nation alone has finished top three at the World Indoors?
Haudenosaunee Nationals
Canada beat the Iroquois Nationals 21-4 in the first world indoor final in 2003.
Q 30The sport's world governing body changed its name from what in 2019?
Federation of International Lacrosse
When Ghana joined in August 2019, there were 63 lacrosse-playing countries.