Lacrosse Trivia
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97 free Lacrosse trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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 01The Choctaw and Chickasaw call stickball, lacrosse's cousin, the 'little brother of' what?
War
War: when a dispute arose over land or politics, the elders would name a field and settle it with a game of stickball rather than a battle.
Q 02Which French Jesuit missionary, writing about Huron ball games in the 1630s, is credited with naming lacrosse?
Jean de Brébeuf
Jean de Brébeuf is often said to have seen a bishop's crosier, la crosse in French, in the players' curved sticks, yet his own journals never make the comparison.
Q 03The Mississippi River city of La Crosse, named after the Indigenous game, is in which US state?
Wisconsin
Wisconsin: explorer Zebulon Pike wrote the name Prairie La Crosse on his 1805 trip up the river, after the ball game Native Americans played on the open ground there.
Q 04Indigenous nations described lacrosse as being played 'for' whom?
The Creator
The Creator: many Indigenous nations call lacrosse the Creator's Game, played to honour and entertain the Creator and as medicine for healing.
Q 05In traditional Indigenous lacrosse, which could involve hundreds of players, the ball could not be touched with what?
Their hands
Their hands: the ball was carried and thrown only with the stick, on open ground with no boundaries and goals up to several miles apart, so one game could run for days.
Q 06Traditional wooden lacrosse sticks are steam-bent from which wood?
Hickory
Hickory: boys of the Iroquois nations are traditionally given a small wooden stick at birth and buried with one, and players are taught to honour the tree that died to make it.
Q 07Which Canadian dentist, known as the father of modern lacrosse, published the game's first written rules in 1860?
William George Beers
William George Beers was a teenage goalkeeper when he set down the field size and team numbers in an 1860 pamphlet, and the national association formed in 1867 adopted his rules.
Q 08Which university's lacrosse team represented America at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics?
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins: no national squad was picked, so the college team played a Canadian all-star side three times in the Memorial Coliseum and won the series two games to one.
Q 09In which city did players from Kahnawake stage an 1834 demonstration that introduced settlers to lacrosse?
Montreal
Montreal: newspapers reported the Kahnawake players' game, English-speaking locals soon took up the sport themselves, and by 1856 they had formed a club of their own.
Q 10Which British monarch watched touring Canadian lacrosse teams and called the game 'very pretty to watch'?
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria saw it in 1876, when a Canadian team and a Kahnawake team toured Britain to win the game new followers overseas.
Q 11A men's field lacrosse team fields a goalie, three attackmen, three defensemen and three what?
Midfielders
Midfielders: an offside rule keeps four of a team's ten players in its own half and three in the other, so only the three 'middies' cover the whole field.
Q 12In box lacrosse, what are the five players who join the goalie on the floor called?
Runners
Runners: forwards, defenders and transition players all share the name, and they rotate on and off the floor in shifts while play goes on.
Q 13What is the circle around a lacrosse goal, which attackers may not enter, called?
The crease
The crease: a goal is wiped out if the shooter is standing on or inside its line, and inside it the goalie is shielded from opponents' stick checks.
Q 21Lacrosse was an Olympic medal sport in 1904 and 1908, then returned three times as what?
Demonstration event
A demonstration event: no medals were awarded in 1928, 1932 or 1948, and the sport then stayed away until it was voted back in for Los Angeles 2028.
Q 22Which two nations contested the 1908 Olympic lacrosse tournament in London?
Canada and Great Britain
Canada and Great Britain: three teams had entered, but South Africa withdrew, which left a single game for the title, and Canada won it.
Q 23In which format was lacrosse added to the programme of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics?
Sixes
Q 14Lacrosse is often billed as 'the fastest sport on' what?
Two feet
Two feet: the tag is claimed for both the outdoor field game and the indoor box game, where rebounds off the boards keep the ball in play.
Q 15What is a lacrosse ball made of?
Solid rubber
Solid rubber: earlier balls were carved from wood or sewn from deerskin stuffed with hair, until the first written rules of the 1860s swapped in hard rubber.
Q 16What must box lacrosse teams do within 30 seconds of possession?
Shoot on goal
Shoot on goal: a 30-second clock starts with each possession, as in basketball, and a team that fails to get a shot away hands the ball to its opponents.
Q 17Which version of lacrosse uses moulded plastic sticks and a soft hollow ball, with no contact?
Intercrosse
Intercrosse was designed as a low-risk game for schools and recreation programmes, a first taste of lacrosse without the hard ball or the hits.
Q 18Box lacrosse was devised to fill which venues off-season?
Hockey arenas
Hockey arenas: the rinks sat empty for months each year, so their owners promoted a game on the bare floor, and it is now more popular in Canada than the field game.
Q 19The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at St Leonards School in which country?
Scotland
Scotland: the school is in St Andrews, and its first headmistress, Louisa Lumsden, had watched a match in Canada in 1884 and found the game 'beautiful and graceful'.
Q 20What protective equipment are US women's field players required to wear?
Eyewear and a mouthguard
Eyewear and a mouthguard: the women's rules ban body contact, so field players go without the helmets and pads of the men's game, and only goalkeepers wear them.
Sixes: World Lacrosse built the six-a-side format, with a smaller field and shorter games, to cut the cost of playing and staging the sport and win it a place at the Games.
Q 24On what basis does World Lacrosse admit the Iroquois Confederacy's team to its world championships?
As a sovereign nation
As a sovereign nation: the federation accepted the Confederacy as a full member in the late 1980s, and its players travel to tournaments on passports their own nations issue.
Q 25The Iroquois team dropped 'Iroquois' from its name in 2022 in favour of what?
Haudenosaunee Nationals
Haudenosaunee Nationals: Haudenosaunee, 'people of the longhouse', is the confederacy's own name for itself, while Iroquois is a name that outsiders gave it.
Q 26In 2010, the Iroquois Nationals missed the world championship in which country over passport disputes?
England
England: British officials would not accept the confederacy's own passports, and the players refused to travel on American or Canadian ones, so they missed the tournament in Manchester.
Q 27Which country won the first Women's Lacrosse World Cup, held in 1982?
United States
The United States beat Australia in the final in Nottingham, but four years later the Australians took the trophy from them on American soil.
Q 28World Lacrosse was formed in 2008 by merging separate international federations for which two groups?
Men and women
Men and women: the women's federation dated from 1972 and the men's from 1974, and the merged body renamed itself World Lacrosse in 2019, months after the IOC first recognised it.
Q 29The NCAA's first men's lacrosse championship in 1971 was won by which school?
Cornell
Cornell: until 1971 the champion was named on regular-season records alone, and the Big Red won the first title to be settled by a tournament.
Q 30Which NFL legend is also in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame and has the PLL's MVP award named after him?
Jim Brown
Jim Brown scored 43 goals in ten games as a college senior on an unbeaten 1957 team, and the lacrosse hall of fame took him in twelve years before college football's did.