Los Angeles Rams Trivia
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50 free Los Angeles Rams trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Los Angeles Rams trivia quiz covers a franchise that has won titles for three different cities: the 1945 champions who left Cleveland anyway, the 1946 move that made the NFL coast-to-coast, Kenny Washington's signing, Fred Gehrke's painted horns, Van Brocklin's 554 yards, the Fearsome Foursome and Roman Gabriel, the seven straight division titles of the 1970s and Jack Youngblood's broken leg. It also covers Georgia Frontiere and Anaheim, Eric Dickerson's record season, the St. Louis years and the Greatest Show on Turf — Warner, Faulk, Bruce, Vermeil, The Tackle — then Stan Kroenke's return to LA, Jared Goff, Sean McVay's hiring at 30, Aaron Donald, Cooper Kupp's triple crown, the Stafford trade, Super Bowl LVI at SoFi and Puka Nacua's rookie records. 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 01In which city was the Rams franchise founded in 1936?
Cleveland
Cleveland saw the Rams win the 1945 NFL title in what proved to be their last game there. Owner Dan Reeves moved the champions to Los Angeles rather than fight a new rival-league team for fans.
Q 02Which running back, acquired from Indianapolis in 1999, was named NFL MVP as a Ram in 2000?
Marshall Faulk
Marshall Faulk cost the Rams only second- and fifth-round draft picks. In his first season with them he became just the second player to gain 1,000 yards both rushing and receiving.
Q 03The Rams won the 1945 NFL title by a safety after which Washington quarterback's pass hit his own goalpost?
Sammy Baugh
Sammy Baugh threw from his own end zone and the ball struck the goalpost, a safety under the rules of the day. Those two points decided a 15–14 game, and the rule was changed the next season.
Q 04Which future Hall of Fame running back did the Rams draft in 1993, then trade away after three seasons?
Jerome Bettis
Jerome Bettis was Rookie of the Year for the Rams, who later let him go for second- and fourth-round picks. Nicknamed The Bus, he became one of the NFL's all-time leading rushers with his next team.
Q 05Who was the first Black player the Rams signed in 1946, ending the NFL's colour bar?
Kenny Washington
Kenny Washington had starred at UCLA alongside Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's colour line a year later. Woody Strode, another UCLA teammate, joined him on the Rams within weeks.
Q 06In 1948 the Rams became the first pro football team to put what on their helmets?
A logo
A logo: halfback Fred Gehrke, who had studied art in college, painted rams' horns on the team's helmets himself. Helmet emblems soon spread across the sport.
Q 07Which Rams quarterback threw for 554 yards in a 1951 game, an NFL record that still stood in 2025?
Norm Van Brocklin
Norm Van Brocklin set the record against the New York Yanks while sharing the quarterback job. That December his 73-yard touchdown pass to Tom Fears beat the Browns for the NFL title.
Q 08What did the 1950 Rams become one of the first NFL teams to do with all their games?
Televise them
Televise them: every Rams game, home and away, was shown on television in 1950. With home games free to watch, crowds at the stadium fell by nearly half that season.
Q 09What was the Rams' dominant defensive line of the 1960s nicknamed?
The Fearsome Foursome
The Fearsome Foursome put Merlin Olsen and Rosey Grier at tackle with Deacon Jones and Lamar Lundy at end. For all their dominance, the Rams never got past the first playoff round in the 1960s.
Q 10Which Rams quarterback was the NFL MVP in 1969?
Roman Gabriel
Roman Gabriel threw 24 touchdown passes against only seven interceptions as the Rams won their first 11 games. They then dropped their last three and lost a playoff game in Minnesota.
Q 11In 1972 a new owner bought the Rams and swapped the franchise the same day for which other NFL team?
Baltimore Colts
The Baltimore Colts went to Robert Irsay in a swap of franchises with Carroll Rosenbloom, who took over the Rams the same day. Twelve years later Irsay moved the Colts to Indianapolis.
Q 12Which Rams defensive end played Super Bowl XIV on a broken leg?
Jack Youngblood
Jack Youngblood fractured his left fibula in the first playoff game, had a plastic brace fitted and then played every defensive down of the NFC title game and the Super Bowl.
Q 13Which team beat the Rams 31–19 in Super Bowl XIV, their first Super Bowl?
Pittsburgh Steelers
Q 21The heavily favoured Rams lost Super Bowl XXXVI 20–17 to which team?
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots were 14-point underdogs and won on Adam Vinatieri's field goal as time expired. They beat the Rams again, 13–3, in Super Bowl LIII.
Q 22Which minority owner exercised his right of first refusal in 2010 to buy the rest of the Rams?
Stan Kroenke
Stan Kroenke used the clause on the last possible day, cutting out Shahid Khan, who had agreed to buy the team and later bought the Jacksonville Jaguars instead. Kroenke then took the Rams back to Los Angeles.
Q 23Where did the Rams play from 2016 to 2019 while SoFi Stadium was built?
The Memorial Coliseum
The Pittsburgh Steelers trailed 19–17 entering the fourth quarter before two late touchdowns won them the game. The Rams had got there with only a 9–7 regular-season record.
Q 14Which owner took over the Rams when her husband Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in 1979?
Georgia Frontiere
Georgia Frontiere surprised fans who expected her stepson Steve Rosenbloom to run the team, and she fired him within four months. She owned the Rams until her death in 2008.
Q 15Which Ram set the NFL single-season rushing record with 2,105 yards in 1984?
Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson broke O. J. Simpson's mark of 2,003 yards in only his second season. Three years later a contract dispute ended with the Rams trading him to Indianapolis.
Q 16To which city did the Rams move after the 1994 season?
St. Louis
St. Louis had lost its football Cardinals to Arizona a few years earlier. The move made the Rams the first NFL team to leave the West Coast, reversing decades of franchises heading west.
Q 17Which head coach, hired in 1997, won Super Bowl XXXIV and promptly retired?
Dick Vermeil
Dick Vermeil had quit coaching in 1983 citing burnout and spent 14 years as a television analyst before the Rams lured him back. He later returned once more, with Kansas City.
Q 18Kurt Warner got the 1999 starting job only after which quarterback tore up his knee in preseason?
Trent Green
Trent Green had just signed as the Rams' prized new starter when a hit in a preseason game wrecked his knee. His little-known backup then threw 41 touchdown passes and was named league MVP.
Q 19What nickname did the Rams' record-setting 1999–2001 offence earn?
The Greatest Show on Turf
The Greatest Show on Turf turned a 4–12 team into 13–3 champions within a year, scoring 526 points in 1999.
Q 20Which Titans receiver did Mike Jones tackle a yard short to end Super Bowl XXXIV?
Kevin Dyson
Kevin Dyson was stopped one yard from a tying touchdown as time ran out. Weeks earlier he had scored on the 'Music City Miracle', the last-second kick-return lateral that kept Tennessee in the playoffs.
The Memorial Coliseum had been the Rams' first Los Angeles home, from 1946 to 1979, and a 1957 game there against San Francisco drew 102,368 fans. The return was a stopgap until SoFi opened in 2020.
Q 24Which California quarterback did the Rams take first overall in 2016 in their first draft back in LA?
Jared Goff
Jared Goff cost the Rams six draft picks across two years just to trade up to the top spot. In his third season he took them to a Super Bowl.
Q 25Whose mark as the youngest head coach in modern NFL history did Sean McVay break in 2017?
Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin was 31 when the Raiders hired him in 2007, and McVay was 30 when the Rams hired him. Within two seasons McVay had his team in the Super Bowl.
Q 26Which Rams head coach was fired in December 2016 with the team at 4–9?
Jeff Fisher
Jeff Fisher never managed a winning season in five years with the Rams. A year after he was fired, the team won 11 games and its division under a coach hired at 30.
Q 27The Rams beat which team 23–20 in Super Bowl LVI at their own SoFi Stadium?
Cincinnati Bengals
The Cincinnati Bengals led 20–16 until a touchdown with 1:25 left. The Rams became the second team, after Tampa Bay a year earlier, to win a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
Q 28Who was MVP of Super Bowl LVI after converting a fourth down and scoring the winning touchdown?
Cooper Kupp
Cooper Kupp had missed the Rams' previous Super Bowl, three years earlier, with a torn knee ligament. In 2021 he led the NFL in catches, receiving yards and touchdown catches.
Q 29The Rams' Super Bowl LVI MVP came to the team in 2017 as a third-round pick from which small school?
Eastern Washington
Eastern Washington plays in college football's second tier, where he set career records for receiving yards. Sixty-eight players were still drafted ahead of him.
Q 30Which star pass rusher did the Rams acquire midway through their 2021 title season?
Von Miller
Von Miller arrived at the trade deadline for second- and third-round picks. Three months later he had a second Super Bowl ring, six years after being MVP of Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos.