Milwaukee Bucks Trivia
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50 free Milwaukee Bucks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Milwaukee Bucks trivia quiz runs from the 1968 fan contest that almost named the team the Robins to the 2024 NBA Cup: the coin flip that delivered Lew Alcindor, the 66-win 1971 champions with Oscar Robertson, the sky hook against Boston in 1974, the trade that sent Kareem to Los Angeles, Don Nelson's division-title teams, Sidney Moncrief and Marques Johnson, the Big Dog and Ray Allen years, the Big Three under George Karl, Fear the Deer, the 15th pick who became Giannis Antetokounmpo and the 2021 title won from two games down against Phoenix. It also covers the owners from Herb Kohl to Wes Edens and Marc Lasry, the arenas from the MECCA to the Bradley Center and Fiserv Forum, and Bango the mascot. About a third of the questions are easy for regular Bucks fans, a third need a closer memory of the seasons and trades, and the rest reward the completists who know the draft slots, the coaches and the records. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the team, the Finals, the players and the arenas before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Which team left Milwaukee for St. Louis in 1955, 13 years before the Bucks arrived?
Hawks
Hawks. They finished last in their division in all four of their Milwaukee seasons, yet within three years of the move to St. Louis they were NBA champions.
Q 02Which name, shared with Wisconsin's state bird, topped the 1968 fan vote before judges chose Bucks instead?
Robins
Robins. Bucks was only the fans' second choice, but the judges overruled the vote and rewarded a fan who argued that bucks are "spirited, good jumpers, fast and agile".
Q 03In 1972 the Bucks made Wayne Embry the first Black person in major US pro sports to hold which job?
General manager
General manager. Embry had been the Bucks' centre in their first season, and three years into the job it fell to him to trade away Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had asked to leave.
Q 04Which team did the Bucks beat in a 1969 coin flip for the right to draft Lew Alcindor?
Phoenix Suns
Phoenix Suns. Milwaukee had won 11 more games than its fellow expansion team, but each finished last in its division, so a coin toss decided who got Alcindor; Phoenix settled for Neal Walk.
Q 05Which eventual champion knocked Lew Alcindor's 56-win Bucks out of the 1970 playoffs?
New York Knicks
New York Knicks. Alcindor's rookie season had lifted Milwaukee from 27 wins to 56, and the Bucks answered the defeat by trading for a veteran star guard; a year later they were champions.
Q 06Which guard did the Bucks acquire from the Cincinnati Royals before their 1970-71 championship season?
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Robertson. The Big O had spent ten seasons in Cincinnati without a title, then won one in his first year in Milwaukee, the only championship of his career.
Q 07Whom did the Bucks sweep in the 1971 NBA Finals for their first title?
Baltimore Bullets
Baltimore Bullets. They had just knocked out the defending champions in a series that went the distance, but Milwaukee swept them to take the title in only the franchise's third season.
Q 08Which team's record 33-game winning streak did the Bucks end in January 1972?
Lakers
Lakers. Their run had swept past the 20 straight wins Milwaukee strung together a year earlier in its 66-16 title season, so the Bucks stopped the streak that had outdone their own.
Q 09Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook won the Bucks game six of the 1974 Finals in double overtime against which team?
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics. The shot forced a seventh game in Milwaukee, but Boston won it by 15, and the Bucks did not reach another Finals for 47 years.
Q 10The Bucks' refusal to play a 2020 playoff game followed a police shooting in which Wisconsin city?
Kenosha
Kenosha, where police had shot Jacob Blake three days earlier. The Bucks stayed in their locker room, and within hours games in the NBA, WNBA, baseball and MLS were called off.
Q 11Which former Buck built a fortune as a Wendy's franchisee and bought a stake in the team in 2024?
Junior Bridgeman
Junior Bridgeman. He came to Milwaukee in the 1975 trade for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, spent his off-seasons working at Wendy's to learn the business, and went on to own hundreds of restaurants.
Q 12Who became Bucks head coach in November 1976 after Larry Costello abruptly resigned?
Don Nelson
Don Nelson. He had won his fifth title as a player only that spring and was 18 games into his first job, as a Bucks assistant, when a 3-15 start handed him the team for the next 11 seasons.
Q 13Which former Bucks All-Star later played Raymond in the film White Men Can't Jump?
Marques Johnson
Q 21Where did Ray Allen play college basketball before the Bucks acquired him on draft day in 1996?
Connecticut
Connecticut. Minnesota drafted him fifth and at once traded him to Milwaukee for Stephon Marbury; two years later, as a Buck, he starred as Jesus Shuttlesworth in Spike Lee's He Got Game.
Q 22Whom did the Bucks take first overall in the 2005 draft, ahead of Chris Paul and Deron Williams?
Andrew Bogut
Andrew Bogut. The Bucks traded the Australian centre to Golden State in 2012 while an ankle injury kept him out, and three years later he was an All-Defensive pick on a Warriors team that won the title.
Q 23Which two players did the Bucks receive from Seattle for Ray Allen in 2003?
Marques Johnson. Acting was his first love: he studied theatre at UCLA before the Bucks drafted him third in 1977, and on screen he is the hothead who loses to Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson.
Q 14Which pop artist painted the Bucks' MECCA court, which debuted at the Milwaukee Arena in 1977?
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana, creator of the LOVE image, covered the floor in giant M's. The Bucks left it behind in 1988, and a fan who later found it being sold for scrap went into credit card debt to save it.
Q 15Which Bucks broadcaster's call of "Bango!" for long-range baskets became the name of the team's mascot?
Eddie Doucette
Eddie Doucette, the Bucks' radio voice for their first 16 seasons, shouted it whenever a long shot dropped. He also gave Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's signature shot its name, the skyhook.
Q 16Which Bucks mainstay arrived in 2013 as a minor piece of the Brandon Jennings trade with Detroit?
Khris Middleton
Khris Middleton. A second-round pick who had played only 27 games for Detroit, he stayed in Milwaukee for more than a decade and became a three-time All-Star and an NBA champion.
Q 17What injury did Bucks mascot Bango suffer when a stunt at an NBA All-Star Weekend went wrong?
A torn ACL
A torn ACL. Bango needed surgery after the fall but made a full recovery, and went back to his riskiest tricks, such as dunking off the top of a ladder during the playoffs.
Q 18Which former US senator was the Bucks' long-time owner until 2014?
Herb Kohl
Herb Kohl paid $18 million for the Bucks in 1985 to stop them leaving Milwaukee. When he sold them for $550 million, he gave $100 million of it toward a new arena.
Q 19In 2003 the Bucks' owner came close to selling the team to which NBA legend?
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan. The owner backed out, saying he would keep the team in Wisconsin, and held on for 11 more years; Jordan went on to buy into Charlotte's franchise instead.
Q 20Whom did the Bucks take with the first overall pick in the 1994 draft?
Glenn Robinson
Glenn Robinson. The "Big Dog" held out amid talk of a $100 million demand, then signed for a rookie-record $68 million over 10 years; the NBA brought in a rookie wage scale the following year.
Gary Payton and Desmond Mason
Gary Payton and Desmond Mason. Payton played only 28 games for Milwaukee before leaving as a free agent, while Allen went on to win two championships elsewhere.
Q 24Which slogan became the Bucks' rallying cry in the 2010 playoffs?
Fear the Deer
Fear the Deer. The Bucks already had an official slogan that season, "Work Hard, Play Hard"; this one came from outside, and at the time the team could not say if an ESPN anchor, its Squad 6 fans or a tweet began it.
Q 25Giannis Antetokounmpo went 15th in the 2013 draft; who went first overall?
Anthony Bennett
Anthony Bennett. Cleveland's surprise choice lasted only four NBA seasons and averaged 4.4 points a game, while the player taken 14 places later won two MVP awards and a title.
Q 26Giannis Antetokounmpo was born in Athens to parents from which country?
Nigeria
Nigeria. His parents had no legal status in Greece, so Giannis grew up stateless, selling watches and sunglasses on the streets of Athens, and gained Greek citizenship only around the time of the 2013 draft.
Q 27In 2020 Giannis Antetokounmpo won MVP alongside which other award?
Defensive Player of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year. That double had been done only twice before, in 1988 and 1994, yet the Bucks, owners of the NBA's best record, were knocked out in the second round that year.
Q 28Whose coaching rights did the Bucks acquire from Brooklyn in July 2014 for two second-round picks?
Jason Kidd
Jason Kidd. He had been a head coach for a single season, and reports said he opened talks with Milwaukee after his old club refused him more power, while the Bucks still had Larry Drew under contract.
Q 29Which former Atlanta coach did the Bucks hire in May 2018?
Mike Budenholzer
Mike Budenholzer was Coach of the Year in his first Milwaukee season and delivered the 2021 title, yet the Bucks fired him in 2023 after a 58-win team lost in the first round.
Q 30Whose late steal and alley-oop pass sealed game five of the 2021 Finals?
Jrue Holiday
Jrue Holiday. With Milwaukee one point up and 16 seconds left, he ripped the ball from Devin Booker and lobbed it to Giannis for a dunk; the Bucks became only the fifth team to win a Finals from 2-0 down.