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47 free New York Giants trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The New York Giants have been in the NFL since 1925, when bookmaker Tim Mara paid $500 for a franchise and nearly went broke until Red Grange came to town. A century later the club has eight championships, more title-game appearances than anyone, and two of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history, both against the New England Patriots. These 47 questions run from the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium to the Meadowlands: the Sneakers Game, the Greatest Game Ever Played, Lombardi and Landry on the same staff, the Miracle at the Meadowlands, Parcells and Simms, Lawrence Taylor's MVP season, Strahan's sack record, Eli Manning's draft-day trade, the Helmet Catch, Manningham's sideline grab and the reluctant touchdown. There are ownership, uniform and stadium questions too, plus the 2026 hiring of John Harbaugh. Easy questions cover the Super Bowl wins and the big names; the expert tier asks about Mel Hein, Emlen Tunnell, Y. A. Tittle's record and why LT wore 56. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick something up even when you miss.
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Q 01In which New Jersey town do the Giants play their home games?
East Rutherford
East Rutherford: the borough has only about 10,000 residents, so on game days its stadium can hold more than eight times the local population.
Q 02Which team left Shea Stadium in 1984 to share the Giants' home in New Jersey?
Jets
Jets: tenants for a quarter of a century, they became equal partners when the two clubs built MetLife Stadium together, opened in 2010.
Q 03Which Bears star's 1925 visit rescued the Giants' finances?
Red Grange
Red Grange: more than 70,000 came to see him, wiping out the new club's losses, and a year later he was back with a rival league and a New York team of his own to fight the Giants.
Q 04Through 2025, the Giants' eight NFL titles trailed only the Bears and which franchise?
Packers
Packers: the Giants' count could be higher, since from 1958 to 1963 they reached five NFL title games in six seasons and lost every one.
Q 05At which New York ballpark did the Giants play their home games for their first three decades?
Polo Grounds
Polo Grounds: they left for Yankee Stadium in 1956 and won the NFL championship in their very first season there.
Q 06Which division rival did the Giants beat 56-0 in the teams' first meeting, in 1933?
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles: the rout came in the Eagles' very first NFL game, and the Giants went on to win the first eleven meetings played in New York.
Q 07Who founded the Giants in 1925?
Tim Mara
Tim Mara: a bookmaker by trade, he was offered the team only after boxing promoter Billy Gibson turned it down and sent the league's president on to him.
Q 08The Hall of Fame says the Giants' founder paid how much for the franchise in 1925?
$500
$500: some accounts say $2,500, but either way he is reported to have cleared about $143,000 from a single December game that first season.
Q 09Which team drafted Eli Manning first overall before trading him to the Giants?
San Diego Chargers
San Diego Chargers: Manning had said he would refuse to play for them, so they picked him first anyway and traded him to New York later in the same draft.
Q 10Which quarterback did the Giants draft fourth overall in 2004 and trade away the same day for Eli Manning?
Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers: the swap suited both clubs, as he went on to start every regular-season game from 2006 to 2020, an even longer unbroken run than Manning's.
Q 11Which quarterback's December 2017 start ended Eli Manning's run of 210 straight Giants starts?
Geno Smith
Geno Smith: the benching caused such an outcry that the head coach and general manager were fired the day after the game, and Manning was starting again a week later.
Q 12Where did Eli Manning play in college?
Ole Miss
Ole Miss: his father Archie was already a folk hero there, and Eli finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting as a senior.
Q 13Which Giants receiver made the 'Helmet Catch' in Super Bowl XLII?
David Tyree
David Tyree: mainly a special-teams player, he pinned the ball to his helmet for a 32-yard gain and never caught another pass in the NFL.
Q 21Which coach led the Giants to Super Bowl XXI and XXV titles?
Bill Parcells
Bill Parcells: his first Giants team won only three games, yet three seasons later it went 14-2 and took the club's first Super Bowl.
Q 22Which Giants quarterback completed 22 of 25 passes to win MVP of Super Bowl XXI?
Phil Simms
Phil Simms: he completed all ten of his passes in the second half, then starred in the first 'I'm going to Disney World!' commercial.
Q 23In 1935 the Giants became the first professional football team to do what with a player's jersey number?
Retire it
Retire it: the No. 1 belonged to end Ray Flaherty and stayed out of use for 89 years, until his family let rookie Malik Nabers wear it in 2024.
Q 14Who caught the winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XLII?
Plaxico Burress
Plaxico Burress: he had barely practised all season because of a bad ankle, yet scored from 13 yards out with 35 seconds left.
Q 15Where was Super Bowl XLII played?
Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona: five weeks earlier the same two teams had met in New Jersey, where the Patriots won 38-35 to complete a 16-0 regular season.
Q 16Which Giants running back scored the 'reluctant touchdown' to win Super Bowl XLVI?
Ahmad Bradshaw
Ahmad Bradshaw: the Patriots let him through so they could get the ball back, and he tried to stop at the one-yard line but toppled backwards over the goal line.
Q 17Which team did the 9-7 Giants beat in overtime to win the 2011 NFC title?
49ers
49ers: the 20-17 road win sent New York on to become the first Super Bowl winner outscored over a regular season, 400 points to 394.
Q 18Which receiver's 38-yard sideline catch set up the winning drive in Super Bowl XLVI?
Mario Manningham
Mario Manningham: he kept both feet in bounds by a fraction of an inch between two defenders, on the first play of the 88-yard drive that won the game.
Q 19Which Giants receiver set a franchise record with 1,536 receiving yards in 2011?
Victor Cruz
Victor Cruz: undrafted only a year earlier, he broke Amani Toomer's record in a game where he also took a short pass 99 yards for a touchdown.
Q 20Who was the Giants' head coach for both the 2007 and 2011 Super Bowl wins?
Tom Coughlin
Tom Coughlin: the first head coach the Jacksonville Jaguars ever had, he fined Giants players who turned up less than five minutes early for meetings.
Q 24Which kicker's 'wide right' miss sealed the Giants' Super Bowl XXV win?
Scott Norwood
Scott Norwood: his 47-yard attempt on grass was at the edge of his range, and the miss began Buffalo's run of four straight Super Bowl defeats.
Q 25Who started at quarterback for the Giants in Super Bowl XXV after the regular starter was hurt?
Jeff Hostetler
Jeff Hostetler: he had started only two games in seven years as a Giants backup before the starter broke a foot that December.
Q 26Who was named MVP of Super Bowl XXV?
Ottis Anderson
Ottis Anderson: he ran for 102 yards as the Giants held the ball for a Super Bowl record 40 minutes 33 seconds, keeping Buffalo's quick-scoring offense off the field.
Q 27Who sang the national anthem before Super Bowl XXV?
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston: sung ten days into the Gulf War, her version was released as a charity single and reached the top 20.
Q 28Whose leg did Lawrence Taylor accidentally break with a sack on Monday Night Football in 1985?
Joe Theismann
Joe Theismann: the Washington quarterback never played again, and a horrified Taylor was the first to wave frantically to the sideline for help.
Q 29Which award did Lawrence Taylor win in 1986?
NFL MVP
NFL MVP: he led the league with 20.5 sacks and the Giants to their first Super Bowl title, and through 2025 no defender had won the award since.
Q 30Which college did Lawrence Taylor attend before the Giants drafted him in 1981?
North Carolina
North Carolina: he did not play organised football until the eleventh grade, and began there as a defensive lineman before being moved to linebacker.