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This NFL trivia quiz has 193 free questions with answers and climbs the whole way. It opens with NFL trivia for kids and casual fans: what a touchdown is worth, who plays at Lambeau, how many teams there are, Mahomes' number. The middle tier covers Super Bowl history, records and Hall of Famers. The final tier is hard NFL trivia questions for people who argue about the 1970s: the Heidi Game, the Ice Bowl's real temperature, the Fog Bowl, the tuck rule, the Snowplow Game's work-release driver, the 1982 and 1987 strikes, Flipper Anderson's 336 yards, Night Train Lane's 14 picks, the 98-yard punt and the Mayflower trucks that took the Colts to Indianapolis. Play it as a family, or skip to the back half for a bar-quiz gauntlet. Scores are shareable and each question explains itself after you answer. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, players and seasons involved, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which venue hosted the first Super Bowl in January 1967, where about a third of the seats sat empty?
Los Angeles Coliseum
The Los Angeles Coliseum drew only 61,946 to what was officially the AFL-NFL World Championship Game; the Super Bowl name was not formally adopted until the third game.
Q 02Tom Brady won his seventh and final Super Bowl ring with which team?
Buccaneers
The Buccaneers signed Brady after 20 seasons with his first club, and he won at once, giving him seven rings, more than any single team has collected.
Q 03Which quarterback led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl wins between the 1981 and 1989 seasons?
Joe Montana
Joe Montana won all four and was MVP of three; before the 92-yard winning drive in Super Bowl XXIII he relaxed his huddle by pointing out actor John Candy in the stands.
Q 04Which running back tied a 91-year-old NFL record by rushing for six touchdowns in December 2020?
Alvin Kamara
Alvin Kamara matched Ernie Nevers, who scored all 40 points of a 1929 game, and the league then fined Kamara $5,000 for playing in festive red-and-green cleats.
Q 05Before the NFL's only perfect season, which team went unbeaten in the rival AAFC in 1948?
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns went 14–0 and won the AAFC title game 49–7, a perfect season the NFL left out of its record book for 75 years, until owners voted in 2025 to count AAFC statistics.
Q 06Which NFL team is known as 'America's Team'?
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys got the name from their 1978 NFL Films highlight reel, whose writer had noticed how many of their fans turned up in rival stadiums.
Q 07Which Chiefs pass rusher set the NFL single-game record with seven sacks in 1990?
Derrick Thomas
Derrick Thomas sacked Seattle's Dave Krieg seven times on November 11, 1990, yet Krieg slipped his grasp on the final play and threw the winning touchdown.
Q 08Which coach has won the most Super Bowls?
Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick won six as a head coach, two more than anyone else, plus two as the Giants' defensive coordinator; his game plan from the second of those is kept in the Hall of Fame.
Q 09An executive of which company sketched the Super Bowl trophy on a cocktail napkin over lunch in 1966?
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co.'s designer drew it at lunch with the NFL commissioner; unlike the Stanley Cup, a new sterling-silver trophy is made every year and the winners keep it for good.
Q 10Who set the NFL single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards in 1984?
Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson ran for 2,105 yards for the Rams in 1984, passing O. J. Simpson's 2,003, though Simpson had set his mark in a 14-game season and Dickerson had 16.
Q 11What is a 'Hail Mary' in football?
A last-ditch heave downfield
A Hail Mary is a last-ditch heave downfield; the name stuck after Roger Staubach said of his late playoff winner to Drew Pearson in 1975, 'I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary.'
Q 12Which Titan carried Frank Wycheck's lateral 75 yards for the winning score in the 'Music City Miracle'?
Kevin Dyson
Kevin Dyson scored on the trick kickoff return to win the wild-card game, then three weeks later was tackled one yard short of the tying touchdown as time expired in Super Bowl XXXIV.
Q 13The NFL was founded at a meeting in a Hupmobile auto showroom in which Ohio city?
Canton
Q 21Who is the all-time leading scorer in NFL history?
Adam Vinatieri
Adam Vinatieri scored 2,673 points in 24 seasons, and two of his field goals won Super Bowls in the dying seconds: a 48-yarder as time expired and a 41-yarder with four seconds left.
Q 22On an American football field, the 'red zone' runs from the goal line out to which yard line?
The 20
The red zone is the area inside the opponent's 20-yard line; nothing on the field is actually red, and the term is a statistical label for scoring position.
Q 23Which player has the most career sacks in NFL history?
Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith reached 200 by playing 19 seasons, passing Reggie White's 198 in his final year; the list only counts from 1982, when sacks became an official statistic.
Canton hosted both founding meetings in Ralph Hay's car showroom, where the clubs set a $100 membership fee to give the league an air of respectability, though no team ever paid it.
Q 14Which quarterback went first overall in the 2024 NFL Draft?
Caleb Williams
Caleb Williams led six quarterbacks taken in the first 12 picks, tying the 1983 record, and then no passer at all was chosen in rounds two, three or four.
Q 15Which franchise, which began play in 2002, is the youngest in the NFL?
Houston Texans
The Houston Texans arrived as the league's 32nd team, and that even number let the NFL realign into eight divisions of four teams each.
Q 16Which NFL stadium is known as 'The Frozen Tundra'?
Lambeau Field
Lambeau Field's nickname is traced to NFL Films' telling of the 1967 Ice Bowl, played in bitter sub-zero cold after the field's new underground heating system failed.
Q 17Which Dallas defender is the only player from a losing team ever named Super Bowl MVP?
Chuck Howley
Chuck Howley intercepted two passes in Dallas's 16–13 loss in Super Bowl V; a year later he added another interception and a fumble recovery as his team won its first title.
Q 18Which quarterback is known as 'The Sheriff'?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning got the nickname from Jon Gruden on Monday Night Football, for the way he policed the line of scrimmage with pre-snap audibles.
Q 19The 2024 NFL Draft drew a then-record crowd of more than 775,000 in which host city?
Detroit
Detroit passed the old record, the 600,000 Nashville drew in 2019, before its final day was over, and Michigan's governor announced it to the crowd with 700,000 already counted.
Q 20Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024 was the first played in which state?
Nevada
Nevada's first Super Bowl went to overtime under new rules that gave each team the ball: San Francisco settled for a field goal, then Kansas City drove 75 yards for the winning touchdown.
Q 24Which common offensive penalty costs 10 yards, with the down replayed?
Holding
Holding by the offense costs 10 yards, twice the price of being offside; when the defense holds it is only 5 yards, but the offense gets an automatic first down.
Q 25Who was named Most Valuable Player of the first Super Bowl in January 1967?
Bart Starr
Bart Starr threw for 250 yards and two touchdowns, both to Max McGee, a little-used veteran who had broken curfew the night before and only played because the starter was hurt.
Q 26Patrick Mahomes's father, Pat, played which sport professionally?
Baseball
Baseball: Pat Mahomes pitched for six major-league clubs, and Patrick was himself picked in the 2014 MLB draft before choosing football.
Q 27Which NFL team plays its home games at Arrowhead Stadium?
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs have played at Arrowhead since 1972, and in 2014 their fans took back the Guinness record for the loudest stadium crowd with a 142.2-decibel roar.
Q 28A 'nickel' defense adds a fifth defensive back; what is a six-back package called?
Dime
Dime follows nickel as the next coin up, even though the package has six defensive backs rather than ten.
Q 29Who caught the 'Helmet Catch' in Super Bowl XLII?
David Tyree
David Tyree, a special-teams player with four catches all season, pinned the ball to his helmet with one hand, keeping alive the drive that ended an opponent's bid for a 19–0 season.
Q 30An NFL field is 120 yards: 100 of play plus 10 behind each of which lines?
Goal lines
Goal lines stand 100 yards apart with a 10-yard end zone behind each; until 1912 football's playing field ran 110 yards, and it was cut to 100 when end zones were added.