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This NFL trivia quiz has 143 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 01Roughly how many of the Coliseum's 94,000 seats went unsold for the first Super Bowl, the only one never to sell out?
33,000
About 33,000 seats went unsold: 61,946 attended in the 94,000-seat Coliseum, and the January 1967 game was blacked out on local television.
Q 02How many Super Bowl titles has Tom Brady won during his career?
7
Six came with his first team and one with the Buccaneers, more rings than any single franchise has won.
Q 03Which quarterback led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl victories in the 1980s?
Joe Montana
Joe Montana led the 49ers to Super Bowl victories after the 1981, 1984, 1988, and 1989 seasons, earning three Super Bowl MVP awards.
Q 04Who holds the NFL record for most points scored in a single game, with 40 in 1929?
Ernie Nevers
Ernie Nevers scored every one of the Chicago Cardinals' points in a 40–6 win over the Bears, with six rushing touchdowns, a mark unmatched until Alvin Kamara tied it on Christmas Day 2020.
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 in the 1948 All-America Football Conference and beat Buffalo 49–7 for the title; the NFL does not recognize AAFC records.
Q 06Which NFL team is known as 'America's Team'?
Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys were dubbed 'America's Team' by NFL Films in 1978, a nickname that has stuck and reflects their massive nationwide fanbase.
Q 07Who holds the NFL record for most sacks in a single game, with seven in 1990?
Derrick Thomas
Derrick Thomas sacked Dave Krieg seven times for Kansas City against Seattle on November 11, 1990, yet Krieg escaped an eighth and threw the winning touchdown to Paul Skansi as time expired.
Q 08Which coach has won the most Super Bowls?
Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick's twelve Super Bowl appearances are also a record: nine as head coach, once as assistant head coach and twice as Giants defensive coordinator.
Q 09A vice president of which company sketched the NFL championship trophy on a cocktail napkin in 1966?
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. vice president Oscar Riedner sketched the trophy on a napkin at lunch with Pete Rozelle in 1966, and Tiffany has made every sterling-silver Lombardi Trophy since Super Bowl I.
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 from 1973, though he had 16 games to Simpson's 14; Adrian Peterson fell eight yards short in 2012.
Q 11What is a 'Hail Mary' in football?
A last-ditch heave downfield
A Hail Mary is a last-ditch heave downfield; Roger Staubach popularised the term after his 50-yard 1975 playoff winner to Drew Pearson: '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
Dyson is also the man tackled one yard short as time expired in Super Bowl XXXIV a few weeks later, so he bookended one playoff run with two of the most replayed plays ever.
Q 13The league was founded at a meeting in a Jordan and 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 over 24 seasons with New England and Indianapolis, passing Morten Andersen's 2,544; he also made a record 599 field goals.
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 recorded 200 career sacks over 19 seasons with Buffalo and Washington, the only player to reach 200; Reggie White finished second with 198.
Representatives of four Ohio clubs met there in August of the founding year; the Pro Football Hall of Fame later opened in the same city.
Q 14How many quarterbacks went in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, tying the 1983 record?
Six
Six quarterbacks went in the 2024 first round, from Caleb Williams at No. 1 to Bo Nix at No. 12, matching the 1983 class that included John Elway, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino.
Q 15Which franchise, which began play in 2002, is the youngest in the NFL?
Houston Texans
They filled the hole left when the Oilers moved to Tennessee in 1997, and their arrival is what pushed the league to 32 teams and its current eight-division layout.
Q 16Which NFL stadium is known as 'The Frozen Tundra'?
Lambeau Field
Lambeau Field earned the nickname from NFL Films' account of the 1967 Ice Bowl, when the Packers' new underground heating system failed and Dallas lost 21–17 in brutal sub-zero cold.
Q 17Who is the only player from a losing team ever to be named Super Bowl MVP?
Chuck Howley
Chuck Howley intercepted two passes in Dallas's 16–13 loss to Baltimore in Super Bowl V, making him the only MVP from a losing side and the first non-quarterback to win the award.
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 hosted the 2024 draft around Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza, drawing more than 775,000 fans over three days, the largest draft crowd to that point.
Q 20Super Bowl LVIII in February 2024 was the first played in which state?
Nevada
Nevada's Allegiant Stadium is small, so its 61,629 sellout was the smallest unrestricted Super Bowl crowd ever, and the overtime game was the longest played, at just under 75 minutes.
Q 24Which offensive penalty costs 10 yards from the previous spot, with the down replayed?
Holding
Offensive holding is a 10-yard penalty with the down replayed; offside, false start and delay of game cost 5 yards, and a hold in the offense's own end zone is a safety.
Q 25Who was named Most Valuable Player of the first Super Bowl in January 1967?
Bart Starr
Starr went 16 of 23 for 250 yards and two scores; hungover receiver Max McGee, who had not expected to play, caught seven passes for 138 yards.
Q 26What is Patrick Mahomes' jersey number?
15
Patrick Mahomes has worn No. 15 since the Chiefs drafted him 10th overall in 2017, after wearing No. 5 in college.
Q 27Which NFL team plays its home games at Arrowhead Stadium?
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs have played at Arrowhead Stadium since it opened in 1972; in 2014 its crowd set a Guinness record for loudest outdoor stadium roar at 142.2 decibels.
Q 28A 'nickel' package puts how many defensive backs on the field?
Five
The fifth back is the nickelback; a sixth makes it a 'dime' package, keeping the coin theme going.
Q 29Who caught the 'Helmet Catch' in Super Bowl XLII?
David Tyree
Tyree pinned the ball to his helmet with one hand while being dragged down, keeping alive the drive that ended an opponent's bid for a 19-0 season.
Q 30How long is an NFL field in total, including both end zones?
120 yards
An NFL field is 120 yards long in total — 100 yards of playing field plus two 10-yard end zones. The playing field itself is 100 yards.