NFL Quarterbacks
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50 free NFL Quarterbacks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
No position in sport carries a story quite like the quarterback. One was stacking supermarket shelves a few years before lifting the Lombardi Trophy; another was the very last name called in the draft and started a Super Bowl anyway. Every question here hands you one clue like that and asks you to name the passer. The quiz runs from the leather-helmet era to the starters of the past five seasons: title-winning drives, draft-day slides, baseball careers that never happened, famous trades, comebacks and a few cameos away from the field. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the story even when you miss. It is built for fans who can already name their own team's starter and want to test the rest of the league, for fantasy players, and for anyone settling an argument about the best ever to play the position.
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Q 01Which quarterback plays himself and gets kidnapped in the Jim Carrey comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective?
Dan Marino
Dan Marino was still the Miami Dolphins' starter when he filmed it, and for all his passing records he never played on a Super Bowl-winning team.
Q 02Which quarterback, taken 199th overall in the 2000 NFL Draft, went on to win seven Super Bowls?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady was the seventh quarterback chosen that year, with a compensatory pick New England received for losing a punter.
Q 03Which Green Bay Packers quarterback caught his own deflected pass on his first regular-season play for the team?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre lost seven yards on that catch, then started 297 regular-season games in a row, the longest streak by any NFL player.
Q 04Which 49ers quarterback calmed his Super Bowl XXIII huddle by pointing out actor John Candy in the crowd?
Joe Montana
Joe Montana then drove San Francisco 92 yards and threw the winning touchdown with 34 seconds left to beat the Cincinnati Bengals.
Q 05Which quarterback stocked shelves in an Iowa grocery store before winning a Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams?
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner earned $5.50 an hour on the night shift at Hy-Vee, and is the only undrafted player ever named both NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP.
Q 06Which Eagles backup quarterback caught a touchdown pass on the 'Philly Special' trick play in Super Bowl LII?
Nick Foles
Nick Foles became the first player to both throw and catch a touchdown in a Super Bowl, and was named the game's MVP as Philadelphia beat New England.
Q 07Which 49ers quarterback began kneeling during the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality?
Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick had led the 49ers to Super Bowl XLVII four seasons earlier. After 2016 he became a free agent and no team signed him.
Q 08Which New York Jets quarterback guaranteed a win over the heavily favored Colts before Super Bowl III?
Joe Namath
Joe Namath made the promise at the Miami Touchdown Club three days before kickoff, and the 18-point underdog Jets won 16–7.
Q 09Which quarterback, son of a Major League Baseball pitcher, threw 50 touchdown passes in his first year as a starter?
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes did it for Kansas City in 2018 and was named NFL MVP. His godfather, LaTroy Hawkins, also pitched in the majors.
Q 10Which Oklahoma quarterback became the first player drafted in the first round of both the NFL and MLB drafts?
Kyler Murray
Kyler Murray was picked ninth by baseball's Oakland Athletics in 2018, won the Heisman Trophy that December, then went first overall to the Arizona Cardinals.
Q 11Which quarterback's shouted 'Omaha' audible became so well known that he named his production company after it?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning co-founded Omaha Productions in 2020. He had retired as the first quarterback to lead two different franchises to Super Bowl wins.
Q 12Which quarterback refused to join the Baltimore Colts in 1983, threatening to play baseball for the Yankees instead?
John Elway
John Elway was traded to the Denver Broncos instead, and retired in 1999 only months after winning his second straight Super Bowl.
Q 13Which quarterback played semi-pro football for $6 a game after the Steelers cut him, then starred for the Colts?
Johnny Unitas
Q 21Which Steelers quarterback threw the late touchdown to Santonio Holmes that won Super Bowl XLIII?
Ben Roethlisberger
Ben Roethlisberger found Holmes on his toes in the back corner of the end zone. Three years earlier, at 23, he had become the youngest quarterback to win a Super Bowl.
Q 22Which quarterback, a Colorado Rockies baseball draftee, led the Seattle Seahawks to their first Super Bowl title?
Russell Wilson
Russell Wilson was only a third-round NFL pick, 75th overall. A year after that title he lost Super Bowl XLIX on an interception at the goal line.
Q 23Which Auburn quarterback won the Heisman Trophy and a national title before the Panthers drafted him first overall?
Cam Newton
Johnny Unitas played weekends for the Bloomfield Rams in 1955, then threw a touchdown pass in 47 straight NFL games, a record that lasted 52 years.
Q 14Which Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback threw the 'Immaculate Reception' pass and later won four Super Bowls?
Terry Bradshaw
Terry Bradshaw's 1972 throw ended up with Franco Harris, who scored to beat the Raiders. He became the first quarterback to win a third and a fourth Super Bowl.
Q 15Which Dallas Cowboys quarterback served in Vietnam with the Navy before popularizing the term 'Hail Mary' pass?
Roger Staubach
Roger Staubach won the 1963 Heisman Trophy but was a 27-year-old rookie after four years of military service. He said a Hail Mary as he threw to beat Minnesota in 1975.
Q 16Which Green Bay Packers quarterback, a 17th-round draft pick, was named MVP of each of the first two Super Bowls?
Bart Starr
Bart Starr was taken 200th overall in 1956. He also won the frozen 1967 'Ice Bowl' title game against Dallas with a late quarterback sneak.
Q 17Which left-handed 49ers quarterback threw six touchdown passes against the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX?
Steve Young
Steve Young is a great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, the church leader whose name is on BYU, where he played in college.
Q 18Which Dallas Cowboys quarterback went 0–11 as a rookie starter in 1989, then won three Super Bowls in four seasons?
Troy Aikman
Troy Aikman was the first overall pick of the 1989 draft and threw twice as many interceptions as touchdowns in that debut year, 18 to 9.
Q 19Which quarterback joined the New Orleans Saints after Hurricane Katrina and was MVP of their first Super Bowl win?
Drew Brees
Drew Brees arrived in 2006 fresh from surgery on a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder, an injury that led Miami's doctors to advise against signing him.
Q 20Which quarterback slid to the 24th pick of the 2005 NFL Draft, then spent three seasons as a Green Bay backup?
Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers had expected to go first overall to the 49ers, the team he supported as a boy. He later won Super Bowl XLV with the Packers and was the game's MVP.
Cam Newton was named NFL MVP in 2015, the year Carolina went a franchise-best 15–1 and reached Super Bowl 50.
Q 24Which Ravens quarterback, the last pick of the 2018 first round, was a unanimous NFL MVP the following season?
Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson led the league in touchdown passes in 2019 while also running for more yards than any quarterback had managed in a single season.
Q 25Which Buffalo Bills quarterback grew up on a California cotton farm and received no Division I scholarship offers?
Josh Allen
Josh Allen started at Reedley, a junior college, before moving on to Wyoming, and Buffalo made him the seventh overall pick in 2018.
Q 26Which quarterback left Ohio State for LSU, won the Heisman Trophy, then went first overall to the Cincinnati Bengals?
Joe Burrow
Joe Burrow won the national title in that 2019 season. Two years later he gave Cincinnati its first playoff win since 1990 on the way to Super Bowl LVI.
Q 27Which quarterback was benched for Tua Tagovailoa during a national title game, then became MVP of Super Bowl LIX?
Jalen Hurts
Jalen Hurts finished his college career at Oklahoma. Seven years after that benching at Alabama, his Eagles beat the Chiefs 40–22 for the title.
Q 28Which Chargers quarterback made his first NFL start after a team doctor accidentally punctured Tyrod Taylor's lung?
Justin Herbert
Justin Herbert threw for 311 yards that day in an overtime loss to Kansas City, kept the job, and was named Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Q 29Which Dallas Cowboys rookie, a fourth-round pick, took over in 2016 when Tony Romo was injured in the preseason?
Dak Prescott
Dak Prescott led Dallas to the NFC's top seed and was Offensive Rookie of the Year, after the team had failed to trade up for two other quarterbacks.
Q 30Which San Francisco 49ers quarterback was 'Mr. Irrelevant', the very last pick of the 2022 NFL Draft?
Brock Purdy
Brock Purdy became the first 'Mr. Irrelevant' to throw a touchdown pass in a regular-season game, and a season later he started Super Bowl LVIII.