Philadelphia Eagles Trivia
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This Philadelphia Eagles trivia quiz has 45 free questions with answers and runs the length of the franchise, from the 1933 expansion team that Bert Bell named after a New Deal logo to the 2025 season that followed the Super Bowl LIX parade. Along the way you'll meet the Steagles, the snowbound 1948 title game, Chuck Bednarik sitting on Jim Taylor, the Miracle at the Meadowlands, Buddy Ryan's Bounty Bowl, the judge who held court inside Veterans Stadium, and the fourth-and-goal trick play that beat Tom Brady. It's built for fans who already know Nick Foles was the MVP and want the next layer down: which draft pick, which stadium, which record, which rule change. About a third of the questions are easy, a third medium, and the rest will test people who wear kelly green on Sundays. Every answer was checked against a primary source, such as Wikipedia's team, season, player and Super Bowl pages and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, before publication, and the source is shown under each question.
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Q 01The Eagles were founded in 1933 by taking on the debts of which failed NFL team?
Frankford Yellow Jackets
The Frankford Yellow Jackets were suspended in 1931 after their stadium burned and the Depression left them insolvent.
Q 02Bert Bell and Lud Wray took the team's name from the Blue Eagle logo of which New Deal agency?
National Recovery Administration
The National Recovery Administration's code system was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935, just two years after Bell and Wray named the team.
Q 03Where did players on the 1943 'Steagles', the merged Eagles-Steelers team, work when not playing football?
Defense plants
Defense plants kept the players on war work, and the merged team gave the Philadelphia franchise its first winning season.
Q 04Which team did the Eagles beat 7-0 in a snowstorm for the 1948 NFL title?
Chicago Cardinals
The Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 at Shibe Park; the snow was so heavy that players from both teams helped the grounds crew drag the tarp off before kickoff.
Q 05What weather did the Eagles play through in their 14-0 1949 title win in Los Angeles?
Driving rain
Driving rain turned the Coliseum turf to mud, and Steve Van Buren slogged through it for 196 yards on 31 carries.
Q 06The Eagles' 1960 NFL Championship win was the only playoff defeat in the career of which coach?
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi lost 17-13 in Philadelphia on 26 December 1960, later blaming himself for passing up field goals, and he won all nine of his later playoff games.
Q 07Which running back did Chuck Bednarik pin down on the final play of the 1960 NFL title game?
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor was pinned by Bednarik, 35 and again playing both ways because of injuries, who stayed on top of him until time ran out.
Q 08Chuck Bednarik, "Concrete Charlie", was drafted first overall by the Eagles in 1949 out of which university?
Penn
Bednarik starred at Penn after flying 30 missions as a B-24 waist gunner in the war; the Eagles took him with the 1949 bonus pick, first overall.
Q 09Hall of Fame halfback Steve Van Buren, whose No. 15 is retired by the Eagles, was born in which country?
Honduras
Van Buren was born in La Ceiba, Honduras, orphaned young and sent to family in New Orleans, and he starred at LSU before the Eagles drafted him in 1944.
Q 10Where was the 1968 Eagles game at which fans booed and pelted a fill-in Santa Claus with snowballs?
Franklin Field
At Franklin Field on 15 December 1968 the booked Santa never showed up, so fan Frank Olivo in his own costume was pressed into service and took the abuse aimed at a 2-11 team.
Q 11Dick Vermeil was hired to coach the Eagles in 1976 straight from which college program?
UCLA
Vermeil's UCLA Bruins had just upset Ohio State in the 1976 Rose Bowl, and within five seasons he took the Eagles to Super Bowl XV.
Q 12Which Eagles defender returned Joe Pisarcik's fumble in the 1978 Miracle at the Meadowlands?
Herman Edwards
Herman Edwards scooped up the fumble and ran it in for the winning score, a play that helped make the quarterback kneel the standard way to end games.
Q 13Reggie White joined the Eagles after two seasons in the USFL with which team?
Memphis Showboats
After two USFL seasons with the Memphis Showboats, White joined the Eagles a few weeks into 1985 and made 2.5 sacks in his first game.
Q 21Which Philadelphia official presided over 'Eagles Court', first held at Veterans Stadium on game days?
Seamus McCaffery
Seamus McCaffery, a municipal judge, ran Eagles Court, set up after about 60 fights at a 1997 Monday night game against the 49ers.
Q 22Eagles fans booed the 1999 pick of Donovan McNabb, wanting which running back instead?
Ricky Williams
WIP host Angelo Cataldi and then-mayor Ed Rendell sent the 'Dirty 30' fans to cheer for Ricky Williams, and they booed McNabb instead.
Q 23What injury was Terrell Owens coming back from in Super Bowl XXXIX?
A fractured fibula and sprained ankle
Q 14Which actor played the 30-year-old Eagles rookie in the 2006 film Invincible?
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg's Papale is a bartender who never played college football, though the film leaves out his time with the World Football League's Philadelphia Bell.
Q 15As Bears defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan was credited with inventing which scheme?
The 46
The 46 defense took its name from the jersey number of Bears safety Doug Plank.
Q 16The 1989 'Bounty Bowl' brought claims that the Eagles had put a bounty on which Cowboys kicker?
Luis Zendejas
Luis Zendejas had been cut by the Eagles earlier that season, and Buddy Ryan denied any bounty, saying the film showed no intent to hurt him.
Q 17The Eagles' 1988 playoff loss known as the Fog Bowl was played at which stadium?
Soldier Field
Soldier Field filled with fog in the second quarter; Randall Cunningham still threw for 407 yards, but the Eagles never reached the end zone.
Q 18Randall Cunningham was a two-time college All-American at UNLV at which position?
Punter
Cunningham was an All-American punter at UNLV and also quarterbacked the 11-2 1984 Rebels, whose bowl win was later forfeited over ineligible players.
Q 19Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles from which owner?
Norman Braman
Norman Braman, who sold the team to Lurie, had fired coach Buddy Ryan after five seasons and handed the job to Rich Kotite.
Q 20In 1996 the Eagles swapped their classic kelly shade for what darker primary color?
Midnight green
The Eagles adopted midnight green in 1996 under Jeffrey Lurie; kelly green returned as an official throwback alternate from the 2023 season.
A fractured fibula and sprained ankle didn't stop Owens, who played against his doctors' advice and caught nine passes for 122 yards.
Q 24Brian Dawkins, whose No. 20 is retired, was drafted by the Eagles in 1996 out of which college?
Clemson
Dawkins, a second-round Clemson pick in 1996, once scored as a safety, catching a 57-yard pass on a fake punt against Houston in 2002.
Q 25DeSean Jackson's 2010 game-winner against the Giants came on what kind of return?
Punt return on the final play
Punt return on the final play: DeSean Jackson's touchdown completed a rally of four touchdowns from 21 points down.
Q 26Which Eagles quarterback tied the NFL record with seven touchdown passes in a 2013 game?
Nick Foles
Nick Foles did it while Michael Vick was still the starter, and four years later, as Carson Wentz's backup, he led the Eagles to the Super Bowl LII title.
Q 27Which school produced Carson Wentz, the No. 2 pick of the 2016 draft?
North Dakota State
The Eagles planned for North Dakota State's Wentz to sit out 2016 as a rookie, but after trading Sam Bradford they started him in Week 1.
Q 28In the Philly Special, the Super Bowl LII trick play, who threw the touchdown pass to the Eagles' quarterback?
Trey Burton
Tight end Trey Burton, an all-state quarterback in high school in Florida, took Corey Clement's pitch and lobbed the touchdown to the quarterback on fourth-and-goal.
Q 29Super Bowl LII, the Eagles' first Super Bowl win, was played in which city?
Minneapolis
Super Bowl LII was played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on 4 February 2018; the teams combined for 1,151 yards, then a record for any NFL game, and Brady's 505 passing yards came in a loss.
Q 30Which Eagles defensive end stripped Tom Brady late in Super Bowl LII?
Brandon Graham
Brandon Graham's strip-sack ended the Patriots' comeback bid, and the Eagles held on for their first Super Bowl title.