This Philadelphia Eagles trivia quiz has 50 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 to replace which bankrupt NFL franchise?
Frankford Yellow Jackets
The Eagles' 1933 blue-and-yellow uniforms matched the city flag and the colors the Yellow Jackets had worn before folding in 1931.
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 Blue Eagle was the emblem businesses displayed to show they complied with Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 recovery codes.
Q 03Eagles co-founder Bert Bell later served as NFL commissioner from 1946 until his death in what year?
1959
Bell died of a heart attack in the stands while watching the Eagles play the Steelers, the two teams he had once owned.
Q 04What was the official NFL name of the merged 1943 Eagles-Steelers team nicknamed the Steagles?
Phil-Pitt Combine
The wartime merger produced the Philadelphia franchise's first winning season, and the two coaches shared the job because neither would accept a demotion.
Q 05The Eagles won their first NFL Championship in 1948, 7-0, in a blinding snowstorm. Who was the opponent?
Chicago Cardinals
The snow was so heavy that players from both teams had to help the grounds crew pull the tarp off the field before kickoff.
Q 06What made the field so bad in the Eagles' 14-0 1949 title win in Los Angeles?
Driving rain turned it to mud
Steve Van Buren slogged for 196 yards on 31 carries in the muck while the defense held the Rams to 21 rushing yards.
Q 07The Eagles' 1960 NFL Championship win was the only playoff defeat in the career of which coach?
Vince Lombardi
The stadium had no lights, so kickoff was moved up to noon on the day after Christmas.
Q 08Which Packers running back did Chuck Bednarik pin at the nine-yard line to seal the 1960 title?
Jim Taylor
Bednarik played every down of the game on both sides of the ball, then growled at the pinned runner, "You can get up now."
Q 09Chuck Bednarik, "Concrete Charlie", was drafted first overall by the Eagles in 1949 out of which university?
Penn
Before college he flew 30 missions as a B-24 waist gunner and had MOTHER tattooed on his forearm so his body could be identified if he was shot down.
Q 10Hall of Fame halfback Steve Van Buren, whose No. 15 is retired by the Eagles, was born in which country?
Honduras
Orphaned at ten and sent to relatives in New Orleans, he only became LSU's tailback as a senior because wartime conscription had thinned the roster.
Q 11Where was the 1968 Eagles game at which fans booed and pelted a fill-in Santa Claus with snowballs?
Franklin Field
The booked Santa never made it through the snowstorm, so a fan in a costume was pressed into service and took the abuse meant for a 2-12 team.
Q 12Dick Vermeil was hired to coach the Eagles in 1976 straight from which college program?
UCLA
He had just won the 1976 Rose Bowl, and his Eagles years were later dramatized in the Vince Papale film Invincible with Greg Kinnear as Vermeil.
Q 13Which Eagles cornerback returned Joe Pisarcik's fumble in the 1978 Miracle at the Meadowlands?
Herman Edwards
Q 21Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles in May 1994 for an estimated $185 million from which owner?
Norman Braman
Lurie is also a documentary producer whose film Inside Job won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Q 22In 1996 the Eagles swapped their classic kelly shade for what darker primary color?
Midnight green
Kelly green came back as an official alternate throwback uniform starting in the 2023 season.
Q 23Which municipal judge was stationed at Veterans Stadium on game days from 1997 to handle rowdy fans?
Seamus McCaffery
The judge held "Eagles Court" in the stadium until it closed; Lincoln Financial Field has no courtroom, just a holding cell.
The Giants fired offensive coordinator Bob Gibson the next morning, and the play helped make the kneel-down the standard way to end games.
Q 14The Eagles' first Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XV after the 1980 season, ended in a 27-10 loss to which team?
Oakland Raiders
Linebacker Rod Martin intercepted Ron Jaworski three times, a Super Bowl record, and the winners became the first wild-card team to take the title.
Q 15Reggie White joined the Eagles after two seasons in the USFL with which team?
Memphis Showboats
In eight Eagles seasons he piled up 124 sacks in 121 games, more sacks than games played, and became the franchise's all-time leader.
Q 16Reggie White's nickname "the Minister of Defense" reflected his ordination as a minister at what age?
17
He retired as the NFL's all-time sack leader with 198 and was voted first-team All-Pro ten times in 15 seasons.
Q 17As Bears defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan was credited with inventing which scheme?
The 46
The scheme was named for Bears safety Doug Plank's jersey number, not for any formation count.
Q 18After the 1989 'Bounty Bowl', Jimmy Johnson claimed the Eagles had put a bounty on Troy Aikman and which kicker?
Luis Zendejas
The kicker had been cut by Philadelphia earlier that year, and the alleged price on his head was $200.
Q 19The Eagles' 1988 playoff loss known as the Fog Bowl was played at which stadium?
Soldier Field
Randall Cunningham threw for 407 yards into a fog that covered fewer than 15 city blocks for under three hours, but the Eagles never reached the end zone.
Q 20Randall Cunningham was a two-time college All-American at UNLV at which position?
Punter
He kept the skill in the pros: a 91-yard punt against the Giants in 1989 remains the longest in Eagles history and the fourth-longest ever.
Q 24The first ticketed event at Lincoln Financial Field in August 2003 was not a football game. What was it?
A Manchester United-Barcelona match
The Eagles' own first regular-season game there was a Monday night loss to Tampa Bay, and Joe Jurevicius scored the stadium's first touchdown.
Q 25Eagles fans booed the 1999 pick of Donovan McNabb, wanting which running back instead?
Ricky Williams
McNabb went on to set franchise records for passing yards and touchdowns and led the Eagles to five NFC Championship Games.
Q 26Terrell Owens played Super Bowl XXXIX seven weeks after what injury from a horse-collar tackle?
A fractured fibula and sprained ankle
He caught nine passes for 122 yards in the 24-21 loss, and Williams' tackle helped get the horse-collar banned.
Q 27Brian Dawkins, whose No. 20 is retired, was drafted by the Eagles in 1996 out of which college?
Clemson
Nicknamed Weapon X, he was the first player in NFL history with a sack, an interception, a forced fumble and a touchdown catch in the same game.
Q 28DeSean Jackson's game-winning touchdown against the Giants in 2010 is the NFL's only walk-off what?
Punt return on the final play
The Eagles had trailed by 21 points with under eight minutes left, and the game is now called the Miracle at the New Meadowlands.
Q 29In 2013 Nick Foles tied an NFL record with how many touchdown passes against the Raiders?
Seven
He finished that season with 27 touchdowns against only two interceptions and a league-best 119.0 passer rating.
Q 30Which school produced Carson Wentz, 2016's No. 2 pick and highest-drafted FCS player ever?
North Dakota State
He was the first quarterback the Eagles had drafted in the first round since McNabb, who was also the No. 2 pick.