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98 free Pro Wrestling trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Professional wrestling is scripted, but its history is not: promotions rise and fall, territories get swallowed, screwjobs happen for real and the fans remember every finish. This professional wrestling trivia quiz covers the business from the carnival days and the territory era through the WWF expansion, WCW and the Monday Night Wars, ECW, the Attitude Era, New Japan and the arrival of AEW. Expect questions on legendary wrestlers and their finishers, championship lineages, famous matches and angles, WrestleMania moments, the people behind the curtain and the terminology of the trade, from kayfabe to heat. Casual fans will find plenty of easy questions, and long-time smart marks will find some that require real knowledge of the card. Every answer is checked against reference pages before it goes live, and every question carries its source. Ring the bell.
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Q 01What does the abbreviation WWE stand for?
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment. The company was previously known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) before a legal dispute with the World Wildlife Fund forced the name change in 2002.
Q 02Under what ring name did Dwayne Johnson debut in the WWF in 1996?
Rocky Maivia
Rocky Maivia blended his father Rocky Johnson's and grandfather Peter Maivia's names; he debuted at Survivor Series in November 1996 and became The Rock after turning heel in 1997.
Q 03What is John Cena's signature catchphrase?
You Can't See Me!
You Can't See Me! is John Cena's taunt, delivered with a hand waved in front of his face; he even named his 2005 rap album after it, and the record reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200.
Q 04Which arena hosted the first WrestleMania in 1985?
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden hosted the first WrestleMania on March 31, 1985, with Muhammad Ali as a guest referee and Liberace as the guest timekeeper for the main event.
Q 05Which title, created in 1963, is the oldest still defended on Raw or SmackDown?
WWE Championship
WWE Championship history began with a walkout: its promoters refused to accept Buddy Rogers losing the NWA world title to Lou Thesz in 1963, left the National Wrestling Alliance and named Rogers their own first champion.
Q 06What is the real name of the wrestler who joined the WWF in 1990 and became famous as The Undertaker?
Mark Calaway
Mark Calaway debuted in November 1990 as the mystery final member of Ted DiBiase's 'Million Dollar Team', and went on to play the Deadman character for three decades.
Q 07Which wrestler, 'The Immortal', helped bring wrestling into mainstream pop culture in the 1980s?
Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan beat the Iron Sheik for the WWF title in 1984, setting off 'Hulkamania', and three years later body-slammed Andre the Giant in the main event of WrestleMania III.
Q 08Which wrestling event features 30 competitors eliminating each other over the top rope?
Royal Rumble
Royal Rumble entrants arrive at timed intervals, and since 1993 the winner has earned a world title match at WrestleMania; Pat Patterson devised the match, which had only 20 entrants when first televised in 1988.
Q 09How many consecutive WrestleMania wins did The Undertaker's 'Streak' reach before it ended in 2014?
21
21 straight wins made up The Streak, which began against Jimmy Snuka at WrestleMania VII in 1991; in 2010 it cost Shawn Michaels his career, as he had agreed to retire if he lost.
Q 10Ric Flair is associated with which signature exclamation?
Wooooo!
'Wooooo!' is Ric Flair's trademark yell; he has credited Jerry Lee Lewis's 'Great Balls of Fire' as its inspiration, and crowds echo it whenever a chop lands.
Q 11Which wrestler's finishing move is called the "RKO"?
Randy Orton
Randy Orton named the RKO after his own initials, Randal Keith Orton; it is a jumping version of the cutter, the move Diamond Dallas Page made famous as the Diamond Cutter.
Q 12Which company, run by Tony Khan, launched in 2019 as a major alternative to WWE?
All Elite Wrestling
All Elite Wrestling grew out of the 2018 independent show All In and launched in 2019 under owner Tony Khan, with Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes and the Young Bucks as executive vice presidents.
Q 13Which Philadelphia promotion, run by Paul Heyman, closed in 2001 after pioneering hardcore wrestling?
ECW
Q 21Who broke The Undertaker's WrestleMania undefeated streak at WrestleMania XXX?
Brock Lesnar
Brock Lesnar pinned The Undertaker after a third F-5; The Undertaker had suffered a concussion early in the match and was taken to hospital that night.
Q 22Which double underhook facebuster became the signature finisher of the wrestler first billed in the WWF as Hunter Hearst Helmsley?
The Pedigree
The Pedigree is older than the name Triple H: he first used it in WCW in the mid-1990s as the French-accented Jean-Paul Levesque, and his ally Chyna later adopted it as her own finisher.
Q 23Which WWE commentator was famous for crying 'Good God almighty!'?
Jim Ross
ECW began as Eastern Championship Wrestling; in 1994 its star Shane Douglas won the NWA world title, threw the belt down and declared the NWA dead, and the promotion renamed itself Extreme.
Q 14"Macho Man" Randy Savage was famous for which exclamation?
Oh Yeah!
Oh Yeah! was Randy Savage's raspy sign-off, and it sold snacks too: as Slim Jim's spokesman in the 1990s he growled 'Snap into a Slim Jim, oooooh yeah!' in its commercials.
Q 15Stone Cold Steve Austin famously stunned which WWE owner on live television multiple times?
Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon took his first Stone Cold Stunner in late 1997 in front of a New York crowd, and the rebel-versus-boss feud that followed put the WWF back in the pop-culture spotlight.
Q 16Which WCW faction did Scott Hall and Kevin Nash launch, gaining a shock third member at Bash at the Beach 1996?
The New World Order (nWo)
The New World Order (nWo) formed when Hulk Hogan turned heel to join Scott Hall and Kevin Nash at Bash at the Beach 1996; the takeover angle kept Nitro ahead of Raw in the ratings for well over a year.
Q 17Which annual WWE event, first held in 1987, was built around elimination matches between teams of four or five?
Survivor Series
Survivor Series debuted on Thanksgiving night 1987, head-to-head with a rival pay-per-view; the WWF warned cable providers that carried the rival they would lose WrestleMania IV, and few did.
Q 18What was the name of the WWE stable featuring Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose?
The Shield
The Shield arrived in November 2012 in black protective vests, entering through the crowd; the trio broke up in June 2014 when Seth Rollins attacked his two partners with a steel chair.
Q 19What was the 1995–2001 weekly ratings battle between WWF's Raw and WCW's Nitro called?
The Monday Night Wars
Raw was even renamed Raw Is War during the Monday Night Wars, which ran from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, with the two shows broadcast opposite each other.
Q 20Edge & Christian beat the Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz at SummerSlam 2000 in the first-ever match of which type?
TLC
TLC stands for tables, ladders and chairs; that SummerSlam 2000 bout was the first, and the stipulation later got its own annual pay-per-view.
Jim Ross, Raw's Oklahoma-raised play-by-play voice, shouted it when Mankind was thrown off the top of the Hell in a Cell in 1998, adding that 'he is broken in half!'
Q 24Which wrestler "finished the story" by winning the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship at WrestleMania 40?
Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes's 'story' was to win WWE's top prize, the world title his father Dusty Rhodes never held; he lost his first attempt at WrestleMania 39 before winning the rematch a year later.
Q 25What was the name of the tag team formed by The Undertaker and Kane?
The Brothers of Destruction
The Brothers of Destruction were enemies first: Kane debuted in 1997 as the masked half-brother The Undertaker believed had died in a fire, and the two feuded before joining forces.
Q 26Which tag team, known for their high-flying style, performed the "Swanton Bomb" and "Twist of Fate"?
The Hardy Boyz
The Hardy Boyz, brothers Matt and Jeff from North Carolina, began in their own Trampoline Wrestling Federation, copying moves they saw on television; Jeff's Swanton Bomb and Matt's Twist of Fate became their finishers.
Q 27Which faction, formed in 1997 with Chyna and Rick Rude, began as a foil to the Hart Foundation?
D-Generation X
D-Generation X once took its feud to a rival's door: in April 1998 the group drove a military vehicle to a WCW Nitro taping in Norfolk, Virginia, and shouted insults through a bullhorn.
Q 28Who won WrestleMania's first women's main event in 2019, taking both the Raw and SmackDown Women's titles?
Becky Lynch
Becky Lynch pinned Ronda Rousey to win the three-way match with Charlotte Flair that closed WrestleMania 35, handing the former UFC star her first pinfall loss in WWE.
Q 29Which 'Tribal Chief' held WWE's Universal Championship for 1,316 days, from 2020 to 2024?
Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns returned at SummerSlam 2020 as a villain, took Paul Heyman as his adviser and won the title a week later at Payback; no WWE world title run had lasted as long since 1988.
Q 30Which WWE match uses a steel structure with pods that release wrestlers at timed intervals?
Elimination Chamber
The Elimination Chamber debuted in 2002 with four wrestlers sealed in pods and two starting in the ring; since 2010 the match has headlined an annual WWE event named after it.