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50 free Royal Challengers Bengaluru trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru spent seventeen seasons as the IPL's most-loved nearly team, losing three finals and once being bowled out for the lowest total in the league's history, before finally lifting the trophy and then defending it. Few franchises pack as much drama into one red jersey. This quiz covers the whole arc: the 2008 auction and the owner who bought the franchise, the stars who made the Chinnaswamy roar, the captains and coaches who came and went, the record-breaking totals, the stadium's quirks, the women's team that brought home the club's first silverware, and the 2026 sale that made it the most valuable cricket team ever. It is written for fans who know the chant and want to test how deep their knowledge runs, and for anyone setting a pub or family quiz with a cricket round.
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Q 01What does the Kannada RCB fan chant 'Ee Sala Cup Namde', popular since about 2016, mean?
This time the cup is ours
This time the cup is ours was shouted every season until 2025, when RCB fans finally switched to the triumphant variant Ee Sala Cup Namdu.
Q 02After the 2025 IPL's suspension, RCB's title-winning final was moved from Kolkata to which city?
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium hosted the rescheduled final on 3 June 2025, nine days after its original 25 May date in Kolkata.
Q 03Which team lost the 2026 final to RCB, making Bengaluru the third franchise to retain the IPL title?
Gujarat Titans
Gujarat Titans made 155 for 8 and RCB chased it down in 18 overs, five days after beating the same side in Qualifier 1.
Q 04Which conglomerate became RCB's owner through a March 2026 consortium deal worth a record $1.78 billion?
Aditya Birla Group
Aditya Birla Group joined the Times Group, Bolt Ventures and Blackstone in the purchase, which topped the $1.63 billion paid for Rajasthan Royals earlier in 2026.
Q 05Whose $111.6 million bid, second-highest at the 2008 auction, bought the Bangalore IPL franchise?
Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya, bidding through the United Breweries Group, was outbid only by the $111.9 million paid for the Mumbai franchise.
Q 06RCB's name and roaring-lion crest come from Royal Challenge, a United Spirits brand of which drink?
Whisky
Whisky brand Royal Challenge, launched in the early 1980s, won out over stablemate McDowell's No.1 as the team's namesake, and the RC crown-and-lion emblem was lifted straight from its label.
Q 07Which West Indian's 175 not out for RCB against Pune Warriors in 2013 set the record for a T20 innings?
Chris Gayle
Chris Gayle needed only 30 balls for his century that night and finished on 175 off 66, then took 2 for 5 in his single over.
Q 08For what total were RCB bowled out in Kolkata in 2017, setting the record for the IPL's lowest innings?
49
49 all out lasted just 9.4 overs, in a season RCB finished bottom with ten defeats in fourteen games.
Q 09RCB's Chinnaswamy Stadium home became the world's first cricket ground to do what, in 2015?
Run on rooftop solar power
A 400 kW rooftop array lets the ground run on rooftop solar power, a ₹4.5 crore project the Karnataka association modelled on Freiburg's football stadium in Germany.
Q 10Which RCB captain joined MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma in 2026 as a winner of back-to-back IPL titles?
Rajat Patidar
Rajat Patidar had announced himself with an unbeaten 112 in the 2022 Eliminator, the first IPL playoff century by an uncapped player, three years before taking the captaincy.
Q 11Which South African nicknamed Mr. 360 spent eleven seasons with RCB before retiring in 2021?
AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers scored 4,491 runs for RCB from 2011 to 2021 and was a founding inductee of the franchise's Hall of Fame in 2022.
Q 12Which former international cricketer was RCB's head coach for the 2025 and 2026 title-winning seasons?
Andy Flower
Andy Flower, the first Zimbabwean in the ICC Hall of Fame, arrived for 2024 after two seasons in charge of Lucknow Super Giants.
Q 13Which team beat RCB by eight runs in the 2016 final at the Chinnaswamy, RCB's own home ground?
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Q 21Which RCB seamer's 32 wickets in 2021 won the Purple Cap and equalled the record for an IPL season?
Harshal Patel
Harshal Patel's haul was the most ever by an Indian in one season, even though Ravindra Jadeja took 37 off a single over of his that year.
Q 22Which leg-spinner left RCB after 2021 as the franchise's leading wicket-taker, with 139?
Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal had played a single IPL match in three seasons at Mumbai before RCB signed him, and he bowled in the 2016 final.
Q 23Which RCB seamer bowled the IPL's first back-to-back maiden overs in one match, in October 2020?
Mohammed Siraj
Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 208 for 7 and held RCB to 200 for 7, with Ben Cutting named Player of the Match for their maiden title.
Q 14Which team, only fourth in the league, beat RCB in the 2009 final at Johannesburg's Wanderers?
Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chargers, captained by Adam Gilchrist, defended a modest 143 for 6 built on Herschelle Gibbs's 53, in a season played entirely in South Africa.
Q 15Which RCB captain's 4 for 16 in the 2009 final earned Player of the Match despite defeat?
Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble had taken over the captaincy only mid-season, then steered RCB from a poor start to third in the league and into the final.
Q 16Which England batter, a record $1.55 million signing, captained RCB at the start of 2009?
Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Pietersen handed over the captaincy when England called him away after a string of early losses, and the team promptly went to the final.
Q 17Which New Zealander captained RCB in the 2011 final and later coached the team from 2014 to 2018?
Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori's side topped the 2011 table with 19 points before losing the final to Chennai Super Kings by 58 runs.
Q 18Which Karnataka great captained RCB in 2008 as its icon player, paid 15% above the top auction buy?
Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid was the only RCB batter past 300 runs in that seventh-place 2008 season, and the owner later blamed him publicly for the auction picks.
Q 19Since 2011 RCB has worn which colour instead of red once a season, for an environmental campaign?
Green
Green replaces the red for the #GameForGreen fixture, one of several one-off kits worn alongside the separate home and away strips the club introduced in 2016.
Q 20Which batter became the first Indian to score an IPL century, for RCB in South Africa in May 2009?
Manish Pandey
Manish Pandey, a Karnataka batter RCB picked up in 2009, had spent 2008 on Mumbai's books after a $30,000 auction buy.
Mohammed Siraj finished with 3 for 8 from four overs against Kolkata Knight Riders, two seasons after RCB signed him at the 2018 auction.
Q 24Which Australian left-armer's two RCB seasons, 2014–15, preceded a record ₹24.75 crore sale in 2024?
Mitchell Starc
Mitchell Starc took 20 wickets in 2015 after a late arrival from injury, turning a bottom-placed RCB into a side that lost once in seven matches.
Q 25Whom did RCB buy for ₹14 crore at the 2014 auction, then the most expensive purchase in IPL history?
Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh lasted a single season in Bengaluru, where the side finished seventh in a year split between the UAE and India.
Q 26Which former India head coach lasted one season at RCB, the bottom-placed 2019 campaign?
Gary Kirsten
Gary Kirsten was promoted from batting coach in August 2018 and replaced a year later by Simon Katich, after RCB won just five of fourteen games.
Q 27Which New Zealand batting great resigned as RCB's chief cricketing officer during the 2008 season?
Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe's exit came in a season that also saw the CEO, Charu Sharma, sacked midway and replaced by Brijesh Patel.
Q 28Which former India seamer was RCB's first head coach, in the seventh-placed 2008 season?
Venkatesh Prasad
Venkatesh Prasad oversaw four wins from fourteen matches, a season in which the owner publicly lamented abstaining from team selection.
Q 29Which South African coached RCB from late 2008 through 2013, including the 2009 and 2011 finals?
Ray Jennings
Ray Jennings had coached South Africa and its Under-19 side, and inherited a squad that had finished seventh of eight in 2008.
Q 30Which future Pakistan captain joined RCB in the 2008 auction's second round, alongside Ross Taylor?
Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah-ul-Haq later turned out for Kandurata Warriors in Sri Lanka and St Lucia Zouks in the Caribbean, but 2008 remained his only IPL season.