Royal Challengers Bengaluru Trivia
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49 free Royal Challengers Bengaluru trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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 final on 3 June 2025, nine days late, after the India-Pakistan crisis halted the league for a week in May and the schedule was redrawn.
Q 03Which team lost the 2026 final to RCB, making Bengaluru the third franchise to retain the IPL title?
Gujarat Titans
Gujarat Titans had lost Qualifier 1 to RCB by 92 runs five days earlier, fought back through Qualifier 2, then made only 155 for 8 and were beaten again with two overs to spare.
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 buying both the men's and women's teams, ending eighteen years of ownership by drinks companies.
Q 05Whose $111.6 million bid, second-highest at the 2008 auction, bought the Bangalore IPL franchise?
Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya was outbid only by the $111.9 million paid for Mumbai; financial scandals later cost him the chairmanship, and he left India in 2016 with banks pursuing his companies' debts.
Q 06RCB's name and roaring-lion crest come from Royal Challenge, a United Spirits brand of which drink?
Whisky
Whisky brand Royal Challenge won out over stablemate McDowell's No.1 as the team's namesake, and the crown-and-lion emblem was lifted straight from its label.
Q 07Which West Indian's 175 not out for RCB 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 08Which team bowled RCB out for a record-low 49 in 2017?
Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders had made only 131 themselves, yet Nathan Coulter-Nile, Chris Woakes and Colin de Grandhomme took three wickets each as RCB's batting collapsed.
Q 09RCB's Chinnaswamy Stadium home was billed as the world's first cricket ground to do what, in 2015?
Run on rooftop solar power
Run on rooftop solar power: a 400 kW plant went onto the stadium roof in about 50 days in 2015, wired so that any power the ground does not use can be sold to the city grid.
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 went unsold at the 2022 auction and rejoined RCB only as a mid-season replacement, then hit an unbeaten 112 in that year's Eliminator.
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 without ever lifting the trophy: the team's first title came in 2025, four seasons after his last.
Q 12Which former international cricketer was RCB's head coach for the 2025 and 2026 title-winning seasons?
Andy Flower
Andy Flower ended his Zimbabwe career by wearing a black armband at the 2003 World Cup to mourn 'the death of democracy' at home; he reached RCB for 2024 after two seasons with Lucknow.
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, signed for his ₹10 lakh base price in 2014, led RCB's wicket charts in 2019 and 2020?
Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal took 18 wickets in 2019 and 21 in 2020 for RCB; before cricket claimed him he had represented India internationally at chess.
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 RCB's openers raced to 114 without loss in under eleven overs before the chase stalled at 200 for 7.
Q 14Which team, only fourth in the league, beat RCB in the 2009 final at Johannesburg's Wanderers?
Deccan Chargers
Deccan Chargers had finished bottom of the first IPL a year earlier, then defended just 143 for 6 under Adam Gilchrist to win by six runs.
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 became RCB's head coach in 2014 while still a New Zealand player, a year before he retired after the 2015 World Cup.
Q 18Which Karnataka great captained RCB in 2008 as the franchise's designated icon player?
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 swapped its red shirts for which colour for one match each season?
Green
Green replaces the red for one match a season in a kit made from recycled fabric, part of a sustainability drive RCB has run since 2011.
Q 20Which batter became the first Indian to score an IPL century, for RCB in South Africa in May 2009?
Manish Pandey
Manish Pandey, 19 and on Mumbai's books a year earlier, hit an unbeaten 114 off 73 balls in RCB's last league game, a 12-run win two days before their semi-final.
Mohammed Siraj finished with 3 for 8 from four overs as the opposition limped to 84 for 8, a target RCB knocked off with eight wickets in hand.
Q 24Which Australian left-armer's two RCB seasons, 2014–15, preceded a record ₹24.75 crore sale at the auction for 2024?
Mitchell Starc
Mitchell Starc then stayed away from the IPL for eight seasons, returning only when that bid made him the costliest buy in auction history.
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, yet after his release Delhi paid an even higher ₹16 crore for him at the 2015 auction.
Q 26Which former India head coach lasted one season at RCB, the bottom-placed 2019 campaign?
Gary Kirsten
Gary Kirsten stepped up from batting coach, but RCB finished eighth of eight and Simon Katich replaced him in August 2019.
Q 27Which New Zealand batting great left his post as RCB's chief cricket officer after the disappointing 2008 season?
Martin Crowe
Martin Crowe left after a season of four wins in fourteen games; chief executive Charu Sharma had already gone midway, replaced after five defeats in the first seven.
Q 28Which former India seamer was RCB's first head coach, in the seventh-placed 2008 season?
Venkatesh Prasad
Venkatesh Prasad's side won only four of its fourteen matches, and the owner publicly lamented having abstained from team selection.
Q 29Which South African coached RCB from late 2008 through 2013, including the 2009 and 2011 finals?
Ray Jennings
Ray Jennings, one of South Africa's leading wicketkeepers, spent his playing days shut out of Test cricket by the country's apartheid-era ban; at RCB he inherited a side that had finished seventh of eight.
Q 30Which future Pakistan captain joined RCB in the 2008 auction's second round, alongside Ross Taylor?
Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah-ul-Haq never got a second season: Pakistani players have been shut out of the IPL since the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.