Simone Biles Trivia
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50 free Simone Biles trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Simone Biles trivia quiz covers the career of the most decorated gymnast of all time, from a day-care field trip in Texas to the Golden Girls of Paris. The easy questions are the ones any Olympics viewer knows: her birthplace, her Olympic medal count, the team nickname from Rio, why she withdrew in Tokyo, and the NFL player she married. From there it moves into the record book: the number of world titles, the men's record she broke, the oldest all-around champion mark, and the four skills that carry her name. The harder end is for gymnastics fans: her first coach, the age she started, the country whose citizenship she holds through her adoptive mother, the college she committed to before turning pro, the kidney stone in Doha, the Weiler kip she submitted for Paris, the exact D-score of the Yurchenko double pike, the streak that ended on floor in 2024, and the tattoos, awards and sponsorships along the way. It also covers her testimony about Larry Nassar and her advocacy for mental health. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on Biles and her husband before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. If you enjoy this one, try our gymnastics, Olympics and Michael Phelps quizzes next.
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Q 01Simone Biles grew up in Texas, but where was she born?
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio, was her first home: she and her three siblings went into foster care as small children, and she has since become an advocate for children in the foster system.
Q 02Who owns World Champions Centre, the Texas gym that became Simone Biles's training base in 2014?
Her family
Her family built it: her mother suggested they open a gym of their own, Biles began training there in 2014, and its grand opening followed two years later.
Q 03Which gymnast is the only woman with more Olympic medals than Biles?
Larisa Latynina
Biles is tied with Čáslavská for second on the all-time list.
Q 04What nickname was given to the gold-medal-winning 2016 US Olympic team that Biles led?
The Final Five
The Final Five picked the name themselves, for two reasons: Rio was national team coordinator Márta Károlyi's last Olympics, and the last Games before women's teams were cut from five gymnasts to four.
Q 05What did Biles call the condition that made her withdraw from most of the Tokyo 2020 competition?
The twisties
The twisties made her lose track of her body in mid-air: on her vault in the team final she meant to do two and a half twists and came out after only one and a half.
Q 06After Biles withdrew mid-final in Tokyo, how did her three US teammates finish?
With silver
With silver, behind the Russian team: Biles had performed one vault before pulling out, and a week later she came back for one last final and won a bronze that she said meant more than all her golds.
Q 07Whose six World all-around titles did Biles match in 2023?
Kōhei Uchimura
Kōhei Uchimura won his six at six straight championships from 2009 to 2015, while Biles needed a decade for hers, 2013 to 2023, with two long breaks from the sport in between.
Q 08In 2018 Biles won every event at the US Championships, the first woman to do so since which gymnast in 1994?
Dominique Dawes
Dominique Dawes took the all-around and all four apparatus titles in 1994, beating her great rival Shannon Miller each time; Biles repeated her own clean sweep at the 2024 championships.
Q 09In 2023 Biles broke Alfred Jochim's 90-year-old record for the most what?
US all-around titles
US all-around titles: Jochim won his seventh in 1933, and Biles's eighth came in her first season back after two years away from the sport, when at 26 she was also the oldest woman to win it.
Q 10Biles's fourth Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award, in 2025, tied which tennis player's record?
Serena Williams
Serena Williams had stood alone on four since 2018. Biles joined her after walking away from the sport for two years, and Laureus had marked her return with its Comeback of the Year award in 2024.
Q 11Who adopted Simone Biles and her younger sister Adria after their time in foster care?
Her maternal grandfather and his wife
Her maternal grandfather and his wife, Ron and Nellie Biles, took in the two youngest of four siblings; Nellie, his second wife, is no blood relation to the girls she raised as her daughters.
Q 12Biles holds citizenship of which Central American country through her adoptive mother?
Belize
Belize is the home country of her adoptive mother, Nellie, and Biles calls it her second home: when its tourism board invited her Rio team for a holiday, she replied, 'you betta Belize we're coming'.
Q 13In which Houston suburb did Biles grow up?
Spring
Q 21Which teammate took all-around silver behind Biles at the Rio Olympics?
Aly Raisman
Aly Raisman had tied for third in the London final four years earlier and lost the bronze on a tie-break, so Rio finally gave her an all-around medal, 2.1 points behind Biles.
Q 22What honour did Biles receive at the Rio closing ceremony?
Carrying the US flag
Carrying the US flag was her fellow Americans' tribute to the Games she had just had: Team USA chose her after she won four golds and a bronze, the first female gymnast it had ever picked.
Q 23After Russian hackers leaked her medical records in 2016, Biles revealed she takes medication for what?
ADHD
Spring stayed her base: the World Champions Centre gym, where she trained from 2014, stands in the same suburb, so she prepared for three Olympics a short drive from where she grew up.
Q 14How did Biles first try gymnastics at age six?
On a day-care field trip
On a day-care field trip she began copying the other gymnasts she saw there, and the gym sent a letter home inviting her to join its classes.
Q 15Who was Biles's longtime first coach, from age eight through the Rio Olympics?
Aimee Boorman
Aimee Boorman was named head coach of the whole US women's team for Rio; after those Games she moved to Florida, which is why Biles's comeback began under a new coach.
Q 16Which university did Biles commit to before turning professional in 2015?
UCLA
UCLA never got her: a year after committing she signed with an agent and gave up her college eligibility, saying the chance to make her Olympic dream come true was right in front of her.
Q 17Why did Biles leave public school for home schooling as a teenager?
To train more hours a week
To train more hours a week: the gamble paid off, for in 2013, her first senior season, she became both US and world all-around champion.
Q 18In which city did Biles, aged 16, win her first world all-around title in 2013?
Antwerp
Antwerp saw her become the first Black woman to win the world all-around title, and ten years later the same city hosted the championships where she won her sixth.
Q 19After a poor 2013 US Classic, whom did Biles consult, crediting them with launching her dominance?
A sports psychologist
A sports psychologist taught her to trust her talent and enjoy competing: at that meet she had fallen repeatedly and skipped her vault, yet three months later she was world champion.
Q 20At the 2015 Worlds in Glasgow, Biles became the first woman to do what?
Win three consecutive all-around titles
Win three consecutive all-around titles: no woman had done it before, and with two more event wins that week she reached ten world golds, more than any woman in the history of the championships.
ADHD was no secret to the anti-doping authorities, who had granted her an exemption; she answered the leak herself, saying she had taken the medicine since she was a child and had always followed the rules.
Q 24What is the title of Biles's autobiography, which Lifetime turned into a biopic in 2018?
Courage to Soar
Courage to Soar was written with the journalist Michelle Burford in the months after Rio, and within two years it was a television film, with the newcomer Jeanté Godlock playing Biles.
Q 25Biles finished fourth on which TV contest in 2017?
Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars, which her teammate Laurie Hernandez had won a season earlier, sent her home in the semi-final on the viewers' vote, on a night when the judges gave both of her dances perfect scores.
Q 26What sent Biles to an emergency room the night before qualifying at the 2018 Worlds in Doha?
A kidney stone
A kidney stone, which she nicknamed the Doha Pearl: appendicitis was feared at first, anti-doping rules ruled out strong painkillers, and she still qualified in first place the next day.
Q 27Which honour did Biles and the other survivors of Larry Nassar receive at the 2018 ESPYs?
Arthur Ashe Courage Award
The Arthur Ashe Courage Award went to the survivors as a group, and Biles kept speaking for them: three years later she told a Senate hearing that an entire system had enabled the abuse.
Q 28Whose all-time record for World Championship medals did Biles break in 2019?
Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo, who once won six golds at a single Olympics, had 23 world medals; Biles tied him one day in Stuttgart and passed him the next, and by 2023 she had pushed the record to 30.
Q 29What is the Biles II on floor exercise?
A triple-twisting double tuck
A triple-twisting double tuck, three twists inside two somersaults, took her name because she was the first to land it at a World Championships; the 'II' marks it as her second named skill on floor.
Q 30What vault did Biles become the first woman to complete, at the 2021 US Classic?
Yurchenko double pike
The Yurchenko double pike had until then been a vault only men performed; when she landed it again at the 2023 World Championships, it was entered in the rulebook under her name.