Sports Trivia 2023
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78 free Sports Trivia 2023 trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Sports trivia 2023 covers a year that had a bit of everything: the Chiefs and Eagles trading blows in a 38–35 Super Bowl, the Denver Nuggets and Vegas Golden Knights winning their first titles, the Texas Rangers finally lifting a World Series, and Spain beating England in a Women's World Cup played for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere. Beyond the American majors, the questions reach into rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, F1, athletics and marathons: South Africa's one-point win in Paris, Australia spoiling India's party in Ahmedabad, Djokovic reaching 24, Alcaraz breaking through at Wimbledon, Verstappen winning 19 of 22, and Kelvin Kiptum and Tigst Assefa rewriting the marathon record books. There is space too for the stories that dominated the sports pages: Damar Hamlin, Messi's arrival in Miami, Ohtani's $700 million, and Wrexham's promotion. Every answer is checked against a primary reference such as the official event record or the Wikipedia article for that competition, so you can settle arguments with confidence. Roughly a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are for people who watched all of it.
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Q 01Which team won Super Bowl LVII in February 2023?
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38–35 on Harrison Butker's field goal with eight seconds left, the first Super Bowl to pit two brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce, against each other.
Q 02Who was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl LVII?
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes, playing the second half on a re-aggravated high ankle sprain, threw three touchdown passes and won his second Super Bowl MVP award.
Q 03In which US state was Super Bowl LVII played?
Arizona
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, hosted the game; the venue had also staged Super Bowls XLII and XLIX.
Q 04Which franchise won its first-ever World Series in 2023?
Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers, founded in 1961 as the second Washington Senators, won their first title after losing the 2010 and 2011 Series.
Q 05Which club lost the 2023 World Series, the third ever played between two wild-card teams?
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks lost in five games; the only earlier all-wild-card Series were 2002 (Angels–Giants) and 2014 (Giants–Royals).
Q 06Which team won its first NBA championship in 2023, after 47 seasons in the league?
Denver Nuggets
The Denver Nuggets beat the Heat in five games for their first title since joining the NBA from the ABA in 1976.
Q 07Who was the unanimous choice for 2023 NBA Finals MVP?
Nikola Jokić
Nikola Jokić took all 11 votes after averaging 30.2 points, 14.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists while shooting 58 percent from the field.
Q 08The Miami Heat reached the 2023 NBA Finals as which playoff seed?
8th
They lost their first play-in game to Atlanta, beat Chicago in the second, and became only the second eighth seed ever to reach the Finals after the 1999 Knicks.
Q 09Which team won the 2023 Stanley Cup, its first, in only its sixth NHL season?
Vegas Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers four games to one, the first Final since 2018 in which neither club had previously won the Cup.
Q 10Who won the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Spain
Spain beat England 1–0 in the final, Olga Carmona scoring the only goal in the 29th minute for the country's first Women's World Cup title.
Q 11Which two countries co-hosted the 2023 Women's World Cup?
Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand shared the hosting, the first FIFA World Cup of any kind spread across two confederations: Australia plays in the AFC, New Zealand in the OFC.
Q 12How many teams played at the 2023 Women's World Cup, up from 24 in 2019?
32
The field grew to 32 teams, matching the men's tournament size, and produced debuts for eight nations including Morocco and the Philippines.
Q 13Which nation became the first to win the Rugby World Cup four times, in 2023?
South Africa
South Africa beat New Zealand in the final for a record fourth title, the first champion ever to have lost a pool match (to Ireland).
Q 21What did club pro Michael Block do in the final round of the 2023 PGA Championship?
Made the only hole-in-one of the week
Michael Block made the only hole-in-one of the week, acing the par-3 15th on Sunday alongside Rory McIlroy, and his tie for 15th earned a return invitation for 2024.
Q 22Who won the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club, one shot ahead of Rory McIlroy?
Wyndham Clark
Wyndham Clark finished at 10 under for his first major title; he had never placed better than 75th in a major and had missed the cut in his two previous U.S. Opens.
Q 23Who won the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool by six shots?
Brian Harman
Q 14Which All Blacks captain became the first player ever sent off in a Rugby World Cup final, in 2023?
Sam Cane
Sam Cane's yellow card for a high tackle on Jesse Kriel was upgraded to red by the bunker review in the first half, the first red card in a World Cup final.
Q 15Who beat host nation India in the final of the 2023 Cricket World Cup?
Australia
Australia won by six wickets with seven overs to spare, their sixth title, ending India's run of ten straight wins in the tournament.
Q 16The 2023 Cricket World Cup final was played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in which Indian city?
Ahmedabad
The Narendra Modi Stadium is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat; with a capacity of about 132,000 it was the world's largest cricket ground when it hosted the 2023 final.
Q 17Which Australian was Player of the Match in both the 2023 World Test Championship and World Cup finals?
Travis Head
Travis Head made 163 in the World Test Championship final and 137 in the World Cup final, weeks after a broken hand had kept him out of the first five group matches.
Q 18What was the result of the 2023 men's Ashes series in England?
Drawn 2–2
Drawn 2–2: England won the third and fifth Tests after losing the first two, and Stuart Broad took the final wicket with the last ball he ever bowled in Test cricket.
Q 19Who won the 2023 Masters by four strokes?
Jon Rahm
Jon Rahm won by four shots despite a four-putt double bogey on the first hole on Thursday, on what would have been Seve Ballesteros's 66th birthday.
Q 20Who became the first LIV Golf member to win a major, at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill?
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka won by two shots for his fifth major and third PGA Championship, a total matched in the stroke-play era only by Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Brian Harman, a left-hander from Georgia, finished 13 under to win by six shots; his previous PGA Tour win had come at the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship.
Q 24The 2023 Ryder Cup was staged at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, near which European capital?
Rome
Marco Simone sits in Guidonia Montecelio, just outside Rome; Europe won 16½–11½ after sweeping the opening foursomes 4–0 on Friday morning.
Q 25Who captained Europe to victory in the 2023 Ryder Cup?
Luke Donald
Luke Donald was appointed in August 2022 after Henrik Stenson was stripped of the captaincy for joining LIV Golf, and led Europe to a 16½–11½ win.
Q 26How did the 2023 Solheim Cup at Finca Cortesín end?
14–14, Europe retained
It finished 14–14, the first tie in the event's history, and Europe retained the trophy as holders, Carlota Ciganda winning the point that guaranteed it.
Q 27How many of the 22 Grands Prix did Max Verstappen win during the 2023 Formula One season?
19
Max Verstappen won 19 of the 22 races, including a record ten in a row, stood on the podium 21 times, and clinched the title in the Qatar sprint with six rounds to spare.
Q 28Which team won every 2023 Formula One Grand Prix except one?
Red Bull Racing
Red Bull Racing won 21 of the 22 races, a 95.45 percent strike rate; Carlos Sainz's Ferrari victory in Singapore was the only one they missed.
Q 29Who ended Novak Djokovic's four-year reign at Wimbledon by winning the 2023 men's final in five sets?
Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz won 1–6, 7–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–4 for his second major, the first Wimbledon men's title by a player outside the Big Four since Lleyton Hewitt in 2002.
Q 30At Wimbledon 2023, Markéta Vondroušová became the first women's champion to be what?
Unseeded
Unseeded and ranked 42nd, Markéta Vondroušová beat Ons Jabeur in the final to become the lowest-ranked Wimbledon women's champion since WTA rankings began in 1975.