Sports Movies Trivia
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60 free Sports Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
53 free sports movies trivia questions with answers. From Rocky running the Philadelphia steps to Ken Miles at Le Mans, sports movies are where Hollywood keeps its best underdog stories. This quiz covers fifty-three of them across boxing, baseball, football, basketball, hockey, golf, racing, running and skating: Rocky and Raging Bull, Field of Dreams and Bull Durham, Hoosiers and Rudy, Remember the Titans and Friday Night Lights, Miracle and Slap Shot, Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore, A League of Their Own, Moneyball, Creed, Ford v Ferrari, King Richard and the comedies from Dodgeball to Talladega Nights. Easy questions ask which team the Mighty Ducks inspired and who says 'show me the money'; the hard ones want the real fight that inspired Rocky, how much weight De Niro gained for LaMotta, the Indiana school behind Hoosiers and what Vin Diesel's franchise has to do with Days of Thunder. Good for a bar quiz round, a Super Bowl party or settling which sports movie is the best. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky after watching Muhammad Ali fight which underdog?
Chuck Wepner
Chuck Wepner was stopped with 19 seconds left in the 15th round, whereas Rocky Balboa goes the full distance against Apollo Creed.
Q 02Rocky beat which Martin Scorsese film to the Best Picture Oscar?
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver lost Best Picture to Rocky, while Rocky's writer and star Sylvester Stallone lost both of his own nominations to Network.
Q 03In Raging Bull, Robert De Niro gained weight to play which boxer in his later years?
Jake LaMotta
Jake LaMotta himself trained De Niro, working with him until he felt the actor was ready to box professionally.
Q 04Field of Dreams is based on a novel by W. P. Kinsella with what title?
Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe made the real J. D. Salinger a character, and the film swapped him for a fictional writer, Terence Mann.
Q 05In Field of Dreams, in which Iowa town does Ray Kinsella build his baseball field?
Dyersville
Dyersville got a real Major League game in 2021, when the White Sox beat the Yankees at a ballpark built beside the movie field.
Q 06Bull Durham follows the fortunes of a real minor-league team from which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina: writer-director Ron Shelton toured Southern ballparks before settling on Durham for its old ballpark among abandoned tobacco warehouses.
Q 07Hoosiers was inspired by which tiny Indiana high school's 1954 state championship?
Milan
Milan: the film fictionalised its tiny school's 1954 title, and five college players who were paid for roles in it were later suspended by the NCAA.
Q 08Which actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing the basketball-loving town drunk in Hoosiers?
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper: his Shooter, the town drunk, gets a last shot at redemption when Coach Dale makes him an assistant coach.
Q 09Before Rudy, which film had Notre Dame last allowed to shoot on its campus?
Knute Rockne, All American
Knute Rockne, All American, from 1940; but Rudy's own jersey-protest scene never happened, and coach Dan Devine called it unforgivable.
Q 10In which Virginia city did Herman Boone coach the integrated high school team from Remember the Titans?
Alexandria
Alexandria: T. C. Williams High was named for a superintendent who resisted integration, and in 2020 students pushed to rename it.
Q 11Who plays US coach Herb Brooks in the 2004 film Miracle, about the 1980 Olympic upset of the Soviets?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell: the real Herb Brooks had been the last player cut from the 1960 US Olympic team, which went on to win gold.
Q 12Moneyball is based on a Michael Lewis book about the 2002 season of which team?
Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics: after the 2002 season the Red Sox tried to hire Billy Beane as general manager, but he turned them down and stayed in Oakland.
Q 13Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock: the night before she won the Oscar, she collected a Razzie award for worst actress for a different 2009 comedy.
Q 21Which Chariots of Fire runner refuses to race on a Sunday?
Eric Liddell
Eric Liddell: he gave up the 100 metres, his strongest event, and won the 400 metres instead.
Q 22In Space Jam, the aliens who steal NBA players' talent transform into a team called what?
The Monstars
The Monstars: the film grew out of Nike's Hare Jordan Super Bowl ads, which had first teamed Michael Jordan with Bugs Bunny.
Q 23Cool Runnings is loosely based on Jamaica's bobsleigh debut at the Winter Olympics in which city?
Calgary
Calgary: director Jon Turteltaub fought Disney boss Jeffrey Katzenberg over the Jamaican accents, and Katzenberg threatened to replace him.
Q 14What is the name of the exclusive country club in Caddyshack?
Bushwood
Bushwood: as greenskeeper Carl, Bill Murray improvised much of his dialogue, including the Cinderella story monologue.
Q 15Happy Gilmore's on-screen fistfight with which game-show host won an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight?
Bob Barker
Bob Barker: he and Adam Sandler staged a rematch in 2015 for Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars benefit show.
Q 16Which star plays player-coach Reggie Dunlop in the minor-league hockey comedy Slap Shot?
Paul Newman
Paul Newman: writer Nancy Dowd based the story on her brother Ned's years with the minor-league Johnstown Jets, whose Carlson brothers inspired the Hansons.
Q 17The year after The Mighty Ducks, Disney founded a real NHL team of that name in which city?
Anaheim
Anaheim: after Disney sold the club in 2005, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim dropped the Mighty and became the Anaheim Ducks the next year.
Q 18Which team do Geena Davis and Madonna play for in A League of Their Own?
Rockford Peaches
Rockford Peaches: the cast slid in period wool uniform skirts, which really hurt, and one actress broke her nose trying to catch a ball.
Q 19Who directed A League of Their Own?
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall: for the film's Cooperstown finale she put real former players from the women's professional league on screen.
Q 20Million Dollar Baby came from stories by F. X. Toole, whose real day job in boxing was what?
A cutman
A cutman: Jerry Boyd came to boxing in his 40s, and his fiction met years of rejection before Rope Burns, the basis for the film, came out.
Q 24Who wrote and directed Jerry Maguire?
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe: he modelled Maguire partly on real sports agent Leigh Steinberg, who served as the film's technical consultant.
Q 25Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs in The Natural comes from a 1952 novel by which author?
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud: his novel ends with Roy Hobbs striking out after agreeing to throw a game, while the film has him homer into the lights.
Q 26Major League follows a fictionalised version of which real baseball team?
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians: a filmed ending revealed owner Rachel Phelps secretly wanted them to win, but test audiences preferred her as the villain, so it was cut.
Q 27Who directed Creed, the 2015 film in which Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son?
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Coogler: the spin-off was his own dream project, which he took to MGM and to Sylvester Stallone.
Q 28In Dodgeball, what is the name of the run-down gym that Vince Vaughn's Peter LaFleur is trying to save?
Average Joe's
Average Joe's: the film's joke sports channel, ESPN8 The Ocho, became real for one day in 2017, when ESPNU took on the name.
Q 29Which comedian plays the French Formula One driver Jean Girard, Ricky Bobby's rival in Talladega Nights?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen: the film ends with his Girard and Ricky wrecking on the last lap, racing to the line on foot and sharing a kiss.
Q 30In The Karate Kid, what is the name of the aggressive dojo where Daniel's bully Johnny Lawrence trains?
Cobra Kai
Cobra Kai: a 2018 series of that name revived the dojo and retold the story from bully Johnny Lawrence's side.