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50 free Sports Records trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Records are the part of sport that outlasts the final whistle. A hitting streak from the 1940s, a long jump in the thin air of Mexico City, a scoring night in a small Pennsylvania arena: decades on, fans can still recite the numbers, and still argue about which of them will never be beaten. This quiz covers all-time records across the major sports, including baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, boxing, athletics and the Olympics. Expect the unbreakable streaks, the single-game and single-season feats, the career totals, and a few oddities, such as the heaviest defeat in international soccer and a title run that was later wiped from the books. The questions are multiple choice and run from marks every fan knows to deeper cuts for the stat-minded. Each answer comes with a short explanation of how the record was set, so the set works for a pub quiz, a sports-bar night or a quick solo test.
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Q 01Which Philadelphia Warriors center scored 100 points in a single NBA game in March 1962?
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain reached 100 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in a 169–147 win over the Knicks. He had gone without sleep the night before and almost missed the team bus.
Q 02Which baseball star hit safely in 56 consecutive Major League games during the summer of 1941?
Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio's streak ended in Cleveland on July 17, thanks in part to two backhand stops by Indians third baseman Ken Keltner.
Q 03Which Baltimore Orioles shortstop played 2,632 straight games, passing Lou Gehrig's record in 1995?
Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr. ended the 17-year streak himself, sitting out the final home game of 1998. Gehrig's total of 2,130 games had stood for 56 years.
Q 04Which Jamaican sprinter set the 100 metres world record of 9.58 seconds in Berlin in 2009?
Usain Bolt
Usain Bolt cut 0.11 seconds off his own record of 9.69, the biggest improvement since electronic timing began.
Q 05Which swimmer won 23 Olympic gold medals between 2004 and 2016, the most by any athlete in history?
Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps won 13 of those golds in individual events, and finished with 28 Olympic medals of all colours.
Q 06Which 14-year-old gymnast scored the Olympics' first perfect 10, on the uneven bars in 1976?
Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci's score appeared as 1.00, because the scoreboard had not been programmed to display a perfect 10. She earned six more of them at the same Games.
Q 07Which NFL team went 17–0 in 1972, the league's only perfect season including the Super Bowl?
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins did it largely with a backup quarterback: Earl Morrall started most of the season after Bob Griese broke his ankle in week 5.
Q 08Which racehorse won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to complete the Triple Crown?
Secretariat
Secretariat smashed a margin record of 25 lengths set by Count Fleet in 1943. Only four horses had lined up against him that day.
Q 09Which soccer star is the only player to win three men's World Cups, in 1958, 1962 and 1970?
Pelé
Pelé was 17 at the first of them, which also makes him the youngest player ever to win a World Cup.
Q 10Which cyclist was stripped of seven consecutive Tour de France titles in 2012 for doping?
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong's wins from 1999 to 2005 were never handed to other riders, so those seven Tours have no official winner.
Q 11Which player passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2023 to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer?
LeBron James
LeBron James kept going after taking the record, and a year later became the first NBA player to reach 40,000 career points.
Q 12Which quarterback won a record seven Super Bowls, six with New England and one with Tampa Bay?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady was only the 199th pick of the 2000 draft, taken in the sixth round after six other quarterbacks.
Q 13Which Edmonton Oilers center scored 92 goals in the 1981–82 NHL season, a single-season record?
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky also finished that season with 212 points, the first time any NHL player had passed 200.
Q 21Which San Francisco Giants slugger hit 73 home runs in 2001, a single-season record?
Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds beat the 70 that Mark McGwire had hit only three years earlier. He also holds the career record, with 762 home runs.
Q 22Whose 715th home run in April 1974 broke Babe Ruth's long-standing career record?
Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron chased the record while receiving death threats and piles of hate mail from people who did not want to see Ruth's total fall.
Q 23Which Cincinnati Reds star passed Ty Cobb in 1985 and retired with a record 4,256 career hits?
Pete Rose
Pete Rose broke the record with a single in front of his home crowd in Cincinnati, who gave him a standing ovation that lasted for minutes.
Q 14Which golfer won a record 18 men's major championships, the last of them in 1986 at age 46?
Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus made that final major the 1986 Masters, which was also his record sixth win at Augusta.
Q 15Which golfer won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, the widest winning margin in Masters history?
Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods was 21, the youngest Masters champion, and he had started badly: his first nine holes took 40 shots, four over par.
Q 16Which tennis player won the French Open men's singles title a record 14 times between 2005 and 2022?
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal lost only four matches in his whole career at Roland Garros, finishing with a record of 112–4 there.
Q 17Which heavyweight boxing champion retired in 1956 with a perfect record of 49 wins and no defeats?
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano ended 43 of those 49 fights by knockout, and he walked away at 32 while still the reigning champion.
Q 18Which boxer became the youngest heavyweight champion ever by stopping Trevor Berbick in 1986?
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson was 20 years and 4 months old, and he needed less than two rounds to take the title.
Q 19Which forward passed Iran's Ali Daei in 2021 as the top scorer in men's international soccer?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo reached 109, the total long credited to Daei, with two penalties at Euro 2020, then added two late headers against the Republic of Ireland that September.
Q 20Which country has won the men's soccer World Cup five times, more than any other nation?
Brazil
Brazil are also the only nation to have played at every men's World Cup since the first one in 1930.
Q 24Which wide receiver retired with NFL records of 22,895 receiving yards and 197 touchdown catches?
Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice finished 5,403 yards ahead of the next receiver on the list, and 41 touchdown catches ahead of the runner-up there too.
Q 25Which Boston Celtics center won 11 NBA championships in 13 seasons, the most by any player?
Bill Russell
Bill Russell won the last two of those titles while also coaching the team, as the Celtics' player-coach.
Q 26Which NHL team has won the most Stanley Cups, including five in a row from 1956 to 1960?
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are older than the league itself: they helped found the NHL in 1917, and one of their Cups came before it existed.
Q 27Which NFL team lost four consecutive Super Bowls, after the 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons?
Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills lost the first of the four by a single point, 20–19, when a last-second field goal attempt drifted wide right.
Q 28Which guard passed Ray Allen in 2021–22 as the NBA's all-time leader in three-pointers made?
Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry had taken Allen's single-season record years before, hitting 272 threes in a season on 53 fewer attempts than Allen needed for 269.
Q 29Which driver became the first to win 100 Formula One Grands Prix, at the 2021 Russian Grand Prix?
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton reached 100 pole positions the same year, at the Spanish Grand Prix, and was the first driver to do that as well.
Q 30Which pitcher holds Major League records for both career wins, with 511, and career losses?
Cy Young
Cy Young's 511 wins put him 94 clear of second place, and baseball's award for its best pitchers has carried his name since 1956.