Sports Trivia for Kids
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95 free Sports Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
48 free Sports Trivia for Kids questions with answers. This is sport trivia for kids, written so that an 8- to 12-year-old can play without help and a teenager still finds a few stumpers. The questions cover the sports children actually play and watch: how many players on a soccer, basketball or volleyball team, how high the hoop is, what a hat-trick or a strike is, which sport uses a shuttlecock, a puck, or granite stones and brooms, and the biggest events, from the Olympics and Paralympics to the World Cup, the Super Bowl and the Stanley Cup. The second half brings in the stars: Simone Biles, Serena Williams, Lionel Messi, LeBron James, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and Wayne Gretzky, with the records and stories that make them famous. Nothing here is violent or adult, so it works for a classroom, a birthday party, a car ride or a family quiz night where the kids get to beat the grown-ups. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and official sports sources, and each question shows where it came from once you have answered.
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Q 01How many players from each team are on a basketball court at the same time?
5
Each team puts five players on the court, and the rest of the squad waits on the bench to be substituted in.
Q 02How many players per soccer team take the field at kickoff?
11
One of the eleven is the goalkeeper, the only player allowed to use their hands.
Q 03Which sport is played at Wimbledon?
Tennis
Tennis: Wimbledon, first played in 1877, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is played on grass courts in south-west London.
Q 04In which sport do players use sticks to shoot a rubber puck into a net?
Ice hockey
Ice hockey is played on skates on a rink, and the hard rubber puck slides across the ice instead of bouncing like a ball.
Q 05How long is a marathon race?
26.2 miles
The official marathon distance is 42.195 kilometres, which works out at about 26.2 miles. Half that distance is called a half marathon.
Q 06Which country did the football star Pelé play for?
Brazil
Pelé was a Brazilian forward and is one of the most famous footballers who ever lived.
Q 07Simone Biles is a champion in which sport?
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is Simone Biles's sport: she won the Olympic all-around title at Rio 2016 and again at Paris 2024, plus dozens of world championship medals.
Q 08Michael Jordan became famous playing which sport?
Basketball
Michael Jordan is a former professional basketball player, best known for his years with the Chicago Bulls.
Q 09In baseball, how many strikes make a strikeout?
3
Once a batter has collected three strikes in one turn at bat, that turn ends in a strikeout.
Q 10In American football, how many points is a touchdown worth?
6
A touchdown is worth 6 points, and the scoring team then gets a chance at an extra point or a two-point conversion.
Q 11How often is the FIFA World Cup held?
Every four years
The tournament has taken place every four years since the first one in 1930, apart from 1942 and 1946 because of the Second World War.
Q 12In which country were the ancient Olympic Games held?
Greece
The ancient Games were athletic contests between the city-states of ancient Greece, first recorded in 776 BC and held every four years.
Q 13In which sport can you score a hole in one?
Golf
A hole in one happens when a golfer's very first shot from the tee lands straight in the cup.
Q 14Which sport is played by hitting a shuttlecock over a net?
Q 21How many goals did Lionel Messi score for Barcelona?
672
Messi scored 672 goals in 778 official games for Barcelona between 2004 and 2021, the most any player has scored for a single club.
Q 22Which American club did Lionel Messi join in 2023?
Inter Miami
Messi joined Inter Miami in July 2023 and won the Leagues Cup within weeks of arriving; the club then set an MLS points record to take the 2024 Supporters' Shield.
Q 23How many Olympic medals had Simone Biles won after the 2024 Paris Games?
Eleven
Eleven: Simone Biles won five medals at Rio 2016, two at Tokyo 2020 and four at Paris 2024; only Larisa Latynina, with 18, has more among female gymnasts.
Badminton
Badminton players use light racquets to hit a shuttlecock, which has feathers or plastic vanes and flies quite differently from a ball.
Q 15Which country does the sprinter Usain Bolt come from?
Jamaica
Usain Bolt is from Jamaica, born in Trelawny Parish in 1986; he won eight Olympic gold medals for Jamaica and was nicknamed Lightning Bolt.
Q 16What time did Usain Bolt run in 2009 to set the 100 m world record?
9.58 seconds
Bolt ran 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, taking 0.11 off the 9.69 he had set at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Q 17What feat did Usain Bolt pull off at three Olympic Games in a row?
Won both the 100m and 200m
Bolt won both the 100m and 200m at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, the only sprinter to complete that double at three Olympic Games.
Q 18How many Grand Slam singles titles did Serena Williams win, a women's Open Era record?
23
Serena Williams won 23 Grand Slam singles titles between 1999 and 2017, the women's Open Era record; only Margaret Court, with 24, has more among women.
Q 19How many Olympic gold medals did Serena Williams win?
Four
Three of them came in doubles. She is the only player with a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles.
Q 20Which trophy did Lionel Messi lift with Argentina in 2022?
The World Cup
Messi captained Argentina to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, beating France on penalties in the final, and became the first player to win the World Cup Golden Ball twice.
Q 24Which apparatus do female gymnasts compete on but male gymnasts do not?
Balance beam
The balance beam is one of the four women's artistic gymnastics events, with vault, uneven bars and floor; the beam is only 10 centimetres wide and 1.25 metres high.
Q 25Whose all-time NBA scoring record fell to LeBron James in 2023?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 points had stood as the NBA record since 1984; LeBron James passed it on 7 February 2023 against Oklahoma City.
Q 26What was LeBron James's slot in the 2003 NBA draft, straight out of high school?
First overall pick
Cleveland took him with the top selection and he was Rookie of the Year that season.
Q 27Which word joined the Olympic motto in 2021, its first change in over a century?
Together
Together was added with a dash in 2021: 'Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together', after the Latin Citius, Altius, Fortius.
Q 28How many players does each volleyball team have on the court at the same time?
Six
Six a side: the game was invented in 1895 by William Morgan at a YMCA in Massachusetts and first called 'mintonette' because he borrowed the idea from badminton.
Q 29How high off the ground is the rim of a basketball hoop?
10 feet
10 feet, or 3.05 metres: the height James Naismith set when he invented basketball in Springfield in 1891, and it has never been changed.
Q 30How many innings make up a regular baseball game?
Nine
A regulation baseball game lasts nine innings, each side batting once per inning; Little League plays six, and each side fields nine players at a time.