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Q 01Which team won Super Bowl LX, played in February 2026?
Seattle Seahawks
The 29–13 win at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara was Seattle's second title; running back Kenneth Walker III was named MVP after rushing for 135 yards.
Q 02Which quarterback was named MVP of the very first Super Bowl in January 1967, then repeated the feat in Super Bowl II?
Bart Starr
Bart Starr completed 16 of 23 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns in Super Bowl I, then was MVP again a year later in Super Bowl II.
Q 03Which backup Packers receiver caught the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
Max McGee
Max McGee, expecting to sit behind Boyd Dowler, caught a 37-yard touchdown from Bart Starr in the first quarter of Super Bowl I and finished with seven catches for 138 yards.
Q 04Which metropolitan area, with eleven, ties New Orleans for the most Super Bowls hosted as of Super Bowl LX?
Miami
Half of all 60 Super Bowls have been played in just three areas: Greater Miami and New Orleans eleven times each, and Greater Los Angeles eight.
Q 05Which NFL team has never played in a Super Bowl?
Detroit Lions
Out of the 32 active NFL teams, only four have never reached the Super Bowl: the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Q 06Roughly how many of the Coliseum's 94,000 seats went unsold at Super Bowl I?
33,000
Roughly 33,000 seats went unsold: official attendance was 61,946 in a Coliseum that held about 94,000, with the game blacked out on Los Angeles television despite the neutral site.
Q 07Which stadium hosted Super Bowl LVII in February 2023?
State Farm Stadium
State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona hosted Super Bowl LVII on February 12, 2023, the fourth Super Bowl in the Phoenix area after XXX, XLII and XLIX.
Q 08Who is the only Super Bowl Most Valuable Player to come from the losing team?
Chuck Howley
Chuck Howley, the Dallas Cowboys linebacker, intercepted two passes in Super Bowl V and was named MVP despite a 16–13 defeat; no other player from a losing team has won the award.
Q 09Which coach, winner of the first two Super Bowls, gives the trophy its name?
Vince Lombardi
The Vince Lombardi Trophy was named for the Green Bay coach after his death in September 1970 and first presented under that name to the Super Bowl V winner in January 1971.
Q 10Which player holds the record for the most Super Bowl MVP awards?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady won five Super Bowl MVP awards, four with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV, the most by any player.
Q 11Joe Namath's AFL New York Jets upset which heavily favored NFL team in Super Bowl III, in January 1969?
Baltimore Colts
The Baltimore Colts, NFL champions with a 13–1 record, lost 16–7 to the Jets on January 12, 1969, days after Joe Namath publicly guaranteed a New York victory.
Q 12Which two networks both televised Super Bowl I, each with its own announcers?
CBS and NBC
Because NBC held the AFL's rights and CBS the NFL's, both were allowed to televise the game, each using its own announcers.
Q 13Which NFL team has made the most Super Bowl appearances?
New England Patriots
Their 12 appearances have produced six wins and six losses, both also NFL records.
Q 21The classic 1980 Super Bowl ad 'Hey Kid, Catch!' starred which Pittsburgh Steelers player?
Mean Joe Greene
Mean Joe Greene, the Steelers' defensive tackle, drinks the boy's Coke in one gulp and tosses him his jersey; the spot debuted in October 1979 and aired again during Super Bowl XIV.
Q 22How much did a 30-second commercial cost at Super Bowl I in 1967?
$37,500
A 30-second spot in Super Bowl I cost about $37,500; by 2026 the price had climbed to roughly $8 million, more than $266,000 per second.
Q 23Which company's 1977 'Monks' commercial with Brother Dominic has been called the first viral ad?
Xerox
Xerox's 'Monks' spot, in which Brother Dominic copies a manuscript on a Xerox 9200, aired during Super Bowl XI in January 1977 and was remade for its 40th anniversary in 2017.
Q 14John Elway's Denver Broncos, an AFC wild card, upset which defending champion in Super Bowl XXXII, in January 1998?
Green Bay Packers
Denver's 31–24 win over the Green Bay Packers was the Broncos' first Super Bowl title and snapped the NFC's 13-game Super Bowl winning streak.
Q 15Which team won Super Bowl LVII, played in February 2023?
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38–35 on Harrison Butker's 27-yard field goal with eight seconds left, giving Patrick Mahomes his second title.
Q 16Which Super Bowl was the first decided in overtime, after the Patriots overturned a 28-3 deficit?
LI
Super Bowl LI, played in Houston on February 5, 2017, ended 34–28 when James White scored in overtime; the 25-point rally was the largest comeback in Super Bowl history.
Q 17Which quarterback was MVP of Super Bowl XLII, where the Giants ended the Patriots' perfect season bid?
Eli Manning
Eli Manning was MVP of Super Bowl XLII after leading the late drive that Plaxico Burress finished, beating the 18–0 Patriots 17–14 and ending their perfect-season bid.
Q 18The 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only NFL team to complete a perfect season, were coached by whom?
Don Shula
Don Shula coached the 1972 Miami Dolphins to a 17–0 season capped by a 14–7 win over Washington in Super Bowl VII; Tom Landry's Cowboys had beaten them in Super Bowl VI a year earlier.
Q 19Which two 1972 Dolphins became the first teammates to each rush for 1,000 yards in a season?
Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris
Larry Csonka ran for 1,117 yards and Mercury Morris for exactly 1,000 in 1972, the first pair of teammates to reach the mark in the same season.
Q 20Apple's celebrated '1984' Macintosh commercial, aired during Super Bowl XVIII, was directed by whom?
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott, fresh off Blade Runner, directed Apple's '1984' commercial, which aired nationally only once, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.
Q 24Which padlock maker's Super Bowl ads, showing its product surviving a rifle shot, ate nearly its whole annual ad budget?
Master Lock
Master Lock first aired its rifle-shot padlock commercial during Super Bowl VIII in January 1974 and for years spent nearly its entire annual advertising budget on that single Super Bowl spot.
Q 25Volkswagen's 2011 ad 'The Force' became the most shared Super Bowl ad ever after doing what?
Being posted online four days early
It had over 16 million YouTube views before kickoff of Super Bowl XLV.
Q 26Whose 'Star-Spangled Banner' before Super Bowl XXV in 1991, during the Gulf War, became a celebrated recording?
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston's performance at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991 was released as a single that reached the Billboard top 20 and was reissued after 9/11, when it went top 10.
Q 27Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 was nicknamed the 'Har-bowl' because of what first?
Two brothers coached against each other
John Harbaugh's Ravens beat Jim Harbaugh's 49ers 34-31 in New Orleans, handing San Francisco its first ever Super Bowl loss.
Q 28The 1985 Bears crushed the Patriots in Super Bowl XX using which then-revolutionary defensive scheme?
The 46 defense
They set Super Bowl records for sacks (seven), rushing yards allowed (seven) and margin of victory (36 points).
Q 29The Super Bowl MVP trophy, first presented at Super Bowl XXV, is named after which NFL commissioner?
Pete Rozelle
The Pete Rozelle Trophy honors the commissioner who ran the NFL from 1960 to 1989 and oversaw the Super Bowl's creation; Ottis Anderson received the first one after Super Bowl XXV.
Q 30Which two Dallas Cowboys were named co-MVPs of Super Bowl XII, the only time the award has been shared?
Harvey Martin and Randy White
Harvey Martin and Randy White, Dallas's defensive linemen, shared the Super Bowl XII MVP award after the Cowboys forced eight Denver turnovers in a 27–10 win in January 1978.