Trivia for Men
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
50 free Trivia for Men trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
A men's trivia night works best when the questions sound like the arguments men already have: who was the greatest, which car was faster, what really happened in that battle, and who played the hero in the film everyone remembers. This quiz is built for that table. The questions run through sports legends and famous upsets, sports cars and racing, action films and westerns, rock bands, whiskey, steak, the workshop, explorers, generals and gunfighters. A few dig into the history of men's style and traditions, from the necktie to Father's Day. Most are fair game for anyone, and some are there to separate the real experts from the confident guessers. Use it for a men's group, a church or lodge social, a bachelor party, a Father's Day gathering or a guys' night at the bar. Read the questions aloud, split into teams or play solo on your phone. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess ends with a story worth retelling.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Which power tool descends from a hand saw a Scottish doctor devised in the 1780s for obstructed childbirths?
Chainsaw
The chainsaw's ancestor was a fine serrated chain held between two wooden handles; another Scottish doctor used the same idea to cut away diseased bone.
Q 02Which tractor manufacturer branched into sports cars in 1963, setting out to compete with Ferrari?
Lamborghini
Lamborghini's founder got rich building tractors from surplus military engines, then grew annoyed that the clutches in his own Ferraris kept needing rebuilds.
Q 03Which former US president, shot in the chest in 1912, gave his campaign speech before going to hospital?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was saved by a steel glasses case and a folded 50-page speech in his jacket; a seasoned hunter, he judged that since he was not coughing blood his lung was unharmed.
Q 04Which US president grew his famous beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote urging him to do so?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln made no promises in his reply, but he soon let his whiskers grow, and he met the girl, Grace Bedell, on the way to his inauguration.
Q 05Which toolbox staple was developed during World War II to seal American ammunition cases against water?
Duct tape
Duct tape began as rubber adhesive on waterproof duck cloth, and the name duck tape is recorded decades before the modern spelling.
Q 06Which Chicago gangster was finally convicted in 1931 of tax evasion rather than of any violent crime?
Al Capone
Al Capone was convicted on five counts and given eleven years, and at Alcatraz his good behaviour earned him a spot playing banjo in the prison band.
Q 07Which American motor race traditionally ends with the winner drinking a bottle of milk in victory lane?
Indianapolis 500
The Indianapolis 500 ritual dates to 1936, when winner Louis Meyer asked for a glass of buttermilk, which his mother had told him to drink on hot days.
Q 08Which New York city gives its name to the spicy chicken wings the Anchor Bar says it first served in 1964?
Buffalo
Buffalo honoured the dish in 1977, when the city proclaimed July 29 Chicken Wing Day in tribute to Anchor Bar co-owner Frank Bellissimo.
Q 09Which actor wrote a boxing screenplay in three and a half days, then refused to sell it without a starring role?
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone rejected a six-figure offer for the rights to Rocky and held out until United Artists agreed to cast him in the lead.
Q 10Which Irish stout's founder signed a 9,000-year lease on an unused Dublin brewery in 1759?
Guinness
Guinness founder Arthur agreed to pay £45 a year for the St. James's Gate site, where he started out brewing ales rather than the dark beer that made his name.
Q 11Which heavyweight champion was stripped of his title in 1967 for refusing the draft during the Vietnam War?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali did not fight for more than three years, and in 1971 the Supreme Court overturned his draft-evasion conviction by a unanimous vote.
Q 12Which golf major has given its champion a green jacket since 1949, to be returned to the clubhouse a year later?
The Masters
The Masters jacket remains the winner's property but is kept in a special cloakroom at Augusta National, and repeat champions keep wearing the one from their first win.
Q 13Which slugger did the Boston Red Sox sell to the New York Yankees before enduring an 86-year title drought?
Babe Ruth
Q 21Which American car, launched in April 1964, gave the pony car class its name and sold over 400,000 in a year?
Mustang
The Mustang went on sale 16 days after the rival Plymouth Barracuda, and Ford sold its millionth within two years of launch.
Q 22Which German sports car, introduced in 1964, is famous for mounting its engine at the very back?
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 was first badged the 901, until Peugeot protested that it held French rights to three-digit car names with a zero in the middle.
Q 23Which brand name did Nebraska inventor William Petersen give the first locking pliers in 1924?
Vise-Grip
Vise-Grip became so familiar in the United States that the name is close to generic for the tool, which is also known as a Mole wrench.
Babe Ruth was known as the Bambino, so Boston's long wait for a World Series win, which finally ended in 2004, became the Curse of the Bambino.
Q 14Which sports trophy, donated by a governor general of Canada in 1892, has winners' names engraved on its bands?
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup was first meant for Canada's top amateur club, and every year since 1924 the winning players, coaches and staff have had their names engraved on it.
Q 15Which Brooklyn Dodger broke baseball's color line in 1947 and later had his number 42 retired by every team?
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first professional athlete in any sport to have his number retired across a whole league, and every player now wears 42 each April 15.
Q 16Which New York Yankees pitcher threw a perfect game in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series?
Don Larsen
Don Larsen's gem was only the sixth perfect game in major league history, and it earned him the Most Valuable Player award for that Series.
Q 17Which Brazilian, a World Cup winner at just 17, became the first player to win the tournament three times?
Pelé
Pelé won in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and at the first of those he became the youngest scorer the tournament had seen, against Wales in the quarter-finals.
Q 18Which horse ended a 25-year wait for a Triple Crown winner in 1973, taking the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths?
Secretariat
Secretariat's Belmont romp is often called the greatest race ever run by a thoroughbred, and it made him only the ninth horse to sweep the three races.
Q 19Which NFL team went unbeaten through 1972 and sealed a perfect record by winning Super Bowl VII?
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins did it largely with a 38-year-old backup, Earl Morrall, after starting quarterback Bob Griese was injured in the fifth game.
Q 20Which NASCAR driver nicknamed the Intimidator died in a crash on the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500?
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt, a seven-time Cup champion also nicknamed Ironhead, hit the retaining wall in the very last turn of the race.
Q 24Which French town's 24-hour race did Ford win for the first time in 1966, the story told in Ford v Ferrari?
Le Mans
Le Mans ended with a staged finish that year: Ford had its three leading cars cruise to the line together to mark the first win there by an American carmaker.
Q 25Which German driver won five straight Formula One titles with Ferrari between 2000 and 2004?
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher joined Ferrari in 1996 when the team was struggling, and his run made him the first driver to reach six and then seven world titles.
Q 26Which German engine inventor vanished overnight from a steamship crossing to England in 1913?
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Diesel's cabin was found empty with the bed unslept in, his nightshirt neatly laid out and his watch left where it could be seen from the bed.
Q 27Which screw with a square socket in its head is named after its Canadian inventor and commonplace in Canada?
Robertson
Robertson screws saved Henry Ford so much time on the Model T that he wanted a license; when the inventor refused, Ford limited them to his Canadian division.
Q 28What does the WD stand for in WD-40, the spray first made to protect the skin of Atlas missiles from rust?
Water Displacement
Water Displacement, 40th formula, is the full name, which suggests the makers needed 40 attempts to get the product right.
Q 29Which Mexican state, home to the town of Tequila, is the heartland of the blue agave spirit?
Jalisco
Jalisco is the only state where the spirit may be made throughout; Mexican law otherwise allows just limited municipalities in four other states.
Q 30Which British carmaker's bonnet figurine, the Spirit of Ecstasy, was modelled on the secret lover of a baron?
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce cars at first carried no mascot at all; sculptor Charles Sykes made an early version with a finger to her lips, a nod to the secret affair.