WCW Trivia
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100 free WCW trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free WCW trivia questions with answers. World Championship Wrestling went from a struggling Southern promotion to beating the WWF for 83 straight weeks and then out of business inside a decade, and this WCW trivia quiz covers the whole ride. It starts with Ted Turner buying Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988, Ric Flair as the first WCW World Champion and Starrcade's Thanksgiving roots, then moves through Eric Bischoff, the debut of Monday Nitro at the Mall of America, Hall and Nash's invasion, Hulk Hogan's turn at Bash at the Beach 1996 and the black-and-white nWo. The late-90s rounds cover Sting's Crow makeover, Goldberg's 173-0 streak and the taser at Starrcade 1998, Diamond Dallas Page, the cruiserweights and Rey Mysterio's mask, the Fingerpoke of Doom, Vince Russo, David Arquette winning the world title, and the final Nitro from Panama City Beach in March 2001, when Vince McMahon bought the company. Easy questions for anyone who watched Nitro, hard ones for people who still argue about the Georgia Dome. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on WCW, its wrestlers, its shows and its events, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which media mogul founded WCW in 1988 by buying a Charlotte-based NWA territory?
Ted Turner
Ted Turner had built his cable superstation TBS partly on wrestling, and when the promotion that filled those slots hit financial trouble in 1988, he bought it.
Q 02Which NWA territory, based in Charlotte, was bought in 1988 to create WCW?
Jim Crockett Promotions
Jim Crockett Promotions took a new name with its new owner, and a familiar one: 'World Championship Wrestling' had been the title of the Saturday wrestling show on TBS since 1982, so viewers already knew it.
Q 03Who was the first ever WCW World Heavyweight Champion?
Ric Flair
WCW and the NWA split their world-title lineages in 1991 when Flair left for the WWF with the belt.
Q 04Which WCW match, devised by Dusty Rhodes, locked two teams inside a roofed cage built over two rings?
WarGames
WarGames came to Rhodes in 1987 after he watched Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. He built it as a showcase for the Four Horsemen, and WWE brought the match back thirty years later.
Q 05On which US holiday was Starrcade held each year from 1983 to 1987?
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was Starrcade's night until 1987, when the WWF put its first Survivor Series on the same evening and warned cable companies off its rival. Most dropped Starrcade, which moved to December.
Q 06Brothers Booker T and Stevie Ray won a record ten WCW World Tag Team titles under which team name?
Harlem Heat
Harlem Heat were billed from 110th Street in Harlem, but the brothers really came from Houston, Texas. They went into the WWE Hall of Fame together in 2019.
Q 07According to Hulk Hogan's famous 1996 heel promo, what would WCW's boss still be doing without him?
Selling meat from a truck
Selling meat from a truck was a real line on Bischoff's CV: he had run a butcher's business in Minneapolis that delivered by van. The crowd answered Hogan's speech by pelting the ring with rubbish.
Q 08On which network did WCW Monday Nitro air?
TNT
TNT launched Nitro against Raw on September 4, 1995. Nitro went out live while Raw was often taped a week ahead, so WCW took to reading out its rival's results on air.
Q 09Where was the first episode of Nitro broadcast from?
The Mall of America
The Mall of America in Minnesota staged the one-hour launch on September 4, 1995. It was the opening shot of a ratings war with Raw that lasted more than five years.
Q 10Which former WWF star made a surprise return to WCW on the very first Nitro?
Lex Luger
Lex Luger had wrestled for the WWF only the night before, the last date he owed them, and signed with WCW that morning. His unannounced walk-on showed viewers that anything could happen on a live Nitro.
Q 11For how many consecutive weeks did Nitro beat Raw in the ratings?
83
83 weeks: Nitro won every Monday from June 1996 until April 13, 1998, when the promise of Steve Austin against Vince McMahon put Raw back in front. Eric Bischoff later named his podcast after the streak.
Q 12Which two ex-WWF stars invaded Nitro in May and June 1996 as The Outsiders?
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
Scott Hall and Kevin Nash played it as a raid by the WWF, so convincingly that they were asked on air whether they still worked there. They said no, and the WWF sued anyway.
Q 13At which 1996 pay-per-view was Hulk Hogan revealed as the nWo's "third man"?
Bash at the Beach
Q 21Which WCW cruiserweight mocked a rival on Nitro in 1998 by reading out a scroll of his '1,004 holds'?
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho was needling Dean Malenko, the 'Man of 1,000 Holds'. Many of the moves on his scroll were invented, and nearly every other one he read out was an armbar.
Q 22What was Goldberg's promoted undefeated record when he finally lost at Starrcade 1998?
173-0
173-0 was the figure on the placards, but WCW had padded it: he won far fewer matches than that, and fans keeping their own tallies noticed the total jumping ahead.
Q 23Whom did Goldberg beat on the September 22, 1997 Nitro in his televised debut?
Hugh Morrus
Hugh Morrus was win number one of the televised streak. Goldberg had in fact already lost once, to Chad Fortune in an untelevised match that summer, a defeat the official count left out.
Bash at the Beach turned wrestling's biggest hero into its top villain in one night: Hogan dropped the red and yellow for black, and the storyline carried Nitro past Raw in the ratings.
Q 14Whom did Hogan hit with the leg drop when he turned heel in July 1996?
Randy Savage
Randy Savage looked saved when Hogan marched out and the two invaders backed away. Instead Hogan dropped the leg on him three times and joined them.
Q 15What nickname did Hogan adopt as the nWo leader?
Hollywood
'Hollywood' Hogan traded the red and yellow for black and a dyed beard. When he won the WCW title that August, he spray-painted the group's initials across the belt.
Q 16Which former WWF star joined the nWo in August 1996 as the group's financial backer?
Ted DiBiase
Ted DiBiase, the WWF's 'Million Dollar Man', arrived as the fourth member, claiming to bankroll the group. The others called him 'Trillionaire Ted', a jab at the WWF's own 'Billionaire Ted' skits.
Q 17What was the name of the nWo's red-and-black splinter faction that broke away in 1998?
nWo Wolfpac
nWo Wolfpac wore red and black against the black and white of Hogan's side, and it was the first version of the group that crowds were meant to cheer. Even Sting repainted his face red to join.
Q 18Which 1994 film inspired Sting's dark, brooding makeover in 1996?
The Crow
The Crow, with Brandon Lee's white face and black-ringed eyes, became Sting's look at the suggestion of one of the nWo men he was fighting on screen.
Q 19What is Sting's real name?
Steve Borden
Steve Borden broke in beside Jim Hellwig, the future Ultimate Warrior: by 1986 they were the Blade Runners, both already in face paint, before each became the painted hero of a rival company.
Q 20During his silent 1997 feud with the nWo, from where in the arena did Sting watch WCW's shows?
The rafters
The rafters were Sting's perch for more than a year: he carried a baseball bat, did not speak, and sometimes slid down on a cable. The wait made his match with Hogan WCW's highest-grossing pay-per-view.
Q 24In which building did Goldberg beat Hogan for the WCW title on July 6, 1998?
The Georgia Dome
The Georgia Dome saw Goldberg win, and Nitro beat Raw in that night's ratings. But WCW had given its title match away on free television, and people backstage asked why it was not saved for pay-per-view.
Q 25For which NFL team did Goldberg play regular-season games before he turned to wrestling?
Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle was as far as he got: a torn abdominal muscle ended his football career, and two WCW wrestlers he met during his rehab talked him into trying the ring.
Q 26What was Goldberg's catchphrase during his streak?
"Who's next?"
"Who's next?" suited a man whose matches were often over in a couple of minutes: a spear, a slam, and the crowd chanting his name while he looked round for another opponent.
Q 27At Starrcade 1998, Scott Hall ended Goldberg's unbeaten streak by attacking him with which weapon?
A stun gun
A stun gun: Hall slipped to ringside disguised as a security guard and shocked Goldberg just as he lined up his spear, leaving him to be pinned for the title after more than a year without a televised defeat.
Q 28What name did fans give the 1999 Nitro title match in which the champion simply lay down for Hulk Hogan?
The Fingerpoke of Doom
The Fingerpoke of Doom: Hogan prodded the champion in the chest, the champion fell flat and was pinned, and the nWo's two halves reunited. The crowd had been promised Goldberg in the title match; he was written out in a mock arrest.
Q 29On Nitro on January 4, 1999, announcer Tony Schiavone gave away that which wrestler would win the WWF title that night?
Mick Foley
Mick Foley's win was on tape, so WCW knew the result. "That's gonna put some butts in the seats," Schiavone sneered, and it did: viewers switched over to watch, and Raw won the night's ratings.
Q 30What was WCW's second weekly prime-time show, launched on TBS in January 1998?
Thunder
Thunder was the network's idea, not the wrestling office's: Eric Bischoff warned that a second two-hour show every week would overexpose his stars and wear out a roster already stretched by Nitro.