WWE Intercontinental Championship
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50 free WWE Intercontinental Championship trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
For most of its history the Intercontinental Championship has been WWE's workhorse title: the belt held by wrestlers on their way to the top, and often the one fought over in the best match of the night. Since 1979 it has been merged, retired, revived, redesigned and even thrown away in protest. This quiz covers the whole story: the title's strange beginnings, the record holders, the famous WrestleMania and SummerSlam bouts, the tournaments and unifications, the belt designs, and the surprise winners who held it for a day or less. Expect names from the era of Randy Savage and Shawn Michaels through the Attitude Era to the modern day. It is written for wrestling fans of every generation, with plenty that casual viewers will remember and some tougher ones for title-history buffs. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Who was named the first Intercontinental Champion in 1979 after a tournament that never took place?
Pat Patterson
Pat Patterson was simply awarded the new belt, with an invented tournament as the cover story. WWE also credits him as the creator of the Royal Rumble match.
Q 02Who became the only woman to hold the Intercontinental Championship by beating Jeff Jarrett in 1999?
Chyna
Chyna won it in a Good Housekeeping match at No Mercy, which turned out to be her opponent's final WWF match. She went on to hold the title a second time in 2000.
Q 03Which Fozzy frontman won the Intercontinental Championship a record nine times between 1999 and 2009?
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho broke his own record with that ninth win, yet his nine reigns add up to less than a year as champion.
Q 04What type of Intercontinental title match did Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels make famous at WrestleMania X?
Ladder
Ladder matches reached the mainstream that night: both men's belts hung above the ring, and the bout earned a five-star rating from critic Dave Meltzer.
Q 05Which champion forfeited the Intercontinental title in 1997, then tossed the belt into a river?
Steve Austin
Steve Austin, in his 'Stone Cold' prime, handed the title to his challenger in an act of defiance and dumped the old belt in the Piscataqua River, so a new design was made.
Q 06Which future Hollywood star won the Intercontinental title in 1997, three months after his WWF debut?
The Rock
The Rock, then wrestling as Rocky Maivia, was pushed so fast that crowds turned hostile and chanted against him, and he became a villain later that year.
Q 07Which face-painted Intercontinental Champion beat Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI to win the WWF title too?
Ultimate Warrior
Ultimate Warrior became the first wrestler to hold both belts together, then had to give up the secondary one, the first time it was ever left vacant.
Q 08Which Elvis-impersonating villain held the Intercontinental title for 454 days, a record until 2023?
The Honky Tonk Man
The Honky Tonk Man was reportedly meant to be a short-term champion, yet he kept the belt for well over a year and then lost it in about half a minute at SummerSlam 1988.
Q 09Created in 1979, the WWE Intercontinental Championship took its name from which pair of continents?
North and South America
North and South America were the two continents meant, because the first champion was said to have merged a North American title with a South American one.
Q 10Who won the Intercontinental title from his own brother-in-law in the main event at Wembley Stadium?
The British Bulldog
The British Bulldog pinned his wife's brother before a home crowd of about 80,000 in London, after a build-up that showed their family torn apart.
Q 11Which Austrian wrestler held the Intercontinental title for 666 days, the longest reign in its history?
Gunther
Gunther needed just one reign to set the record, and losing the belt at WrestleMania XL was his first pinfall defeat on WWE's main roster.
Q 12Who beat Randy Savage for the Intercontinental title at WrestleMania III in an acclaimed classic?
Ricky Steamboat
Ricky Steamboat's win was named 1987's Match of the Year by two leading wrestling publications, yet he lost the title only weeks later.
Q 13Which former cast member of MTV's The Real World won eight Intercontinental titles between 2012 and 2018?
The Miz
The Miz's eight reigns left him one short of the record, and the first of them came on Raw's 1,000th episode in 2012.
Q 21Which Canadian won a battle royal at Judgment Day 2003 to revive the retired Intercontinental title?
Christian
Christian outlasted eight other men after one of Raw's two general managers revived the belt over the other's objections.
Q 22Who beat Tito Santana in a 1990 tournament final to win the vacant Intercontinental title?
Mr. Perfect
Mr. Perfect won the belt twice, and his second spell of 279 days was the longest single stretch any champion managed in the 1990s.
Q 23Which kilt-wearing star of They Live won his only Intercontinental title at the 1992 Royal Rumble?
Roddy Piper
Roddy Piper won it from a champion who had held the belt for only two days, and lost it at WrestleMania VIII less than three months later.
Q 14Which World Heavyweight Champion beat Kane at No Mercy 2002 to absorb the Intercontinental title?
Triple H
Triple H's win made him the only male singles champion on Raw, and the belt stayed retired for seven months until a battle royal brought it back.
Q 15Who merged WCW's United States title into the Intercontinental title by beating Test at Survivor Series 2001?
Edge
Edge walked out with both belts, and the United States title then sat on the shelf until SmackDown revived it in 2003.
Q 16Which daredevil, half of a famous brother tag team, became the youngest Intercontinental Champion at age 23?
Jeff Hardy
Jeff Hardy took the belt from one of the company's biggest stars on SmackDown in 2001, then lost it back to the same man less than a week later.
Q 17Which Four Horsemen veteran became the oldest Intercontinental Champion by beating Carlito at age 56?
Ric Flair
Ric Flair's win at Unforgiven in 2005 was his only reign, and he later defended the belt in a steel cage on a night when fans voted for the match type.
Q 18Which masked luchador won the Intercontinental title from JBL in just 21 seconds at WrestleMania 25?
Rey Mysterio
Rey Mysterio is also the lightest champion in the title's history, billed at 175 pounds, less than half the weight of its heaviest holder.
Q 19Which giant, the heaviest Intercontinental Champion at 441 pounds, won the title at WrestleMania XXVIII?
Big Show
Big Show's win made him the twelfth Grand Slam champion in WWE, though he lost the belt back in a tables match four weeks later.
Q 20Which Olympic gold medallist held the Intercontinental and European titles together in early 2000?
Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle was the third and last wrestler to hold that pair, nicknamed the Eurocontinental title, and he lost both at WrestleMania 2000 without being pinned.
Q 24Which former Fabulous Rougeau held the Intercontinental title for just two days in January 1992?
The Mountie
The Mountie won it at a non-televised event in Springfield, Massachusetts, and lost it at a pay-per-view two nights later.
Q 25Who was handed the Intercontinental title by forfeit in 1995, then lost it to Razor Ramon that night?
Dean Douglas
Dean Douglas got the belt only because the champion had been hurt in an attack outside a nightclub, and his own reign lasted a matter of minutes.
Q 26Which Puerto Rican former WWWF champion held the Intercontinental title twice, for 619 days in all?
Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales's total stood as the record for more than 41 years, and his first Intercontinental win made him the first man to win all three major WWF championships.
Q 27Which Hawaiian, billed as 'Magnificent', held the Intercontinental title for over a year from 1983?
Don Muraco
Don Muraco's second reign ran for over a year, one of very few in the title's history to do so, and in 1985 he won the first King of the Ring tournament.
Q 28Who revived the classic white-strap Intercontinental belt design at Hell in a Cell 2011?
Cody Rhodes
Cody Rhodes debuted the retro belt moments before a successful defence, and that white-strap design remained in use until 2019.
Q 29Which Canadian was stripped of the Intercontinental title in 2020 for sitting out the pandemic?
Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn came back that August carrying his own copy of the belt and insisting he had never lost, then won a bout that settled the dispute.
Q 30Which former IWGP Intercontinental Champion won WWE's Intercontinental title at Extreme Rules 2019?
Shinsuke Nakamura
Shinsuke Nakamura was the champion presented with the redesigned belt that November, which returned to a black strap and a new centre plate.