NFL Trivia Questions and Answers
NFL trivia questions built to last — Super Bowl history, all-time records, legendary players, and team origins, with no current-roster facts that go stale by next season. A solid round for football fans. Tap any question to reveal the answer.
1 Question: The first Super Bowl (January 1967) was won by which team, coached by the man the trophy is named for?
Answer: The Green Bay Packers (Vince Lombardi)
2 Question: What is the Super Bowl trophy officially called?
Answer: The Vince Lombardi Trophy
3 Question: Who has won the most Super Bowls as a player — seven?
Answer: Tom Brady
4 Question: Brady won six of those rings with which franchise?
Answer: The New England Patriots
5 Question: The only perfect season in NFL history — including the Super Bowl — belongs to which 1972 team?
Answer: The Miami Dolphins
6 Question: The 'Immaculate Reception' (1972) was caught by Franco Harris of which team?
Answer: The Pittsburgh Steelers
7 Question: Which receiver holds virtually every career receiving record, mostly with the 49ers?
Answer: Jerry Rice
8 Question: Joe Montana threw 'The Catch' (1982) to which receiver, sending the 49ers to their first Super Bowl?
Answer: Dwight Clark
9 Question: The 'Hail Mary' pass got its name from Roger Staubach's 1975 game-winner for which team?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys
10 Question: What Chicago Bears defense-and-Fridge team won Super Bowl XX and recorded the 'Super Bowl Shuffle'?
Answer: The 1985 Bears
11 Question: In Super Bowl LI, the Patriots erased what infamous deficit against Atlanta?
Answer: 28–3
12 Question: Which running back, nicknamed 'Sweetness,' held the career rushing record for 18 years?
Answer: Walter Payton
13 Question: The NFL's man-of-the-year award is named for which player?
Answer: Walter Payton
14 Question: Who broke the single-season rushing record in 1973 with 2,003 yards — the first 2,000-yard season?
Answer: O.J. Simpson
15 Question: Which two leagues merged in 1970 to form the modern NFL?
Answer: The NFL and AFL
16 Question: What nickname goes to the final pick of each NFL draft?
Answer: Mr. Irrelevant
17 Question: A touchdown is 6 points; a safety is worth how many?
Answer: Two
18 Question: The Lambeau Leap belongs to which franchise's end zone?
Answer: The Green Bay Packers
19 Question: Which team plays home games at the NFL's only publicly owned franchise city?
Answer: Green Bay (the Packers)
20 Question: The longest field goal in NFL history (66 yards, 2021) was kicked by whom, off the crossbar?
Answer: Justin Tucker
21 Question: Which team reached — and lost — four straight Super Bowls from 1991 to 1994?
Answer: The Buffalo Bills
22 Question: Which quarterback brothers each won two Super Bowl MVPs?
Answer: Peyton and Eli Manning
23 Question: Deion Sanders played in both a Super Bowl and what other sport's championship-level games?
Answer: Baseball (MLB — also played in a World Series)
24 Question: The 1967 'Ice Bowl' was played in −13°F between the Cowboys and which home team?
Answer: The Packers
25 Question: Before it was called the Super Bowl, the big game's original official name was what mouthful?
Answer: The AFL-NFL World Championship Game
26 Question: Which city's team is nicknamed for its steel industry?
Answer: Pittsburgh (Steelers)
27 Question: Which NFL team's fans wear foam cheese wedges?
Answer: The Green Bay Packers (cheeseheads)
28 Question: What Detroit Lions great retired abruptly in 1999, one season shy of the rushing record?
Answer: Barry Sanders
29 Question: Which franchise relocated from Cleveland in 1996, becoming the Ravens — named for whose poem?
Answer: Baltimore; Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'
30 Question: What's the regulation length of an NFL field, goal line to goal line?
Answer: 100 yards
31 Question: The 2000 'Music City Miracle' — a kickoff-return lateral in the final seconds — won a playoff game for which team?
Answer: The Tennessee Titans
32 Question: Who was the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl (XXII, 1988)?
Answer: Doug Williams
33 Question: Which head coach has the most Super Bowl wins — six, all with one team?
Answer: Bill Belichick
34 Question: What team drafted John Elway #1 in 1983 — before trading him to Denver?
Answer: The Baltimore Colts
35 Question: The 'Tuck Rule Game' (2002) helped launch whose dynasty?
Answer: Tom Brady's Patriots
36 Question: Which stadium's 'Black Hole' housed the NFL's rowdiest fan section?
Answer: Oakland Coliseum (Raiders)
37 Question: What are the two NFL teams that share a stadium in New Jersey?
Answer: The Giants and Jets (MetLife)
38 Question: Pat Tillman left which team's roster to enlist after 9/11?
Answer: The Arizona Cardinals
39 Question: Which team's 'Steel Curtain' defense won four Super Bowls in the 1970s?
Answer: The Pittsburgh Steelers
40 Question: What penalty costs 15 yards and an automatic first down when the QB is hit late?
Answer: Roughing the passer
41 Question: What nickname did two-sport star Deion Sanders go by?
Answer: 'Prime Time' (also 'Neon Deion')
42 Question: How long is halftime at the Super Bowl compared to the regular season's 13 minutes?
Answer: Roughly double (about 30 minutes)
43 Question: What color flag does a coach throw to challenge a call?
Answer: Red
44 Question: Who caught the 'Helmet Catch' in Super Bowl XLII, ruining the Patriots' perfect season?
Answer: David Tyree (Giants)
45 Question: Which team ended that 2007 Patriots 18–0 run?
Answer: The New York Giants
46 Question: Kansas City's back-to-back champions of the 2020s are quarterbacked by whom?
Answer: Patrick Mahomes
47 Question: What's the nickname of Kansas City's famously loud stadium?
Answer: Arrowhead
48 Question: Which NFC team's 'Legion of Boom' secondary won Super Bowl XLVIII?
Answer: The Seattle Seahawks
49 Question: The 1998 draft's great debate: Peyton Manning went first. Which QB, taken second, became the NFL's cautionary tale?
Answer: Ryan Leaf
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