Sports Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Where did Johnny Miller win his first
Major?
A: Oakmont, Pennsylvania.
At which venue did Tony Jacklin win the US Open?
A: Hazeltine, Minnesota.
Which football team did Jim Brown join in 1957?
A: Cleveland Browns.
In which decade did Bonnie Blair set her first
world record?
A: 1980s.
In which country was Wayne Gretzky born?
A: Canada.
Who set a record fro most NBA points in a season in 1961-62?
A: Wilt Chamberlain.
Who was MVP in the first-ever Super Bowl?
A: Bart Starr.
How many members joined the original International Amateur
Athletic Federation?
A: 17.
Which team did Wayne Gretzky join in 1988?
A: Los Angeles Kings.
Sergey Bubka has broken the world record on over 30 occasions in
which event?
A: Pole Vault.
Which position did Jim Brown play?
A: Fullback.
Which Jimmy was tennis No 1 for five years in the 70s?
A: Connors.
Which team in the 80s won the Super Bowl by the biggest margin?
A: Chicago Bears.
Who was Czechoslovakia's only Wimbledon Men's Singles winner of
the 20th century, playing as a Czech?
A: Jan Kodes.
The Ali v Foreman fight of 1974 was outside which city?
A: Kinshasa.
In what year was Larry Bird first named NBA's MVP?
A: 1984.
Who was the first British man to be British and UL Open champion
at the same time?
A: Tony Jacklin.
In which 20th-century decade did professional players make up a
dream team in the Olympic Games in basketball?
A: 1990s.
Who was Jermaine O'Neal playing against when he made his debut in
1996?
A: Denver Nuggets.
Who was Mike Tyson's manager in the late 1980s?
A: Bill Cayton.
Which country did 70s French Open
women's singles winner
"Virginia Rusici come from?
A: Romania.
What are the first names of the Williams sisters?
A: Venus and Serena.
Where in 1912 did Jim Thorpe win Olympic gold in the pentathlon
and the decathlon?
A: Stockholm, Sweden.
Which country does tennis player Pat Rafter come from?
A: Australia.
Whose home runs record did Mark McGwire beak in the 1998 season?
A: Roger Maris.
Which country won most medals in the last 20th century winter
Olympics?
A: Germany.
Which newspaper owner bought the Boston Red Sox in 1910?
A: John Taylor.
In what year were the
Dallas Cowboys founded?
A: 1960.
In basketball, which Red was coach of the year in 1965?
A: Red Auerbach.
What is Denise Lewis's main athletic event?
A: Heptathlon.
In the 1978 US Masters, who was leading Gary Player be seven
strokes only to lose by a single stroke?
A: Hubert Green.
What distance is the Breeders' Cup Classic?
A: One and a quarter miles.
Why does the leader of the Tour de France wear a yellow jersey?
A: Its sponsor printed its newspaper on yellow paper.
What was the team fee when the NFL was first formed?
A: $100.
In golf, who presents the green jacket to the US Masters winner?
A: Previous year's winner.
Walter Swinburne won his first English Derby on which great
horse?
A: Shergar.
Which British golfer regained the US Masters in 1996?
A: Nick Faldo.
How many times did the New York Yankees win the World Series in
the 1970s?
A: Twice.
In which league did Joe DiMaggio begin his playing career?
A: Pacific Coast League.
Where was the first Super Bowl of the 80s held?
A: Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
How old was Pete Sampras when he first won the US Open?
A: 19.
In hockey, what is the Ross Trophy awarded for?
A: Top points scorer.
