Green Bay Packers Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What are the Green Bay Packers?
A: The Green Bay Packers are a professional American
football team based in
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
They are members of what division of the National Football
Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL)?
A: The North division.
Green Bay is the third-oldest franchise in the what?
A: NFL.
Green Bay was organized and starting play in what year?
A: 1919.
Green Bay is the only major league professional
sports team
based in the United States that is what?
A: Non-profit and community-owned.
Where do they play their home games?
A: At Lambeau Field.
The Packers are the last vestige of "small town teams"
common in the NFL during what period?
A: The 1920s and
1930s.
Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney
Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other what?
A: Semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896.
In 1919 and 1920 the Packers competed against other
semi-pro clubs from where?
A: Around Wisconsin and the Midwest.
They joined what forerunner of today's NFL, in
1921?
A: The American Professional Football Association (APFA).
Green Bay is the smallest professional sports market in
North America, but its local fan and media base extends how far?
A: 120 miles south into Milwaukee, where it played selected home games between
1933 and
1994.
The Packers have won how many league championships?
A: 13, the most in NFL history.
How many times have they won the Super Bowl?
A: Four times.
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11,
1919 by
whom?
A: Former high-school football rivals Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney
Calhoun.
Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from whom?
A: His employer, the Indian Packing Company.
How much money was given to him for uniforms and equipment,
on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor?
A: The Green Bay Packers have played in their original city longer than any
other team in the NFL.
On August 27, 1921, the Packers were granted a what?
A: Franchise in the new national pro football league that had been formed the
previous year.
Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was
what?
A: Forfeited within the year.
Lambeau found new financial backers and did what?
A: Regained the franchise the next year.
These backers, were known as the what?
A: "Hungry Five", and they formed the Green Bay Football Corporation.
After a near-miss in 1927, Lambeau's squad claimed the
Packers' first NFL title in what year?
A: 1929 with an undefeated 12–0–1 campaign, behind a stifling defense which
registered eight shutouts.
Green Bay would repeat as league champions in what two
years?
A: 1930 and
1931, bettering teams throughout the league.
Among the many impressive accomplishments of these years
was the Packers' streak of what?
A: 30 consecutive home games without defeat, an NFL record which still stands.
The arrival of end Don Hutson from Alabama in
1935 gave the
Packers what?
A: The most-feared and dynamic offensive weapon in the
game.
Credited with inventing pass patterns, Hutson would lead
the league in receptions for how many seasons?
A: Eight.
He spurred the Packers to NFL championships in what years?
A: 1936,
1939 and
1944.
An iron man, Hutson played both ways, leading the league in
what as a safety in 1940?
A: Interceptions.
In 1951, his number 14 was the first to be what?
A: Retired by the Packers.
He was inducted as a charter member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in what year?
A: 1963.