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40 sports quiz questions with answers (for the pub or the office)

Forty questions, four rounds of ten, every answer checked. They stick to settled history: finals, firsts and records with a date on them, so nothing goes out of date the week after you print it. There's a spread of easy and hard in every round, so the fan on each team carries some of it and the people who came for the beer get the rest. Answers are under each round.

Round 1: football

  1. Which country won the first FIFA World Cup, in 1930?
  2. Who scored a hat-trick for England in the 1966 World Cup final?
  3. Which club won the first Premier League title, in 1992–93?
  4. Arsenal's unbeaten league season of 2003–04 earned that side which nickname?
  5. Which club won the 2015–16 Premier League, having started the season at 5,000-1?
  6. In which city did Liverpool come back from 3–0 down at half-time to win the 2005 Champions League final?
  7. Who managed England's women to the Euro 2022 title?
  8. England beat which country in that Euro 2022 final at Wembley?
  9. Who scored the "Hand of God" goal against England at the 1986 World Cup?
  10. In 1967, which Scottish club became the first British side to win the European Cup?

Answers: 1. Uruguay. 2. Geoff Hurst. 3. Manchester United. 4. The Invincibles. 5. Leicester City. 6. Istanbul. 7. Sarina Wiegman. 8. Germany. 9. Diego Maradona. 10. Celtic.

Round 2: cricket and rugby

  1. Which two countries play for the Ashes?
  2. Which side won the first men's Cricket World Cup, in 1975?
  3. In 1968, who became the first batter to hit six sixes in an over in first-class cricket?
  4. England won the 2019 men's Cricket World Cup final at Lord's, on boundary count, against which country?
  5. Who made 400 not out against England in Antigua in 2004?
  6. Who kicked the extra-time drop goal that won England the 2003 Rugby World Cup?
  7. Which country won the first Rugby World Cup, in 1987?
  8. In 1995, Nelson Mandela handed the Rugby World Cup to which South Africa captain?
  9. Which country joined in 2000 to turn the Five Nations into the Six Nations?
  10. England and Scotland play each other for which trophy?

Answers: 1. England and Australia. 2. West Indies. 3. Garfield Sobers. 4. New Zealand. 5. Brian Lara. 6. Jonny Wilkinson. 7. New Zealand. 8. François Pienaar. 9. Italy. 10. The Calcutta Cup.

Round 3: Olympics and athletics

  1. In 1954, who became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes?
  2. Which city hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, 1948 and 2012?
  3. On "Super Saturday" at London 2012, Jessica Ennis and Greg Rutherford won gold. Who completed the hat-trick of British golds that night?
  4. In which city did Usain Bolt run 9.58 seconds for the 100 metres, in 2009?
  5. In which sport did Steve Redgrave win gold at five Olympic Games in a row, from 1984 to 2000?
  6. Which American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
  7. Which British track cyclist won seven Olympic gold medals between 2008 and 2020?
  8. Which Romanian gymnast scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, at Montreal in 1976?
  9. Which city hosted the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896?
  10. Kelly Holmes won gold at Athens 2004 in which two events?

Answers: 1. Roger Bannister. 2. London. 3. Mo Farah, in the 10,000 metres. 4. Berlin. 5. Rowing. 6. Jesse Owens. 7. Jason Kenny. 8. Nadia Comăneci. 9. Athens. 10. The 800 metres and the 1,500 metres.

Round 4: the mixed bag

  1. In 2013, who became the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title since Fred Perry in 1936?
  2. Which British player won the 2021 US Open women's singles title as a qualifier?
  3. In snooker, what is the maximum break in a single frame, without a free ball?
  4. Which British driver won his first Formula One world title in 2008?
  5. Which former RAF airfield hosted the first Formula One World Championship race, in 1950?
  6. Who won the 1997 Masters by 12 shots, aged 21?
  7. Which darts player, sixteen times world champion, was known as "The Power"?
  8. Which horse won the Grand National three times in the 1970s?
  9. People chase a wheel of Double Gloucester down Cooper's Hill in which county?
  10. The rules first published in 1867 under the name of the Marquess of Queensberry govern which sport?

Answers: 1. Andy Murray. 2. Emma Raducanu. 3. 147. 4. Lewis Hamilton. 5. Silverstone. 6. Tiger Woods. 7. Phil Taylor. 8. Red Rum (1973, 1974 and 1977). 9. Gloucestershire. 10. Boxing.

Tie-breaker, closest wins: In which year was the first FA Cup final played? (1872.)

How to run it

  • Teams of four to six, mixed on purpose. Put one fan on every team, or the table of five-a-side regulars wins by twenty points and everyone else goes home early.
  • Read each question twice, then move on. Sport is where people argue longest over a half-mark, so decide your rules before the first round (is "Hurst" enough? yes) and say them out loud.
  • Swap answer sheets to mark. Nobody marks their own.
  • Make one round phone-proof. Sports facts are the easiest thing in the world to look up. Add a round nobody can search for: a picture round of grounds from above, a commentary clip, or a Closest To round on attendances. Our guide to a phone-proof quiz has more.
  • Finish on the mixed bag, not the hardest round. Our step-by-step on how to host a quiz night covers the rest: answer sheets, scoring and the tie-break.

If this is for the office and you'd rather nobody on the team had to run it, the sports quiz is one of the themes of our hosted quiz, with Higher or Lower, Closest To and picture rounds built around your sport. Out For Sport, the LGBTQ+ sports charity, booked us for a charity quiz fundraiser. Every theme is on the quiz nights page. For the other side of the bar, our Pride quiz questions and Christmas quiz questions are free too.