Anaheim Ducks Trivia
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59 free Anaheim Ducks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Anaheim Ducks are the only NHL team named after a movie: Disney paid $50 million in 1993, half of it straight to the Los Angeles Kings, and called the club the Mighty Ducks. This Ducks trivia quiz covers the whole story: the eggplant-and-jade duck-mask logo, Paul Kariya's arrival, the Teemu Selanne trade with Winnipeg, the 2003 run when Jean-Sebastien Giguere won the Conn Smythe in a losing cause, the Samuelis' purchase and rename, Scott Niedermayer, Chris Pronger, and the 2007 Stanley Cup that made Anaheim the first California champion. It continues through the Getzlaf and Perry years, Bruce Boudreau's division titles, the Game 7 curse, the Stadium Series at Dodger Stadium, Trevor Zegras and Leo Carlsson, Joel Quenneville's hiring, the 2024 return of the mask logo, and Wild Wing's fire-jump mishap. There are questions on the arena, the Iceman, the 'Wild Wing' jerseys and Selanne's Finnish roots too, from easy to expert. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which entertainment giant founded the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 1993?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney founded the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim as a 1993 expansion team, naming the club after its 1992 film about a struggling youth hockey team.
Q 02Which team, founded by Blockbuster boss Wayne Huizenga, joined the NHL alongside the Mighty Ducks in 1993?
Florida Panthers
Florida Panthers: the NHL approved both clubs on the same day in December 1992, and the Kings took half of Anaheim's entry fee because the newcomer sat inside their territory.
Q 03Whom did the Ducks select fourth overall in the 1993 entry draft, their franchise face for a decade?
Paul Kariya
Paul Kariya, the club's first draft pick, made Anaheim wait: he went back to college, won silver with Canada at the 1994 Winter Games and only made his NHL debut in January 1995.
Q 04Who was the Ducks' first head coach?
Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson was fired after four seasons, just after guiding Anaheim into the second round of the playoffs; a year later he took Washington to the Stanley Cup Final.
Q 05Which former Penguin, a two-time Stanley Cup winner, was the Mighty Ducks' first captain in 1993-94?
Troy Loney
Troy Loney was claimed from Pittsburgh in the 1993 expansion draft, wore the C as the newcomers won 33 games, and was traded to the Islanders after a single season.
Q 06Which two players did Anaheim send to Winnipeg in the 1996 trade for Teemu Selanne?
Chad Kilger and Oleg Tverdovsky
Chad Kilger and Oleg Tverdovsky were Anaheim's first-round picks in the two previous drafts; the gamble paid off when Selanne scored 51 goals the following season.
Q 07Which Blackhawk's cross-check gave the Ducks' captain a season-ending concussion in 1998?
Gary Suter
Gary Suter's cross-check to the head came just after the captain had scored; it drew a four-game ban, ended his season and kept him out of the Nagano Winter Games.
Q 08Which defending champion did the seventh-seeded Ducks sweep to open the 2003 playoffs?
Detroit Red Wings
The Ducks swept the defending champion Detroit Red Wings in 2003; Giguere stopped 63 shots in the triple-overtime Game 1 win.
Q 09Who scored for the Mighty Ducks in the fifth overtime of Game 1 against Dallas in the 2003 playoffs?
Petr Sykora
Petr Sykora struck 48 seconds into the fifth overtime, after more than 140 minutes of play; New Jersey had traded him away the previous summer, and he met his old club in the Final.
Q 10Which Devils defenseman flattened the Ducks' captain with an open-ice hit in Game 6 of the 2003 Final?
Scott Stevens
Scott Stevens left the captain lying motionless for several minutes, yet the Anaheim star was back before the period ended to score in a 5-2 win; the Devils then took Game 7 3-0.
Q 11In 2003 Jean-Sebastien Giguere became only the fifth losing-team player to win which award?
Conn Smythe Trophy
Conn Smythe Trophy: Giguere let in one goal in the entire conference final, shutting out Minnesota three times in a four-game sweep, before Anaheim lost the Cup Final in seven.
Q 12The Ducks' captain left in 2003 to reunite with Selanne on which team?
Colorado Avalanche
Both spent a single season with the Colorado Avalanche, while Anaheim, a Stanley Cup finalist months earlier, slumped to 29-35-10-8 without its captain.
Q 13Which Broadcom co-founder bought the Mighty Ducks from their founding owner in 2005?
Henry Samueli
Q 21Which former first-overall draft pick scored the own goal credited to Travis Moen as the 2007 Stanley Cup winner?
Chris Phillips
Chris Phillips and his goalie got into a mix-up in Game 5 that left the puck in their own net; Moen was given the goal, which put Anaheim 3-1 up and stood as the winner in a 6-2 clincher.
Q 22Where did the Ducks open the 2007-08 season with two games against the Kings?
London
London's O2 Arena is run by the same company that owns the Kings; the two rivals split the first regular-season NHL games ever played in Europe there, each winning 4-1.
Q 23Which goalie did the Ducks lose on waivers to Phoenix during 2007-08, making Jonas Hiller the backup?
Ilya Bryzgalov
Henry Samueli and his wife Susan, whose company already ran the arena, wasted little time: within two years the club had a new name, new colours and its first Stanley Cup.
Q 14Which general manager, hired in 2005, built the Ducks team that won the 2007 Stanley Cup?
Brian Burke
Brian Burke had the Stanley Cup within two years of arriving; seventeen months after winning it he stepped down, and before the month was out he was running the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Q 15Whom did the Ducks take second overall in 2005, in the draft held after the cancelled season?
Bobby Ryan
Bobby Ryan went one pick after Sidney Crosby: with no standings from the lost season to set the order, every team was put in a weighted lottery, and Pittsburgh won it.
Q 16Which free-agent defenseman signed in August 2005 to play alongside his brother Rob and was soon named captain?
Scott Niedermayer
Scott Niedermayer, as captain, was the first Duck to lift the Stanley Cup in 2007, and he used his rank to hand it straight to Rob, who had never won it.
Q 17Which Norris Trophy-winning defenseman became Ducks head coach in August 2005?
Randy Carlyle
Randy Carlyle won the Stanley Cup in his second season, was fired in November 2011, and was rehired in 2016 to replace the very coach who had replaced him.
Q 18Which defenseman came from Edmonton in 2006 for Joffrey Lupul, Ladislav Smid and three draft picks?
Chris Pronger
Chris Pronger arrived in July 2006 after requesting a trade; he was suspended twice in the 2007 playoffs and Anaheim won both games without him.
Q 19What did the 2006-07 Ducks do in each of their first 16 games?
Earn a point
Earn a point: Anaheim went 12-0-4, losing only in overtime or shootouts, until Calgary shut them out in game 17; Chicago took the record away with a 24-game start in 2013.
Q 20Whom did the Ducks beat in the 2007 Stanley Cup Final?
Ottawa Senators
Ottawa Senators had lost only three games in the first three rounds, then dropped four of five to the Ducks, who clinched their first Stanley Cup on home ice.
Ilya Bryzgalov was claimed by Phoenix on November 17, 2007 and shut out the Kings 1-0 for his new team that same night; he stayed the Coyotes' starter for four seasons.
Q 24Which former Canadiens captain signed with Anaheim on a one-year deal in 2009?
Saku Koivu
Saku Koivu, Montreal's captain for a decade, signed a one-year deal in July 2009 and ended up playing five seasons in Anaheim.
Q 25Who became the first Duck to win the Hart Trophy, in 2010-11?
Corey Perry
Corey Perry finished in a rush, scoring 19 goals in his final 16 games to reach a league-best 50, and took both the Hart and the Rocket Richard.
Q 26Which former Ducks defenseman died in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash?
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Salei, Anaheim's first-round pick in 1996, spent nine seasons on its blue line and scored the overtime goal in Game 3 of the 2003 Final that gave the club its first win in a Cup Final.
Q 27Which two forwards came from Ottawa in 2013 for Anaheim's 2005 second-overall draft pick?
Jakob Silfverberg and Stefan Noesen
Jakob Silfverberg and Stefan Noesen had opposite fates: Silfverberg stayed eleven seasons, Noesen played 14 games before leaving on waivers, and the first-round pick in the deal became Nick Ritchie.
Q 28Where did the Ducks beat the Kings 3-0 in their first outdoor game in January 2014?
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium drew 54,099 for the first game of the NHL's Stadium Series, with Kiss performing before the puck dropped; Jonas Hiller then stopped all 36 Kings shots.
Q 29Which team beat the 2013-14 Ducks to the Presidents' Trophy by a single point?
Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins finished on 117 points to Anaheim's club-record 116, yet neither got past the second round: each lost a seven-game series there, the Ducks to the eventual champion Kings.
Q 30Which center did the Ducks acquire from Vancouver in June 2014?
Ryan Kesler
Ryan Kesler cost Nick Bonino, Luca Sbisa and a first-round pick, then signed a six-year extension that outlasted him: hip surgery in 2019 ended his career with three seasons left on it.