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50 free Cornhole trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Cornhole is the rare backyard game with a rulebook, a pro tour and its own slang. This quiz covers all of it: how far apart the boards go, what a regulation bag weighs, why a bag in the hole is sometimes called a Drano, and how the game got from an 1883 patent for 'Parlor Quoits' to prime-time on ESPN. Use it at a tailgate, a family reunion or a league night. The early questions are the ones every casual player should get; the later ones dig into the American Cornhole League and Organization, the World Cup, and strategy terms like hammer, bully bag and backstop. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on cornhole and the American Cornhole League, and each question links to the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01How many points is a bag that goes through the hole worth?
Three
A bag that stays on the board is worth one, and the two sides' totals cancel each other out each inning.
Q 02Under standard rules, a game is played until one side reaches or passes what score?
21
Some house rules make you hit exactly 21, with a 'bust' sending you back down if you go over.
Q 03What is the diameter of the hole on a regulation board?
6 inches
Its centre sits 9 inches down from the top edge of the 2-by-4-foot board.
Q 04What are the dimensions of a regulation board?
2 by 4 feet
The top edge sits 12 inches off the ground and the bottom edge 3 to 4 inches, giving the board its slope.
Q 05How far apart are the boards on a standard full-size court, measured from the front edges?
27 feet
Some rule sets use 33 feet; shorter distances are common for kids or tight backyards.
Q 06How many bags does each player or team throw per inning?
Four
Eight bags are in play in total, two distinguishable sets of four.
Q 07What scoring system does the game use, so that only one side can score in any inning?
Cancellation
If both sides throw 12 in an inning, nobody scores; ties in a match are therefore impossible.
Q 08Which 1883 patent first described most features of the modern game, though with a square hole?
Parlor Quoits
Heyliger de Windt's design was the first to pair bean bags with a slanted, holed board.
Q 09Under what name did a Massachusetts toy maker market de Windt's game?
Faba Baga
Faba Baga boards had two different-sized holes and gave each player one extra-large bag per round worth double points.
Q 10Which magazine published a 1974 article about a similar game called "bean-bag bull's-eye"?
Popular Mechanics
The article's board was 36 inches long instead of 48, and the game may have seeded the craze around Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
Q 11In which city's west side did cornhole as we know it originate and take off in the 1980s?
Cincinnati
It spread from there into Kentucky and Southeast Indiana; Chicago's version, 'bags', uses rectangular bags.
Q 12In the Chicago area the game goes by which name?
Bags
It caught on around Chicago and Northwest Indiana in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Q 13Who founded the American Cornhole League in 2015?
Stacey Moore
Moore remains commissioner and majority owner; the league brought in its first outside investors in 2021.
Who established the American Cornhole Organization in 2005?
Q 21What term describes a bag that flies directly into the hole without touching the board?
Airmail
It is the usual answer to an opponent's blocker bag sitting in front of the hole.
Q 22A bag that stays on the board's surface at the end of an inning, scoring one point, is called a what?
Woody
A hanger is one perched on the lip of the hole, and a backstop sits past the hole to catch sliders.
Q 23What is a "four-bagger"?
Sinking every bag in a single round
A 'grand bag' is stricter: all four go in directly, one after another, with none knocked in later.
Frank Geers
The ACO is headquartered in Milford, Ohio, and calls itself the sport's governing body.
Q 15In which state is the American Cornhole Organization headquartered?
Ohio
Milford sits just outside Cincinnati, close to where the modern game began.
Q 16Where is the American Cornhole League headquartered?
Rock Hill, South Carolina
The league claims over 25,000 tournaments a year and an active base of more than 100,000 players.
Q 17Under ACL rules, how much should a regulation bag weigh?
15.5 to 16.5 ounces
Bags measure 6 by 6 inches and are double-seamed; the 1974 bean-bag bull's-eye bags weighed just eight ounces.
Q 18Bags were traditionally filled with what, giving the game its name?
Corn kernels
Modern competition bags use plastic resin so the weight and shape stay consistent over thousands of throws.
Q 19Within how many seconds must a pitcher throw once set in the pitcher's box?
20
The clock starts when the pitcher is in the box with intent to throw.
Q 20What is a bag called that lands partly on the board and is also touching the ground?
Dirt bag
It scores nothing and is removed before the next throw.
Q 24A game that ends 21 or more to zero is known by which name?
Skunk
Some unofficial rules end a shutout early once it reaches 11-0.
Q 25When both sides score exactly the same in an inning, the result is called a what?
A wash
Nobody's score changes, thanks to cancellation scoring.
Q 26What does the slang term "cornfusion" mean?
A dispute over an inning's score
It usually gets settled by walking to the board and counting again.
Q 27A bag in the hole is sometimes nicknamed after which drain-clearing product?
Drano
It is one of several jokey names on the sport's long list of slang.
Q 28Which format has each player throw only two bags per inning?
Crew (4 vs 4)
Crew play is otherwise identical to doubles, with two teammates at each board.
Q 29Which side throws first in an inning?
Whoever scored last time
If nobody scored, the side that pitched first the previous inning goes first again.
Q 30Which country's cornhole league was founded in 2021 by Daniel Lilley?
United Kingdom
Under British house rules a team must reach exactly 21 without going over.