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58 free Giants trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Giants trivia questions with answers. Search for Giants trivia and you get two teams that once shared a city and a name: the football Giants, born in 1925 and still legally the New York Football Giants, and the baseball Giants, born in 1883 as the Gothams and now playing beside San Francisco Bay. This quiz covers both, half and half, so it works whether your Giants wear blue or orange. The football half runs from Tim Mara's $500 franchise and the Sneakers Game through the Greatest Game Ever Played, Lawrence Taylor and Bill Parcells, the two Super Bowl upsets of the Patriots, the Helmet Catch, and Eli Manning's iron-man streak. The baseball half covers the Polo Grounds, the Shot Heard 'Round the World, Willie Mays's Catch, the move west with the Dodgers, the earthquake World Series, Barry Bonds's 73 and 762, McCovey Cove splash hits and the 2010-2014 dynasty. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the two teams, their players and their famous moments, and each question carries its source. Roughly a third are easy warm-ups; the rest reward real fans.
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Q 01Which 1950s Giants star later spent 27 seasons in the Monday Night Football booth?
Frank Gifford
Frank Gifford had quit football in 1961 after a hit knocked him out cold, then came back a year later at a new position, flanker, and made the Pro Bowl again.
Q 02Where do the football Giants play their home games?
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The Giants built it with the Jets as equal partners and opened it in 2010, beside the site of the old Giants Stadium that the two teams had shared.
Q 03Which future head coach ran the Giants' defence in their Super Bowl XXV win?
Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick packed the field with extra defensive backs to smother the opposing passing attack, and the plan he drew up is now kept in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Q 04The football Giants' 1934 title win over the Bears on an icy field is remembered as what?
The Sneakers Game
The Sneakers Game: trailing at half-time on a frozen field, the Giants switched to basketball sneakers for traction and scored 27 fourth-quarter points to win 30-13.
Q 05The Giants' 1958 overtime championship loss to the Colts is remembered by what name?
The Greatest Game Ever Played
The Greatest Game Ever Played: the first NFL title game to reach sudden-death overtime ended when the Colts' Alan Ameche scored the winning touchdown, 23-17.
Q 06In 1978's 'Miracle at the Meadowlands', the fumbling Giants only needed to do what?
Kneel on the ball
Kneel on the ball. Joe Pisarcik's botched handoff to Larry Csonka was run back for the winning score, and kneeling out the clock soon became the standard way to end a game.
Q 07Lawrence Taylor was drafted by the Giants in 1981 from which college?
North Carolina
North Carolina: Taylor was an All-American linebacker for the Tar Heels; New Orleans passed on him for Heisman winner George Rogers, so the Giants took him second overall in 1981.
Q 08In 1986 Lawrence Taylor won which award, rare for a defender?
NFL Most Valuable Player
NFL Most Valuable Player: Taylor had 20.5 sacks that season, and he was so hard to stop that rival coach Joe Gibbs redesigned Washington's offence around a second tight end just to block him.
Q 09Which Giants quarterback completed 22 of 25 passes to be named MVP of Super Bowl XXI?
Phil Simms
Phil Simms's 88% completion rate set a Super Bowl record, and he then became the first champion to film Disney's 'I'm going to Disney World!' advert.
Q 10Which Giants defensive coordinator, promoted in 1983, led the team to two Super Bowls?
Bill Parcells
Bill Parcells, promoted from defensive coordinator in 1983, survived a 3-12-1 debut season and went on to win Super Bowls XXI and XXV.
Q 11The Giants won Super Bowl XXV by a single point over which team?
The Buffalo Bills
The Buffalo Bills: Scott Norwood's 47-yard field-goal attempt sailed wide right in the final seconds, preserving the Giants' 20-19 win.
Q 12Which quarterback did Michael Strahan sack for his disputed 2001 record?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre slid down as Strahan closed in during the 2001 season finale, an easy sack that took him to 22.5 and past Mark Gastineau's 1984 record of 22.
Q 13Which team drafted Eli Manning first overall in 2004 before trading him to the Giants?
The San Diego Chargers
Q 21The baseball Giants were founded in 1883 under what name?
The New York Gothams
The New York Gothams: the club joined the National League in 1883 and became the Giants in 1885, supposedly after its proud manager hailed his players as giants following an extra-inning win.
Q 22Through the 2025 season, the baseball Giants held which all-time MLB record?
Most wins of any franchise
Most wins of any franchise: the Giants reached 10,000 victories in 2005 before any other club, a lead built up in New York, where they won 17 of their 23 pennants.
Q 23The New York baseball Giants played most of their home games at which ballpark?
The Polo Grounds
The San Diego Chargers: they took Manning first overall, then swapped him for fourth pick Philip Rivers plus draft choices after Eli refused to play for them.
Q 14The Giants' Super Bowl XLII win ended which team's bid for a perfect 19-0 season?
The New England Patriots
The New England Patriots arrived 18-0 and 12-point favourites, but the Giants won 17-14 with a touchdown 35 seconds from the end.
Q 15Which receiver made the 'Helmet Catch' in Super Bowl XLII?
David Tyree
David Tyree pinned the ball to his helmet with Rodney Harrison draped over him, a 32-yard gain that kept the winning drive alive.
Q 16Eli Manning twice won which honour, first won twice by Bart Starr?
MVP of the championship game
MVP of the championship game: Manning was named Super Bowl MVP after XLII and XLVI, each time capping a go-ahead touchdown drive in the final minute.
Q 17Which running back did the Giants take second overall in the 2018 draft?
Saquon Barkley
Saquon Barkley, the Penn State back, went second overall behind Baker Mayfield; in 2024 he joined the rival Eagles and ran for 2,005 yards on the way to a Super Bowl title.
Q 18Which of these is a nickname of the football Giants, a mangled contraction used by New York tabloids?
The Jints
The Jints: a deliberately mangled headline contraction, said to have been handed down from the baseball Giants' New York days; 'Big Blue' and 'the G-Men' are the team's other nicknames.
Q 19What corporate name do the football Giants use to stand apart from the baseball club of the same name?
New York Football Giants, Inc.
New York Football Giants, Inc.: the legal name was chosen when the baseball Giants shared the city, and it stayed on the books after that club left for San Francisco.
Q 20After a long feud with his uncle Wellington, Tim Mara sold his half of the Giants in 1991 to whom?
Preston Robert Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch, the Loews Corporation chief and former US Postmaster General, bought the stake weeks after Super Bowl XXV; uncle and nephew had barely spoken for years.
The Polo Grounds, beneath Coogan's Bluff in upper Manhattan, kept the name of the club's first home, a converted polo field beside Central Park; its bathtub shape gave it short foul lines and a vast centre field.
Q 24Bobby Thomson's 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' in 1951 was hit off which Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher?
Ralph Branca
Ralph Branca surrendered the three-run homer in the ninth inning of the deciding playoff game; the Giants had won 37 of their last 44 to catch Brooklyn.
Q 25Willie Mays's famous over-the-shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series robbed which Cleveland batter?
Vic Wertz
Vic Wertz: Mays ran down his drive to deep centre in the eighth inning of Game 1, and the Giants went on to sweep the 111-win Indians.
Q 26The Giants' first game in San Francisco, in April 1958, was an 8-0 win over which team?
The Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers: both clubs had just left New York together, so their old rivalry opened big-league baseball on the West Coast, with Ruben Gomez pitching the 8-0 shutout.
Q 27Which rival owner persuaded Horace Stoneham to move the Giants to San Francisco?
Walter O'Malley
Walter O'Malley steered Stoneham away from Minneapolis, home of the Giants' top farm club, and the league then let both clubs go west on condition that they moved together.
Q 28The Giants played at which windy ballpark from 1960 to 1999?
Candlestick Park
Candlestick Park, on a point jutting into the bay, was so gusty that the wind made pitcher Stu Miller sway into a balk during the 1961 All-Star Game.
Q 29The 1989 World Series between the Giants and Athletics was interrupted by what?
The Loma Prieta earthquake
The Loma Prieta earthquake struck minutes before Game 3 on 17 October 1989; the series resumed ten days later and Oakland completed a sweep.
Q 30Whose single-season home run record did Barry Bonds break in 2001?
Mark McGwire
Mark McGwire's three-year-old mark of 70 fell when Bonds hit 73, even though wary pitchers walked him 177 times, itself a record at the time.