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57 free Golden State Warriors trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Golden State Warriors trivia quiz covers all seven championships and everything between: the Philadelphia Warriors of Joe Fulks and Paul Arizin, Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point night in Hershey, the move west, Rick Barry and the 1975 sweep of the Bullets, the Sleepy Floyd game, Run TMC, the Sprewell choking, We Believe, and the Curry-Thompson-Green dynasty from 73–9 to Kevin Durant and the 2022 title. Expect easy questions on the arena, the nickname and the biggest names, plenty of history for regular fans, and hard ones about the Robert Parish trade, the Todd Fuller pick, who coined 'Splash Brothers' and the second-round pick that became Draymond Green. Uniforms from 'The City' to 'The Town' also get a turn. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources before it went in, so when you miss one you can trust the explanation. Play it solo or run it as a round at your next Dub Nation watch party. For the wider league, our NBA trivia page is the natural next stop.
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Q 01In which city were the Warriors founded in 1946?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia was home from the franchise's 1946 birth in the Basketball Association of America until the 1962 move to the Bay Area; the Philadelphia Warriors won the BAA's first title.
Q 02What is the name of the San Francisco arena the Warriors have played in since 2019?
Chase Center
Chase Center opened in the Mission Bay district in September 2019 after an earlier plan for Piers 30 and 32 on the waterfront met with vocal opposition.
Q 03In which year did the franchise change its geographic name from San Francisco to Golden State?
1971
1971 brought the switch to Golden State, a name meant to claim the whole of California, as the team moved its home games across the bay to the Coliseum Arena.
Q 04Which early star led the Warriors to the BAA's inaugural championship in 1946–47?
Joe Fulks
Joe Fulks, 'Jumpin' Joe', led the league with 23.2 points a game and powered the 1946–47 Warriors past the Chicago Stags 4–1 in the first BAA Finals.
Q 05Which team did the Warriors beat four games to one to win the 1956 championship?
Fort Wayne Pistons
Fort Wayne Pistons fell 4–1 to a Warriors side led by Paul Arizin, Neil Johnston and rookie Tom Gola; the Pistons moved to Detroit the following year.
Q 06In which Pennsylvania town did Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points for the Warriors on March 2, 1962?
Hershey
Hershey's Sports Arena hosted the Warriors' 'home' game against the New York Knicks, a 169–147 win in which Chamberlain made 36 of 63 field goals and 28 of 32 free throws.
Q 07Which team received Wilt Chamberlain when the Warriors traded him in January 1965?
Philadelphia 76ers
Philadelphia 76ers sent three players and $150,000 for Chamberlain in January 1965; the Warriors slumped to 17–63, and Wilt's 76ers beat them in the 1967 Finals.
Q 08Which owner bought the Warriors in 1962 and moved them to San Francisco?
Franklin Mieuli
Franklin Mieuli, a radio and television producer, headed the group that bought the team from Eddie Gottlieb for $850,000 in 1962 and moved it west.
Q 09Which 1965 draft pick won Rookie of the Year and later Finals MVP with the Warriors, with an ABA stint between?
Rick Barry
Rick Barry won Rookie of the Year in 1966, jumped to the ABA and sat out 1967–68 under a court order honouring his option year, then returned in 1972 and was Finals MVP in 1975.
Q 10Which heavily favoured team did the Warriors sweep in the 1975 NBA Finals?
Washington Bullets
Washington Bullets, 60–22 in the regular season and heavy favourites, lost 4–0 to a Warriors team that had won just 48 games, one of the great Finals upsets.
Q 11Who coached the Warriors to the 1975 championship and won 557 games with the franchise?
Al Attles
Al Attles, a Warriors guard for 11 seasons before he took the bench, coached the team across 14 years, winning 557 games and the 1975 title, then served as general manager.
Q 12In 1980 the Warriors traded Robert Parish and the McHale pick for the pick used on which centre?
Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll, the Purdue centre taken first overall, was the Warriors' prize; Boston used the third pick on Kevin McHale and paired him with Robert Parish, two Hall of Famers.
Q 13Which Warriors guard set playoff records with 29 points in a quarter against the Lakers in 1987?
Sleepy Floyd
Q 21Monta Ellis was suspended for 30 games in 2008 after injuring himself doing what?
Riding a moped
Riding a moped in Mississippi in August 2008, Ellis tore ankle ligaments; because his new six-year contract barred such activities, the team suspended him for 30 games without pay.
Q 22With which pick did the Warriors select Stephen Curry from Davidson in the 2009 draft?
7th
7th overall was the slot in 2009, after Minnesota passed on Curry twice at 5 and 6 to take Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn; he finished second to Tyreke Evans for Rookie of the Year.
Q 23For what then-record price did Joe Lacob and Peter Guber buy the Warriors from Chris Cohan in 2010?
$450 million
Sleepy Floyd scored 29 of his 51 points in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the 1987 Western semi-finals, a playoff record, as the Warriors beat the eventual champion Lakers.
Q 14The 'Run TMC' trio of the early 1990s consisted of Tim Hardaway, Chris Mullin and which guard?
Mitch Richmond
Mitch Richmond was the M: the trio, nicknamed after Run-D.M.C., lasted two seasons before Don Nelson traded Richmond to Sacramento for rookie Billy Owens in November 1991.
Q 15Which player did the Warriors take first overall in 1995, the season Chris Cohan took over as owner?
Joe Smith
Joe Smith, the Maryland forward, went first overall in 1995, ahead of Antonio McDyess and Jerry Stackhouse; Chris Cohan's ownership produced a single playoff trip, in 2007.
Q 16Which coach did Latrell Sprewell choke at a practice in December 1997, earning a season-long suspension?
P. J. Carlesimo
P. J. Carlesimo was grabbed by the throat by Sprewell at practice on 1 December 1997; the NBA suspended Sprewell for the rest of the season, and the Warriors traded him to the Knicks in 1999.
Q 17Which centre did the Warriors draft in 1996 over Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Jermaine O'Neal?
Todd Fuller
Todd Fuller, a centre from North Carolina State, was the Warriors' lottery pick in 1996, taken two spots before Kobe Bryant and six before Jermaine O'Neal.
Q 18What became the Warriors' slogan during their late-2007 surge to the playoffs?
We Believe
We Believe began as a fan's T-shirt slogan and swept the arena as Don Nelson's team went 16–5 down the stretch from 26–35 to reach the playoffs at 42–40.
Q 19Which top seed did the eighth-seed Warriors upset in 2007, a first in a seven-game series?
Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks, 67–15 and led by MVP Dirk Nowitzki, lost in six games to Baron Davis's Warriors, the first No. 8 seed to win a best-of-seven series.
Q 20What was the Warriors' 2007–08 record, which left them two games short of the playoffs?
48–34
48–34 fell two games short in 2007–08, when all eight Western playoff teams won at least 50 games and Denver took the final spot at 50–32.
$450 million was the price Joe Lacob and Peter Guber agreed in July 2010, then the most ever paid for an NBA franchise, beating a rival bid fronted by Larry Ellison.
Q 24Which Harvard guard signed with the Warriors in 2010, the first Taiwanese-American in the NBA?
Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Lin, undrafted out of Harvard, signed a two-year deal with his hometown Warriors in July 2010; 'Linsanity' erupted with the Knicks in February 2012.
Q 25Draymond Green's 2012 draft pick reached the Warriors in the trade that landed which forward?
Troy Murphy
Troy Murphy arrived from the Nets in February 2011 together with a 2012 second-round pick; it became No. 35, which the Warriors spent on Draymond Green in the draft that also brought Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli.
Q 26With which pick did the Warriors take Klay Thompson in 2011?
11th
11th overall in 2011 was where the Warriors took Thompson out of Washington State; his father Mychal had gone first overall to Portland in 1978.
Q 27How big was the 'risky' rookie-scale extension Stephen Curry signed in 2012?
Four seasons, $44 million
Four seasons, $44 million was the October 2012 extension, signed after two ankle surgeries; it became the league's biggest bargain as Curry won two MVPs on that deal.
Q 28Which team employee coined the nickname 'Splash Brothers' for Curry and Thompson?
Brian Witt
Brian Witt, then the team's web content manager, coined 'Splash Brothers' in a December 2012 tweet; the pair's 483 threes that season broke the duo record of 435 set by Orlando's Dennis Scott and Nick Anderson.
Q 29Whom did the Warriors hire in May 2014 to replace Mark Jackson, in his first head-coaching job?
Steve Kerr
Steve Kerr, a five-time champion as a player with Chicago and San Antonio, took the job in May 2014 after turning down the Knicks, and won the title in his first season.
Q 30Stephen Curry's 2015 MVP made him the first Warrior to win the award since whom?
Wilt Chamberlain in 1960
Wilt Chamberlain in 1960 took the award in his rookie season with the Warriors, winning Rookie of the Year the same year; no Warrior won it again until Curry 55 years later.