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This Packers trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and covers more than a century of Green Bay football: the meat-packing company that paid for the first uniforms, Curly Lambeau's 1929 champions, Vince Lombardi's Titletown dynasty and the Ice Bowl, then the Ron Wolf rebuild that brought Brett Favre and Reggie White, and the Aaron Rodgers years through Super Bowl XLV. There are questions on Lambeau Field's records, the Lambeau Leap, cheeseheads and the Bears rivalry too. It is written for Packers fans and shareholders of every vintage. Around a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are for people who know their Seven Blocks of Granite from their Fourth and 26. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01The Packers are unique among major US pro sports teams for being what?
Non-profit and community-owned
Non-profit and community-owned since 1923, the Packers have more than half a million stockholders who receive no dividends, and nobody may hold over 200,000 shares, so no single owner can take control.
Q 02What kind of business paid for the Packers' first uniforms in 1919?
A meat packer
A meat packer, the Indian Packing Company, employed Curly Lambeau and gave him $500 for uniforms and equipment in 1919 on condition that the team carry its name.
Q 03Super Bowl XLV gave the Packers a record how many NFL championships, counting titles won before the Super Bowl era?
13
13 is the most of any NFL team, though Green Bay is the league's smallest market: nine titles came before the Super Bowl era and four as Super Bowl wins.
Q 04How was the Packers' first NFL title decided in 1929, four years before the first NFL Championship Game?
League standings
League standings settled it: Green Bay went 12–0–1 after signing three future Hall of Famers before the season, Cal Hubbard, Johnny 'Blood' McNally and Mike Michalske.
Q 05Which nickname did Green Bay earn as Vince Lombardi's Packers piled up five NFL championships in the 1960s?
Titletown USA
Titletown USA stuck after the Packers won NFL titles in 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1967, and the team now owns a Titletown entertainment district next to Lambeau Field.
Q 06Lambeau Field opened in 1957 under which name, the one it carried for its first eight seasons?
City Stadium
City Stadium became Lambeau Field in 1965, renamed in memory of founder Curly Lambeau within months of his death that June.
Q 07Lambeau Field holds what distinction among NFL venues?
Oldest continually operating stadium
Oldest continually operating stadium in the NFL: the Packers have played at Lambeau Field every season since 1957, whereas Chicago's older Soldier Field only became the Bears' home in 1971.
Q 08Roughly how many names were on the Packers' season-ticket waiting list in 2011, more than Lambeau Field had seats?
About 86,000
About 86,000 names were waiting in 2011, and only about 90 season tickets changed hands each year, so the newest name on the list faced a theoretical wait of 955 years.
Q 09Roughly what was the kickoff temperature at the 1967 'Ice Bowl' NFL Championship Game against Dallas?
About −13 °F
The temperature at kickoff on 31 December 1967 was about −13 °F, with wind chill near −48 °F; the field's underground heating system failed and the turf froze solid.
Q 10The Ice Bowl was won on what play with 13 seconds left?
A quarterback sneak
A quarterback sneak behind Jerry Kramer's block on Jethro Pugh won it 21–17; the quarterback proposed the play himself during the final timeout because, he said, his running backs kept slipping on the ice.
Q 11Which Packer was named MVP of both Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II?
Bart Starr
Bart Starr won both awards; in the first game his two touchdown passes went to Max McGee, a 34-year-old reserve pressed into action when starter Boyd Dowler was hurt.
Q 12The Packers' Super Bowl I and II MVP quarterback was drafted in 1956 in which round?
17th
17th round, 200th overall: he had been benched as a senior at Alabama, and the Packers took a chance only after the school's basketball coach recommended him.
Q 13Super Bowl II, Vince Lombardi's last game as Packers coach, was a 33–14 win over which AFL champion?
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders fell 33–14 in Miami, put away by Herb Adderley's 60-yard interception return for a touchdown; Lombardi gave up coaching the Packers soon afterwards.
Q 21Packers linebacker Ray Nitschke, raised just outside Chicago, played college football at which school?
Illinois
Illinois won him over a professional baseball offer from the St. Louis Browns; he played fullback and linebacker there before the Packers drafted him in the third round in 1958.
Q 22General manager Ron Wolf's first big moves in 1992 included trading for which backup quarterback?
Brett Favre
Wolf sent a first-round pick to Atlanta for Brett Favre, then a little-used backup, weeks after firing Lindy Infante and hiring Mike Holmgren from the 49ers.
Q 23Which team did the Packers beat in the NFC Championship Game to reach Super Bowl XXXI?
Carolina Panthers
Q 14Before Green Bay, Vince Lombardi was an assistant with which NFL team?
New York Giants
The New York Giants employed him for five seasons from 1954, coaching the offense while Tom Landry coached the defense, and together they helped win the 1956 NFL title.
Q 15As a Fordham guard in 1936, Lombardi was one of the offensive linemen nicknamed what?
Seven Blocks of Granite
Seven Blocks of Granite was the name a Fordham publicist gave the 1936 line, in which Lombardi played guard beside center Alex Wojciechowicz, a future Pro Football Hall of Famer.
Q 16After leaving Green Bay, Lombardi coached one final season for which team before his death in 1970?
Washington Redskins
Lombardi coached the Washington Redskins to a 7–5–2 record in 1969, their first winning season in more than a decade, then died of cancer before the next season; he never had a losing year as an NFL head coach.
Q 17The Vince Lombardi Trophy design was first sketched by a Tiffany & Co. executive on what?
A cocktail napkin
A cocktail napkin held the first sketch, drawn by a Tiffany vice president over lunch with NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle; the trophy was renamed for Lombardi in 1970, soon after his death.
Q 18Paul Hornung, the 'Golden Boy', missed the 1963 season for what reason?
A gambling suspension
A gambling suspension: commissioner Pete Rozelle banned Hornung for the whole 1963 season for betting on NFL games, and he returned to help the Packers win two more titles.
Q 19Fullback Jim Taylor won the NFL MVP in 1962 after doing what?
Winning the rushing title
He had led the SEC in scoring at LSU in 1956 and 1957.
Q 20Don Hutson, the 1930s Packers end nicknamed 'the Alabama Antelope', is credited with inventing what?
Pass patterns
Pass patterns such as the buttonhook and the hook-and-go are credited to Hutson; the story goes that he signed with two teams and was awarded to Green Bay because its contract was postmarked 17 minutes earlier.
The Packers beat the Carolina Panthers at a frozen Lambeau Field in the January 1997 NFC Championship Game, scoring 30 points, to earn their first Super Bowl trip in 29 years.
Q 24The quarterback Ron Wolf traded for in 1992 played college football at which school?
Southern Miss
Southern Miss made him a starter as a freshman; before his senior season he had part of his intestine removed after a car crash, then led an upset of Alabama weeks later.
Q 25Green Bay's 1990s quarterback won three straight AP MVP awards, sharing the third in 1997 with which 2,000-yard rusher?
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders shared the 1997 award after rushing for 2,053 yards for Detroit; the three-year run took Green Bay to two straight Super Bowls, and through 2025 nobody else has won three in a row.
Q 26The Packers signed which prized free agent defensive end in 1993, nicknamed 'the Minister of Defense'?
Reggie White
Reggie White, an ordained minister, took a four-year, $17 million offer in April 1993; a team with one playoff win in the previous 24 years then reached the postseason in each of his six seasons.
Q 27Which Packers safety invented the Lambeau Leap in December 1993 after scoring on a fumble return?
LeRoy Butler
LeRoy Butler forced the fumble, took a lateral from the teammate who recovered it and jumped into the stands; receiver Robert Brooks later popularized the leap by repeating it after his touchdowns.
Q 28Who returned a kickoff a then-record 99 yards for a touchdown to seal Super Bowl XXXI?
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard's 99-yard return came right after the opposition had cut the lead to six, and made him the first special-teams player named Super Bowl MVP; he totalled 244 return yards.
Q 29Super Bowl XXXI was a 35–21 win over which team?
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots led 14–10 after one quarter, but an 81-yard touchdown catch, then the longest in Super Bowl history, put Green Bay ahead for good in New Orleans.
Q 30Mike Holmgren later spent a decade as head coach of which team after leaving the Packers?
Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks lured him in 1999 by making him general manager as well as head coach; he stayed ten seasons and took them to their first Super Bowl.