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This Kansas City Chiefs trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and runs the whole length of the franchise: Lamar Hunt's Dallas Texans and the AFL years, Hank Stram and Len Dawson beating the Vikings in Super Bowl IV, the lean decades in between, and the Andy Reid era that turned Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce into the most-watched duo in football. Expect questions on Arrowhead's noise record, the Warpaint mascot, Derrick Thomas's seven-sack afternoon, and how the Super Bowl got its name. It is built for anyone in Chiefs Kingdom, whether you have season tickets or joined during the Mahomes run. Roughly a third of the questions are easy, a third are medium and the rest will test even long-time fans, with the deep cuts covering Hall of Famers like Buck Buchanan, Bobby Bell and Jan Stenerud. Every answer has been checked against a primary source and each question links to the page that confirms it, so you can settle arguments as well as start them.
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Q 01Before moving to Kansas City in 1963, the Chiefs franchise played its first three seasons in which city?
Dallas
Lamar Hunt founded the Dallas Texans in the new AFL after the NFL turned him down for an expansion team.
Q 02The 'Chiefs' name honours the nickname of which Kansas City figure?
Mayor H. Roe Bartle
Mayor H. Roe Bartle was known as 'Chief' from his years as a Boy Scout executive; Hunt and Stram meant to keep the Texans name until a fan contest settled it.
Q 03Lamar Hunt said his name for the AFL–NFL title game came from which toy his children played with?
A bouncy Super Ball
A bouncy Super Ball put the word in Hunt's head, he said; in 1966 he wrote to the commissioner that his joke name for the game 'obviously can be improved upon'.
Q 04Which team beat the Chiefs 35–10 in the very first Super Bowl?
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers led only 14–10 at half-time, then Vince Lombardi's side scored 21 unanswered points in the second half.
Q 05The Chiefs won Super Bowl IV in January 1970 by beating which heavily favoured NFL champion?
Minnesota Vikings
Minnesota came in as 13½-point favourites and lost 23–7 in the last game before the AFL–NFL merger.
Q 06Who was named MVP of Super Bowl IV?
Len Dawson
Len Dawson was named MVP days after his name was wrongly linked to a federal gambling investigation; he completed 12 of 17 passes in the 23–7 win.
Q 07In Super Bowl IV, Chiefs coach Hank Stram became the first head coach to do what during a Super Bowl?
Wear a microphone
Wear a microphone: NFL Films wired Stram in secret and caught him gleefully calling '65 Toss Power Trap' moments before it scored a touchdown.
Q 08Which Oklahoma coach and Giants assistant turned down the Texans before Hank Stram was hired?
Bud Wilkinson and Tom Landry
Bud Wilkinson and Tom Landry both said no, so Lamar Hunt hired Stram, a little-known University of Miami assistant who went on to win three AFL titles.
Q 09Which feature of Arrowhead Stadium's original plans was never built?
Rolling roof
A rolling roof was meant to slide between Arrowhead and the ballpark next door to cover either one, but cost overruns shelved it before the 1972 opening.
Q 10In 2014 Arrowhead Stadium's fans reclaimed a Guinness World Record for which feat?
Loudest crowd roar
Loudest crowd roar: Chiefs fans hit 142.2 decibels against the Patriots in September 2014, taking back a record a rival crowd had beaten by a tenth of a decibel.
Q 11Which company gained naming rights to Arrowhead Stadium in a 2021 deal?
GEHA
GEHA, a health insurer for federal workers, put its name on the field in 2021, but the deal ended early and the plain Arrowhead Stadium name returned in August 2026.
Q 12From 1963 to 1988 the Chiefs' game-day mascot Warpaint was what kind of animal?
A pinto horse
A pinto horse named Warpaint was ridden bareback by a rider in a headdress; the act came back in 2009 and was retired in 2021 as the team dropped some Native American imagery.
Q 13Which quarterback did the Chiefs trade a first-round pick to acquire from San Francisco in April 1993?
Joe Montana
Joe Montana's arrival persuaded Marcus Allen to sign weeks later, and together they took the Chiefs to their first AFC Championship Game.
Q 21Priest Holmes joined Kansas City in 2001 as a free agent from which team, where he had won a Super Bowl ring?
Baltimore Ravens
The Baltimore Ravens had benched the undrafted Holmes for rookie Jamal Lewis, yet in his first Chiefs season he led the NFL in rushing.
Q 22Return specialist Dante Hall earned which nickname for his darting style?
The Human Joystick
The Human Joystick scored on a kick or punt return in four straight games in 2003, the last a 93-yard punt return against Denver on which he reversed field twice.
Q 23Which NFL record, impossible to break, did Trent Green and Marc Boerigter tie with one play in 2002?
Longest touchdown pass
Q 14Running back Marcus Allen joined the Chiefs in 1993 after 11 seasons with which rival?
Raiders
Raiders owner Al Davis had feuded with Allen for years, so he signed with their rival and led the AFC with 12 touchdowns in his first Chiefs season.
Q 15Derrick Thomas set an NFL single-game record against Seattle in 1990 in which statistic?
Sacks
Sacks: Thomas dropped Dave Krieg seven times, but Krieg slipped his grasp on the final play and threw the touchdown that beat the Chiefs.
Q 16The Chiefs' Christmas Day 1971 playoff loss to Miami set an NFL record, unbroken 50 years later, for what?
Longest game
Longest game: it ran 82 minutes and 40 seconds, ending in a second overtime on Garo Yepremian's field goal, and was the Chiefs' last game at Municipal Stadium.
Q 17Before starring for the Chiefs, Derrick Thomas won the 1988 Butkus Award playing for which college?
Alabama
Alabama made Thomas an All-American, and the Chiefs passed on Deion Sanders to take him fourth in a 1989 draft whose top five produced four Hall of Famers.
Q 18Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez played which second sport at Cal?
Basketball
Basketball: he was a forward on the Cal team that reached the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in his junior year, then chose football and was drafted by the Chiefs.
Q 19Tony Gonzalez finished his career with five seasons at which team after leaving Kansas City?
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons got him for a second-round pick in 2009, and there he won the only playoff game of his 17-season career in January 2013.
Q 20Christian Okoye, the 1989 NFL rushing champion, was nicknamed what?
The Nigerian Nightmare
The Nigerian Nightmare did not play American football until he was 23, at Azusa Pacific, yet he led the whole NFL in rushing just five years later.
Longest touchdown pass: the play covered 99 yards, and since an offence can never start more than 99 yards from the end zone, the mark can only be tied.
Q 24As of 2025, Jamaal Charles has the best career mark of any NFL running back with 1,000 carries in what statistic?
Yards per carry
Yards per carry: Charles averaged 5.4, just ahead of Jim Brown's 5.2, despite tearing a ligament in each knee during his Chiefs career.
Q 25Buck Buchanan made history in the 1963 AFL draft as that league's first African American to be what?
Number one overall pick
Number one overall pick: the Texans took the Grambling lineman first in the AFL, while the NFL's Giants waited until the 19th round to call his name.
Q 26Hall of Fame Chiefs kicker Jan Stenerud came to America on a ski-jumping scholarship from which country?
Norway
Norway: Stenerud was at Montana State to ski jump when a coach saw him kicking a football for fun, and he became the first pure placekicker enshrined in Canton.
Q 27Hall of Fame linebacker Bobby Bell left segregated North Carolina to play college football at which Big Ten school?
Minnesota
Minnesota turned Bell from a quarterback into an award-winning lineman, and the Chiefs were so sure he would sign with the Vikings that they waited until round seven to draft him.
Q 28Guard Will Shields, a 2015 Hall of Fame inductee, won the Outland Trophy at which school?
Nebraska
Nebraska landed Shields from Lawton, Oklahoma, deep in rival Sooner country, and he went on to play 14 Chiefs seasons without missing a single game.
Q 29Andy Reid played offensive line at which university, where his teammates included quarterback Jim McMahon?
BYU
BYU coach LaVell Edwards recruited Reid partly to land his best friend, then steered the lineman, who never stopped asking questions, into coaching.
Q 30Under Mike Holmgren, Andy Reid spent two seasons as quarterbacks coach to which future Hall of Famer?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre won his third straight MVP award in 1997 with Reid as his position coach, and two years later the Eagles made Reid a head coach though he had never been a coordinator.