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This Kansas City Chiefs trivia quiz has 50 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
Bartle picked up 'Chief' as a Boy Scout executive; Hunt and Stram had wanted 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 a toy his children played with. Which toy?
A bouncy Super Ball
Owners had officially chosen 'AFL-NFL Championship Game', but the media ran with Hunt's name and it became official in 1969.
Q 04Which team beat the Chiefs 35–10 in the very first Super Bowl?
Green Bay Packers
Vince Lombardi's Packers made it look easy in the second half, feeding the belief that the AFL was inferior.
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
He was the fourth straight winning quarterback to take the award, going 12 of 17 for 142 yards.
Q 07Chiefs coach Hank Stram made Super Bowl history in that game by being the first head coach to do what?
Wear a microphone
NFL Films caught him gleefully predicting '65 toss power trap' before it went for a touchdown.
Q 08Hank Stram got the Texans job in 1960 only after which two coaching legends turned Lamar Hunt down?
Bud Wilkinson and Tom Landry
Stram was a little-known assistant at the University of Miami at the time and went on to win three AFL titles.
Q 09In what year did the Chiefs move into Arrowhead Stadium?
1972
The stadium sits at the Truman Sports Complex alongside the Royals' ballpark.
Q 10In 2013 the Arrowhead crowd set a Guinness World Record for the loudest stadium at what level?
137.5 decibels
The mark came in October 2013, and Seattle fans have traded the record back and forth with them since.
Q 11Which company gained naming rights to Arrowhead Stadium in a 2021 deal?
GEHA
The insurer's 2021 deal produced the official name GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium.
Q 12From 1963 to 1988 the Chiefs' game-day mascot Warpaint was what kind of animal?
A pinto horse
Warpaint circled the field before games and after touchdowns with a rider in a full headdress.
Q 13Which quarterback did the Chiefs trade a first-round pick to acquire from San Francisco in April 1993?
Joe Montana
The trade prompted Marcus Allen to sign weeks later, and the pair 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
He was 2002 Offensive Player of the Year and remains the franchise leader in rushing touchdowns.
Q 22Return specialist Dante Hall earned which nickname for his darting style?
The Human Joystick
His six career kickoff-return touchdowns tied Gale Sayers and Ollie Matson for the most in NFL history at the time.
Q 23Trent Green tied an NFL record in 2002 with a pass play of how many yards to Marc Boerigter?
99
It came against San Diego, and Green went on to lead the 2003 Chiefs to a 13–3 record.
Q 14Running back Marcus Allen joined the Chiefs in 1993 after 11 seasons with which rival?
Raiders
He led the AFC with 12 touchdowns that first season despite rushing for only 764 yards.
Q 15Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas set the NFL single-game sack record in 1990 against which team?
Seattle Seahawks
He had seven sacks and missed a clear shot at an eighth on the final play as Seattle scored to win.
Q 16Which jersey number did the Chiefs retire in honour of Derrick Thomas?
58
After his death in 2000, the club simply never reissued the number before formally retiring it.
Q 17Before starring for the Chiefs, Derrick Thomas won the 1988 Butkus Award playing for which college?
Alabama
He set Crimson Tide records for sacks in a season alongside Cornelius Bennett.
Q 18Tony Gonzalez, the NFL's all-time leader in receptions by a tight end, played which second sport at Cal?
Basketball
He averaged 26 points a game in high school and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019 in his first year of eligibility.
Q 19Tony Gonzalez finished his career with five seasons at which team after leaving Kansas City?
Atlanta Falcons
He was traded there in 2009 and kept producing 1,000-yard-calibre seasons into his mid-thirties.
Q 20Christian Okoye, the 1989 NFL rushing champion, was nicknamed what?
The Nigerian Nightmare
Born in Enugu, he did not play American football until age 23 at Azusa Pacific University.
Q 24Jamaal Charles is the NFL's all-time leader in what statistic among players with at least 1,000 carries?
Yards per carry
He averaged over five yards a carry through a Chiefs career that started in 2008.
Q 25Buck Buchanan made history in the 1963 AFL draft as the earliest African American to be what?
Number one overall pick
The Texans took the Grambling star first overall on 1 December 1962, months before the move to Kansas City.
Q 26Hall of Fame Chiefs kicker Jan Stenerud was the first NFL player from which country?
Norway
He came to Montana State on a ski-jumping scholarship before switching to football.
Q 27Where did Hall of Fame linebacker Bobby Bell play college football?
Minnesota
He was recruited by Murray Warmath and later made both the NFL's 100th Anniversary team and Super Bowl IV roster.
Q 28Guard Will Shields, a 2015 Hall of Fame inductee, won the Outland Trophy at which school?
Nebraska
He also won the Walter Payton Man of the Year award in 2003 while with the Chiefs.
Q 29Andy Reid coached which team for 14 seasons before taking over the Chiefs in 2013?
Philadelphia Eagles
He made the Eagles perennial contenders and reached one Super Bowl there before Kansas City.
Q 30How many cheeseburgers does Andy Reid claim he ate filming a State Farm ad with Mahomes?
60
His burger fandom is a running joke; he says he learned to love them growing up in Los Angeles.