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50 free MotoGP trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Grand Prix motorcycle racing has been crowning world champions since 1949, and its stories are as good as any in sport: a man who won titles on two wheels and then four, a champion who braked with his thumb, a rider who counted thirteen titles as twelve plus one, and two siblings who finished first and second in the same season. These 50 questions cover the champions of every era, the switch from 500cc two-strokes to four-stroke MotoGP machines, the Moto2 and Moto3 feeder classes, the circuits from the Dutch cathedral to the Tuscan hills, the factories that built the bikes, the tyre and sprint rules, and the records that fell in the 2025 season. Most are pitched for a pub table or a race-weekend group chat, with a handful for people who know their chassis builders. Play on your phone with instant answers and explanations, or print it for a paddock quiz night.
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Q 01Who remains the only person to have won world championships on both two wheels and four?
John Surtees
John Surtees won the 1964 Formula One title with Ferrari after 38 motorcycle Grand Prix wins. The 2012 Segrave Trophy recognised the two-and-four-wheel double.
Q 02What distinction did the top two in the 2025 riders' standings share, a first for the premier class?
They were brothers
They were brothers: the champion and runner-up were the first siblings to place first and second in the top class, having earlier been the first brothers to win Grands Prix on the same day.
Q 03Which American group bought the championship's Madrid-based promoter, Dorna Sports, in 2025?
Liberty Media
Liberty Media now runs the series through a subsidiary called MotoGP Sports Entertainment Group, having bought the commercial rights holder. The FIM remains the sanctioning body.
Q 04Which number was retired at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix to honour the rider who had used it for his entire career?
46
46 was retired with a ceremony at the 2022 Italian round; its owner had ridden with it for his entire career.
Q 05Which rookie won the 2013 premier-class title aged 20, the youngest champion in the class's history?
Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez was the first rider since 1978 to take the title in his debut season, at 20 years and 266 days.
Q 06Which Australian, who braked with a left-thumb lever, won five straight 500cc titles from 1994?
Mick Doohan
Mick Doohan used a left thumb-operated rear brake from 1993 because his right foot could no longer work the pedal, and he dominated the class until 1998.
Q 07Which circuit has held a Grand Prix motorcycle race every year since 1949 except 2020?
Assen
Assen, 'the Cathedral of Speed', hosts the Dutch TT, and the same venue has also been on the World Superbike calendar since 1992.
Q 08Which manufacturer's run of 22 straight Grand Prix wins was ended at the 2025 French round?
Ducati
Ducati's 22 wins in a row only equalled a record first set in 1997–98, and the streak was broken by a home rider in the wet.
Q 09Which company returned as the premier class's sole tyre supplier in 2016 after Bridgestone withdrew?
Michelin
Michelin had introduced radial tyres to Grands Prix in 1984 and left the class in 2009, when Bridgestone became the single supplier.
Q 10Which Spanish rider, a triskaidekaphobe, insisted his 13 world titles be counted as '12+1'?
Ángel Nieto
Ángel Nieto won 90 Grands Prix between 1964 and 1986, mostly in the 50cc, 80cc and 125cc classes, and a 2005 documentary borrowed the '12+1' name.
Q 11Which Yamaha rider became the first French premier-class world champion, in 2021?
Fabio Quartararo
Fabio Quartararo, nicknamed 'El Diablo' and born in 1999, took the crown with Yamaha's factory team.
Q 12Which Suzuki factory rider won back-to-back 500cc world titles in 1976 and 1977?
Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene, who raced with the number 7 and a Donald Duck helmet he first wore in 1969 to stand out from the crowd, won both titles for the Suzuki factory team.
Q 13Which former dirt-track racer became the first American to win a Grand Prix world title, in 1978?
Kenny Roberts
Kenny Roberts was sent to Europe by Yamaha's US importer, and his dirt-track riding style changed how Grand Prix bikes were ridden.
Q 21Who won the 2024 title with a satellite team, the first independent-team champion of the MotoGP era?
Jorge Martín
Jorge Martín won with Prima Pramac Racing, which made him the first satellite rider to take the crown since 2001.
Q 22Who took the 2020 world title with a single race win and seven podiums all season?
Joan Mir
Joan Mir's only victory came at the European Grand Prix in Valencia, and he finished 13 points clear of Franco Morbidelli after sealing the title at the penultimate round.
Q 23When the premier class became MotoGP in 2002, four-strokes could run up to what capacity against the 500cc two-strokes?
990cc
Q 14Which circuit, owned by Ferrari since 1988, hosts the Italian motorcycle Grand Prix?
Mugello
Mugello, in Tuscany, doubles as a Formula One test track for Ferrari, which staged its 1,000th Grand Prix there in 2020.
Q 15Which circuit got the Australian Grand Prix back for good in 1997 after its years at Eastern Creek?
Phillip Island
Phillip Island staged the first Australian round in 1989, lost the race to Sydney in 1991 and has kept it since the 1997 return.
Q 16Which rider won premier-class titles in 2010, 2012 and 2015 after two 250cc crowns?
Jorge Lorenzo
Jorge Lorenzo, born in Palma, spent nine seasons with Yamaha, finishing runner-up three more times, and had won his 250cc titles in 2006 and 2007.
Q 17Which American won the 2006 premier-class world championship, ending Valentino Rossi's run of five straight titles?
Nicky Hayden
Nicky Hayden, 'the Kentucky Kid', swapped his usual number 69 for the champion's number 1 plate in 2007, then went back to 69 the year after.
Q 18Which desert circuit staged the first night race in the championship's history, in March 2008?
Lusail
Lusail, in Qatar, had installed permanent outdoor lighting in 2007, and a GP2 Asia night race followed there in 2009.
Q 19Which rider won four consecutive 250cc world titles from 1994 to 1997?
Max Biaggi
Max Biaggi, 'the Roman Emperor', then finished runner-up in the 500cc class as a rookie in 1998, and won at least one premier-class race in each of seven straight seasons.
Q 20Who came back from 91 points down at mid-season to win the 2022 premier-class title?
Francesco Bagnaia
Francesco Bagnaia sealed it at the Valencia finale, having sat sixth in the standings at the exact halfway point of the season, the largest points overhaul by a premier-class champion.
990cc four-strokes could run anything from three to six cylinders, and most teams quickly abandoned their two-strokes.
Q 24In 2007 the MotoGP engine limit was cut, for at least five years, to what capacity?
800cc
800cc engines came with race fuel cut to 21 litres, and the limit went back up to 1,000cc in 2012.
Q 25Which British manufacturer has supplied Moto2's 765cc three-cylinder racing engines since 2019?
Triumph
Triumph's triples are based on the Street Triple RS, replacing the 600cc in-line fours the class had used since it began in 2010.
Q 26The Saturday sprints added in 2023 run roughly what fraction of a full Grand Prix distance?
About half
About half the distance earns about half the points, and the sprint was added to every Grand Prix weekend for the MotoGP class only.
Q 27Which penalty arrived in 2019 for riders who exceed track limits or ride moderately recklessly?
Long lap
A long-lap penalty costs time on the track rather than sending the rider through the pits, and it arrived the same year Moto2 changed engine supplier.
Q 28Which Spaniard retired in 2018 with 31 premier-class wins and three runner-up finishes but no title?
Dani Pedrosa
Dani Pedrosa was runner-up in 2007, 2010 and 2012, and his 332 points in 2012 were then the most ever scored without taking the title.
Q 29Who became the youngest world champion in the sport's history by winning the 1990 125cc title at 17?
Loris Capirossi
Loris Capirossi was 17 years and 165 days old, retained the 125cc crown in 1991 and added the 250cc title in 1998.
Q 30Who is the only rider to have won the 250cc and 500cc world titles in a single year, in 1985?
Freddie Spencer
Freddie Spencer never won another Grand Prix after that double season, which made him the fifth and last rider to take the 500cc title and the class below in one year.