Patrick Mahomes Trivia
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48 free Patrick Mahomes trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Patrick Mahomes was drafted by a franchise that had not taken a first-round quarterback since 1983, sat for a year behind Alex Smith, and then threw 50 touchdowns in his first season as a starter. Since then he has taken the Kansas City Chiefs to five Super Bowls, won three of them, and collected three Super Bowl MVP awards along the way. This quiz covers the whole story: the MLB-pitcher father and the Detroit Tigers draft pick, the record-shattering afternoon against Oklahoma at Texas Tech, the trade up to No. 10 in 2017, the MVP season of 2018, the comeback in Super Bowl LIV, the half-billion-dollar contract, the overtime win in Las Vegas, the injuries, and the businesses, endorsements and family life away from the field. The questions run from ones any Chiefs fan will get to numbers only stat-heads remember. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's Patrick Mahomes article as of August 2026, and each question carries a source you can inspect.
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Q 01In which Texas city was Patrick Mahomes born?
Tyler
Tyler, in East Texas, was home, but much of his childhood was spent in big-league clubhouses, following his father's career around six different teams.
Q 02Mahomes's father, Pat, spent 11 seasons in the major leagues playing which position?
Pitcher
Pitcher: Pat Mahomes threw for six clubs between 1992 and 2003, and his son grew up around those clubhouses before giving up his own baseball career for football.
Q 03Which MLB team drafted Mahomes in the 37th round in 2014?
Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers spent the late pick knowing he was committed to Texas Tech football; he never signed, and he gave up baseball for good two years later.
Q 04Which NFL team did Mahomes grow up supporting?
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys: he has called himself a die-hard Cowboys fan as a boy in Texas, and he beat his old favourites 19-9 the first time he started against them, in 2021.
Q 05Who was Mahomes's head coach at Texas Tech, later hired to lead the Arizona Cardinals?
Kliff Kingsbury
Kliff Kingsbury had been Texas Tech's quarterback himself; he left the school with a losing record after 2018, yet within weeks Arizona hired him as an NFL head coach.
Q 06Mahomes and Travis Kelce joined a group of athletes investing in which Formula One team in 2023?
Alpine
Alpine: the pair joined an investor group that also signed up golfer Rory McIlroy and boxer Anthony Joshua, in what the team called a strategic initiative built around athletes.
Q 07Which quarterback led Oklahoma in the 2016 shootout where Mahomes set the FBS total-offense record?
Baker Mayfield
Baker Mayfield had played for Texas Tech himself three years earlier before transferring; his Oklahoma side won 66-59 even though Mahomes gained a record 819 yards on his own.
Q 08Which award, given to the nation's top college passer, did Mahomes win as a junior?
Sammy Baugh Trophy
Sammy Baugh Trophy: he led the country with 5,052 passing yards that season, yet Texas Tech finished 5-7 and stayed home from the bowl games.
Q 09Which rival quarterback was Mahomes's partner in golf's televised challenge The Match in June 2022?
Josh Allen
Josh Allen had lost an overtime playoff classic to Mahomes that January; by June the two were partners, losing by one hole to a pair of veteran quarterbacks.
Q 10Which quarterback was the only one drafted ahead of Mahomes in 2017?
Mitchell Trubisky
Mitchell Trubisky went second overall to a team that traded up a spot to get him; within two years it was Mahomes who was the league's MVP.
Q 11Which team did the Chiefs trade with to move up and draft Mahomes?
Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills: they banked an extra first-round pick for moving down 17 places, then used the following year's draft to take a quarterback of their own in the top ten.
Q 12Mahomes was the first quarterback the Chiefs took in the first round since which player in 1983?
Todd Blackledge
Todd Blackledge went seventh overall in the famous 1983 quarterback class, ahead of future Hall of Famers Jim Kelly and Dan Marino.
Q 13Whom did Mahomes back up as a rookie in 2017?
Alex Smith
Alex Smith led the NFL in passer rating that season with the rookie watching, then was traded to Washington so that Mahomes could take over.
Q 21Mahomes's ten-finger count after a 2019 touchdown against the Bears was widely read as a nod to what?
His draft position
His draft position: Chicago had traded up to the second pick in 2017 and chosen another quarterback, leaving him to go eight picks later; Mahomes said afterwards he was just having fun.
Q 22Which team led the Chiefs 24-0 in a January 2020 playoff game and lost?
Houston Texans
Houston Texans: the Chiefs answered with 41 straight points, 28 of them in the second quarter, the first team to win a playoff game by 20 after trailing by 20.
Q 23What was the name of the 3rd-and-15 play Mahomes asked for that turned Super Bowl LIV?
Jet Chip Wasp
Q 14Against which team did Mahomes make his first NFL start, in Week 17 of 2017?
Denver Broncos
Denver Broncos: pulled with a 24-10 lead, he was sent back in after Denver tied the game and drove 67 yards to a winning field goal as time expired.
Q 15Who caught Mahomes's first career touchdown pass, a 58-yarder in the 2018 opener?
Tyreek Hill
Tyreek Hill had already returned a punt 91 yards for a touchdown less than two minutes into that game, and he added a third score in the fourth quarter.
Q 16Before Mahomes in 2018, which quarterback alone had a 5,000-yard, 50-touchdown season?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning did it in 2013; Mahomes matched him at 23, in his first season as a starter, and was voted the league's MVP for it.
Q 17The Chiefs' 54-51 loss to which team in 2018 was the first NFL game where a side scored 50 and lost?
Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Rams: Mahomes threw six touchdown passes but also turned the ball over five times, and linebacker Samson Ebukam took two of them back for touchdowns.
Q 18In February 2020, a 24-year-old Mahomes became the youngest quarterback to win which award?
Super Bowl MVP
Super Bowl MVP: he took it at 24 despite throwing two interceptions and trailing by ten points in the fourth quarter.
Q 19Which quarterback beat Mahomes in overtime of the AFC Championship Game that ended his 2018 MVP season?
Tom Brady
Tom Brady won the overtime coin toss and marched 75 yards to the winning touchdown, so Mahomes never got the ball in the extra period.
Q 20Which injury did Mahomes suffer against Denver in Week 7 of 2019?
A dislocated kneecap
A dislocated kneecap: it happened on a routine quarterback sneak, yet scans showed no major damage and he was back after missing only two games.
Jet Chip Wasp: during a replay review Mahomes asked his coordinator whether there was time to run it, and the 44-yard completion that followed began a 21-0 finish.
Q 24Whom did the Chiefs beat in Super Bowl LIV, their first championship in 50 years?
San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco 49ers led 20-10 with under nine minutes left, then gave up three touchdowns as Kansas City scored the game's last 21 points.
Q 25Mahomes's 2020 extension, worth up to $503 million, passed which baseball star's deal as the richest in North American sports?
Mike Trout
Mike Trout had signed for a record $426.5 million 16 months earlier; unlike Trout's fully guaranteed money, much of Mahomes's total hung on guarantees that vested year by year.
Q 26Which team held the Chiefs without a touchdown in Super Bowl LV?
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: with both of Kansas City's starting tackles out injured, Mahomes spent the night running from the pass rush and lost 31-9, his first NFL defeat by double digits.
Q 27Whom did the Chiefs beat 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII?
Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia Eagles led by 10 at halftime, just after Mahomes re-injured his sprained ankle; he still led touchdown drives on the first three possessions of the second half.
Q 28Who caught the game-winning overtime touchdown from Mahomes in Super Bowl LVIII?
Mecole Hardman
Mecole Hardman had started that season with the Jets before being traded back to Kansas City in October; the 3-yard catch was his only touchdown of the year.
Q 29The Chiefs' 2023-24 repeat was the NFL's first since which team did it nineteen years earlier?
New England Patriots
New England Patriots won back-to-back Super Bowls in 2004 and 2005; no champion had ever won three straight, and the Chiefs' bid for it ended one win short a year later.
Q 30Who was named MVP of Super Bowl LIX, when the Eagles sacked Mahomes a career-high six times?
Jalen Hurts
Jalen Hurts took the award in a 40-22 win, but the defence set it up: Philadelphia sacked Mahomes six times without sending a single blitz.