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This Philadelphia Eagles trivia quiz has 48 free questions with answers and runs the length of the franchise, from the 1933 expansion team that Bert Bell named after a New Deal logo to the 2025 season that followed the Super Bowl LIX parade. Along the way you'll meet the Steagles, the snowbound 1948 title game, Chuck Bednarik sitting on Jim Taylor, the Miracle at the Meadowlands, Buddy Ryan's Bounty Bowl, the judge who held court inside Veterans Stadium, and the fourth-and-goal trick play that beat Tom Brady. It's built for fans who already know Nick Foles was the MVP and want the next layer down: which draft pick, which stadium, which record, which rule change. About a third of the questions are easy, a third medium, and the rest will test people who wear kelly green on Sundays. Every answer was checked against a primary source, such as Wikipedia's team, season, player and Super Bowl pages and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, before publication, and the source is shown under each question.
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Q 01The Eagles were founded in 1933 to replace which bankrupt NFL franchise?
Frankford Yellow Jackets
The Eagles' 1933 blue-and-yellow uniforms matched the city flag and the colors the Yellow Jackets had worn before folding in 1931.
Q 02Bert Bell and Lud Wray took the team's name from the Blue Eagle logo of which New Deal agency?
National Recovery Administration
The Blue Eagle was the National Recovery Administration's emblem, displayed by businesses that complied with Roosevelt's 1933 codes; Bell and Wray borrowed it for the team.
Q 03Eagles co-founder Bert Bell later served as NFL commissioner from 1946 until his death in what year?
1959
Bell died of a heart attack on 11 October 1959 in the stands at an Eagles-Steelers game in Philadelphia, the two teams he had once owned.
Q 04What was the official NFL name of the merged 1943 Eagles-Steelers team nicknamed the Steagles?
Phil-Pitt Combine
The Phil-Pitt Combine went 5-4-1, the Philadelphia franchise's first winning season, with Greasy Neale and Walt Kiesling sharing the coaching because neither would take a demotion.
Q 05Which team did the Eagles beat 7-0 in a snowstorm for the 1948 NFL title?
Chicago Cardinals
The Eagles beat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 at Shibe Park; the snow was so heavy that players from both teams helped the grounds crew drag the tarp off before kickoff.
Q 06What made the field so bad in the Eagles' 14-0 1949 title win in Los Angeles?
Driving rain turned it to mud
Driving rain turned the Coliseum turf to mud; Steve Van Buren slogged for 196 yards on 31 carries while the Eagles held the Rams to 21 rushing yards.
Q 07The Eagles' 1960 NFL Championship win was the only playoff defeat in the career of which coach?
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi's Packers lost 17-13 in Philadelphia on 26 December 1960, kicking off at noon because the stadium had no lights; Lombardi won all nine of his later playoff games.
Q 08Which Packers running back did Chuck Bednarik pin at the nine-yard line to seal the 1960 title?
Jim Taylor
Bednarik wrestled Jim Taylor down at the nine-yard line as time ran out, having played 58 minutes both ways, and told him, 'You can get up now, this game's over.'
Q 09Chuck Bednarik, "Concrete Charlie", was drafted first overall by the Eagles in 1949 out of which university?
Penn
Bednarik starred at Penn after flying 30 missions as a B-24 waist gunner in the war; the Eagles took him with the 1949 bonus pick, first overall.
Q 10Hall of Fame halfback Steve Van Buren, whose No. 15 is retired by the Eagles, was born in which country?
Honduras
Van Buren was born in La Ceiba, Honduras, in 1920; orphaned at ten, he was sent to grandparents in New Orleans and starred at LSU before the Eagles drafted him in 1944.
Q 11Where was the 1968 Eagles game at which fans booed and pelted a fill-in Santa Claus with snowballs?
Franklin Field
At Franklin Field on 15 December 1968 the booked Santa was snowed out, so fan Frank Olivo in his own costume was pressed into service and took the abuse aimed at a 2-11 team.
Q 12Dick Vermeil was hired to coach the Eagles in 1976 straight from which college program?
UCLA
Vermeil's UCLA Bruins had just upset Ohio State in the 1976 Rose Bowl; his Eagles years were dramatised in the Vince Papale film Invincible, with Greg Kinnear as Vermeil.
Q 13Which Eagles cornerback returned Joe Pisarcik's fumble in the 1978 Miracle at the Meadowlands?
Herman Edwards
Q 21Jeffrey Lurie bought the Eagles in May 1994 for an estimated $185 million from which owner?
Norman Braman
Norman Braman, owner since 1985, sold the Eagles to Lurie in 1994 for about $185 million; Lurie later produced Inside Job, the 2011 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature.
Q 22In 1996 the Eagles swapped their classic kelly shade for what darker primary color?
Midnight green
The Eagles adopted midnight green in 1996 under Jeffrey Lurie; kelly green returned as an official throwback alternate from the 2023 season.
Q 23Which municipal judge was stationed at Veterans Stadium on game days from 1997 to handle rowdy fans?
Seamus McCaffery
Herman Edwards scooped up the fumble and ran 26 yards for the winning score; the Giants fired offensive coordinator Bob Gibson the next morning, and the kneel-down became the standard way to end games.
Q 14The Eagles' first Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XV after the 1980 season, ended in a 27-10 loss to which team?
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders won 27-10 in New Orleans; linebacker Rod Martin intercepted Ron Jaworski three times, a Super Bowl record, and the Raiders became the first wild-card champion.
Q 15Reggie White joined the Eagles after two seasons in the USFL with which team?
Memphis Showboats
After two USFL seasons with the Memphis Showboats, White came to the Eagles in 1985 and piled up 124 sacks in 121 games, the franchise record.
Q 16Reggie White's nickname "the Minister of Defense" reflected his ordination as a minister at what age?
17
White was ordained a Baptist minister at 17 as a Chattanooga schoolboy; he retired in 2000 as the NFL's all-time sack leader with 198.
Q 17As Bears defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan was credited with inventing which scheme?
The 46
The 46 defense took its name from the jersey number of Bears safety Doug Plank, not from a formation count; it carried Chicago to the Super Bowl XX title after the 1985 season.
Q 18After the 1989 'Bounty Bowl', Jimmy Johnson claimed the Eagles had put a bounty on Troy Aikman and which kicker?
Luis Zendejas
Luis Zendejas, cut by the Eagles earlier in 1989, was knocked out on a kickoff; Johnson claimed a $200 bounty on him and $500 on Aikman, which Buddy Ryan denied.
Q 19The Eagles' 1988 playoff loss known as the Fog Bowl was played at which stadium?
Soldier Field
Fog rolled off Lake Michigan over Soldier Field in the second quarter; Randall Cunningham threw for 407 yards, but the Eagles managed only four field goals in a 20-12 loss.
Q 20Randall Cunningham was a two-time college All-American at UNLV at which position?
Punter
Cunningham was an All-American punter at UNLV in 1983 and 1984 and kept the skill: his 91-yard punt against the Giants in December 1989 set the Eagles record.
Judge Seamus McCaffery ran 'Eagles Court' in the Vet's basement from 1997, fining unruly fans on the spot; Lincoln Financial Field has only a holding cell.
Q 24Eagles fans booed the 1999 pick of Donovan McNabb, wanting which running back instead?
Ricky Williams
Fans bussed in by WIP wanted Texas running back Ricky Williams, the 1998 Heisman winner, who went fifth to New Orleans; McNabb went on to five NFC Championship Games.
Q 25Terrell Owens played Super Bowl XXXIX seven weeks after what injury from a horse-collar tackle?
A fractured fibula and sprained ankle
Owens played with a fractured fibula and sprained ankle from a Roy Williams horse-collar in December 2004, catching nine passes for 122 yards in the 24-21 loss; the tackle was banned in 2005.
Q 26Brian Dawkins, whose No. 20 is retired, was drafted by the Eagles in 1996 out of which college?
Clemson
Dawkins came out of Clemson in the second round in 1996; nicknamed Weapon X, he became the first player with a sack, an interception, a forced fumble and a touchdown catch in one game, in 2002.
Q 27DeSean Jackson's 2010 game-winner against the Giants came on what kind of play?
Punt return on the final play
Jackson's 65-yard punt return on the final play capped a rally from 31-10 down with eight minutes left, a game remembered as the Miracle at the New Meadowlands.
Q 28In 2013 Nick Foles tied an NFL record with how many touchdown passes against the Raiders?
Seven
Foles threw seven touchdown passes in Oakland on 3 November 2013, tying the single-game record; he finished the season with 27 touchdowns, two interceptions and a 119.2 passer rating.
Q 29Which school produced Carson Wentz, the No. 2 pick of the 2016 draft?
North Dakota State
Wentz quarterbacked North Dakota State to FCS titles in 2014 and 2015; at No. 2 he went higher than any FCS player before him, ahead of Steve McNair's third overall in 1995.
Q 30In the Philly Special, the trick play in Super Bowl LII, who threw the touchdown pass to Nick Foles?
Trey Burton
Tight end Trey Burton, a high-school quarterback in Florida, took Corey Clement's pitch and lobbed to Foles on fourth-and-goal from the one with 38 seconds left in the half.