Philadelphia Sports Trivia
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50 free Philadelphia Sports trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Philadelphia sports trivia quiz crosses every team and era: the Phillies' 10,000th loss and two World Series titles, the Eagles' shutout back-to-back championships and the Philly Special, the Broad Street Bullies beating the Red Army, the 76ers' 68-13 season, the Union's Sons of Ben, and the departed Athletics, Warriors, Frankford Yellow Jackets and Philadelphia Quakers. College hoops gets its due too, with the Big 5, the Palestra, Villanova's perfect game and La Salle's 1954 title. Then there is everything that makes Philly Philly: the 1968 snowballs at Santa, Eagles Court at the Vet, the Curse of Billy Penn, Kate Smith, the Phanatic and Gritty, Wing Bowl, the Penn Relays, Boathouse Row, Joe Frazier, the Rocky Steps and the year all four teams reached their finals. Questions range from ones any local can answer to details for the true stat heads. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the city's teams, venues and events, and each question quotes the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which team beat the Eagles in Super Bowl XV?
Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders: their January 1981 win capped a run in which all four Philadelphia teams reached a final and only the Phillies brought a title home.
Q 02Founded in 1883, the Phillies hold what distinction in American pro sports?
Oldest one-name, one-city franchise
Oldest one-name, one-city franchise: the club has stayed in Philadelphia under the Phillies name since the 1880s, while every older club has moved or been renamed.
Q 03In 2007 the Phillies became the first franchise in any pro sport to reach which unwanted milestone?
10,000 losses
10,000 losses: the Phillies reached the mark against the Cardinals on July 15, 2007, then recovered to win the National League East that autumn.
Q 04Whom did the Phillies beat to win their first World Series title?
Kansas City Royals
Kansas City Royals: the Phillies won in six games, Tug McGraw striking out Willie Wilson to end Game 6 at Veterans Stadium, with Mike Schmidt named Series MVP.
Q 05The 1950 'Whiz Kids', led by pitcher Robin Roberts, were swept in the World Series by which team?
New York Yankees
New York Yankees: they swept the 1950 Series in four games, three decided by one run, with Joe DiMaggio's 10th-inning homer beating Robin Roberts in Game 2.
Q 06Which manager led the Philadelphia Athletics to all five of their World Series titles?
Connie Mack
Connie Mack ran the A's dugout for 50 years in a business suit, and twice broke up champion teams by selling off his stars when money ran short.
Q 07Which team did the Eagles temporarily merge with in 1943 because of wartime player shortages?
Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers: every player on the combined 'Steagles' also held a full-time job in a war plant, yet the team went 5-4-1 for the Eagles' first winning season.
Q 08How did the Eagles win both the 1948 and 1949 NFL championship games?
By shutout
By shutout: Steve Van Buren's touchdown beat the Cardinals 7-0 in a Philadelphia snowstorm in 1948, and the Eagles blanked the Rams 14-0 in driving rain a year later.
Q 09The 1960 champion Eagles were the only team ever to beat which coach in a playoff game?
Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi never lost another playoff game: Chuck Bednarik tackled Jim Taylor at the nine-yard line as time ran out, and the Packers won five of the next seven NFL titles.
Q 10Whom did the Eagles beat in Super Bowl LII to win their first Super Bowl?
New England Patriots
New England Patriots: Doug Pederson's Eagles won 41-33 in Minneapolis, sealed when Brandon Graham stripped the ball from Tom Brady for the game's only sack.
Q 11In the 'Philly Special' trick play in Super Bowl LII, who caught the touchdown pass?
Nick Foles
Nick Foles: Corey Clement took the direct snap, pitched to Trey Burton, and Burton threw to Foles in the end zone, making Foles the first player to throw and catch a touchdown in one Super Bowl.
Q 12Whom did the Eagles beat 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX in February 2025 to win their second Super Bowl?
Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs: the win denied them a third straight title and ended an odd local streak, eight straight finals lost by Philadelphia teams in presidential inauguration years.
Q 13Which team won the 1926 NFL championship, seven years before the Eagles took its place in the league?
Q 21The 76ers franchise began in Syracuse in 1946 in which league, before the 1949 merger that created the NBA?
National Basketball League
National Basketball League: the Syracuse Nationals joined the NBL in 1946, won the 1955 NBA title, and moved to Philadelphia in 1963, where a fan contest renamed them for 1776.
Q 22The 68-win 1966-67 76ers ended which team's run of eight straight NBA titles?
Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics: Wilt Chamberlain's 76ers beat them four games to one in the Eastern finals, then took the championship Boston had held since 1959.
Q 23Which NBA franchise played in Philadelphia from 1946 to 1962 before moving to California?
The Warriors
Frankford Yellow Jackets
Frankford Yellow Jackets: Pennsylvania's blue laws barred Sunday games, so the club from Philadelphia's Frankford section often played at home on Saturday and away on Sunday, going 14-1-2.
Q 14The Philadelphia Stars won the 1984 championship of which spring football league?
USFL
USFL: the Stars beat the Arizona Wranglers 23-3 in the 1984 title game under coach Jim Mora, then moved to Baltimore and won again in 1985, the league's last season.
Q 15Which Flyers goaltender was named playoff MVP in both of the team's Stanley Cup-winning seasons?
Bernie Parent
Bernie Parent won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1974 and 1975, inspiring the Philadelphia bumper sticker 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent'.
Q 16Which Flyers enforcer set the NHL record for penalty minutes in a season with 472?
Dave Schultz
Dave Schultz: 'The Hammer' spent the equivalent of nearly eight full games in the penalty box in 1974-75, then cashed in on his fame with a local hit single, 'The Penalty Box'.
Q 17Which team left the ice at the Spectrum in 1976 in protest at the Flyers' rough play?
The Soviet Central Red Army
The Soviet Central Red Army: after Ed Van Impe flattened star Valeri Kharlamov, the Soviet coach pulled his team off in protest; they came back and lost 4-1 to the defending champions.
Q 18Which singer's recording of 'God Bless America' became a Flyers good-luck tradition starting in 1969?
Kate Smith
Kate Smith: the Flyers first played her recording in place of the anthem on December 11, 1969, and four years later she surprised the home-opener crowd by singing it in person.
Q 19What is the name of the furry orange, googly-eyed mascot the Flyers unveiled in 2018?
Gritty
Gritty: the seven-foot orange creature arrived in September 2018 with an official biography claiming that construction at the arena had disturbed his secret hideout.
Q 20What did the Phillies skip buying along with the Phanatic costume in 1978?
The copyright
The copyright: the club bought only the costume from its designers, then paid them more than $200,000 for the rights in 1984 and sued them over those rights in 2019.
The Warriors: Philadelphia's Warriors won the first BAA title in 1947 and the NBA title in 1956, and Wilt Chamberlain scored his 100 points in their uniform in 1962 before the move west.
Q 24Which supporters group is credited with helping bring the Philadelphia Union to MLS in 2010?
Sons of Ben
Sons of Ben: named for Benjamin Franklin, the group formed in January 2007 to help bring an MLS team to Philadelphia, three years before the Union played a match.
Q 25What was the Philadelphia Union's first major trophy, won in 2020?
The Supporters' Shield
The Supporters' Shield: the Union finished atop the 2020 regular-season table, 14-4-5 in a pandemic-shortened season, for the club's first major trophy after losing three U.S. Open Cup finals.
Q 26The Philadelphia Atoms won the 1973 championship in their first season in which competition?
North American Soccer League
North American Soccer League: with a largely American line-up, the Atoms beat the Dallas Tornado 2-0 in the 1973 final, and goalkeeper Bob Rigby landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Q 27Which of these schools was added to the Big 5 college basketball rivalry in 2023?
Drexel
Drexel: the Dragons became the sixth school in 2023, when the series dropped the round-robin it had played since 1955 for two pods and a one-day tripleheader.
Q 28What nickname does Penn's home gymnasium, the Palestra, carry?
The Cathedral of College Basketball
The Cathedral of College Basketball: opened in 1927, the Palestra staged the Big 5's city series from 1955 until 1986, with the five schools sharing the profits.
Q 29Which Big 5 school won the 1954 NCAA men's basketball championship?
La Salle
La Salle: Tom Gola led the Explorers past Bradley 92-76 for the school's only NCAA title, and a year later they reached the final again, losing to Bill Russell's San Francisco.
Q 30Villanova shot 78.6 percent in the 1985 NCAA final to upset which defending champion?
Georgetown
Georgetown, the defending champion and a top seed, fell 66-64 in the 'Perfect Game' to an eighth seed that missed only six of its 28 shots all night.