Sports Trivia 2023
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77 free Sports Trivia 2023 trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sports trivia 2023 covers a year that had a bit of everything: the Chiefs and Eagles trading blows in a 38–35 Super Bowl, the Denver Nuggets and Vegas Golden Knights winning their first titles, the Texas Rangers finally lifting a World Series, and Spain beating England in a Women's World Cup played for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere. Beyond the American majors, the questions reach into rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, F1, athletics and marathons: South Africa's one-point win in Paris, Australia spoiling India's party in Ahmedabad, Djokovic reaching 24, Alcaraz breaking through at Wimbledon, Verstappen winning 19 of 22, and Kelvin Kiptum and Tigst Assefa rewriting the marathon record books. There is space too for the stories that dominated the sports pages: Damar Hamlin, Messi's arrival in Miami, Ohtani's $700 million, and Wrexham's promotion. Every answer is checked against a primary reference such as the official event record or the Wikipedia article for that competition, so you can settle arguments with confidence. Roughly a third of the questions are easy, a third medium and the rest are for people who watched all of it.
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Q 01Which team won Super Bowl LVII in February 2023?
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38–35 on Harrison Butker's field goal with eight seconds left, the first Super Bowl to pit two brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce, against each other.
Q 02Who was named Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl LVII?
Patrick Mahomes
Patrick Mahomes, playing the second half on a re-aggravated high ankle sprain, threw three touchdown passes and won his second Super Bowl MVP award.
Q 03In which US state was Super Bowl LVII played?
Arizona
Arizona staged the game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, where the grass proved so slick that players on both teams kept losing their footing and several changed cleats during the game.
Q 04Which franchise won its first-ever World Series in 2023?
Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers, who began life in 1961 as the Washington Senators, had twice stood one strike from the title in Game 6 of the 2011 Series, only to lose it.
Q 05Which club lost the 2023 World Series, the third ever played between two wild-card teams?
Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks had lost 110 games only two seasons earlier, then beat the Phillies in a seven-game series to win the pennant before losing the World Series in five.
Q 06Which team won its first NBA championship in 2023, after 47 seasons in the NBA?
Denver Nuggets
The Denver Nuggets, an ABA team until 1976, won the Finals in five games with guard Jamal Murray back after a torn knee ligament had cost him the whole of the 2021–22 season.
Q 07Who was the unanimous choice for 2023 NBA Finals MVP?
Nikola Jokić
Nikola Jokić took all 11 votes. In 2014 his selection as the 41st pick of the draft was shown on a ticker while a Taco Bell commercial aired, and no Finals MVP had been drafted so low.
Q 08Which top seed did Miami beat in the 2023 NBA first round?
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks had the league's best record but fell in five games, Jimmy Butler scoring 56 points in Game 4; Miami, which had needed the play-in just to qualify, went on to reach the Finals.
Q 09Which team won the 2023 Stanley Cup, its first, in only its sixth NHL season?
Vegas Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers in five games, making good on owner Bill Foley's early boast of "playoffs in three, Cup in six" in exactly their sixth season.
Q 10Who won the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Spain
Spain beat England 1–0 in the final, Olga Carmona scoring the only goal in the 29th minute for the country's first Women's World Cup title.
Q 11Which two countries co-hosted the 2023 Women's World Cup?
Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand made it the first senior World Cup split between two confederations, because Australia left Oceania's football body for Asia's in 2006 while New Zealand stayed.
Q 12Which first-time qualifier reached the 2023 Women's World Cup knockout rounds, months after its men's World Cup semi-final run?
Morocco
Morocco, the first Arab nation to qualify, lost its opening game 6–0, then won its next two group matches to go through. None of the other seven debutants got out of the groups.
Q 13Which nation became the first to win the Rugby World Cup four times, in 2023?
South Africa
Q 21What did club pro Michael Block do on Sunday at the 2023 PGA Championship?
Made the only hole-in-one of the week
Michael Block made the only hole-in-one of the week, acing the par-3 15th on Sunday alongside Rory McIlroy, and his tie for 15th earned a return invitation for 2024.
Q 22Who won the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club, one shot ahead of Rory McIlroy?
Wyndham Clark
Wyndham Clark finished at 10 under for his first major title; he had never placed better than 75th in a major and had missed the cut in his two previous U.S. Opens.
Q 23Who won the 2023 Open Championship at Royal Liverpool by six shots?
Brian Harman
South Africa beat New Zealand 12–11 in the final, their third knockout win in a row by a single point after 29–28 against France and 16–15 against England.
Q 14Which All Blacks captain became the first man sent off in a Rugby World Cup final, in 2023?
Sam Cane
Sam Cane's yellow card for a high tackle on Jesse Kriel was upgraded to red by the bunker review in the first half, the first red card in a men's World Cup final.
Q 15Who beat host nation India in the final of the 2023 Cricket World Cup?
Australia
Australia won by six wickets with seven overs to spare, their sixth title, ending India's run of ten straight wins in the tournament.
Q 16The 2023 Cricket World Cup final was played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in which Indian city?
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is the biggest city in Gujarat, the state Narendra Modi ran as chief minister before he became prime minister; its 132,000-seat ground was the largest in world cricket.
Q 17Who was Player of the Match in both the 2023 World Test Championship final and the Cricket World Cup final?
Travis Head
Travis Head made 163 in the World Test Championship final and 137 in the World Cup final, weeks after a broken hand had kept him out of the start of the tournament.
Q 18What was the result of the 2023 men's Ashes series in England?
Drawn 2–2
Drawn 2–2: England won the third and fifth Tests after losing the first two, and Stuart Broad took the final wicket with the last ball he ever bowled in Test cricket.
Q 19Who won the 2023 Masters by four strokes?
Jon Rahm
Jon Rahm opened with a four-putt double bogey on Thursday yet won by four shots on Sunday, which would have been fellow Spaniard Seve Ballesteros's 66th birthday.
Q 20Who became the first LIV Golf member to win a major, at the 2023 PGA Championship at Oak Hill?
Brooks Koepka
Brooks Koepka won by two shots for his fifth major, a month after taking a two-shot lead into the final round of the Masters and losing it with a 75.
Brian Harman, only the third left-hander to win the Open, had gone six years without a PGA Tour victory before finishing six shots clear at Hoylake.
Q 24The 2023 Ryder Cup was played just outside which European capital?
Rome
Marco Simone sits in Guidonia Montecelio, just outside Rome; Europe won 16½–11½ after sweeping the opening foursomes 4–0 on Friday morning.
Q 25Who captained Europe to victory in the 2023 Ryder Cup?
Luke Donald
Luke Donald was appointed in August 2022 after Henrik Stenson was stripped of the captaincy for joining LIV Golf, and led Europe to a 16½–11½ win.
Q 26How did the 2023 Solheim Cup end, with a result never seen before in the event?
14–14, Europe retained
It finished 14–14, the first tie in the event's history, and Europe retained the trophy because holders need only 14 points; home player Carlota Ciganda beat Nelly Korda in the Sunday singles.
Q 27Which driver won a record 19 of the 22 Formula One Grands Prix in 2023?
Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen won ten of them in a row, breaking Sebastian Vettel's record of nine straight wins, and sealed the title in a Saturday sprint race in Qatar.
Q 28Which team won every 2023 Formula One Grand Prix except one?
Red Bull Racing
Red Bull Racing won 21 of the 22 races, the best win rate on record, despite a 10 percent cut in aerodynamic testing imposed as a penalty for breaking the sport's 2021 budget cap.
Q 29Who ended Novak Djokovic's run of four straight Wimbledon titles by winning the 2023 men's final in five sets?
Carlos Alcaraz
Carlos Alcaraz lost the first set 6–1 but won in five for his second major title, handing Djokovic his first defeat on Centre Court in more than ten years.
Q 30At Wimbledon 2023, Markéta Vondroušová became the first women's champion of the Open Era to be what?
Unseeded
Unseeded and ranked 42nd, she beat Ons Jabeur in the final, a year after visiting Wimbledon as a tourist with her injured wrist in a cast.