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60 free Sports Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
53 free sports movies trivia questions with answers. From Rocky running the Philadelphia steps to Ken Miles at Le Mans, sports movies are where Hollywood keeps its best underdog stories. This quiz covers fifty-three of them across boxing, baseball, football, basketball, hockey, golf, racing, running and skating: Rocky and Raging Bull, Field of Dreams and Bull Durham, Hoosiers and Rudy, Remember the Titans and Friday Night Lights, Miracle and Slap Shot, Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore, A League of Their Own, Moneyball, Creed, Ford v Ferrari, King Richard and the comedies from Dodgeball to Talladega Nights. Easy questions ask which team the Mighty Ducks inspired and who says 'show me the money'; the hard ones want the real fight that inspired Rocky, how much weight De Niro gained for LaMotta, the Indiana school behind Hoosiers and what Vin Diesel's franchise has to do with Days of Thunder. Good for a bar quiz round, a Super Bowl party or settling which sports movie is the best. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in about three days after watching Muhammad Ali fight which underdog in 1975?
Chuck Wepner
The film was made for about $1 million and won Best Picture, beating Taxi Driver, Network and All the President's Men.
Q 02How many Academy Awards did Rocky win from its ten nominations?
Three
Best Picture, Best Director and Best Film Editing; Stallone lost both his acting and writing nominations.
Q 03Roughly how much weight did Robert De Niro gain to play the older Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull?
60 pounds
He won Best Actor for it, and Thelma Schoonmaker won Best Editing, the film's only other Oscar from eight nominations.
Q 04Field of Dreams is based on a novel by W. P. Kinsella with what title?
Shoeless Joe
Ray Liotta plays the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson, who walks out of Ray Kinsella's Iowa corn.
Q 05In which Iowa town does Ray Kinsella build his baseball field?
Dyersville
The real field still stands and hosted a Major League game between the Yankees and White Sox in 2021.
Q 06Bull Durham follows the fortunes of a real minor-league team from which state?
North Carolina
Writer-director Ron Shelton drew on his own years in the minors; the rookie pitcher has 'a million dollar arm, but a five cent head'.
Q 07Hoosiers was inspired by which tiny Indiana high school's 1954 state championship?
Milan
On screen the school becomes Hickory, and Gene Hackman's Coach Norman Dale arrives there in 1951.
Q 08Which actor earned an Oscar nomination for playing the basketball-loving town drunk in Hoosiers?
Dennis Hopper
He plays Shooter, whose son is on the team and who briefly gets to coach a game.
Q 09Rudy was the first film allowed to shoot on the Notre Dame campus since which 1938 movie?
Knute Rockne, All American
Sean Astin plays Daniel 'Rudy' Ruettiger, who fought his way onto the practice squad and into one game.
Q 10In which Virginia city did coach Herman Boone integrate the football team depicted in Remember the Titans?
Alexandria
Denzel Washington plays Boone at T. C. Williams High School, now Alexandria City High School.
Q 11Who plays US coach Herb Brooks in the 2004 film Miracle, about the 1980 Olympic upset of the Soviets?
Kurt Russell
Brooks coached at the University of Minnesota before taking on the Soviets, who had won the previous four Olympic golds.
Q 12Moneyball is based on a Michael Lewis book about the 2002 season of which team?
Oakland Athletics
Brad Pitt's Billy Beane tries to compete with a third of the Yankees' payroll after losing to them in the 2001 playoffs.
Q 13Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side?
Sandra Bullock
Quinton Aaron plays Michael Oher, and country star Tim McGraw plays Sean Tuohy.
Q 21Chariots of Fire follows Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams at the Olympics of which year?
1924
Vangelis's electronic theme won Best Original Score, one of the film's four Oscars including Best Picture.
Q 22In Space Jam, the aliens who steal NBA players' talent transform into a team called what?
The Monstars
It grossed over $250 million and stayed the highest-grossing basketball film until 2022.
Q 23Cool Runnings is loosely based on the debut of Jamaica's bobsleigh team at which Winter Olympics?
1988 Calgary
Disney wanted Kurt Russell as the coach, but John Candy insisted on the part and took a pay cut to get it.
Q 14What is the name of the exclusive country club in Caddyshack?
Bushwood
Harold Ramis added the Chase-Murray scene after realising his two biggest stars never shared the screen.
Q 15Happy Gilmore's on-screen fistfight with which game-show host won an MTV Movie Award for Best Fight?
Bob Barker
Happy is a failed hockey player who takes up golf to save his grandmother's house from foreclosure.
Q 16Slap Shot's Charlestown Chiefs are a struggling minor-league team in which sport?
Ice hockey
Paul Newman's player-coach turns the goonish Hanson Brothers loose once he sees the fans love a brawl.
Q 17The year after The Mighty Ducks, Disney founded a real NHL team of that name in which city?
Anaheim
Emilio Estevez's Gordon Bombay is a Minneapolis lawyer sentenced to community service coaching a peewee team.
Q 18Which team do Geena Davis and Madonna play for in A League of Their Own?
Rockford Peaches
Penny Marshall was inspired by a 1987 TV documentary about the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Q 19Who directed A League of Their Own?
Penny Marshall
Her cast included Tom Hanks, Rosie O'Donnell, Lori Petty and her brother Garry Marshall.
Q 20Million Dollar Baby was adapted from stories by "F. X. Toole", a man who really worked as what?
A fight manager and cutman
Clint Eastwood directed, produced, scored and starred, and it won Best Picture, Director, Actress and Supporting Actor.
Q 24Who wrote and directed Jerry Maguire?
Cameron Crowe
Cuba Gooding Jr won Best Supporting Actor as Rod Tidwell, the receiver who demands 'show me the money'.
Q 25Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs in The Natural comes from a 1952 novel by which author?
Bernard Malamud
Barry Levinson's film famously flipped the novel's downbeat ending into a shower of exploding stadium lights.
Q 26Major League follows a fictionalised version of which real baseball team?
Cleveland Indians
Former showgirl Rachel Phelps inherits the club and hopes to move it to Miami; Charlie Sheen's 'Wild Thing' has other ideas.
Q 27Who directed Creed, the 2015 film in which Rocky trains Apollo Creed's son?
Ryan Coogler
He went straight from it to Black Panther, and Stallone earned his first Oscar nomination in 39 years.
Q 28In Dodgeball, what is the name of the run-down gym that Vince Vaughn's Peter LaFleur is trying to save?
Average Joe's
Ben Stiller's White Goodman owns the flashy Globo Gym across the street and buys up the mortgage.
Q 29Which comedian plays the French Formula One driver Jean Girard, Ricky Bobby's rival in Talladega Nights?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell wrote it together, and it has become a cult classic.
Q 30In The Karate Kid, what is the name of the aggressive dojo where Daniel's bully Johnny Lawrence trains?
Cobra Kai
Pat Morita's Mr Miyagi got an Oscar nomination, and the dojo name became a hit TV series thirty years later.