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60 free Sports Teams trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Fifty free sports teams trivia questions with answers, all about the teams themselves rather than the players: where their names came from, which cities they abandoned, who owns them and which records they hold. It spans the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL plus the biggest soccer clubs in England, Spain, Germany and Scotland. The easy questions ask which state the Lakers are named after, who is called America's Team and which NFL club is owned by its fans. The medium ones want the Astros' original name, the film behind the Toronto Raptors and the city the Colts fled overnight in moving vans. The hard end asks which king put the Real in Real Madrid, which Indiana city the Pistons started in and which ABA franchise became the San Antonio Spurs. Every answer is checked against club histories and reference sources, so it is safe for a bar trivia round, a fantasy-league night or a family argument about who moved where and when.
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Q 01The Lakers' name refers to the many lakes of which state, where the team originally played?
Minnesota
They moved west in 1960 to become the NBA's first West Coast team, keeping a name that makes no sense in Southern California.
Q 02Which NBA team kept its music-themed name after relocating from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979?
Utah Jazz
There simply was not enough time before the 1979–80 season to get league approval for a name change, so the name stuck.
Q 03Which team is the only non-profit, community-owned major league franchise in the United States?
Green Bay Packers
The fans hold the shares, and the club has won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history.
Q 04The Packers were named after their first sponsor, the Indian Packing Company, which produced what?
Canned meat
The company put up $500 for uniforms and equipment in 1919 on the condition that the team carry its name.
Q 05The Cleveland Guardians are named after Art Deco statues on which city structure?
Hope Memorial Bridge
The eight 1932 sculptures by Henry Hering stand right beside Progressive Field, and the club's title drought dating to 1948 is the longest in baseball.
Q 06The Oklahoma City Thunder began life as which NBA franchise?
Seattle SuperSonics
The move came in July 2008 after a lawsuit settlement, and the franchise won its first title in Oklahoma in 2025.
Q 07The Ravens' name was inspired by a poem by which writer, who is buried in their city?
Edgar Allan Poe
The franchise was born in 1996 when Art Modell moved the Cleveland Browns, though the Browns' name and history stayed behind.
Q 08The Toronto Raptors' name was influenced by the popularity of which 1993 film?
Jurassic Park
The dinosaur mascot has outlasted the fad, and the club won its first NBA title in 2019 as the league's only Canadian team.
Q 09The Dodgers' name originally referred to Brooklyn pedestrians dodging what?
Streetcars
The nickname coexisted with Superbas and Robins before it stuck; the club left Brooklyn after 68 seasons in 1958.
Q 10Which NFL team is the only one to put its logo on just one side of the helmet?
Pittsburgh Steelers
The logo sits on the right side only, and the team is tied with the Patriots for the most Super Bowl titles with six.
Q 11The Steelers first took the field in 1933 under what name, borrowed from the city's baseball team?
Pittsburgh Pirates
They lost that debut 23–2 to the New York Giants and did not become the Steelers until 1940.
Q 12Which franchise has won the Stanley Cup a record 24 times?
Montreal Canadiens
Founded in 1909, it is the oldest continuously operating pro hockey team in the world and the only NHL club older than the league itself.
Q 13The Cubs' 2016 World Series win ended a championship drought of how many years?
108
The same run also ended a 71-year wait just to win the National League pennant.
Q 21The Colts fled which city overnight in Mayflower moving vans in March 1984?
Baltimore
The trucks left by midday so nothing could be seized, and Indianapolis received 143,000 season-ticket requests in two weeks.
Q 22In which Indiana city were the Pistons founded as a company team, before moving to Detroit in 1957?
Fort Wayne
Owner Fred Zollner's factory made pistons for engines, which explains the otherwise odd name for a Motor City team.
Q 23Which team reached the Stanley Cup Final in its first season, 2017–18?
Vegas Golden Knights
The 'Knights' honours owner Bill Foley's alma mater, West Point, and the club won the Cup for real in 2023.
Q 14The Curse of the Billy Goat was supposedly placed on the Cubs during which World Series?
1945
Tavern owner William Sianis and his goat were turned away from Game 4; the Cubs did not return to the Series for 71 years.
Q 15Manchester United were formed in 1878 under what name?
Newton Heath LYR
The LYR stood for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, whose workers formed the club; the modern name arrived in 1902.
Q 16In 1968 Manchester United became the first English club to win the European Cup, beating whom?
Benfica
The win came ten years after the Munich air disaster killed eight of the club's players.
Q 17Which Spanish king granted the title 'Real' (Royal) to Madrid's football club in 1920?
Alfonso XIII
The club is still owned and run by its members, and it was named the greatest club of the 20th century by FIFA.
Q 18How many European Cup / Champions League titles had Real Madrid won after 2024?
15
Six of those came in a span of just eleven seasons.
Q 19How many World Series championships have the New York Yankees won, an MLB record?
27
The team also holds the records for American League pennants (41) and did not reach a Series until 1921, the year after acquiring Babe Ruth.
Q 20Before officially becoming the Yankees in 1913, the New York club was known by what name?
Highlanders
The franchise had begun as an Orioles team in 1901 before moving north two years later.
Q 24Before Vegas in 2018, which club last reached the Stanley Cup Final in its inaugural season, in 1968?
St. Louis Blues
The only other team to do it was the Toronto Arenas in 1918, in the NHL's first season.
Q 25The Chicago Bears were founded in 1919 as a company team under what name?
Decatur Staleys
The A. E. Staley food-starch company sponsored the club; George Halas renamed it in 1922 after moving into the Cubs' Wrigley Field.
Q 26For the 2020 and 2021 seasons, what placeholder name did the Commanders franchise use?
Washington Football Team
The previous name and logo drew decades of criticism before being retired in 2020.
Q 27George Preston Marshall founded the franchise now known as the Commanders in 1932 in which city?
Boston
It was named after that city's Braves baseball team and moved to Washington in 1937 after five poorly attended seasons.
Q 28Which current NBA franchise is the league's oldest, joining the NBL in 1945 as the Rochester Royals?
Sacramento Kings
The team's only championship came in 1951 in Rochester; stops in Cincinnati, Kansas City and Omaha followed before California in 1985.
Q 29Which team, dating to 1898, is the oldest continuously run pro football franchise in the US?
Arizona Cardinals
It began in Chicago, moved to St. Louis in 1960 and to the Phoenix suburb of Tempe in 1988.
Q 30The Golden State Warriors were founded in 1946 in which city?
Philadelphia
They won the league's inaugural 1946–47 title there, moved west in 1962 and adopted 'Golden State' in 1971 to claim all of California.