Tennessee Titans Trivia
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50 free Tennessee Titans trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Two-tone blue, a raccoon named T-Rac and the most famous lateral in playoff history. This Titans trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers that span the whole franchise, from Bud Adams founding the Houston Oilers as an AFL charter member in 1959, through George Blanda, Earl Campbell's Luv Ya Blue years and Warren Moon's run-and-shoot, to the move to Tennessee, the Music City Miracle, One Yard Short in Super Bowl XXXIV, Steve McNair and Eddie George, Chris Johnson's 2,006 yards, Derrick Henry, Mike Vrabel and the Cam Ward era. The early questions are ones any Nashville fan should nail: the stadium, the mascot, the Super Bowl opponent. Then it gets tougher, with the Memphis year, the name committee, uniform history, coaching changes and record-book details that reward the diehards. Use it before kickoff, at a bar-trivia night, or to settle who in the group chat really knows the Titans. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the franchise, its games and its players, and each question links to the page and sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which team beat the Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV in January 2000?
St. Louis Rams
St. Louis Rams led 16-0 before the Titans scored 16 straight points to tie it late; a 73-yard touchdown pass with 1:54 left put St. Louis ahead for good.
Q 02Which team did the Oilers beat 10-3 to win the 1961 AFL title?
San Diego Chargers
San Diego Chargers had lost the first title game to the Oilers too, but as the Los Angeles Chargers: the club moved down the coast after a single season in L.A.
Q 03The Oilers became the first pro football team with a domed home stadium when they moved where in 1968?
The Astrodome
The Astrodome opened in 1965 with real grass, which died after roof panels were painted to cut the glare; the replacement was a plastic carpet that became known as AstroTurf.
Q 04Whom did the Oilers take with the first overall pick of the 1978 draft?
Earl Campbell
Earl Campbell cost the Oilers a tight end and a bundle of draft picks, sent to Tampa Bay for the top choice; he then led the NFL in rushing in each of his first three seasons.
Q 05Which hometown nickname did the Oilers' star running back of the Luv Ya Blue years carry?
The Tyler Rose
The Tyler Rose honours his hometown of Tyler, Texas, where farmers turned to roses after blight ruined the peach orchards; by the 1940s over half of America's rose bushes grew nearby.
Q 06Which coach in a Stetson and cowboy boots led the Oilers to the AFC title game in both 1978 and 1979?
Bum Phillips
Bum Phillips took off his trademark white Stetson whenever his team played under a roof, because he had been taught it was disrespectful to wear a hat indoors.
Q 07Warren Moon won five straight Grey Cups with which Canadian team before joining the Oilers in 1984?
Edmonton Eskimos
Edmonton Eskimos signed Moon weeks before the 1978 NFL draft, when some scouts wanted him to switch positions; six years later NFL teams fought a bidding war for him as a quarterback.
Q 08Which team erased a 35-3 Oilers lead in a January 1993 playoff game?
Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bills won 41-38 in overtime, at the time the largest comeback in NFL history; the Oilers fired their defensive coordinator the next day and hired Buddy Ryan.
Q 09Who replaced Jack Pardee as Oilers head coach during the 1994 season and later took the Titans to a Super Bowl?
Jeff Fisher
Jeff Fisher was the defensive coordinator promoted when the Oilers stood 1-9; five seasons and a move to Tennessee later, his Titans finished a yard short of tying the Super Bowl on its last play.
Q 10Where did the Tennessee Oilers play their home games in 1997, their first season after leaving Houston?
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis was meant to host two seasons while the team lived 200 miles away in Nashville, but crowds were so thin that the club got out of its lease after one.
Q 11Where did the team play in 1998, its second season as the Tennessee Oilers?
Vanderbilt Stadium
Vanderbilt Stadium held only about 41,000, so it was a one-year stopgap while the permanent stadium was finished; the Oilers went 3-5 there and 5-3 on the road.
Q 12Nashville's many colleges earned it which nickname, a fitting backdrop for a team called the Titans?
The Athens of the South
The Athens of the South was Nashville's nickname long before the team arrived; the city leaned into it in the 1920s by building a full-scale concrete replica of the Parthenon.
Q 13What was the Titans' 1999 stadium, later renamed Nissan Stadium, originally called?
Adelphia Coliseum
Q 21With whom did Steve McNair share the NFL MVP award in 2003?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning and McNair got 16 votes apiece; their teams finished level too, at 12-4, but Manning's Colts took the division by beating the Titans twice.
Q 22How did the Titans' helmets honor Steve McNair in 2009?
A navy disc with his white number 9
A navy disc with his white number 9 sat on the back of every Titans helmet that season, weeks after McNair was shot dead; ten years later the team retired the number for good.
Q 23Eddie George won the 1995 Heisman Trophy at which school?
Ohio State
Adelphia Coliseum lost its name in 2002 after its sponsor, a telecom company, went bankrupt; the stadium was plain The Coliseum for four years before becoming LP Field.
Q 14Which 1999 team lost only three games, all to the Titans?
Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville Jaguars went 14-2 and won the division, leaving the 13-3 Titans a wild card; Tennessee then beat them a third time, 33-14, in the AFC Championship Game.
Q 15In the Music City Miracle, who threw the lateral across the field to Kevin Dyson?
Frank Wycheck
Frank Wycheck, a tight end, threw it to a stand-in: Dyson rarely practised with the return unit and was briefed just before the kick, because regular returner Derrick Mason had left with a concussion.
Q 16What did replay officials check before the Music City Miracle touchdown stood?
Whether the lateral went forward
Whether the lateral went forward was the whole argument: referee Phil Luckett ruled the ball was thrown and caught on the same yard line, so the score stood, and the losing side left still disputing it.
Q 17Which Titans rookie pass rusher, nicknamed 'The Freak', had 14.5 sacks in 1999?
Jevon Kearse
Jevon Kearse scored the first points of the Music City Miracle game by forcing a safety on the visiting quarterback, one of his two sacks that day.
Q 18Who tackled Kevin Dyson one yard short of the goal line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV?
Mike Jones
Mike Jones brought Dyson down at the 1-yard line as time ran out; a touchdown and extra point would have sent a Super Bowl to overtime for the first time, something that waited until 2017.
Q 19Who was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXIV, the Titans' 23-16 defeat in January 2000?
Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner threw for 414 yards, then a Super Bowl record; five years earlier he had been stocking shelves on the night shift at an Iowa grocery store for $5.50 an hour.
Q 20Where did Steve McNair play college football before the Oilers drafted him third overall in 1995?
Alcorn State
Alcorn State was the school that let him play quarterback: bigger programs wanted him at other positions, and he answered by finishing third in the 1994 Heisman vote.
Ohio State barely used him as a sophomore, when he ran for just 223 yards; two years later he piled up 314 in a single game against Illinois and won the Heisman.
Q 24Which Titans quarterback was 2006 Offensive Rookie of the Year before injuries and coach clashes derailed him?
Vince Young
Vince Young's time in Tennessee ended after a locker-room confrontation with his head coach late in 2010; weeks later the owner sided with the coach and announced Young would not be back.
Q 25Chris Johnson's 4.24 seconds at the 2008 NFL combine matched the record in which drill?
The 40-yard dash
The 40-yard dash time lifted him from a projected second- or third-round pick to the 24th overall choice; no one ran faster at the combine until John Ross's 4.22 in 2017.
Q 26Whose single-season record for yards from scrimmage did Chris Johnson break in 2009?
Marshall Faulk's
Marshall Faulk's mark of 2,429 had stood since 1999; Johnson finished 99 rushing yards short of Eric Dickerson's record, but his 503 receiving yards carried him past Faulk.
Q 27Derrick Henry's 99-yard touchdown run in 2018 tied an NFL record set in the 1982 season by which running back?
Tony Dorsett
Tony Dorsett ran 99 yards for Dallas, and Henry matched him by shedding three tacklers from his own goal line; the mark can be tied but never beaten, since no run can be longer.
Q 28Derrick Henry set the national high school career rushing record at Yulee High School in which state?
Florida
Florida's small town of Yulee watched him run for 12,124 yards, breaking a 59-year-old record; the grandmother who raised him there called him 'Shocka' for the shock his birth gave her.
Q 29Derrick Henry won the 2015 Heisman Trophy at which school before the Titans drafted him in the second round?
Alabama
Alabama's Heisman winner lasted until the 45th pick and then began as a backup, carrying just 110 times as a rookie behind DeMarco Murray, who led the AFC in rushing that year.
Q 30Which quarterback did the Titans draft second overall in 2015?
Marcus Mariota
Marcus Mariota threw four touchdown passes and posted a perfect passer rating in his first NFL game, beating the Buccaneers and the one player drafted ahead of him, Jameis Winston.