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50 free Utah Mammoth trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Utah Mammoth are the NHL's newest franchise, created in April 2024 when Ryan Smith bought the hockey assets of the Arizona Coyotes and the league declared it an expansion team rather than a relocation. This Mammoth trivia quiz covers the whole short, strange story: the Golden Eagles and Grizzlies who skated in Salt Lake City first, the 2002 Olympic ice, the $1.2 billion expansion fee, the season played as 'Utah Hockey Club', the 20-name Qualtrics poll, the Yeti trademark that fell through, the Wasatch idea that lasted a day, and the fan vote that produced 'Mammoth' in May 2025. There are questions on the Delta Center and its renovations, Clayton Keller's captaincy, Dylan Guenther's first goal, Logan Cooley's four-goal night, Tij Iginla, Andre Tourigny, Mikhail Sergachev's chickens, Jazz Bear filling in as mascot, Tusky, and the 2026 season with no shootouts that ended in the franchise's first playoff berth. Easy questions sit beside genuinely hard ones about the naming bracket and the ECHL Grizzlies. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01In which season did the Utah franchise begin NHL play?
2024-25
It spent that first season as the placeholder 'Utah Hockey Club'.
Q 02Whose hockey assets were used to stock the new Utah team instead of an expansion draft?
Arizona Coyotes
The Coyotes franchise was declared 'inactive', much like the Browns-Ravens split in the NFL.
Q 03Ryan Smith already owned which NBA team when the NHL granted him a franchise in April 2024?
Utah Jazz
Ryan Smith and his wife Ashley control the club through Smith Entertainment Group.
Q 04Ryan Smith co-founded which Provo-based experience-management company?
Qualtrics
He started it at BYU with his father and brother, dropped out, and finished his degree in 2016.
Q 05How much was the expansion fee Smith paid to the NHL's other owners?
$1.2 billion
The league separately paid Alex Meruelo $1 billion for the Coyotes, so the $200 million gap acted as a relocation fee.
Q 06Under what temporary name did the team play its inaugural season?
Utah Hockey Club
Fans dubbed themselves the 'Clubbers' and still use the nickname.
Q 07On what date was the permanent 'Mammoth' name revealed?
May 7, 2025
Leaks of a changed YouTube handle had tipped it off a week earlier.
Q 08Which name, widely expected even by players, was blocked by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office?
Yeti
It was too close to the company name Yeti Holdings.
Q 09Which mountain-range name was on the naming survey for one day before 'Outlaws' replaced it?
Wasatch
It was meant to evoke a Utah-centric snow creature after the Yeti fell through.
Q 10Which of these was NOT one of the six naming finalists announced on June 6, 2024?
Glaciers
Glaciers made the 20-name poll but not the final six of Blizzard, Utah HC, Mammoth, Outlaws, Venom and Yeti.
Q 11Which fan-survey platform, founded by the owner, ran the naming polls?
Qualtrics
The first poll listed 20 candidates from Black Diamonds to Yeti.
Q 12Which colour trio makes up the Mammoth's scheme?
Mountain blue, rock black and salt white
The colours carried over unchanged from the Utah Hockey Club season.
Q 13What is hidden in the top of the mammoth's head in the primary logo?
Mountain peaks
One of the peaks also traces the outline of the state of Utah.
Q 21Where did Utah play its first-ever preseason game, a neutral-site win over St. Louis?
Des Moines, Iowa
It was at Wells Fargo Arena on September 22, 2024.
Q 22What was Utah's record in its inaugural 2024-25 season?
38-31-13
Sixth in the Central Division and out of the playoffs.
Q 23What league first did Utah achieve during its 2025-26 season?
A full 82 games without a single shootout
It was the first time since the shootout arrived in 2005; the season ended in a first playoff berth.
Q 14Which condition did Utah's Senate attach when it passed arena tax legislation in February 2024?
The team must carry the state name, not the city's
Discussions with the NHL had quietly been under way since early 2022.
Q 15Roughly how many season-ticket deposits did Utah sell in the first four hours?
11,000
Six thousand went in the first two hours.
Q 16Which suburb hosts the Mammoth's purpose-built practice facility?
Sandy
Ground was broken there on August 12, 2024.
Q 17Who was Utah's first-ever draft pick, taken sixth overall in 2024?
Tij Iginla
He is the son of Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla and was playing for the Kelowna Rockets.
Q 18Whom did Utah name its first captain on October 4, 2024?
Clayton Keller
He had been the Coyotes' only four-time All-Star.
Q 19Whom did Utah beat 5-2 in its first regular-season game on October 8, 2024?
Chicago Blackhawks
The Delta Center crowd was 16,020.
Q 20Who scored the first goal in franchise history?
Dylan Guenther
He added an empty-netter later and had just signed an eight-year, $57 million extension.
Q 24Which mascot filled in for Utah during its inaugural season?
Jazz Bear
The permanent mascot arrived a year later.
Q 25What is the name of the blue woolly mammoth mascot unveiled in October 2025?
Tusky
He debuted before the first home game under the Mammoth name.
Q 26Which name did Utah fans adopt for themselves during the first season?
Clubbers
It plays on the 'Hockey Club' placeholder.
Q 27Which AHL affiliate did Utah inherit from the Coyotes?
Tucson Roadrunners
The Allen Americans served as ECHL affiliate for one season.
Q 28Which minor-league club played in the city from 1969 to 1994 before becoming the Detroit Vipers?
Golden Eagles
They won three Adams Cups and two Turner Cups and opened both the Salt Palace and the Delta Center.
Q 29The 1995 Utah Grizzlies were a relocated IHL champion from which city, displaced by the Avalanche?
Denver
Their Cup clincher drew 17,381, then a minor-league record crowd.
Q 30Which two venues hosted the 2002 Olympic hockey tournaments in the Salt Lake area?
Maverik Center and Peaks Ice Arena
The Delta Center hosted figure skating and short track as the 'Salt Lake Ice Center'.