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60 free Wimbledon trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
51 free Wimbledon trivia questions with answers. Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and the only Grand Slam still played on grass, and it has accumulated more folklore than any other fortnight in sport. This quiz covers the champions and their records (Federer's eight, Navratilova's nine, Becker at 17, the wild card who won it), the traditions (all white, strawberries and cream, the Royal Box, the queue, Henman Hill), the grounds (Centre Court, the roof, the 11pm curfew) and the odd corners of its history, from the 1877 final watched by 200 people to the suffragette arrested with paraffin in 1913 and the 70-68 fifth set on Court 18. Roughly a third of the questions are easy enough for a casual viewer; the rest climb through the sort of thing keen fans know to genuinely hard details for people who have queued overnight. It works as a solo test or a ready-made round for a summer quiz night. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01Wimbledon is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments still played on which surface?
Grass
The US Open gave it up in 1975 and the Australian Open in 1988; Wimbledon's courts have been sown with a single hardy variety since 2001.
Q 02In what year was the first Wimbledon Championship held?
1877
Twenty-two men paid a guinea each to enter, and rain pushed the final back four days.
Q 03Which food is traditionally eaten by spectators at Wimbledon?
Strawberries and cream
In 2019 the tournament served 191,930 portions; the custom is said to trace back to a dessert served to Henry VIII at Hampton Court.
Q 04What colour must players' clothing be at Wimbledon?
Almost entirely white
The rule dates from 1963; since 2023 women may wear dark undershorts, a change prompted by players' concerns about periods.
Q 05Which firm has supplied every Wimbledon ball since 1902, the longest sponsorship in sport?
Slazenger
The balls are made in the Philippines and were switched from white to yellow in 1986 to show up better on colour television.
Q 06Which two colours are Wimbledon's traditional club colours?
Dark green and purple
Officials and ball kids wore green until 2005, when Ralph Lauren redesigned their uniforms in navy and cream.
Q 07Wimbledon is the only Grand Slam that has a night-time curfew. Play must stop by what time?
11 pm
Merton Council imposed the limit as a planning condition when the Centre Court roof was approved, to protect local residents.
Q 08In which year did Centre Court get its retractable roof?
2009
It takes about 20 minutes to close; the first full match played under it was a Briton against Stan Wawrinka.
Q 09What is the official name of the Wimbledon bank better known as Henman Hill?
Aorangi Terrace
It has also been called Rusedski Ridge and Murray Mound, but none of the nicknames is official.
Q 10Which two grass-court events does Wimbledon follow, two weeks later, in the calendar?
Queen's Club and Halle
Since 2015 the gap between the French Open and Wimbledon has been three weeks instead of two, lengthening the season on the fast surface.
Q 11Which Wimbledon day was traditionally a rest day with no scheduled play until 2022?
The middle Sunday
Rain forced play on it in 1991, 1997, 2004 and 2016; the 1991 'People's Sunday' sold cheap unreserved seats on the show courts.
Q 12Which player, then ranked 125th, is the only man to win the Wimbledon singles title as a wild card?
Goran Ivanišević
He beat Pat Rafter in a Monday final in 2001 after three earlier lost finals; the crowd was let in on a first-come basis and it felt like a football match.
Q 13Who is the youngest man ever to win the Wimbledon singles title?
Boris Becker
Q 21Which amateur-era champion won Wimbledon seven times, six of them in a row, in the 1880s?
William Renshaw
Until 1922 the champion only had to play the final, waiting for a challenger, which made long streaks far easier.
Q 22Who won the first-ever Wimbledon final in 1877, beating William Marshall in 48 minutes?
Spencer Gore
About 200 spectators paid a shilling each; Gore, a rackets player, later said he doubted lawn tennis would ever catch on.
Q 23Who was the first Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title, in 1975?
Arthur Ashe
He upset the heavily favoured Jimmy Connors and remains the only Black man to have won singles at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open.
He was 17 years, 7 months and 15 days old in 1985, unseeded, and the first German to win it.
Q 14Which woman holds the all-time record with nine Wimbledon singles titles?
Martina Navratilova
She reached the final twelve times, including nine years in a row from 1982 to 1990.
Q 15Which man had won a record eight Wimbledon singles titles by the end of 2025?
Roger Federer
Sampras and Djokovic had seven each at that point; the record-holder's final title came in 2017 without dropping a set.
Q 16Whose 2013 victory made him the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles since Fred Perry in 1936?
Andy Murray
He beat Djokovic in straight sets in 30-degree heat, ending a 77-year wait, and won it again in 2016.
Q 17Who was the last British woman to win the Wimbledon singles, in the centenary year of 1977?
Virginia Wade
Elizabeth II, in her Silver Jubilee year, attended the final for the first time since 1962 and presented the trophy.
Q 18Which player holds the record of 20 Wimbledon titles across singles, doubles and mixed doubles?
Billie Jean King
Six singles, ten women's doubles and four mixed; Navratilova later equalled the 20 but not with the same mix.
Q 19How many consecutive Wimbledon singles titles did Björn Borg win before retiring at 25?
Five
His 1980 final against John McEnroe, with its 18-16 fourth-set tiebreak, is still cited as one of the greatest matches ever played.
Q 20Pete Sampras won his seven Wimbledon titles within how many years?
Eight
The only interruption between 1993 and 2000 was Richard Krajicek's 1996 win, in a year Sampras lost to him in the quarter-finals; Federer later passed his tally.
Q 24Which American, among the first Black Wimbledon competitors in 1951, won the title in 1957 and 1958?
Althea Gibson
The first Black man to play there had been the Jamaican amateur Bertrand Clark, back in 1924.
Q 25Fred Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles ending in which year?
1936
Britain then waited 77 years for another men's champion, and Perry's statue at the club marks his 1984 centenary.
Q 26Who in 2023 became the first unseeded woman to win the Wimbledon singles title?
Markéta Vondroušová
She was ranked 42nd; the previous lowest-ranked champion was Venus Williams as the 23rd seed in 2007.
Q 27The longest match in tennis history, at Wimbledon in 2010, ended with what fifth-set score?
70-68
John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut over 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days; a plaque on the outside court marks the spot.
Q 28Where on the grounds was the 11-hour Isner-Mahut marathon played?
Court 18
The scoreboard, not designed for such numbers, froze at 47-47 and had to be reset.
Q 29Since 2022, what happens when the final set of a Wimbledon match reaches 6-6?
A first-to-10 tiebreak is played
Isner and Mahut's marathon prompted the first change in 2018, a tiebreak at 12-12; all four Slams then agreed on the 10-point version.
Q 30What is the ladies' singles trophy at Wimbledon called?
The Venus Rosewater Dish
It is a sterling silver salver decorated with mythological figures; the champion takes home a three-quarter-size replica.