Wimbledon Trivia
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59 free Wimbledon trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Grass was once the surface of three of the four majors, but the American and Australian championships both abandoned it, leaving Wimbledon alone since 1988.
Q 02The first Wimbledon, in 1877, funded repairs to what?
A roller
A roller, pulled by a pony: the club's had broken, so it charged 22 men a guinea each to enter a tournament, and about 200 people paid a shilling to watch the final.
Q 03Which food is traditionally eaten by spectators at Wimbledon?
Strawberries and cream
Strawberries and cream: the pairing is credited to Cardinal Wolsey, whose kitchens are said to have served it at Hampton Court, a few miles from the courts, in Henry VIII's day.
Q 04What colour must players' clothing be at Wimbledon?
Almost entirely white
Almost entirely white is the rule's own wording: off-white and cream are banned and coloured trim may be no wider than a centimetre, though women may now wear dark undershorts.
Q 05Which firm has supplied every Wimbledon ball since 1902, the longest sponsorship in sport?
Slazenger
Slazenger has supplied the balls since 1902; they stayed white until 1986, when Wimbledon switched to yellow so that viewers at home could follow them more easily.
Q 06Which two colours are Wimbledon's traditional club colours?
Dark green and purple
Dark green and purple were adopted in 1909 because the club's original colours turned out to be almost identical to those of the Royal Marines.
Q 07By what time must play stop each night under Wimbledon's curfew?
11 pm
11 pm is a planning condition the local council set when it approved Centre Court's roof and lights; in 2012 one match was allowed to run until 11.02 pm, and the council called it common sense.
Q 08What is the official name of the Wimbledon bank better known as Henman Hill?
Aorangi Terrace
Aorangi Terrace takes its name from Aorangi Park, land the club once leased to a New Zealand sports club; Aorangi is the Maori name for Mount Cook.
Q 09Which two men's warm-up tournaments start two weeks before Wimbledon does?
Queen's Club and Halle
Queen's Club and Halle share the same week in London and Germany; since 2015 Wimbledon has started a week later, giving players three weeks rather than two to adjust after Paris.
Q 10Which Wimbledon day was traditionally a rest day with no scheduled play until 2022?
The middle Sunday
The middle Sunday was kept free until 2022; rain forced play on it only four times, and the first, in 1991, became 'People's Sunday', with cheap unreserved seats on the show courts.
Q 11Which player, then ranked 125th, is the only man to win the Wimbledon singles title as a wild card?
Goran Ivanišević
Goran Ivanišević had lost three Wimbledon finals before 2001; rain pushed this one to a third Monday, when a raucous crowd saw him finally win it two months short of his 30th birthday.
Q 12Who is the youngest man ever to win the Wimbledon singles title?
Boris Becker
Boris Becker was 17, unseeded and ranked only 20th when he became the first German man to win the title in 1985, and he showed it was no fluke by keeping it a year later.
Q 13Which woman holds the all-time record with nine Wimbledon singles titles?
Martina Navratilova
Q 21Who won the first-ever Wimbledon final in 1877, beating William Marshall in 48 minutes?
Spencer Gore
Spencer Gore preferred cricket and doubted the new game would last; he lost his title the very next year and never won it again.
Q 22Who was the first Black man to win the Wimbledon singles title, in 1975?
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe, seeded sixth and nearly 32, had never beaten Jimmy Connors, yet took the first two sets of the final 6-1, 6-1 against the overwhelming favourite.
Q 23Which American, among the first Black Wimbledon competitors in 1951, won the title in 1957 and 1958?
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson, the first Black champion at Wimbledon, was handed the 1957 trophy by Queen Elizabeth II, who was making her first visit to the Championships.
Martina Navratilova won six of the nine in a row from 1982 to 1987, and was still winning at Wimbledon in 2003, when she took the mixed doubles at 46.
Q 14Which man had won a record eight Wimbledon singles titles by the end of 2025?
Roger Federer
Roger Federer took his eighth title in 2017 without losing a set in the whole tournament, 14 years after winning his first.
Q 15Whose 2013 victory ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's singles champion at Wimbledon?
Andy Murray
Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets, a year after leaving Centre Court in tears as the beaten finalist.
Q 16Who was the last British woman to win the Wimbledon singles, in the centenary year of 1977?
Virginia Wade
Virginia Wade was 31 and playing her 16th Wimbledon when she finally won it, watched by Queen Elizabeth II on a rare visit in her Silver Jubilee year.
Q 17Which player won 20 Wimbledon titles between 1961 and 1979 across singles, doubles and mixed doubles?
Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King's 1968 singles title was the first to carry prize money: she received £750 to the men's champion's £2,000, a gap she spent years campaigning to close.
Q 18Which player won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles from 1976 to 1980?
Björn Borg
Björn Borg sealed the fifth in a 1980 final famous for the 18-16 fourth-set tiebreak he lost, before he steadied himself to win the deciding set 8-6.
Q 19Which American won seven Wimbledon singles titles from 1993 to 2000?
Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras lost only one match at Wimbledon in that span, a 1996 quarter-final against Richard Krajicek, who went on to take the title himself.
Q 20Which amateur-era champion won Wimbledon seven times, six of them in a row, in the 1880s?
William Renshaw
William Renshaw and his twin Ernest drew such crowds that the surge in the game's popularity in those years became known as the 'Renshaw Rush'.
Q 24Which former table tennis world champion won Wimbledon from 1934 to 1936?
Fred Perry
Fred Perry won the world table tennis title in 1929 before switching sports; after his third Wimbledon win, no British man lifted the trophy again for 77 years.
Q 25Who in 2023 became the first unseeded woman to win the Wimbledon singles title?
Markéta Vondroušová
Markéta Vondroušová was ranked 42nd and had not won a WTA Tour title since 2017, yet she took the final in straight sets.
Q 26The longest match in tennis history, at Wimbledon in 2010, ended with what fifth-set score?
70-68
70-68 was reached on the third day: darkness had stopped play at 59-59 the evening before, and John Isner finally broke Nicolas Mahut after 11 hours and 5 minutes.
Q 27Where on the grounds was the 11-hour Isner-Mahut marathon played?
Court 18
Court 18 now carries a plaque to the match; its scoreboard had only been programmed to count as far as 47-47, so it froze there and then went dark.
Q 28Since 2022, what happens when the final set of a Wimbledon match reaches 6-6?
A first-to-10 tiebreak is played
A first-to-10 tiebreak is played at 6-6 in the deciding set of every Grand Slam; Wimbledon had first capped final sets at 12-12 in 2019, after a 2018 semi-final ran to 26-24.
Q 29What is the ladies' singles trophy at Wimbledon called?
The Venus Rosewater Dish
The Venus Rosewater Dish is a silver salver covered in mythological figures, with Temperance at its centre; it never leaves the club, so the champion takes home a three-quarter-size replica.
Q 30Which small gold fruit sits on top of the gentlemen's singles trophy?
A pineapple
A pineapple tops the lid of the silver-gilt cup first presented in 1887; the trophy itself never leaves the club, so each champion takes home a three-quarter-size replica.