WNBA Trivia
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58 free WNBA trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free WNBA trivia questions with answers. The WNBA has gone from an eight-team experiment in 1997 to sold-out arenas, best-of-seven Finals and a franchise in Canada. This WNBA trivia quiz covers the whole arc: the Houston Comets winning the first four titles, the Sparks, Shock and Lynx dynasties, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi's UConn-to-gold-medal careers, A'ja Wilson's record four MVPs, and the Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese rookie class that changed the league's attendance numbers overnight. Easy questions ask which team won the first four championships or who was drafted first in 2024. Harder ones dig into who scored the league's first point, which team the expansion Valkyries were not allowed to draft from, the year the shot clock dropped to 24 seconds, and the oldest No. 1 pick in draft history. Every answer has been checked against team histories and player records and carries a linked source, so it holds up for a sports bar quiz, a watch-party warm-up or settling who really knows the W.
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Q 01Which NBA chief launched the WNBA in 1997?
David Stern
David Stern won his owners' approval for the league in April 1996 and launched it 14 months later, building on the much-publicised gold medal the US women won at the 1996 Olympics.
Q 02Which team won the first four WNBA championships?
Houston Comets
The Houston Comets won the first four titles, from the inaugural season through 2000; the franchise folded in December 2008 when no new owner could be found, dynasty and all.
Q 03Which NCAA all-time leading scorer at Iowa was drafted first overall by the Indiana Fever in 2024?
Caitlin Clark
Caitlin Clark passed Pete Maravich as Division I's all-time leading scorer in March 2024; in her first season Indiana, a five-win team two years earlier, reached the playoffs.
Q 04Which team won WNBA titles in 2022, 2023 and 2025?
Las Vegas Aces
The Las Vegas Aces were bought in 2021 by Raiders owner Mark Davis, who hired Becky Hammon as the league's first million-dollar coach; she won the title in her first season.
Q 05Which WNBA star retired as the league's all-time leading scorer with six Olympic gold medals?
Diana Taurasi
Diana Taurasi scored 10,646 points in 20 seasons; she skipped the 2015 season because her Russian club paid her more to rest than the WNBA could pay her to play.
Q 06Which Sparks forward led the players' union through the WNBA's landmark 2020 labor deal?
Nneka Ogwumike
Nneka Ogwumike, elected union president in 2016, won higher salaries and maternity benefits in 2020; the players then opted out early and secured a richer deal in 2026.
Q 07Who was the first player to win WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season?
Candace Parker
Candace Parker won both in 2008 as the Los Angeles Sparks, 10-24 the year before, went 20-14; in the NBA only Wilt Chamberlain and Wes Unseld have matched the double.
Q 08Which player was the first to dunk in a WNBA game, in 2002?
Lisa Leslie
Lisa Leslie threw down the first WNBA dunk against the Miami Sol on 30 July 2002, yet her Sparks lost the game 82-73; the 6-foot-5 center was a three-time MVP.
Q 09The Golden State Valkyries, launched in 2025, were the WNBA's first expansion team since which 2008 franchise?
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream lost their first 17 games in 2008, then reached the Finals two years later; Golden State arrived 17 years on as the league's next new team.
Q 10Which 2026 expansion team is the first WNBA franchise based outside the United States?
Toronto Tempo
The Toronto Tempo play at Coca-Cola Coliseum, and in their first season they also staged regular-season home games in Vancouver and Montreal.
Q 11Which player won a record fourth WNBA MVP award in 2025?
A'ja Wilson
A'ja Wilson's fourth MVP followed wins in 2020, 2022 and 2024, one more than any other player; that season she also took the scoring title, Defensive Player of the Year and a third championship.
Q 12Which center was Finals MVP of the New York Liberty's first title, in 2024?
Jonquel Jones
Jonquel Jones scored 17 points in the overtime win in Game 5; New York had lost all five of its earlier Finals, the first of them in the league's opening season.
Q 13Which point guard won all four of the Seattle Storm's WNBA titles, from 2004 to 2020?
Sue Bird
Q 21Which Australian won three WNBA MVP awards and two titles with the Seattle Storm?
Lauren Jackson
Lauren Jackson, the No. 1 pick in 2001 at 19, was MVP in 2003, 2007 and 2010; she retired in 2016, then came back in 2022 and played for Australia at the Paris Olympics.
Q 22Which Fever legend was credited with a quintuple-double as a Texas high-school player?
Tamika Catchings
Tamika Catchings, who is hearing impaired, threw her hearing aids into a field as a third-grader; at Duncanville she posted 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks.
Q 23Which NBA team made Becky Hammon the first full-time female assistant coach in a major US league?
San Antonio Spurs
Sue Bird won titles 16 years apart with Seattle; she missed all of 2019 after knee surgery, then came back at 39 to win the fourth.
Q 14Which player was named Finals MVP in each of the WNBA's first four seasons?
Cynthia Cooper
Cynthia Cooper spent a decade with clubs in Spain and Italy because the US had no league for her; she was 34 when the WNBA began and still won Finals MVP four years running.
Q 15Which Texas Tech legend was the first player ever signed by the WNBA?
Sheryl Swoopes
Sheryl Swoopes signed in October 1996 but sat out much of the first season because she was pregnant; she came back to win three MVP awards and had her own Nike shoe, the Air Swoopes.
Q 16Which coach won WNBA Coach of the Year in 2011, 2016, 2020 and 2024?
Cheryl Reeve
Cheryl Reeve won them all with one franchise, which had missed the playoffs for years before her 2011 team took the title; she added a fifth award in 2026.
Q 17Which Lynx star stepped away from the game in 2019 to focus on criminal justice reform?
Maya Moore
Maya Moore, a four-time champion and the 2014 MVP, sat out from 2019 to help overturn the wrongful conviction of Jonathan Irons, whom she married, and formally retired in 2023.
Q 18Which player was freed from a Russian penal colony in December 2022 in an exchange for Viktor Bout?
Brittney Griner
Brittney Griner had been detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in February 2022 over vape cartridges holding less than a gram of hash oil; she was swapped for arms dealer Viktor Bout that December.
Q 19Who set the WNBA single-game scoring record of 53 points in 2018?
Liz Cambage
Liz Cambage had not played in the WNBA since 2013; in her first season back she scored 53 for Dallas against the New York Liberty, breaking Riquna Williams's record of 51.
Q 20Who in 2019 became the first WNBA player to record a 50-40-90 shooting season?
Elena Delle Donne
Elena Delle Donne also won her second MVP that year, then played through three herniated discs in the Finals as Washington took its first title; her 93.7 percent career free-throw mark is the league's best.
The San Antonio Spurs hired Hammon as a full-time assistant under Gregg Popovich in 2014; she later became the first WNBA coach paid over $1 million a year, having gone undrafted as a player in 1999.
Q 24Which Chicago Sky rookie averaged a WNBA-record 13.1 rebounds a game in 2024?
Angel Reese
Angel Reese broke the season record with 446 rebounds before a wrist fracture ended her year, and her total was passed before the season ended; her 13.1 a game was still the best average in 2026.
Q 25Which team was swept in the first best-of-seven WNBA Finals?
Phoenix Mercury
The Phoenix Mercury knocked out the defending champions and then the top seed to reach the 2025 Finals, where they lost four straight; every Finals from 2005 to 2024 had been best-of-five.
Q 26The 2020 WNBA season was played inside a bubble at IMG Academy in which Florida city?
Bradenton
Bradenton's IMG Academy housed every team for the whole 2020 season; the players dedicated it to Breonna Taylor and wore her name on their jerseys.
Q 27Which in-season tournament, first held in 2021, does the WNBA play each summer?
The Commissioner's Cup
The Commissioner's Cup pits the best in-season record from each conference in a one-off final with its own prize pool; the inaugural final streamed on Amazon Prime Video.
Q 28Which former Deloitte chief executive became the WNBA's top executive in 2019?
Cathy Engelbert
Cathy Engelbert had been the first woman to run a Big Four accounting firm; she replaced Lisa Borders, the league's fourth president, who had left to lead Time's Up.
Q 29Under what name did the team the Mohegan Tribe bought in 2003 begin play in 1999?
Orlando Miracle
The Orlando Miracle played four seasons in Florida before the Mohegan Tribe bought them and moved them to its casino arena in Uncasville, becoming the first Native American tribe to own a professional sports franchise.
Q 30The Dallas Wings were previously the Tulsa Shock and, before that, a three-time champion in which city?
Detroit
Detroit's Shock lost their first 13 games of 2002, won the title a year later and added two more in 2006 and 2008 before leaving for Tulsa and, in 2016, Dallas.