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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 01In which year did the WNBA play its first season?
1997
The WNBA tipped off in June 1997 with eight teams; the NBA Board of Governors had approved the league in April 1996, and the US women's Olympic gold that August fuelled interest before the first game.
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 left Iowa as Division I's all-time leading scorer, passing Pete Maravich in 2024, and set the WNBA single-season assists record as a rookie with Indiana.
Q 04Which team, owned by Raiders owner Mark Davis, won WNBA titles in 2022, 2023 and 2025?
Las Vegas Aces
The Las Vegas Aces, owned by Raiders owner Mark Davis, won back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 and then a third under coach Becky Hammon two years later; the franchise moved to Las Vegas in 2018.
Q 05Which WNBA star holds the league's all-time scoring record and won six Olympic gold medals?
Diana Taurasi
Diana Taurasi played all 20 of her seasons for the Phoenix Mercury, passed Tina Thompson as the career scoring leader in June 2017 and retired after the 2024 season with more than 10,000 points.
Q 06Under the WNBA's 2020 labor deal, what was the maximum number of players on a roster?
12
The tight 12-player limit was one reason training-camp cuts in the WNBA were so brutal every spring.
Q 07Who is the only player to win WNBA Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season?
Candace Parker
Candace Parker won both awards in 2008 with the Los Angeles Sparks, averaging 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds as a rookie; 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 of the Los Angeles Sparks threw down the first WNBA dunk on a breakaway against the Miami Sol on 30 July 2002; the 6-foot-5 center was a three-time MVP and four-time Olympic gold medallist.
Q 09The Golden State Valkyries, launched in 2025, were the WNBA's first expansion team since which 2008 franchise?
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream began play in 2008 as the league's 14th franchise; Golden State paid a reported $50 million expansion fee to become the first new team in 17 years.
Q 10Which 2026 expansion team is the first WNBA franchise based outside the United States?
Toronto Tempo
The Toronto Tempo, owned by Larry Tanenbaum's Kilmer Sports Ventures, play at Coca-Cola Coliseum, an 8,500-seat arena at Exhibition Place; the name was unveiled in December 2024.
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 12How many Finals had the New York Liberty lost before their first title in 2024?
Five
The Liberty had lost five Finals, three of them in the league's first four seasons plus 2002 and 2023, before winning the 2024 title in a five-game series decided in overtime.
Q 13Which three franchises had each won four WNBA championships by the end of 2025?
Comets, Lynx and Storm
Q 21Which Australian won three WNBA MVP awards and two titles alongside Sue Bird?
Lauren Jackson
Lauren Jackson, the No. 1 pick in 2001 at 19, won MVP in 2003, 2007 and 2010 and delivered the franchise's first two titles in 2004 and 2010 alongside her point guard.
Q 22Which Fever legend was credited with a quintuple-double as a Texas high-school player?
Tamika Catchings
Tamika Catchings posted 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists, 10 steals and 10 blocks for Duncanville High in Texas; she later spent all 15 of her WNBA seasons with Indiana and was Finals MVP in 2012.
Q 23Which NBA team made Becky Hammon the first full-time female assistant coach in a major US league?
San Antonio Spurs
Comets, Lynx and Storm each had four titles: the Lynx's came in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and the Storm's in 2004, 2010, 2018 and 2020, while no other franchise had more than three.
Q 14Which player was named Finals MVP in each of the WNBA's first four seasons?
Cynthia Cooper
Cynthia Cooper was Finals MVP in each of the first four championship series and won the league's first two MVP awards; she was 34 when the league launched after a decade starring in Italy.
Q 15Which Texas Tech legend was the first player ever signed by the WNBA?
Sheryl Swoopes
She went on to three MVP awards, three Olympic golds and a Nike signature shoe, the Air Swoopes.
Q 16Which coach won WNBA Coach of the Year in 2011, 2016, 2020 and 2024?
Cheryl Reeve
Cheryl Reeve won all four awards with the same franchise, which she also coached to championships in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
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, the Phoenix Mercury center, had been detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport in February 2022 over vape cartridges containing cannabis oil; she was swapped for arms dealer Viktor Bout on 8 December 2022.
Q 19Who holds the WNBA single-game scoring record with 53 points?
Liz Cambage
Liz Cambage scored 53 points for the Dallas Wings against the New York Liberty on 17 July 2018, breaking Riquna Williams's record of 51 set in 2013.
Q 20Who holds the WNBA career free-throw percentage record and first joined the 50-40-90 club?
Elena Delle Donne
Elena Delle Donne shot better than 93 percent from the line for her career and in 2019 became the first WNBA player with a 50-40-90 season, leading Washington to its first title and winning her second MVP.
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 set the WNBA single-season rebounding record in 2024?
Angel Reese
Angel Reese, nicknamed the Bayou Barbie, pulled down 446 rebounds in 2024, passing the previous single-season record of 404; she had led LSU to its first national title in 2023 as Most Outstanding Player.
Q 25In which year did the WNBA Finals first become a best-of-seven series?
2025
The Finals went to best-of-seven in 2025 with a 2-2-1-1-1 home-court format copied from the NBA; every previous Finals since 2005 had been best-of-5.
Q 26The 2020 WNBA season was played entirely inside a bubble at IMG Academy in which Florida city?
Bradenton
IMG Academy sits in Bradenton, south of Tampa on Florida's Gulf coast; every team lived and played there in what fans dubbed the 'Wubble', and the 2020 title was decided with no spectators.
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 28Whom did Cathy Engelbert succeed as the WNBA's top executive in 2019?
Lisa Borders
Lisa Borders, a former Coca-Cola executive, ran the league from 2016 until she left in October 2018 to lead Time's Up; Engelbert arrived from Deloitte, where she had been CEO.
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
The Detroit Shock won titles in 2003, 2006 and 2008 under Pistons legend Bill Laimbeer, then moved to Tulsa in 2010 and became the Dallas Wings in 2016.