World's Strongest Man
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50 free World's Strongest Man trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
World's Strongest Man has crowned a champion almost every year since 1977, and its roll of winners reads like a history of strength sport: Olympic throwers and powerlifters in the early days, a long Nordic era, and the giants of the modern game. This quiz walks through that history. You will meet the winners year by year, the competitors who reached the final again and again, the record-setters, and the events that decide it all. Along the way are the stories fans love to retell: the television star who entered the first contest, the champion who went into politics, and the two-time winner with a prize-winning hobby. It is written for anyone who watches the final every year and wants to test their memory of who won and when, and for newer fans who want the winners list to stick. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which World's Strongest Man champion played Gregor 'the Mountain' Clegane in Game of Thrones?
Hafþór Björnsson
Hafþór Björnsson joined the cast in 2013 for the fourth season, then won the 2018 title after six straight years on the podium.
Q 02Which star of TV's The Incredible Hulk finished fourth in the first World's Strongest Man in 1977?
Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno placed fourth in a field of eight, one spot ahead of fellow bodybuilder Franco Columbu, who went out with a knee injury.
Q 03At the 1977 World's Strongest Man, bodybuilder Franco Columbu dislocated his knee racing with what on his back?
A refrigerator
A refrigerator was the load in the event known as the Fridge Race, and the fall put the 1976 Mr. Olympia out of action for three years.
Q 04Two-time World's Strongest Man winner Geoff Capes became a world champion breeder of which birds?
Budgerigars
Budgerigars brought Geoff Capes a world championship in 1995, and in 2008 he was appointed president of the Budgerigar Society.
Q 05Which Nordic country's three World's Strongest Man champions have won nine titles between them?
Iceland
Iceland owes eight of its nine titles to two men who won four each, in runs that began in 1984 and 1991.
Q 06Which British winner of the 2017 World's Strongest Man had set a 500 kg deadlift world record in 2016?
Eddie Hall
Eddie Hall bled from his nose and ears and briefly lost his sight before fainting after the lift at the 2016 World Deadlift Championships.
Q 07At the 2015 World's Strongest Man in Malaysia, which fruit replaced rocks in the Basque Circle carrying basket?
Pineapples
Pineapples filled the basket, which normally holds at least 270 kg of rock and is carried in the crook of the elbows around a circular track.
Q 08Which Polish strongman nicknamed the Dominator was the first to win five World's Strongest Man titles?
Mariusz Pudzianowski
Mariusz Pudzianowski took his fifth title in 2008, then swapped strongman for a career as a mixed martial artist the following year.
Q 09Which World's Strongest Man event, usually the last, has athletes lift five heavy spheres onto platforms?
Atlas Stones
Atlas Stones get heavier along the row, and several titles have been settled by a head-to-head race on them in the final event.
Q 10Which Scottish strongman nicknamed the Albatross won World's Strongest Man in 2021, 2022 and 2024?
Tom Stoltman
Tom Stoltman earned the nickname for his huge arm span, and in 2021 became the first Scot to take the title.
Q 11Which American from Colorado won four World's Strongest Man titles between 2011 and 2016?
Brian Shaw
Brian Shaw played college basketball on a scholarship before turning to strongman, and went on to reach 15 finals in a row.
Q 12Which Lithuanian became the oldest World's Strongest Man winner when he took a fourth title aged 38?
Žydrūnas Savickas
Žydrūnas Savickas won that 2014 final by just half a point, and across his career finished runner-up six times.
Q 13World's Strongest Man was developed in 1977 as a made-for-TV contest for which American network?
CBS
CBS aired the first contests from California, then sold the rights to the BBC in 1982.
Q 21Which powerlifter became the first four-time World's Strongest Man champion with wins from 1984 to 1990?
Jón Páll Sigmarsson
Jón Páll Sigmarsson sealed the fourth by overhauling the leader in the final event, a 200-metre race with 100 kg on his back.
Q 22Which strongman entered the 1991 World's Strongest Man only as the reserve, yet won it and three more titles?
Magnús Ver Magnússon
Magnús Ver Magnússon later took three titles in a row from 1994 to 1996, a streak only one champion before him had managed.
Q 23Which former rugby player won the 2025 World's Strongest Man on debut, the first champion from Africa?
Rayno Nel
Q 14Which one-on-one event decided the champion as the final test in the first few World's Strongest Man contests?
Tug of war
Tug of war was run as a single-elimination tournament, and in 1980 only the four best competitors got to pull.
Q 15During the 2020 pandemic delay, World's Strongest Man ran a fan-voted 'Home Edition' series on which app?
Snapchat
Snapchat carried the series, in which athletes recreated events at home and the fans' favourite won a $10,000 prize.
Q 16Which kinesiologist became the first Canadian to win World's Strongest Man when he took the 2023 title?
Mitchell Hooper
Mitchell Hooper had made his debut at the contest only a year earlier, and ran marathons before he took up strength sports.
Q 17Which West Virginia firefighter became the first American World's Strongest Man champion in 24 years in 2006?
Phil Pfister
Phil Pfister won the last five events in a row to overhaul the defending champion, the first American victory outside the United States.
Q 18Which World's Strongest Man race has athletes carry a heavy object, often an anvil, in each hand?
Farmer's Walk
Farmer's Walk loads run from about 125 to 170 kg per hand, and a far heavier Giant version is also contested.
Q 19Caber tossing and throwing a weight over a bar came to World's Strongest Man from which traditional gathering?
Highland Games
Highland Games heavy events suited the contest's two Scottish organisers, one of them twice a world caber-tossing champion.
Q 20Which American powerlifter was the first to win three straight World's Strongest Man titles, from 1980 to 1982?
Bill Kazmaier
Bill Kazmaier was then not invited back for several years, and finished second when he finally returned in 1988.
Rayno Nel won by half a point while also working full-time as an electrical engineer.
Q 24Before his two World's Strongest Man titles, Geoff Capes competed at three Olympic Games in which athletics event?
Shot put
Shot put made Geoff Capes a double Commonwealth champion, and he set a British record of 21.68 metres in 1980.
Q 25Which World's Strongest Man event, named after a Gaelic mythical hero, has athletes flip a row of hinged poles?
Fingal's Fingers
Fingal's Fingers get longer and heavier down the row, and athletes are scored on how many they flip and how fast.
Q 26In which World's Strongest Man event does an athlete grip handles to stop two hinged pillars falling outwards?
Hercules Hold
Hercules Hold is a pure test of grip: there is no distance or weight to beat, only the clock, and whoever hangs on longest wins.
Q 27After six years in the United States, World's Strongest Man first went abroad in 1983 to which country?
New Zealand
New Zealand staged it in Christchurch, where the local touches included a wool bale hoist and a deadlift using cheese.
Q 28Which natural wonder in Zambia hosted World's Strongest Man in both 2001 and 2003?
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls heats in 2001 featured the Africa Stone, a carrying slab cut in the outline of the continent.
Q 29Which strongman, born in Riga and raised in the United States, won the 2019 World's Strongest Man?
Martins Licis
Martins Licis first tried stone lifting on his grandparents' farm in Latvia, taught by his grandfather, a sculptor and former weightlifter.
Q 30Which Ukrainian won the 2020 World's Strongest Man aged 24, setting a partial deadlift record of 537.5 kg?
Oleksii Novikov
Oleksii Novikov became the second-youngest winner in the contest's history, just seven days older than the 1984 champion had been.