Sport quiz questions and answers

34 free sport questions with answers across football, rugby, cricket, tennis, athletics and the Olympics, and why an all-sport round rewards the same table.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026

How to use this round

Sport is the most divisive category in a pub quiz. In a sports bar it is the round everybody waits for; in a mixed room it is the round where four tables score two and one table scores ten.

Unless you are running a sports bar, use one sport round in a mixed night rather than a whole sport quiz, and spread it across several sports, because a round that is eight football questions is a round for the same table every week.

Nothing here depends on a current record, a current champion or a current league position, which is what stops a sport round going out of date faster than any other category.

Easy

Rules and basics rather than results. Most tables will get nearly all of these regardless of whether they follow sport.

1
How many players are in a netball team on court?
Answer: Seven
2
In tennis, what is the term for a score of 40-40?
Answer: Deuce
3
How many holes are played in a standard round of golf?
Answer: Eighteen
4
Which sport is played at Wimbledon?
Answer: Tennis
5
How many points is a try worth in rugby union?
Answer: Five
6
In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Answer: Basketball
7
How often are the Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Every four years
8
What colour flag signals the end of a Formula One race?
Answer: Chequered
9
How many players are in a cricket team?
Answer: Eleven
10
In football, how long is a standard match excluding stoppage time?
Answer: Ninety minutes
11
What is the maximum score with three darts?
Answer: 180
12
Which country hosts the Tour de France?
Answer: France

Medium

History and rules across several sports, so a table that follows one of them is not automatically out of it.

13
In which city were the first modern Olympic Games held?
Answer: Athens
14
What is the maximum break in snooker without fouls?
Answer: 147
15
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Five
16
In cricket, what is the term for a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive deliveries?
Answer: A hat-trick
17
Which country invented judo?
Answer: Japan
18
How long is an Olympic swimming pool?
Answer: 50 metres
19
In boxing, what does TKO stand for?
Answer: Technical knockout
20
Which sport uses the terms 'birdie' and 'eagle'?
Answer: Golf
21
How many squares are on a chessboard?
Answer: 64
22
In rugby league, how many players are on the pitch per team?
Answer: Thirteen
23
Which athletics event combines ten disciplines?
Answer: The decathlon
24
What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling

Hard

For a sports bar, a tie-break, or one or two dropped into an easier round.

25
In which year were the first modern Olympic Games held?
Answer: 1896
26
What is the term for a score of three under par on a single golf hole?
Answer: An albatross
27
Which is the oldest of the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments?
Answer: Wimbledon
28
In fencing, what are the three weapons?
Answer: Foil, épée and sabre
29
How many players are in a water polo team in the pool?
Answer: Seven
30
Which country has won the most Olympic gold medals in field hockey?
Answer: India
31
What is the distance of a marathon in miles?
Answer: 26 miles 385 yards, or about 26.2 miles
32
In cricket, what is a 'googly'?
Answer: A leg-spinner's delivery that turns the opposite way to expectation
33
Which Formula One circuit is known as the Temple of Speed?
Answer: Monza
34
In the modern pentathlon, what are the five events?
Answer: Fencing, swimming, equestrian show jumping, shooting and running

Why an all-sport quiz rewards the same table

Sport knowledge is unusually concentrated. In most rooms there is one table where somebody has followed a sport closely for thirty years, and a full sport quiz is a formality in their favour.

That is fine in a sports bar, where it is the point. In a pub it slowly costs you the other tables, because a quiz you cannot win is a quiz you stop coming to.

The remedy is one sport round out of six, spread across at least four different sports, with more rules questions than results questions, because rules are known by people who play rather than only by people who watch.

Keeping it evergreen

Do not write questions about who currently holds anything. The world record, the current champion and the league leader all change, and a sport round is the fastest-ageing round in any quiz.

Completed events, established rules and historical firsts do not move. Every question above is one of those.

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