50 Sports Trivia Questions for Kids [2024 Edition]

Easy

1. How many bases are on a baseball field?

Answer: 4

2. How many holes are there in a full round of golf?

Answer: 18 holes

3. What is the object you hit in badminton called?

Answer: Shuttle or shuttlecock

4. What is the name of the flat disc you hit in hockey?

Answer: Puck

5. What six-letter word is both a seed company and an exercise that involves a squat, a pushup and jumping in the air?

Answer: A Burpee

6. What sport has defensive positions that are named “gully”, “silly mid-off”, and “deep mid wicket”?

Answer: Cricket

7. What is the highest possible score you can achieve in a perfect game of bowling?

Answer: 300 points

8. In baseball, how many strikes are needed to strike out a batter?

Answer: 3

9. What is the only team sport to be played on the moon?

Answer: Golf

10. How many balls are in a single game of pool?

Answer: 16

11. How many points is a touchdown worth in American football?

Answer: 6

12. What color is the center line in volleyball?

Answer: White

13. What do you call a score of zero in tennis?

Answer: Love

14. What is the term for a score of one under par in golf?

Answer: Birdie

15. What is the bowling term for scoring three strikes in a row?

Answer: Turkey

16. How many players from each team are allowed on a basketball court?

Answer: 5 from each team, or 10 players total

17. How many soccer players are on a field at one time?

Answer: 22 or 11 from each team

18. What foul occurs in basketball where a player moves without dribbling the ball?

Answer: Traveling

19. What is the sport that involves throwing a heavy metal bar the furthest?

Answer: Shot put

20. What is the sport where athletes use long poles to jump over a bar set at increasing heights?

Answer: Pole vault

Medium

1. What numbers did Michael Jordan wear in the NBA?

Answer: 23 and 45

2. Which professional sports team features the mascot of a large brown bear named Blades?

Answer: Boston Bruins

3. What is the dirt area between the outfield grass and the home run wall in baseball called?

Answer: Warning track

4. What MLB player was known as the ‘Bambino’?

Answer: Babe Ruth

5. What type of race or sport is the Tour De France?

Answer: Bike

6. What is the only country to play in every World Cup?

Answer: Brazil

7. How long is a Marathon?

Answer: 26.2 miles

8. What move was banned from basketball between 1967-1976

Answer: the slam dunk

9. In what sport are players not allowed to play left-handed?

Answer: Polo

10. Which NFC team features a fleur-de-lis as it’s logo?

Answer: New Orlean Saints

Hard

1.  What is the biggest margin of victory in a Triple Crown Race?

Answer: 31 lengths

2. How old was Tiger Woods when he won the Masters?

Answer: 21

3. What was the first NHL team to win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles?

Answer: Montreal Canadiens

4. Venus Williams broke the record for fastest serve in tennis in 1998. How fast was her ball traveling?

Answer: 126 miles per hour

5. What year was tennis introduced as an Olympic sport?

Answer: 1896

6. Who won the first ever World Series in Baseball in 1950?

Answer: New York Yankees

7. What team won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s?

Answer: The Dallas Cowboys

8. How many NBA championships did Michael Jordan win with the Chicago Bulls?

Answer: Six

9. Which NBA player holds the record for the most fouls?

Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

10. What team owns the longest winning streak in NBA history?

Answer: Los Angeles Lakers with a streak of 33 games

11. What was the fastest goal in World Cup history?

Answer: 10.8 seconds by Hakan Sukur

12. How big is an Olympic sized swimming pool in meters?

Answer: 50 meters long and 25 meters wide

13. What country boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics?

Answer: The United States

14. Who won the women’s singles title at the 2021 French Open?

Answer: Barbora Krejcikova

15. Which team won the World Series in 2021?

Answer: Atlanta Braves

16. Who was the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl?

Answer: Tony Dungy

17. Which country has won the most Rugby World Cup tournaments?

Answer: New Zealand

18. Who won the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament?

Answer: Italy

19. Which American football team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?

Answer: Green Bay Packers

20. Who won the men’s singles gold medal in tennis at the 2016 Olympics?

Answer: Andy Murray

How many did you get right? Remember that you can create your own trivia and encourage your kids to discover more interesting facts for your next session.