Sports trivia has a problem: most lists assume the kid already follows a team. This one does not. The easy section is answerable by any child who has watched a game once, and the hard section is where the kids who know their stats get to show off.
Who Smarted? makes episodes about why tennis scoring is so strange and what makes the Super Bowl the Super Bowl, so the questions here lean toward the why rather than the who. 85 questions across baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, golf, the Olympics and a few sports your kids have probably never heard of.
Pick a band and start. Every answer is right underneath its question.
Jump to a section:
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How to Play This List
Four setups, depending on the occasion.
- Before practice: Ten easy questions while the team stretches. No scoring, just hands up. Works for any age group.
- Car ride to a game: Read the medium section straight down and let them keep their own score out loud.
- Family game night: Teams of two, one point per answer, hard section worth double. The group naming and terminology questions split evenly between kids and adults.
- Sport specific night: If your kid only cares about one sport, use our dedicated lists below for soccer, basketball and football instead.
Easy Sports Trivia Questions for Kids
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 sport that has been played on the Moon?
Answer: Golf. Astronaut Alan Shepard hit two balls there in 1971
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. Which track and field event has athletes throw a heavy metal ball as far as they can?
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
21. How many players are on a baseball team on the field at once?
Answer: Nine
22. What sport is played at Wimbledon?
Answer: Tennis
23. How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
Answer: Five
24. In which sport would you perform a slam dunk?
Answer: Basketball
25. What piece of equipment do you ride in BMX?
Answer: A bicycle
26. How many players are on a volleyball team on the court?
Answer: Six
27. What color jersey does the leader of the Tour de France wear?
Answer: Yellow
28. In gymnastics, what is the name of the narrow beam gymnasts perform on?
Answer: The balance beam
29. How many points is a free throw worth in basketball?
Answer: One
30. In which sport do you use a bat and defend a wicket?
Answer: Cricket
31. What should you always wear on your head when cycling?
Answer: A helmet
Medium Sports Trivia Questions for Kids
32. What numbers did Michael Jordan wear in the NBA?
Answer: 23 and 45
33. Which professional sports team features the mascot of a large brown bear named Blades?
Answer: Boston Bruins
34. What is the dirt area between the outfield grass and the home run wall in baseball called?
Answer: Warning track
35. What MLB player was known as the ‘Bambino’?
Answer: Babe Ruth
36. What type of race or sport is the Tour De France?
Answer: Bike
37. What is the only country to play in every World Cup?
Answer: Brazil
38. How long is a Marathon?
Answer: 26.2 miles
39. What move was banned from basketball from 1967 to 1976?
Answer: The slam dunk
40. In what sport are players not allowed to play left-handed?
Answer: Polo
41. Which NFC team features a fleur-de-lis as its logo?
Answer: The New Orleans Saints
42. How often are the Summer Olympic Games held?
Answer: Every four years
43. What does NBA stand for?
Answer: The National Basketball Association
44. In which country did judo begin?
Answer: Japan
45. In which sport do teams compete for the America’s Cup?
Answer: Sailing
46. What is the term for three goals scored by one player in a single game?
Answer: A hat trick
47. In American football, how many points is a field goal worth?
Answer: Three
48. What sport combines swimming, cycling, and running?
Answer: Triathlon
49. How many players are on an ice hockey team on the ice at once, including the goalie?
Answer: Six
50. Which city hosted the very first modern Olympic Games in 1896?
Answer: Athens, Greece
51. How many players are on a rugby union team on the field?
Answer: Fifteen
52. In baseball, what does RBI stand for?
Answer: Run batted in
53. Which tennis Grand Slam is played on clay in Paris?
Answer: The French Open, also called Roland Garros
Hard Sports Trivia Questions for Kids
54. What is the biggest margin of victory in a Triple Crown Race?
Answer: 31 lengths
55. How old was Tiger Woods when he won his first Masters?
Answer: 21, in 1997
56. What was the first NHL team to win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles?
Answer: The Ottawa Senators, in 1920 and 1921
57. Venus Williams broke the record for fastest serve in tennis in 1998. How fast was her ball traveling?
Answer: 127 miles per hour
58. What year was tennis introduced as an Olympic sport?
Answer: 1896
59. Who won the very first World Series in 1903?
Answer: The Boston Americans, the team that later became the Red Sox
60. What team won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys
61. How many NBA championships did Michael Jordan win with the Chicago Bulls?
Answer: Six
62. Which NBA player holds the record for the most fouls?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
63. What team owns the longest winning streak in NBA history?
Answer: Los Angeles Lakers with a streak of 33 games
64. What was the fastest goal in World Cup history?
Answer: 10.8 seconds by Hakan Sukur
65. How big is an Olympic sized swimming pool in meters?
Answer: 50 meters long and 25 meters wide
66. What country boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Answer: The United States
67. Who won the women’s singles title at the 2021 French Open?
Answer: Barbora Krejcikova
68. Which team won the World Series in 2021?
Answer: Atlanta Braves
69. Who was the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl?
Answer: Tony Dungy
70. Which country has won the most Rugby World Cup tournaments?
Answer: South Africa, with four titles in 1995, 2007, 2019 and 2023
71. Who won the UEFA Euro 2020 tournament?
Answer: Italy
72. Which American football team won the first Super Bowl in 1967?
Answer: Green Bay Packers
73. Who won the men’s singles gold medal in tennis at the 2016 Olympics?
Answer: Andy Murray
74. In tennis, what is the score called when both players reach 40?
Answer: Deuce
75. What is the maximum break a player can score in a single frame of snooker?
Answer: 147
76. How many squares are on a chessboard?
Answer: 64
77. What is the name of the trophy awarded to the NHL champion?
Answer: The Stanley Cup
78. In track and field, how many hurdles does a runner clear in the 110 meter hurdles?
Answer: Ten
79. What does the marathon distance of 26.2 miles trace back to?
Answer: The legend of a Greek messenger running from the town of Marathon to Athens
80. In cricket, what is it called when a bowler takes three wickets on three straight balls?
Answer: A hat trick
81. Which sport uses the terms “pin,” “escape,” and “takedown”?
Answer: Wrestling
82. How far apart are the bases on a Major League Baseball field?
Answer: 90 feet
83. What is the diameter of a basketball hoop?
Answer: 18 inches, which is a little under two basketballs wide
84. How many players from one American football team are on the field at a time?
Answer: Eleven
85. In which country were the modern rules of badminton written?
Answer: England
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