Sports quiz questions with answers for a pub or work quiz

In short

• Here are 55 sports quiz questions with answers in six rounds, from football and cricket to darts, a funny round and Christmas, plus a tie-breaker.
• Every answer was checked against a source in October 2026, including the World Cup, Wimbledon and the Crucible this year.
• No round is all football, so a table that never watches Match of the Day can still win.
• Records and champions change, so put the year in any question about “the current” holder.
• Finish on a tie-breaker with a number for an answer.

A lot of sports quiz questions online are written by football fans for football fans. That’s fine in a pub, but in a work quiz the room is mixed, and a table that hasn’t watched a match since school switches off by question three. These are written for that room: some football, plenty of cricket, rugby, tennis and darts, and a funny round for the people who only came for the buffet.

All of them were checked in October 2026. Sport changes fast, so where an answer depends on this year’s result, the year is in the question.

What makes good sports quiz questions?

Good sports quiz questions have one answer, cover more than one sport and give people who don’t follow sport a fair guess. The worst sports round is ten questions about one club’s 1990s midfield.

• Mix the sports. Football gets one round here, not all six. A mixed room needs cricket, darts and tennis too, or half of it sits out.
• Date anything that can change. “Who won Wimbledon in 2026?” stays right forever. “Who is the Wimbledon champion?” is wrong by next July.
• Use big moments. Finals and famous grounds beat transfer fees.
• Leave out the arguments. If the answer depends on how you count, it isn’t here.

Football quiz questions and answers

The football round. Half the room will think they own it, so a couple of these are about the women’s game and Europe.

1. Which country won the 2026 men’s World Cup? Answer: Spain, who beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time.
2. Who scored the winner in that final? Answer: Ferran Torres.
3. Which club won the 2025/26 Premier League? Answer: Arsenal, with 85 points, their first title in 22 years.
4. Who won the Premier League Golden Boot that season? Answer: Erling Haaland, with 27 goals.
5. Who is the Premier League’s all-time top scorer? Answer: Alan Shearer, with 260 goals.
6. Paris Saint-Germain retained the Champions League in May 2026. Which English club did they beat in the final? Answer: Arsenal, on penalties.
7. England’s women won Euro 2025 on penalties. Who did they beat in the final? Answer: Spain.
8. Which club has won the European Cup more times than any other? Answer: Real Madrid, with 15.
9. What is the name of Scotland’s national football stadium? Answer: Hampden Park.
10. Which London club plays its home games at Stamford Bridge? Answer: Chelsea.

Which cricket and rugby quiz questions work for a UK crowd?

The cricket and rugby questions that work best in a UK room are the Ashes, the Six Nations and the home World Cups, because people remember where they watched them. This round leans British on purpose.

1. How many balls are there in an over in cricket? Answer: six.
2. Which London ground is known as the home of cricket? Answer: Lord’s.
3. What is it called when a batter is out without scoring? Answer: a duck.
4. What does LBW stand for? Answer: leg before wicket.
5. Which bowler has taken the most Test wickets? Answer: Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, with 800.
6. Who won the 2025/26 Ashes in Australia, and by what score? Answer: Australia, 4-1.
7. How many points is a try worth in rugby union? Answer: five.
8. The Calcutta Cup is played for by which two countries? Answer: England and Scotland.
9. Which country won the 2023 men’s Rugby World Cup? Answer: South Africa, beating New Zealand 12-11 in the final.
10. England’s Red Roses won the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup at Twickenham. Who did they beat in the final? Answer: Canada, 33-13.

Tennis, golf and Olympics quiz questions

The summer sports. This is where the non-football tables catch up.

1. Who won the 2026 Wimbledon men’s singles title? Answer: Jannik Sinner, beating Alexander Zverev in the final.
2. Who holds the record for the most Wimbledon men’s singles titles? Answer: Roger Federer, with eight.
3. Which woman won a record nine Wimbledon singles titles? Answer: Martina Navratilova.
4. Which team won the 2025 Ryder Cup in New York? Answer: Europe, 15-13 at Bethpage Black.
5. What colour jacket does the winner of the Masters at Augusta receive? Answer: green.
6. How many Olympic medals did swimmer Michael Phelps win? Answer: 28, 23 of them gold.
7. Which British cyclist won a record seven Olympic gold medals? Answer: Jason Kenny.
8. Usain Bolt’s 100 metres world record is 9.58 seconds. In which city did he set it? Answer: Berlin, in 2009.
9. Which city will host the 2028 Summer Olympics? Answer: Los Angeles.
10. The 2026 Winter Olympics were shared between which Italian city and which mountain resort? Answer: Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

What are good sports quiz questions on darts, snooker and the rest?

The best sports quiz questions on darts and snooker are about this year’s champions and the big numbers, because the numbers are the bit everyone half-knows. Then a few from motor racing, horse racing and cycling.

1. Who won the PDC World Darts Championship in January 2026? Answer: Luke Littler, beating Gian van Veen 7-1 to retain the title.
2. What is the highest possible checkout in darts? Answer: 170.
3. Who won the 2026 World Snooker Championship? Answer: Wu Yize, beating Shaun Murphy 18-17.
4. The World Snooker Championship is played at the Crucible in which city? Answer: Sheffield.
5. What is the highest break possible in snooker, without fouls? Answer: 147.
6. Who won the 2025 Formula One drivers’ title? Answer: Lando Norris, his first.
7. Which two drivers share the record for most F1 titles, with seven each? Answer: Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton.
8. On which Surrey racecourse is the Derby run? Answer: Epsom Downs.
9. What colour jersey does the leader of the Tour de France wear? Answer: yellow.
10. In ten-pin bowling, what do you call three strikes in a row? Answer: a turkey.

What are some funny sports quiz questions with answers?

Funny sports quiz questions with answers are the odd stories nobody believes until you read out the answer. They work as a warm-up, or while the scores go up.

1. What do competitors chase down Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire every spring? Answer: a cheese, a Double Gloucester.
2. Which astronaut hit golf balls on the Moon in 1971? Answer: Alan Shepard, on Apollo 14.
3. In cricket, a score of 111 is unlucky. What is it called? Answer: a Nelson. Umpire David Shepherd used to hop on one leg until it passed.
4. In 1966 the stolen World Cup trophy was found in a London garden by a dog. What was the dog’s name? Answer: Pickles.
5. What kind of animal was Paul, who picked Spain to win the 2010 World Cup? Answer: an octopus.
6. Olympic curling stones are made from granite from which Scottish island? Answer: Ailsa Craig.
7. Which high jump technique is named after the American who won Olympic gold with it in 1968? Answer: the Fosbury Flop.
8. In which sport would you “hang ten”? Answer: surfing.
9. True or false: tug of war used to be an Olympic sport. Answer: true, from 1900 to 1920.
10. Which two universities race each other in the Boat Race on the Thames? Answer: Oxford and Cambridge.

What are good Christmas sports quiz questions?

Good Christmas sports quiz questions come from the sport that happens over the holidays: darts at Ally Pally, racing on Boxing Day and the Sports Personality show.

1. Which famous steeplechase is run at Kempton Park on Boxing Day? Answer: the King George VI Chase.
2. Which horse won it a record five times? Answer: Kauto Star.
3. The PDC World Darts Championship runs over Christmas at which London venue? Answer: Alexandra Palace (accept Ally Pally).
4. Who won BBC Sports Personality of the Year in December 2025? Answer: Rory McIlroy.
5. The Christmas truce of 1914 is remembered for soldiers from both sides playing which sport? Answer: football.

What is a good sports quiz tie-breaker?

A good sports quiz tie-breaker has a number for an answer, so the closest team wins outright. Try this: what is the highest individual score in a Test match innings?

The answer is 400 not out, by Brian Lara for West Indies against England in 2004. Closest wins.

How do you run a sports pub quiz at work?

To run a sports pub quiz at work, keep it short, mix the sports and put the year in any question about a winner. A pub crowd chose a quiz night. A work crowd didn’t, so three or four rounds of ten is plenty around a meal.

• Play the football round second. By then every table has scored on something else, and the fans have had to wait.
• Write down what you’ll accept. “Ally Pally” for Alexandra Palace, “Europe” or “Team Europe” for the Ryder Cup. Decide before the night.
• Add a local round. Questions about your own five-a-side team or the office sweepstake are the ones nobody can look up.
• Swap in a picture round. Kits and badges suit a big screen.

If you want a wipeout or a joker round on top, there are more quiz round ideas, plus a guide to running a corporate quiz night.

How I run a sports quiz on my own software

Read from a sheet, a sports round splits the room. The fans shout. Everyone else checks their phone until it is over. So I run quizzes as a show, on software I built myself, and every game can be played at the front, at the tables or on every guest’s phone.

Here is how this list would play:

• On every phone. With Quiz Live, every guest answers on their own phone, with four colour tiles and a countdown. Fast and right scores more than slow and right, and the leaderboard comes up after every question.
• On a Quiz Show board. Five rounds become five categories, from easy to hard. Teams pick, buzz in and steal each other’s misses, and badges or grounds go straight on the big screen as picture questions.
• As a knockout. The Cut puts the whole room in. Five typed questions a round, no options to guess from, and the lowest scores are cut until one player is left.

I write the questions for the people in the room. A graduate intake gets a different sports quiz from a board of directors, and the questions about your own company come out of the briefing. The night is won in the briefing, not on the stage.

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• Pub quiz questions: 100 general knowledge questions with answers.
• Halloween quiz questions with answers for adults.

If you’d rather hand the whole night over, I’ll write the rounds, run the software and host it as your quiz master. One host, the whole evening. Call me on 07596 851647 and tell me about the room.