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Hard NFL Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our nfl set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard band goes into league history and measurements: the Decatur Staleys, the Ice Bowl, the Lamar Hunt Trophy, the width of the field in feet. Nothing here depends on this season, so the answers are as fixed as the record books that hold them.
14 hard nfl trivia questions with answers
Which team won Super Bowl XX, following the 1985 season?
Answer: Chicago Bears Their defense allowed only ten points in the game.
The Vince Lombardi Trophy is handcrafted by which company?
Answer: Tiffany & Co. It is sterling silver and shaped like a regulation football on a stand.
The 1967 NFL Championship known as the Ice Bowl was contested by which two teams?
Answer: Packers and Cowboys Kickoff temperature in Green Bay was around minus thirteen Fahrenheit.
Which team won Super Bowl III after its quarterback publicly guaranteed victory?
Answer: New York Jets The win gave the AFL enormous credibility ahead of the merger.
Which team won the 1958 NFL Championship, often called the greatest game ever played?
Answer: Baltimore Colts It was the first NFL title game decided in sudden-death overtime.
A defense that brings a fifth defensive back onto the field is running what?
Answer: A nickel package A sixth defensive back makes it a dime.
Which franchise began life as the Decatur Staleys?
Answer: Chicago Bears George Halas moved the team to Chicago in 1921 and renamed it a year later.
The trophy awarded to the AFC champion is named after which man?
Answer: Lamar Hunt Hunt founded the AFL and also coined the name Super Bowl.
How wide is a regulation NFL field?
Answer: 160 feet That is fifty-three and a third yards from sideline to sideline.
How high above the ground is the crossbar on an NFL goalpost?
Answer: Ten feet The uprights rise a further thirty-five feet above the crossbar.
Which city hosted the first Super Bowl?
Answer: Los Angeles It was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which was not sold out.
In Super Bowl LI, New England overcame a deficit of how many points?
Answer: Twenty-five They trailed Atlanta twenty-eight to three before forcing the first Super Bowl overtime.
Which expansion team joined the NFL in 1976 alongside the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
Answer: Seattle Seahawks The other three joined in the 1990s or later.
What does the term 'gridiron' refer to?
Answer: The grid of lines marked across the playing field Early fields were marked in squares, giving a grill-like appearance.
Answer key
- Chicago Bears
- Tiffany & Co.
- Packers and Cowboys
- New York Jets
- Baltimore Colts
- A nickel package
- Chicago Bears
- Lamar Hunt
- 160 feet
- Ten feet
- Los Angeles
- Twenty-five
- Seattle Seahawks
- The grid of lines marked across the playing field
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