10 Super Bowl Trivia Questions for Football Fans

How Well Do You Know Your NFL Super Bowl History?

Linda Ann Nickerson
Super Bowl parties bring out the football fan in everyone, even folks who can't tell a sack from a blitz or a punt from a fumble. Everybody's an armchair quarterback on Super Bowl Sunday.

Why not test the midfield mettle of family members and friends at your Super Bowl party with a few fun questions about Super Bowl games past and present? Here are 10 Super Bowl trivia questions for football fans.

(The answers appear at the end of this article.)

Super Bowl Trivia Questions for Football Fans

1. What NFL team has won the most Super Bowl games to date?

2. What NFL team/s have lost the most Super Bowl games so far?

3. What NFL Super Bowl XXXVIII half-time musical entertainer experienced a notoriously replayed wardrobe malfunction during her performance?

4. Which NFL franchise is the last Wild Card team to win a Super Bowl?

5. Which two NFL teams played in the very first Super Bowl game?

6. Who led the crowd in reciting America's "Pledge of Allegiance" for NFL Super Bowl III in Miami? (Hint: The answer is a group of people, not a single individual.)

7. Which NFL team holds the records for scoring the most touchdowns in a single NFL Super Bowl game?

8. Which Super Bowl win successfully wrapped up a completely undefeated season for one NFL team?

9. Which city has hosted the NFL Super Bowl more than any other city in the United States?

10. Which Super Bowl game featured an NFL team, playing in its own home stadium?

How did you do on the Super Bowl quiz? Did you score a touchback or a touchdown? Was a flag called on the play?

Do you need another four downs to try again? Have you got the goods to go for the gusto on the gridiron?

Before you pass the proverbial pigskin (or perhaps the pork rinds), grab a plate of pizza or nachos and a frosty mug of something cold, and check your Super Bowl answers against those printed below. (No cheating! Don't scroll down or click to the next page until you have recorded all of your answers.)

Look around. See who earned the highest score in your Super Bowl party group. Give the winner a big cheer. Be nice to the referee!

OK, here are the answers.

Answers to Super Bowl Trivia Questions for Football Fans

1. The Pittsburgh Steelers have won six Super Bowl games and lost three.

2. This dubious honor is shared by three NFL teams. The Buffalo Bills, The Denver Broncos and the Minnesota Vikings have each lost four Super Bowl games. Buffalo actually lost four Super Bowl games in a row.

3. Janet Jackson played a precarious peek-a-book with co-performer Justin Timberlake during the 2004 Super Bowl, broadcast live on CBS TV, when the New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers (32-29) in Houston.

4. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl in 2007, beating the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII after advancing to the big game as a Wild Card team.

5. The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs (35-10) in the first Super Bowl, playing in Los Angeles in 1967.

6. The astronauts of the "Apollo 8" space mission led the "Pledge of Allegiance" for Super Bowl III, having recently completed the first manned flight to orbit the Moon.

7. The San Francisco Giants scored eight touchdowns against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV, held in New Orleans in 1990. The Giants beat the Broncos (55-10).

8. In 1973, The Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Redskins (14-7) in Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles, becoming the only team in NFL history (to date) to finish an entire season (and post-season) without a single loss.

9. Miami leads the Super Bowl host cities, at least so far, having welcomed football's biggest game nine times.

10. None. As of 2011, no NFL team has ever played in the Super Bowl in its own home stadium.

Published by Linda Ann Nickerson - Featured Contributor in Lifestyle and Sports

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  • Mike G.2/4/2011

    Didn;t know the San Francisco Giants were ever in a Super Bowl, I thought it was the San Francisco 49ers who beat the Denver Broncos 55 - 10

  • Eddie G.2/4/2011

    The Steelers are 6-1...not 6-3

  • Eric2/4/2011

    question 7 San Francisco Giants? This ain't baseball..lol

  • Candice L. Collins2/3/2011

    I missed almost all of them, but then again, I'm not really a fan either, just watch for fun when nothing else is on...I do enjoy the music and the half-time , and sometimes the ads too :) good trivia here!

  • Charlotte Kuchinsky2/2/2011

    Since I don't do Superbowls, I failed miserably. Ha!

  • Patti Walden2/2/2011

    Wow! I failed! Oh, I guess I would have to actually watch Super Bowls to know the answers....But for those who do watch & enjoy the Super Bowls, I hope you have a really fun day this year!

  • Rick Soisson2/1/2011

    Good quiz...got 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, and 10...1/3 of 2...can't believe I missed 4. And that was amazing that a baseball team beat the Broncos!

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