NASCAR Trivia Quiz

It is one of the most popular sports in the world. How much do you know about NASCAR? Take this trivia quiz and find out.

1. Who has won the most consecutive NASCAR championships?
a. Dale Earnhardt
b. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
c. Jeff Gordon
d. Cale Yarborough

2. What year was a NASCAR race first televised from start to finish, and what race was it?

a. Daytona 500 in 1979
b. Daytona 500 in 1969
c. Pocono 500 in 1979
d. Las Vegas 350 in 1979

3. This color strip shows a driver is a rookie when it is placed across the rear of his racecar.

a. Blue
b. Yellow
c. White
d. Gray

4. Who won the most Nextel Championships in the 1990's?

a. Jeff Gordon
b. Cale Yarborough
c. Dale Earnhardt
d. Rusty Wallace

5. This is called the "Super Bowl" of Stock Racing.

a. Daytona 500
b. Pocono 500
c. Las Vegas 350

6. What father and son finished first and second at the Daytona 500 in the same year? Other father and
son duos have won the race or finished second each, but not in the same year.

a. Richard and Kyle Petty
b. Bobby and Davey Allison
c. Buddy and Phil Parsons
d. Lee and Richard Petty

7. Who started more consecutive Winston Cup races than any other person, prompting some to compare him to
baseball's Cal Ripken Jr.? He set the record in 2000, but it was since broken in 2002.

a. Kyle Petty
b. Terry LaBonte
c. Jeff Gordon
d. Ricky Rudd

8. He is a championship car owner. He also was the head coach, more than once, of a Super Bowl winning
team.

a. Joe Gibbs
b. John Madden
c. Dan Reeves
d. John Ralston

9. What kind of surface were the first few races at the Daytona 500 on?

a. asphalt
b. rocks
c. sand
d. concrete

10. Who has the most career NASCAR wins ever?

a. Kyle Petty
b. Cale Yarborough
c. Jeff Gordon
d. Richard Petty

11. Who has won the most Daytona 500's, with seven total?

a. Richard Petty
b. Kyle Petty
c. Jeff Gordon
d. Dale Earnhardt

12. He is the only other racer to have won four Daytona 500's?

a. Kyle Petty
b. Jeff Gordon
c. Cale Yarborough
d. Dale Earnhardt

13. Currently more television viewers watch the Daytona 500 than the Indianapolis 500. True or False.

Answers

1. d. Cale Yarborough won the Nextel Championship for three years in a row: from 1976-1978. No other driver
has done that, although several have won two in a row. Joe Weatherly won two in a row but died in a race in
1964, as he was beginning his quest in Riverside, California, to win three in a row.
2. a.
3. b.
4. c. He won four, after winning three in the 1980's. Jeff Gordon won three in the 1990's. Earnhardt was killed
February 18, 2001, on the final lap of the Daytona 500.
5. a.
6. b.
7. b.Ricky Rudd broke his record.
8. a.
9. c.
10. d. His record of 200 will never be broken. That is because at one time there were 60
races a year. There are not nearly that many races now.
11. a.
12. c. Bobby Allison, Dale Jarrett, and Jeff Gordon are the only other racers to have won
the race three times. Bill Elliot, Sterling Marlin, and Michael Waltrip are the only
other racers to have won it twice.
13. True

Citations:

NASCAR Trivia, no author listed, usefultrivia.com

Ultimate NASCAR, Minted_Llama, funtrivia.com

Daytona 500, no author listed, en.wikipedia.org