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Super Bowl Trivia Questions and Answers

by Joey House - 2/6/2024

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From the first iconic showdown in 1967, to this year's game in dazzling Las Vegas, the Super Bowl, the penultimate game of the most popular American sports league, has become an institution unto itself. The week before the Super Bowl is a big festival in the host city, with dozens of attractions to interest everybody from the casual fan to the hard-core sports nut.

The only thing that goes with Buffalo Wings better than the Super Bowl is some hardcore trivia at the local drinking establishment. With that in mind, Doc's invites you to grab a plateful of your favorite grub, a mug of your adult beverage of choice, and enjoy our annual Super Bowl trivia questions and answers article.

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1. Who played in the first Super Bowl?

2. How many different states (not cities) have hosted a Super Bowl?

3. Heads or Tails: Which side has landed the most in the Super Bowl coin toss?

4. Which team(s) have the most Super Bowl victories?

5. Who scored the first Super Bowl touchdown?

6. What is the highest score ever by one team in a Super Bowl game?

7. What is the record for TD passes in a Super Bowl?

8. 4 teams have not appeared in a single Super Bowl. Name them.

9. Super Bowl XLVII was famous for the 38-minute blackout during the game that seemed to change the momentum and whole dynamic of the contest. Who were the teams and their head coaches?

10. Which teams have only won once in the Super Bowl?

11. Which two teams are tied for the most Super Bowl losses?

12. Which city has hosted the most Super Bowls?

13. Which team became the first Wild Card team to win the Super Bowl?

14. This Super Bowl is a rematch of SB LIV. Which two teams have met the most times in Super Bowl history?

15. What was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl in history?

BONUS: Has there ever been a shutout in Super Bowl history?

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ANSWERS

1A. The first Super Bowl involved one of this year's teams, as the Kansas City Chiefs took on the Green Bay Packers. Green Bay won 35-10 to become crowned the first Super Bowl Champion.

2A. With Las Vegas hosting its first Super Bowl, Nevada becomes the 11th state to host the big game.

3A For those of you who like to bet on ANYTHING, the pregame coin toss has come up tails 30 times and heads 27. The longest streak of consecutive years for one side was five years when heads popped up from 2009 to 2013.

4A. The Pittsburgh Steelers and New England Patriots are tied with 6 Super Bowl wins apiece.

5A. The Green Bay Packers Max McGee made an impressive one-handed catch and then ran 37 yards for the score, registering the first touchdown in Super Bowl history.

6A. The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Denver Broncos 55-10 in SB XXIV. QB Joe Montana picked up his 3rd SB MVP with this stat line: 22-29 (75.9%) 297 yards, and then Super Bowl-record 5 touchdown passes, three of which went to Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.

7A. Just five years after Montana set the TD passes in one Super Bowl, his successor in San Francisco, Steve Young, threw 6 in a 49-26 shellacking of the San Diego Chargers in SB XXIX. Surprise, surprise, Rice hauled in another 3 TDs with his 10 receptions for 149 yards. Sidenote: This was the easiest $100 I ever won, as I was stationed in San Diego in the Navy and bet a cook, straight-up, on the game. It was over after the 3rd play of the game when Young hit Rice on a 44-yard post pattern for a TD.

8A. The Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Detroit Lions have never made the big game. Jacksonville almost made it in its 2nd year of existence, losing 20-6 to New England in the 1996 AFC Championship. Detroit's titanic choke job to the Niners hurts for a multitude of reasons, but perhaps none more so than losing the chance to make the Lions' first-ever Super Bowl.

9A. Besides the first-ever power outage (conspiracy theorists rejoice!), SB XLVII is famous because the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens were coached by brothers, Jim Harbaugh (SF) and Jon Harbaugh (BAL). With Jim's recent move back to the NFL with the LA Chargers, the best matchup to hope for will have to be the AFC Championship.

10A. The New York Jets, Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints, Seattle Seahawks and Philadelphia Eagles.

11A. The New England Patriots are not only tied for the most Super Bowl wins, they're tied with the Denver Broncos for the most Super Bowl losses at 5 apiece.

12A. Miami has hosted Super Bowl Sunday a record 11 times, in two different stadiums. The first five were in the old Orange Bowl, and, after that was demolished, the current Hard Rock Stadium (which also had 8 other names), has hosted six games.

13A. When the 1980 Oakland Raiders defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XV, they became the first team to win from the Wild Card pool.

14A. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys have met in 3 Super Bowls (X, XIII, and XXX).

15A. Super Bowl LIII featured a real "slug-fest" between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams, where the Pats won 13-3.

BonusA. No. The 1971 Miami Dolphins and the aforementioned Rams both were held to just a field goal, but no team has ever been held scoreless.

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