Super Bowl 2020s Trivia

1. In the 2023 Season AFC Championship match, the Chiefs scored a touchdown on their first drive which was immediately followed by a TD from Baltimore. A high-scoring game looked likely. What was the final score?

From Quiz 2023 NFL Season Part 4: Super Bowl LVIII

Answer: Chiefs 17-10

The AFC Championship Game was hosted by the Baltimore Ravens for the first time in their franchise history and the first such game not hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs since 2017 as it was also the sixth straight AFC Championship Game appearance for the Chiefs. The Ravens could only punt on their initial drive but the Chiefs got onto the scoreboard straight away with a 'traditional' opening drive TD with a 12-play 81-yard effort as Mahomes passed deep right to Kelce for a 19-yard touchdown. Baltimore responded with a TD of their own (Jackson pass deep right to Flowers for 30 yards) to close out the first quarter. 17-7 at the half. The Chiefs scored a touchdown again on the opening drive of the second quarter and apart from a field goal to close out the second quarter did not score again for the entire match. But it was enough. While the Ravens' defence did not concede another point, the Chiefs' defence rattled the normally smooth workings of Lamar Jackson and his crew. The Ravens managed a field goal late in the final quarter to make it a one-score game. but with 2:34 left on the clock Kansas City held onto the ball for nine plays to close out the match 17-10. It was the fourth AFC Championship by the Chiefs in five years.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Super Bowl LVII

Answer: Glendale, AZ

Glendale is located about nine miles from Phoenix in Maricopa County in Arizona. Per the 2020 census, the city's human population was just under 250,000. The NFL stadium for the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale opened in 2006 under the name Cardinals Stadium. The stadium would later be re-named University of Phoenix Stadium and in 2018 it became known as State Farm Stadium, the host site of Super Bowl LVII.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: AFC & NFC Championships

Answer: Lincoln Financial Field

Opened in 2003, Lincoln Financial Field is located in South Philadelphia and it has a capacity of just under 72,000. The stadium is utilized by both the Philadelphia Eagles and the college team the Temple Owls. The naming rights for the stadium were sold to Lincoln Financial Group in 2002 for $139.6 million to be paid over 21 years. The Lincoln Financial Group was opened in 1905 and it is headquartered in Radnor, located just 13 miles from Philadelphia.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round

Answer: Patrick Mahomes

Patrick Mahomes had his ankle rolled on top of by a Jacksonville Jaguars defender early in the second quarter. His team's coach, Andy Reid, called a timeout shortly after and Mahomes was evaluated by medical personnel who took x-rays that came back negative. The team's backup quarterback, Chad Henne, led the Chiefs to a 98-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter when Mahomes was on the bench. However, Mahomes made the gutsy decision to come back to play in the second half of the game in spite of his coach and medical personnel advising against it. Patrick Mahomes was born in Tyler, Texas in 1995 and he was drafted with the 10th overall pick in the NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017. He led his team to victory in Super Bowl LIV for the 2019-20 season and in the 2022-23 season he set an NFL record for most total yards by a quarterback in a season with 5,608 (5,250 passing and 358 rushing).

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: NFC Wild Card

Answer: Geno Smith

Geno Smith was born in 1990 and he was drafted in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the New York Jets. Smith started 29 games for the Jets during which his team was 11-19 and he threw more interceptions than touchdowns. He relinquished his starting role after the 2014-15 season and it would be another eight seasons before he was a regular starter again. Smith resurrected his career in 2022-23 as he led the Seahawks to a 9-8 record, was selected to the Pro Bowl, was the only quarterback in the league to take every offensive snap for his team and he led the NFL in completion percentage. However, the 2nd half of the Wild Card game against the stout 49ers defense was a struggle as the Seahawks were outscored 25-6 and Smith threw an interception and lost a fumble.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: AFC Wild Card

Answer: Asante Samuel Jr.

Asante Samuel Jr. was born in 1999 and he was selected in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft by the Chargers. His three interceptions in the first half of the Wild Card game against the Jaguars were just one less than the four interceptions he had in the first 29 games of his NFL career. Asante Samuel Jr. is the son of Asante T. Samuel Sr. who played in the NFL for 11 seasons, had 51 career interceptions, made it to four consecutive Pro Bowls and won two Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.

From Quiz Super Bowl LVI

Answer: SoFi Stadium, Los Angeles

SoFi Stadium cost nearly $5 billion (USD) to build, and was slated to open in 2017 and then host Super Bowl LV (2021). However, due to delays, the stadium didn't open until 2020 and the Super Bowl was delayed by a year to 2022. This would be the first time in nearly twenty years that the Super Bowl would be played in the United States' biggest media market, Los Angeles. This would be the second year in a row where there was a team from the host city playing in the game, and the second time (also in a row) that a team won the Super Bowl on home turf.

From Quiz NFL 2021-22: From Playoffs to the Super Bowl

Answer: NFC: Cardinals, Cowboys, Eagles. AFC: Steelers, Raiders, Patriots

The teams seeded 2-7 in each conference played off in the Wild Card round. In the AFC the Chiefs beat the Steelers 42-21 in what was Ben Roethlisberger's last game before retirement; the Bengals outlasted the Raiders 26-19 and the Patriots were thrashed 47-17 by the neighbouring Bills. In the NFC, the 49ers (third in the NFC West) upset the Cowboys in Texas 23-17; The Buccaneers beat the Eagles 31-15 at home, and the Rams comprehensively defeated Kyler Murray's Cardinals 34-11.

From Quiz Browns vs Steelers: The 2020 AFC Wild Card

Answer: The Browns scored a defensive touchdown

A snap from center Maurkice Pouncey went right over quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's head. It streaked back towards the end zone, was pushed and bobbled around for a bit until Cleveland's Karl Joseph recovered it in the end zone for an incredibly improbable opening touchdown, opening up a 7-0 lead for the Browns.

From Quiz Super Bowl LIV

Answer: Chiefs

Entering the game San Francisco had played in the game six times with a 5-1 record. Kansas City had a 1-1 record, losing Super Bowl I, and winning Super Bowl IV in 1969, then taking 51 years off between appearances. The final score was 31-20. At one point San Francisco scored 17 straight points, and then Kansas City scored 21 straight of their own, letting the game have extreme highs and lows for both sides.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Super Bowl LVII

Answer: 1-yard QB sneak touchdown up the middle

The quarterback of the Eagles, Jalen Hurts, scored a touchdown on the opening drive of the game on a 1-yard quarterback sneak up the middle. Hurts set an NFL record for quarterbacks in 2022-23 by rushing for 18 touchdowns between the regular and postseason combined. The Eagles frequently utilized Hurts in short yardage situations to run up the middle to score touchdowns or get first downs.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: AFC & NFC Championships

Answer: Rushing

Miles Sanders was born in 1997 in Pittsburgh, PA and he was drafted in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. For the 2022-23 season, Miles Sanders was the lead running back for the stellar Philadelphia Eagles offense and he was selected to the Pro Bowl. In the NFC Championship game against the 49ers, Sanders had two first half rushing touchdowns from 6 yards and 13 yards out.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round

Answer: Jamal Agnew

Jamal Agnew was born in San Diego, CA in 1995 and he he was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 5th round in 2017. He joined the Jacksonville Jaguars for the 2021-22 season and over his first few years in the NFL he excelled as a kick returner including tying the record for the longest possible kick return touchdown at 109 yards. In the Divisional Round playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Agnew had three solid kick returns that set up his team in great field position. However, in the fourth quarter, Agnew caught a pass and fumbled inside the 10 yard line with his team down by 10 points that derailed the comeback attempt for the Jaguars.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: The Wild Card Round

Answer: Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers

The Dolphins and 49ers both had rotten luck with injuries to their quarterbacks. Tua Tagovailoa started the first four games for Miami but was concussed in week 4 calling Teddy Bridgewater into service. He started week 5 but injured his hand calling third-string starter Skylar Thompson to finish the match. Thompson started the next match but was injured himself and Bridgewater was called back into the fray. Tua returned for the next eight matches but got concussed again. Bridgewater started week 17 but did not finish due to injury. Thompson finished the match and was the starter for week 18 and the wild card round. Trey Lance was the preferred QB for the San Francisco 49ers in 2022 but had a season-ending ankle injury in week 2, forcing Jimmy Garoppolo into service. Garoppolo started the next 10 games but received a foot injury against Miami in Week 13 which ruled him out for the season. Brock Purdy was a seventh-round draft pick and was the third-string QB. Purdy was called up, finished off a win against the Dolphins, and then won his next five starts to finish out the season. Cruelly called Mr Irrelevant when called up, the moniker disappeared when he went 5-0 and was named as starting QB for the Wild Card playoffs.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: NFC Wild Card

Answer: Christian McCaffrey

Christian McCaffrey was born in 1996 and he was the eighth pick of the 1st round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers. His best season with the Panthers was in 2019-20 when he eclipsed 1,000 yards both rushing and receiving becoming just the third player to do so. Injuries caused McCaffrey to miss most of the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons. He played the final 10 games of the 2022-23 season with the 49ers and he immediately made their offense more explosive. In the Wild Card game against the Seahawks, McCaffrey had 119 yards on just 15 carries in addition to his two receptions for 17 yards and a touchdown.

From Quiz Super Bowl LVI

Answer: Billie Jean King

The coin used in the coin toss was a uniquely minted coin with the Super Bowl LVI logo as the heads side and the AFC and NFC championship team logos as tails. The captain for the Rams, Matt Stafford, called tails. Billie Jean King was given the coin to toss and it came up heads. The Bengals, the coin-flip winning team, chose to defer their call to the Rams who opted to receive the ball. The Bengals chose the direction they wanted to kick. Interestingly, in the seven previous Super Bowls, the team that won the coin toss lost the game. Super Bowl LVI made it eight in a row.

From Quiz NFL 2021-22: From Playoffs to the Super Bowl

Answer: A field goal (3 points)

In the Titans-Bengals match in what was a fairly dour affair at Titans, both teams scored a single touchdown in the third quarter with both teams kicking three field goals by the end of the third quarter. The fourth quarter was scoreless but with only 21 seconds to go, Bengals intercepted and two plays later with four seconds left on the clock kicked the winning field goal 19-16. The NFC was remarkably similar. T Lambeau Field the Packers scored a touchdown on their initial drive but did not score again until they scored a field goal in the fourth quarter. The 49ers managed a field goal in the third quarter but were playing catch-up all game. With four minutes to go they scored a touchdown from a blocked Packers' punt to make it 10 a piece. They then kicked a field goal with four seconds remaining. 13-10 49ers. Both teams had lost at home by three points. Both team were expected to progress to the conference championships.

From Quiz Super Bowl LIV

Answer: Punt - Kansas City

As the visiting team, San Francisco called the coin toss and won. They deferred the choice to Kansas City, who elected to receive the kick-off. The first play of the drive was a 7-yard rush, followed by an incomplete pass. On third down the Chiefs passed on third down and then were forced to punt. The Chiefs opened each of their three playoff games this season with a three and out. (Three plays and a punt.)

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Super Bowl LVII

Answer: Travis Kelce

On the opening drive of the game for the Chiefs, Travis Kelce had a 20-yard reception for a first down and an 18-yard reception for a touchdown. In the 2022-23 regular season, Kelce racked up 1,338 receiving yards and eclipsed 10,000 career receiving yards, both exceptional numbers for a tight end.

From Quiz All Roads Lead to Super Bowl LVII

Answer: Bengals 27-10

On a bleak snowy day when the pitch was difficult to delineate, the Bills were expected to dominate but they were never in this match. The Bengals had first use of the ball and scored a touchdown marching 79 yards in six plays. They converted. The Bills went three and out. The Bengals scored again on their next carry, a ten-play 72-yard effort with Burrow throwing short to Hurst who scored an 18-yard TD which was converted. The Bills punted next play after failing to make a first down again. The Bills did manage to score a converted touchdown on their opening drive of the second quarter but that was as close as they got. They only troubled the scorers once again for a solitary field goal whereas the Bengals scored a touchdown in the third quarter and field goals in the second and fourth quarters to make a final score of 27-10. Bengals moving on.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: AFC & NFC Championships

Answer: Haason Reddick

Haason Reddick was born in Camden, NJ in 1994 and he was drafted in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft. The 2022-23 season was Reddick's first as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and he excelled as a pass rusher with 16 regular season sacks. In the NFC Championship Game, Reddick's sack on Brock Purdy injured the quarterback's throwing arm and an x-ray later would show that Purdy had a torn ulnar collateral ligament.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round

Answer: Travis Kelce

Travis Kelce dominated the middle of the field against the Jaguars as he caught 14 passes for 98 yards and 2 touchdowns. The 14 receptions set a NFL playoff record for tight ends and was just one short of the overall record of 15 receptions in a playoff game. Setting records was nothing new for Travis Kelce as during the 2022-23 season he set records for the most overall and consecutive 1,000+ receiving yards by a tight end (7) and the most career games with 100+ receiving yards by a tight end (35).

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: The Wild Card Round

Answer: 25

The Seahawks scored two converted touchdowns and a field goal in the first half to the 49ers' single TD and three field goals. Rookie 49ers' QB Purdy marched them 85 yards downfield in five plays before passing to McCaffrey for a 3 yards touchdown. In the second half, he passed for two more TDs and rushed one himself. They also scored a two-point conversion and a field goal. Seattle scored an unconverted consolation TD late in the final quarter. The final score was 41-23.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: NFC Wild Card

Answer: Brock Purdy

Brock Purdy was born in 1999 and he played college football at Iowa State before he was drafted by the 49ers. At the start of the season he was third on the depth chart after Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance but injuries to those two players put Purdy in the starting role. Aided by a strong defense and great offensive talent around him, Purdy won his five regular season starts. He had a sensational first playoff game as well against the Seahawks as he threw touchdown passes to Deebo Samuel, Elijah Mitchell and Christian McCaffrey.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: AFC Wild Card

Answer: Doug Pederson

The 2022 NFL season was the first one in which Doug Pederson was the head coach of the Jaguars. The team started their first 10 games with a paltry 3-7 record but they finished strong with a final record of 9-8 and a division title. The Jaguars quickly trailed 27-0 in the Wild Card game before they became more aggressive on defense and started executing better on offense. A critical moment in the game came when Doug Pederson made a bold decision to go for a 2-point conversion after a touchdown to cut the deficit to two points. The decision paid off and eventually the Jaguars won the game on a last second field goal. Doug Pederson was previously the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles when they won Super Bowl LII during the 2017 NFL season.

From Quiz Super Bowl LVI

Answer: Punt

The Rams led off with a run by Cam Akers who got four yards before being tackled by Sam Hubbard. Then, with no huddle, Stafford got a first down on a seven-yard pass to Akers again. On first-and-10, Akers got the ball for a third time but was stopped just at the line of scrimmage. On second down, Stafford was taken down for the game's first sack by Trey Hendrickson and a loss of seven yards. On third-and-thirteen, Stafford gave the ball to Darrell Henderson, the other Rams' running back, and he was stuffed behind the line of scrimmage for a loss of three. Johnny Hekker then punted the ball away.

From Quiz Super Bowl LIV

Answer: 49ers

Katie Sowers was one of the first handful of women to coach in the NFL, and the first to make it to a Super Bowl. She was also the first openly gay coach to make it to the Super Bowl. San Francisco also had the first Muslim coordinator on their coaching staff, with Robert Saleh. Other Muslim coaches (including Saleh five years prior) had coached in the game, but not as either the Offensive or Defensive coordinator for a team.

From Quiz 2023 NFL Season Part 4: Super Bowl LVIII

Answer: Lamar Jackson

The NFL Most Valuable Player Award is determined by fifty sports writers from the Associated Press. It is considered the de facto NFL Most Valuable Player Award. It covers the regular season but results are not announced publicly until the week before the Super Bowl. In 2023 it was won by Lamar Jackson, quarterback for the Ravens. This was his second MVP win. Starting in the 2023 season, AP voters filled out a ranked MVP ballot of five players. Jackson received 49 first-place votes and one third-place vote. This gave him a total of 493 out of 500 potential points. (In 2019, his first win, it was a unanimous vote). The Associated Press NFL Offensive Player of the Year Award winner for 2023 was Christian McCaffrey (49ers) and Myles Garret (Browns) was the Associated Press NFL Defence Player of the Year.

From Quiz 2022-23 NFL Playoffs: Super Bowl LVII

Answer: Miss, hit left upright

Harrison Butker's first field goal attempt of Super Bowl LVII was a miss from 42 yards that hit the left upright. Kickers hitting one of the uprights is a rare occurrence and sometimes the kicker can still score after hitting the upright. However, Butker's kick doinked off the left upright back into the field of play rather than through the uprights. Butker's miss set up the Philadelphia Eagles in good field position at the 32-yard line.

From Quiz All Roads Lead to Super Bowl LVII

Answer: Eagles 38-7

The Giants 9-3-1, and unlikely Wild Card Round winners thought they were a chance as Eagles (14-3). Eagles QB Jalen Hurts missed two matches with a sprained shoulder and the Eagles went from 12-1 to 12-3. On the Eagles' last regular season match, also against the Giants, the Eagles chose a vanilla offence designed to protect Hurts. The Eagles edged the Giants that match 22-16. Any doubts about Hurts' shoulder dissipated in their first play of the playoff when the Giants scored a 75-yard play with Hurts passing short right to Goedert for 16 yards. That became a procession. They had 28 points and four touchdowns on the scoreboard before halftime. The Giants opened their scoring with a converted touchdown in the third quarter and didn't let the Eagles score that quarter but that was also the end of the Giants' scoring. The Eagles added ten more points in the final quarter to win 38-7.

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