35 Hockey Trivia Questions and Answers
Hockey trivia about the Stanley Cup, the Original Six, the NHL's trophies and the players whose names every fan knows, with the Miracle on Ice and the 1972 Summit Series for good measure. The questions deal with history and rules, not with the standings. Answers are printed with the questions.
There are 35 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.What is the name of the trophy awarded each year to the playoff champion of the National Hockey League?
Answer: The Stanley Cup
Open this question2.Lord Stanley of Preston, who donated the Stanley Cup, held which office in Canada?
Answer: Governor General
Open this question3.In which city was the National Hockey League founded in 1917?
Answer: Montreal
Open this question4.What name is given to the six teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion?
Answer: The Original Six
Open this question5.Which hockey player is known as "The Great One"?
Answer: Wayne Gretzky
Open this question6.What number did Wayne Gretzky wear, later retired by every team in the NHL?
Answer: 99
Open this question7.To which team did the Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky in August 1988?
Answer: Los Angeles Kings
Open this question8.In the "Miracle on Ice" at the 1980 Winter Olympics, the United States hockey team beat which country?
Answer: The Soviet Union
Open this question9.In which New York village was the "Miracle on Ice" played in 1980?
Answer: Lake Placid
Open this question10.Who coached the United States hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Herb Brooks
Open this question11.Which team captain scored the winning goal for the United States in the "Miracle on Ice"?
Answer: Mike Eruzione
Open this question12.An NHL game is divided into three periods of how many minutes each?
Answer: 20
Open this question13.What is the common name, taken from its inventor, for the machine that resurfaces the ice at a hockey rink?
Answer: Zamboni
Open this question14.Which Montreal Canadiens goaltender was the first in the NHL to wear a mask regularly in games, beginning in the 1959-60 season?
Answer: Jacques Plante
Open this question15.With which team did Bobby Orr play ten of his twelve NHL seasons?
Answer: Boston Bruins
Open this question16.Which hockey great was nicknamed "Mr. Hockey"?
Answer: Gordie Howe
Open this question17.A "Gordie Howe hat trick" consists of a goal, an assist and what else, all in one game?
Answer: A fight
Open this question18.Which Montreal Canadiens star was nicknamed "the Rocket"?
Answer: Maurice Richard
Open this question19.In the 1944–45 season, who became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in a single season?
Answer: Maurice Richard
Open this question20.Which NHL trophy is awarded each year to the league's best goaltender?
Answer: Vezina Trophy
Open this question21.Which NHL trophy is awarded to the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs?
Answer: Conn Smythe Trophy
Open this question22.Which team won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983?
Answer: New York Islanders
Open this question23.Which team won five consecutive Stanley Cups from 1956 to 1960?
Answer: Montreal Canadiens
Open this question24.Which Canadian scored with 34 seconds left in the last game to win the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union?
Answer: Paul Henderson
Open this question25.In which city is the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Answer: Toronto
Open this question26.By what nickname were the rough Philadelphia Flyers teams of the 1970s known?
Answer: The Broad Street Bullies
Open this question27.For which NHL team did Mario Lemieux play between 1984 and 2005?
Answer: Pittsburgh Penguins
Open this question28.The 1919 Stanley Cup Final was abandoned without a winner because of which epidemic?
Answer: The Spanish flu
Open this question29.A hockey puck is made of what material?
Answer: Vulcanized rubber
Open this question30.Which country, represented by the Winnipeg Falcons, won the Olympic ice hockey gold medal in 1920?
Answer: Canada
Open this question31.Which team, in existence since 1924, is the oldest NHL team based in the United States?
Answer: Boston Bruins
Open this question32.The NHL's 1967 expansion doubled the league from six teams to how many?
Answer: Twelve
Open this question33.Who is recognized as the first black player in the NHL, where he played for the Boston Bruins?
Answer: Willie O'Ree
Open this question34.What infraction is called in hockey when a player shoots the puck from his own side of the center red line across the opposing team's goal line and it goes untouched?
Answer: Icing
Open this question35.In which year was the Stanley Cup first awarded?
Answer: 1893
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