Sports quizzes

Every sport has rules with surprising origins, records that seem impossible and traditions fans love. These quizzes explore the stories behind the world's most popular sports — why red cards look like traffic lights, why tennis balls turned yellow and what's really inside a cricket trophy.

You'll find quizzes on football and the FIFA World Cup, cricket, basketball, tennis, the Olympic Games, Formula 1, badminton, volleyball and table tennis — sports followed by billions across every continent. Each quiz has six questions that start easy and get harder, with an explanation for every answer.

Below each quiz you'll also find a longer background section on the sport's history, rules and culture, plus a few extra facts to take away.