NRL trivia questions and answers
108 rugby league trivia questions with answers, from the first premiership in 1908 to the Panthers' four-peat. Tap a question to see the answer. Want to play them with mates? Every one of these is a round in Sin Bin.
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When Cronulla won the 2016 premiership, they ended a drought of ______ years.
49. The Sharks joined the comp in 1967 and finally got there in 2016, beating the Storm 14 to 12.
The 2015 grand final was decided in golden point by a Johnathan Thurston ______.
Field goal. The Cowboys beat the Broncos 17 to 16 for their first ever premiership.
Cameron Smith retired holding the record for most first grade games, with ______.
430. All of them for the Melbourne Storm.
In 2010 the Melbourne Storm were stripped of two premierships for ______.
Salary cap breaches. They lost the 2007 and 2009 titles.
Benji Marshall's famous flick pass in the 2005 grand final set up a try for ______.
Pat Richards. The Wests Tigers beat the Cowboys for their first premiership.
Sam Burgess played almost all of the 2014 grand final with a broken ______.
Cheekbone. He still won the Clive Churchill Medal as Souths ended a 43 year drought.
In 2014 Jarryd Hayne left the Eels to chase an NFL career with the ______.
San Francisco 49ers. He played eight games in the NFL before coming back to league.
Greg Inglis' famous try celebration imitated a ______.
Goanna. The goanna crawl became one of the most copied celebrations in the game.
The Dolphins played their first season in the top grade in ______.
2023. They became the 17th club in the comp.
The Gold Coast Titans joined the competition in ______.
2007. They played their first games at Carrara before moving to Robina.
Golden point extra time came into the competition in ______.
2003. The first golden point grand final came in 2015.
Hazem El Masri is the all time leading point scorer for the ______.
Bulldogs. He kicked his way to over 2,400 points for Canterbury.
Johnathan Thurston won the Dally M Medal a record ______ times.
4. He won it in 2005, 2007, 2014 and 2015.
The 2003 grand final was won by the ______.
Penrith Panthers. They beat the Roosters, with Scott Sattler's famous cover tackle on Todd Byrne.
The North Queensland Cowboys play their home games in ______.
Townsville. They moved into a new stadium in the city centre in 2020.
The Warriors are based in ______.
Auckland. Their home ground is Mount Smart Stadium.
Billy Slater played his whole career for the ______.
Melbourne Storm. He later coached Queensland to Origin wins.
South Sydney were readmitted to the competition in ______ after being left out.
2002. Fans marched in the streets to get the Rabbitohs back in.
Sonny Bill Williams walked out on the Bulldogs mid-season in 2008 to play rugby union in ______.
France. He signed with Toulon.
The NRL ran its first season in ______, after the Super League war.
1998. The ARL and Super League clubs came back together in one competition.
Darren Lockyer played his final season in ______.
2011. His last game was a preliminary final against Manly.
Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater were known at the Storm as the "______".
Big Three. They played together in Melbourne for more than a decade.
Hollywood actor Russell Crowe became a co-owner of the ______.
Rabbitohs. He bought into Souths in 2006.
Wayne Bennett won a premiership with St George Illawarra in ______.
2010. It was the first title for a St George side since 1979.
Nathan Cleary's dad, who coached him at Penrith, is ______ Cleary.
Ivan. Ivan coached the Panthers through their run of premierships.
Hazem El Masri was born in ______.
Lebanon. He moved to Australia as a child.
After leaving the Broncos, Israel Folau signed with AFL club the ______.
GWS Giants. He later switched to rugby union.
The Dolphins are based in ______, north of Brisbane.
Redcliffe. The club played in Queensland's state league for decades before joining.
Benji Marshall finished his playing career at the ______.
Rabbitohs. He started out at the Wests Tigers.
Sam Burgess comes from the town of ______ in England.
Dewsbury. His brothers also played for Souths.
Josh Addo-Carr is nicknamed "The ______".
Foxx. He is one of the fastest players in the game.
Nicho Hynes won the Dally M Medal in ______.
2022. He won it in his first season at Cronulla.
Cooper Cronk's last game for the Storm was the ______ grand final.
2017. He then won two more premierships with the Roosters.
Billy Slater's final game was the ______ grand final.
2018. He won the Clive Churchill Medal the year before.
Cameron Smith's final game was the ______ grand final.
2020. He went out a winner, beating Penrith.
Johnathan Thurston played his final season for the Cowboys in ______.
2018. He missed the 2017 grand final through injury.
Greg Inglis started his career at the ______ before joining Souths.
Storm. He won the Clive Churchill Medal there in 2007.
The 2004 grand final was won by the Bulldogs over the ______.
Roosters. The final score was 16 to 13.
Besides Leichhardt Oval, the Wests Tigers play home games at ______ Stadium.
Campbelltown. The club is a joint venture of Balmain and Western Suburbs.
Cronulla play their home games in the suburb of ______.
Woolooware. Shark Park sits right on the water.
The 2017 Rugby League World Cup was hosted by Australia, New Zealand and ______.
Papua New Guinea. Port Moresby hosted World Cup games for the first time.
At the 2017 World Cup, Tonga caused a huge upset by beating ______.
New Zealand. The score was 28 to 22 in Hamilton.
Papua New Guinea's national team is nicknamed the ______.
Kumuls. Kumul is the local word for the bird of paradise.
New Zealand's national rugby league team is nicknamed the ______.
Kiwis. The Silver Ferns are the netball team.
The Bunker, where video referees review tries, started in ______.
2016. It replaced the video refs who sat at each ground.
The six again rule for ruck infringements came in during ______.
2020. It arrived when the season restarted after the COVID break.
The two point field goal from 40 metres out was brought in for the ______ season.
2021. Field goals from closer in still count for one.
The round where every game is played at one ground in Brisbane is called ______ Round.
Magic. It started in 2019 at Suncorp Stadium.
AAMI Park, where the Storm play, is also known as Melbourne ______ Stadium.
Rectangular. It was built for rugby league, rugby and soccer.
The Canberra Raiders play home games in the suburb of ______.
Bruce. The ground is next to the Australian Institute of Sport.
Parramatta moved into their new stadium in ______.
2019. It was built on the site of the old Parramatta Stadium.
Shaun Johnson won the Dally M Medal in ______.
2018. He was the first Warriors player to win it.
Kalyn Ponga won the Dally M Medal in ______.
2023. He was playing fullback for the Knights.
After retiring, Paul Gallen started a second career in ______.
Boxing. He fought on several big pay per view cards.
Latrell Mitchell made his first grade debut for the ______.
Roosters. He won premierships with the Roosters before moving to Souths.
James Tedesco joined the Roosters from the ______.
Wests Tigers. He won the premiership in his first year at the Roosters.
90s and 2000s footy
The Newcastle Knights won their first premiership in 1997, beating ______ with a try in the dying seconds.
Manly. Darren Albert scored the winner with only seconds left on the clock.
The Warriors played their first premiership season in ______.
1995. They were known as the Auckland Warriors back then.
The Canberra Raiders won the 1989 grand final in extra time against ______.
Balmain. It was the first grand final won by a team from outside Sydney.
The Penrith Panthers won their first premiership in ______.
1991. They beat the Raiders in the decider.
Andrew Johns is better known by the nickname ______.
Joey. He played his entire NRL career at Newcastle.
The breakaway competition that split the game in 1997 was called ______.
Super League. The two comps merged into one competition in 1998.
The Brisbane Broncos played their first season in the Sydney competition in ______.
1988. Gold Coast and Newcastle joined in the same year.
Darren Lockyer played his whole club career for the ______.
Broncos. He started at fullback and finished as one of the great five-eighths.
The Melbourne Storm played their first season in ______.
1998. They won the premiership in just their second year, 1999.
Andrew Johns' older brother, who also played for Newcastle, is ______ Johns.
Matthew. Matty Johns played in the Knights' first premiership side in 1997.
The 1999 grand final was won by the ______.
Melbourne Storm. They came from behind to beat the Dragons.
The Brisbane Broncos won their first premiership in ______.
1992. They went back to back, winning again in 1993.
St George Illawarra formed as a joint venture in ______.
1999. They made the grand final in their very first season.
The Wests Tigers joint venture formed in ______.
2000. Balmain and Western Suburbs joined forces.
Brad Fittler is better known by the nickname ______.
Freddy. He went on to coach New South Wales.
Wayne Bennett coached the Broncos to ______ premierships.
6. That count includes the 1997 Super League title.
Allan Langer was nicknamed ______.
Alfie. He was famously flown home from England for the 2001 Origin decider.
Andrew Ettingshausen was better known as ______.
ET. He played over 300 games for Cronulla.
Ricky Stuart made his name as a halfback for the ______.
Raiders. He later came back to coach the Raiders.
Penrith's coach for their 1991 premiership was ______.
Phil Gould. He went on to coach New South Wales.
Tim Sheens coached the Raiders to ______ premierships.
3. In 1989, 1990 and 1994.
Commentator Ray Warren is known as ______.
Rabbits. He called State of Origin for decades.
Phil Gould's nickname is ______.
Gus. He coached Penrith to the 1991 premiership.
Paul Vautin's nickname is ______.
Fatty. He went on to coach Queensland.
Peter Sterling's nickname is ______.
Sterlo. He was the halfback in Parramatta's great early 80s side.
Mark Geyer's nickname is ______.
MG. He played for Penrith and Balmain.
Ricky Stuart is better known by the nickname ______.
Sticky. He played halfback for Canberra and later coached them.
Gorden Tallis was nicknamed "The Raging ______".
Bull. He captained the Broncos and Queensland.
Prop Glenn Lazarus was nicknamed "The ______".
Brick with Eyes. He won premierships with three different clubs.
Steve Mortimer is better known by the nickname ______.
Turvey. He led New South Wales to their first Origin series win in 1985.
Steve Menzies is better known by the nickname ______.
Beaver. He scored a huge number of tries for a back rower.
State of Origin
State of Origin was first played in the year ______.
1980. Queensland won that first game at Lang Park, 20 to 10.
Wally Lewis was famously nicknamed "The ______".
King. He was also known as the Emperor of Lang Park.
Starting in 2006, Queensland won ______ State of Origin series in a row.
8. The streak ran from 2006 to 2013.
The first ever Queensland Origin captain was ______.
Arthur Beetson. Artie Beetson led Queensland in the very first Origin game in 1980.
Mal Meninga is widely known as "______".
Big Mal. He later coached Queensland and the Kangaroos.
Wally Lewis played his last State of Origin series in ______.
1991. He captained Queensland for most of the 1980s.
Brad Fittler won an Origin series for New South Wales in his first year as coach, in ______.
2018. His young Blues side won the series 2 to 1.
Laurie Daley coached New South Wales to end Queensland's run of eight straight series in ______.
2014. It was the Blues' first series win since 2005.
The Queensland side that won the 1995 series 3 to 0 against the odds was coached by ______.
Paul Vautin. They were nicknamed the Neville Nobodies.
Mark Geyer and Wally Lewis had their famous face-off in the Origin series of ______.
1991. Lewis gave Geyer a few words he has never forgotten.
Because of COVID, the 2020 State of Origin series was played in the month of ______.
November. Queensland won it 2 to 1.
Rugby league history
The premiership trophy is based on a photo of Norm Provan and Arthur Summons after the 1963 grand final, both covered in ______.
Mud. The photo became known as "The Gladiators".
The grand final man of the match medal is named after ______.
Clive Churchill. Churchill was a champion South Sydney fullback, nicknamed "The Little Master".
Dally Messenger, who the Dally M Medal is named after, was nicknamed "The ______".
Master. He was one of the first big rugby union stars to switch to league.
Rugby league split from rugby union in 1895 at a meeting in a hotel in ______, England.
Huddersfield. Clubs met at the George Hotel to form the Northern Union.
The first premiership season in Sydney was played in ______.
1908. South Sydney were the first premiers.
St George won ______ premierships in a row from 1956 to 1966.
11. A record that still stands in Australian sport.
Steeden is the brand name of the official ______.
Football. Steeden balls have been used in Australian league for decades.
Jack Gibson coached Easts to back-to-back premierships in 1974 and ______.
1975. He later won three in a row with Parramatta.
Parramatta won three premierships in a row from 1981 to ______.
1983. They won another in 1986.
Arthur Beetson is better known by the nickname ______.
Big Artie. He captained Queensland in the first Origin game in 1980.
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