Trivia is a great way to gather with friends and family, test your wits, and have a great time. Sports trivia is one of the most popular kinds of trivia and is very commonly played. But, if newer and fresher facts aren’t continuously discovered, sports trivia games can become dry and boring quickly.

In this article, I’m going to give you general sports knowledge that will aid your success in trivia. If you’re looking for sports facts that will put you a step ahead of your competition, then you’re reading the right article.

• The world’s longest dogsled race is known as Iditarod and is raced from Anchorage to Nome.
• In 1972, Frank Shorter became the first American to win an Olympic marathon in 64 years.
• The only two days that sports are not played on (in the USA) are the days before and after the MLB all-star game.
• Babe Ruth played for three teams during his MLB career: the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Boston Braves.
• Lamar Hunt is the only person to have been inducted into the Hall of Fame for three major sports: Football, Tennis, and Soccer (speaking of which, check out some Bob Marley soccer posters!).
• The four colleges who have perfect records in Football bowl games are: UNLV, University of Connecticut, East Michigan, and Idaho.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins have retired a total of 2 numbers. These numbers (21 and 66) belonged to Michel Briere and Mario Lemieux respectively.
• The only baseball player to play over 500 games at 5 different defensive positions is Pete Rose.
• John Havlechek holds the record for the most field-goals missed in NBA history.
• Mike Ditka played college ball at the University of Pittsburgh.
• The first football team to play a full season with only professionals was the Latrobe Athletic Association from 1897.
• AC Green holds the NBA record for most consecutive games played at 1,192.
• In 1984, Michael Jordan was drafted into the NBA 3rd, after Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie.
• Bayern Munich won the European Cup in three straight years: 1974, 1975, and 1976.
• Wayne Gretzky was the fastest player to ever reach 1,000 points in the NHL and did so on December 19, 1984.
• John McEnroe won his first Wimbledon singles title in 1981 by defeating Bjorn Borg.

I hope that you have a glimpse of the vast amount of sports trivia that is available to us. Every single sport of the world has virtually hundreds of pages of information regarding its development and history. In this article, you have received just a brief overview of this information. I hope that you have learned something that you can commit to memory and that you will share this sports trivia with other sports trivia enthusiasts. Now when you are done reading this post you might as well check out this movie trivia quiz!