The Best 50 World Cup Quiz Questions: From Easiest to Hardest
So, you call yourself a soccer fan? It's time to put that to the test.
Everyone knows Argentina and Lionel Messi won the 2022 World Cup-but do you know who their coach was? Or what about Just Fontaine. It's common knowledge that he holds the record for most goals scored in a single World Cup tournament. But how many did he score?
Think you have the knowledge and nerve to take on our ultimate World Cup quiz and prove yourself as a true master of soccer's biggest stage?
We'll be mightily impressed if you can.
World Cup Quiz: Easy Questions
1. Which country hosted-and won-the first-ever World Cup in 1930?
Answer: Uruguay
2. Which country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Answer: Brazil (5)
3. How often is the FIFA World Cup held?
Answer: Every four years
4. Which country won the 1966 World Cup on home soil?
Answer: England
5. Who is the only player ever to win three World Cup titles?
Answer: Pelé (1958, 1962, 1970)
6. Which major global conflict caused the 1942 and 1946 FIFA World Cups to be canceled?
Answer: World War II
7. How many World Cup titles has France won?
Answer: Two (1998, 2018)
8. Which player scored the "Hand of God" goal in 1986?
Answer: Diego Maradona
9. Which African country is the only one to have ever hosted a World Cup?
Answer: South Africa (2010)
10. Who is the only player in history to have scored at five different FIFA World Cup tournaments?
Answer: Cristiano Ronaldo (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
World Cup Quiz: Medium-Difficulty Questions
11. Who is the all-time FIFA World Cup top goalscorer?
Answer: Miroslav Klose (16)
12. Which country won the 1954 FIFA World Cup, known for the "Miracle of Bern"?
Answer: West Germany
13. Only two players in history have scored a hat-trick in a FIFA World Cup final. Can you name them?
Answer: Geoff Hurst (England, 1966), Kylian Mbappé (France, 2022)
14. Which nation has hosted the World Cup the most times?
Answer: Mexico (1970, 1986, 2026)
15. Which Cameroonian football legend holds the record as the oldest goalscorer in World Cup history?
Answer: Roger Milla
16. How many goals did Just Fontaine score for France in the 1958 World Cup, still a record for a single tournament?
Answer: 13
17. Which country has finished as runner-up the most times without ever winning the World Cup?
Answer: Netherlands (1974, 1978, 2010)
18. Who scored the winning goal in the 2010 World Cup final?
Answer: Andrés Iniesta (Spain)
19. What was the final score of the 1998 World Cup final between France and Brazil?
Answer: France 3–0 Brazil
20. Which player is the all-time top scorer for the United States in World Cup history?
Answer: Landon Donovan (5)
World Cup Quiz: Hard Questions
21. Which player famously missed the decisive penalty that cost Italy the 1994 World Cup final?
Answer: Roberto Baggio
22. Which French goalkeeper shares the World Cup record for most clean sheets with England's Peter Shilton?
Answer: Fabien Barthez (10)
23. Which European country's legendary 1950s team was famously nicknamed the "Mighty Magyars"?
Answer: Hungary
24. Which player did Zinedine Zidane famously headbutt during the 2006 World Cup final?
Answer: Marco Materazzi
25. To the nearest thousand, what is the record attendance for a World Cup match?
Answer: 173,850 (Uruguay vs. Brazil, 1950, Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro)
26. Who is the only player to have scored five goals in a single World Cup match?
Answer: Oleg Salenko (for Russia vs. Cameroon, 1994)
27. In which year did Italy defeat West Germany 3-1 in a World Cup final?
Answer: 1982
28. Which famous American singer comically missed an open-goal penalty during the 1994 World Cup opening ceremony?
Answer: Diana Ross
29. Who scored the quickest goal in World Cup history, finding the net just 11 seconds into a 2002 match?
Answer: Hakan Şükür (for. Turkey vs. South Korea, 2002)
30. Which manager guided Argentina to World Cup glory in 2022?
Answer: Lionel Scaloni
World Cup Quiz: Impossible Questions
31. Which nation holds the record for the most consecutive failed World Cup qualification attempts, with 22?
Answer: Luxembourg
32. Which English referee infamously gave three yellow cards to the same player in a single World Cup match in 2006?
Answer: Graham Poll (to Josip Šimunić, Croatia vs. Australia)
33. Who scored the first-ever goal in FIFA World Cup history?
Answer: Lucien Laurent (for. France vs. Mexico, 1930)
34. What was the name of the dog that famously discovered the Jules Rimet Trophy after it was stolen in 1966?
Answer: Pickles
35. Ravshan Irmatov, the referee who has officiated the most World Cup games, is from which country?
Answer: Uzbekistan
36. Only one coach in history has won two World Cup titles. Name him.
Answer: Vittorio Pozzo (Italy, 1934 & 1938)
37. Which team is the only one to go through an entire World Cup campaign without conceding a goal, and in which year?
Answer: Switzerland, 2006
38. Who is the only player to have appeared in World Cup finals for two different national teams?
Answer: Luis Monti (Argentina, 1930; Italy, 1934)
39. Tim Howard holds the record for the most saves in a single World Cup game. How many did he make?
Answer: 16 (for USA vs. Belgium, 2014)
40. Players from which African nation were threatened by their president after a 9-0 defeat to Yugoslavia in 1974?
Answer: Zaire (now DR Congo)
World Cup Quiz: True or False
41. Norway have never lost to any other team at the World Cup than Italy.
Answer: True (1938, 1994, 1998)
42. Every World Cup-winning nation has been managed by a coach from the same country.
Answer: True
43. The 1974 World Cup final was delayed by 10 minutes because construction workers forgot to place nets in the goals.
Answer: False (they forgot the corner flags)
44. Antarctica is the only continent to never host a World Cup.
Answer: False (Oceania has never hosted)
45. In 2010, Spain won the World Cup despite scoring only nine goals throughout the entire tournament.
Answer: False (they only scored eight)
46. The tiny Caribbean nation of Aruba is the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup.
Answer: False (it's Curaçao)
47. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have never finished as top scorers at a World Cup.
Answer: True
48. The official 2010 World Cup song, "Waka Waka," was sung by Jennifer Lopez.
Answer: False (it was sung by Shakira)
49. Brazil is the only country to have played in every single World Cup.
Answer: True
50. No team has ever won a World Cup after losing their opening match.
Answer: False (Spain in 2010, Argentina in 2022)
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This story was originally published May 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM.