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Super Bowl Trivia Questions

How much do you really know about Super Bowl? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

There is a rule that the Super Bowl must be played in a warm-weather or domed stadium.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

No such rule exists. The NFL chooses sites based on bids, but cold-weather outdoor stadiums like MetLife (New Jersey) hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014.

2.

The Super Bowl halftime show has always featured a single headlining artist.

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Easy
✗ FALSE

Early shows had multiple acts, and even recent ones sometimes include guests. In 1989, it featured an Elvis impersonator and 2,000 pigeons—not a single star.

3.

No team has ever played a Super Bowl in its home stadium.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

The 2020 Buccaneers played Super Bowl LV at their own Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, becoming the first team to do so.

4.

The Super Bowl has never gone to overtime in its entire history.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

It has gone to overtime twice: Super Bowl LI (Patriots vs. Falcons) and Super Bowl LVIII (Chiefs vs. 49ers). Both ended with walk-off touchdowns.

5.

More than half of all Super Bowls have been decided by one score or less.

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Medium
✗ FALSE

Through Super Bowl LVIII, only 23 of 58 games (about 40%) had a margin of 8 points or fewer. The claim that more than half were that close is incorrect.

6.

The losing team in Super Bowl I received a larger cash payout than the winners.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

The winning Green Bay Packers received $15,000 per player, while the losing Kansas City Chiefs got $7,500. Thus, the winners received a larger payout.

7.

The Super Bowl trophy is named after a famous NFL coach who never won a Super Bowl.

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Hard
✗ FALSE

Vince Lombardi, the namesake, won the first two Super Bowls as Packers coach (the 1966 and 1967 NFL championships were later retroactively named Super Bowl I and II).

8.

The first Super Bowl was not sold out and was blacked out on local TV.

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Hard
✓ TRUE

Super Bowl I had about 33,000 empty seats at the LA Coliseum. The game was blacked out locally because of NFL blackout rules, then common.

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