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FIFA World Cup Quiz
42 questions spanning every World Cup from 1930 to 2022.
About this quiz
Every World Cup winner since the tournament began, plus the final scoreline from every edition where the record is unambiguous. Finals settled after 90 minutes — extra time or shootouts — have their score question left out rather than guessed at.
How to play
- Press Start. Each question offers four answers — only one is right.
- Correct picks turn green; wrong ones reveal the right choice, often with a bonus fact.
- Answer all 42 questions to get your score — then try to beat your best.
How the tournament is decided
The World Cup runs on a four-year cycle, with qualification spread across the confederations and a final tournament lasting about a month. The format has changed repeatedly: thirteen invited teams in 1930, sixteen for most of the post-war era, twenty-four from 1982, thirty-two from 1998, and forty-eight from 2026. Comparing "how far a team went" across eras is therefore not straightforward, which is why the questions here stay on results rather than rounds.
Knockout matches level after ninety minutes go to extra time and then penalties. That detail matters for how this quiz was built: where a final was not settled inside ninety minutes, the scoreline question is left out entirely rather than shown with an ambiguous figure. The 1994 final between Brazil and Italy — goalless, then decided on penalties — is the clearest example.
What the winners list shows
Only eight nations have ever won it, and the concentration in Europe and South America is close to total — no team from outside those two confederations has reached a final. That is the single most reliable pattern in the competition and the reason a plausible-looking wrong answer in this quiz is usually a European or South American side.
Reading the winners list also runs into a naming problem that this quiz handles explicitly: West Germany and Germany are the same footballing lineage under different political circumstances, so the quiz never offers one as a wrong answer when the other is correct. The same applies to the Soviet Union and Russia, and to Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
Why there are no top-scorer questions
A World Cup quiz would naturally ask who won the Golden Boot. Ours does not, deliberately. The goal data in our source can be reconstructed into scorer tallies, but those derived totals disagree with the official Golden Boot record in several modern tournaments — the source does not carry complete goal attribution for every match.
Rather than publish a number that looks authoritative and is wrong, the pipeline drops the question. It is a good illustration of the general rule this site runs on: a fact ships only if the data actually supports it, and "we left it out" is a better outcome than "we guessed".