Hockey Quiz: How Deep Does Your Cup Lore Go?

Thirteen questions, 10 points each, and a pass mark set at 70 out of 130. That is the frame, and inside it sits a tour of Stanley Cup lore, untouchable records, and the odd rituals that make this sport what it is: octopuses raining onto Detroit ice, a trophy that has doubled as a baptismal font, and hockey's most beloved machine, invented nowhere near Canada. Difficulty sits at medium, most players finish in 5 to 8 minutes, and the whole thing runs on Uplup's free plan.

Cup lore, unbreakable records, and one honest rules check

The set opens gently. "Let's drop the puck with an easy one. The Stanley Cup is older than the NHL itself." True, as it happens, by 24 years. From there it moves through franchise history, and "Which franchise has lifted the Stanley Cup more times than any other?" stays safe territory for anyone who knows Montreal's 24 banners. There is the cricket origin of the hat trick, and a proper icing question that separates fans who watch the game from fans who just wear the jersey.

The back half gets strange. Detroit's octopus toss appears, along with the eight playoff wins those eight legs originally stood for. The 1980 Miracle on Ice question trips up anyone who assumes it was the gold medal game. And the Gretzky item leans on a famous statistical kicker: his 1,963 career assists would still top the all-time points list even if every goal he ever scored were erased. Two of the thirteen are select-all multiple choice, including one asking which chaotic Stanley Cup incidents are actually documented. Cereal bowl, swimming pool, and infant baptisms all qualify.

Where a quiz like this earns its keep

Sports bars slot it into trivia night as a themed round, leaderboard up on the screen behind the taps. Fan groups and game-day group chats post the link and let bragging rights sort themselves out. Youth league coaches and hockey parents run it on long bus rides or at end-of-season banquets, since the explanations teach the history as kids play, from the Winnipeg Falcons taking gold at the 1920 Summer Olympics to the reason old Cup bands retire to Toronto.

Seven right answers to pass, and a leaderboard to fight over

Scoring is points based: 10 per question, 130 available, 70 needed to pass. Feedback lands the moment an answer is locked in, and every question carries a written explanation, so a wrong guess about the Zamboni's California origins becomes the best fact somebody learns all night. The leaderboard is on out of the box. Question order shuffles for every taker, which keeps anyone from texting answers down the bar, skipping is off, and players can step back to review a previous question before the finish. A progress indicator shows how deep into the thirteen they are.

Behind the scenes, response analytics break results down question by question. If the room aces the Original Six but splits on which country won the first women's Olympic hockey gold in 1998, you will see exactly that, and the full response set exports to CSV.

Make it about your team instead

Everything in the template is open to edits. Rewrite questions around your own franchise's history, adjust point values, raise or lower the 70 point bar, or switch the leaderboard off for a casual crowd. Colors and a logo bring it in line with your bar, podcast, or league, and a lead capture step can collect contact details before anyone reaches the scoreboard.

Send it out before warmups end

A finished quiz travels as a plain link, a QR code for table tents and rink noticeboards, or a social share. An embed snippet places it on any website, and the Uplup WordPress plugin turns it into a shortcode you can paste straight into a post. For everything downstream, webhooks and a Zapier connection move responses into whatever tools you already run, and nothing stands between you and publishing tonight.