ESPN Trivia
An in-depth trivia game about the world-wide leader in sports from the world-wide leader in trivia.
15 questions · Published July 25, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. In what Connecticut city has ESPN been headquartered since its founding in 1979?
ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen and his son Scott in Bristol, Connecticut in 1979. The Rasmussen's funded the purchase of the property for the headquarters with an investment from Getty Oil.
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2. ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports _______________ Network.
ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. In 1985, the company shortened their corporate name to just ESPN, Inc.
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3. Which American beer giant signed a $1 million contract to be the "exclusive beer advertised on the network" in 1979?
ESPN signed a deal with Anheuser-Busch in 1979 for a reported $1.4 million, the largest single buy in cable television history up to that point.
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4. What was the first major sporting event to be broadcast on ESPN?
ESPN's first big break came in 1980 when they began broadcasting the early rounds of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The tournament had been broadcast on NBC since 1969 but ESPN was the first network to air the early rounds. Beginning in 1991, all rounds of the NCAA Tournament are broadcast on CBS.
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5. What sports comedy features the fictional ESPN off-shoot channel ESPN 8: the "Ocho?"
Parodying ESPN's splitting off into multiple channels to cover more and more sports no matter how obscure, 2004's "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story features ESPN 8: the "Ocho." The obscure-sports network's tagline is "If it's almost a sport, we've got it here."
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