Ice Hockey Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. What is hooking?

1. Banging your stick against another players for luck
2. Pushing the puck with your stick
3. Blocking another player with your stick
4. Holding onto another player so they pull you along

17. The National Hockey League or NHL is a professional ice hockey league in which two countries?

1. Canada and the United States
2. Finland and Sweden
3. Russia and Belarus
4. New Zealand and Australia

18. What is the most common major penalty in ice hockey?

1. Cross-checking
2. Fighting
3. Boarding
4. Spearing

19. How often is the Ice Hockey World Championships are organised?

1. Every year
2. Every two years
3. Every Three years
4. Every four years

20. Players in which position in ice hockey is most likely to wear a protector for their throat?

1. Forwards
2. Defence
3. Goalie
4. Attack

21. Which country will host the 2022 IIHF World Championship?

1. Germany
2. Sweden
3. Finland
4. Canada

22. Who is often considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time with the nickname Mr. Hockey?

1. Gordie Howe
2. Wayne Gretzky
3. Bobby Orr
4. James Foster

23. Which penalty is called by the referee when a player jabs the stick at the opponent?

1. Icing
2. Boarding
3. Spearing
4. Hooking

24. While players can wear helmets in various colour options, which colour helmet is a hockey referee required to wear?

1. Red
2. White
3. Blue
4. Black

25. In which country is ice hockey the official national winter sport?

1. Russia
2. Canada
3. Finland
4. USA

26. Which country is most famous for playing Ice Hockey?

1. Russia
2. Canada
3. Finland
4. Switzerland

27. Which area on an ice hockey rink is also called the sin bin?

1. The face-off circle
2. The penalty box
3. The goal crease
4. The ring window

28. In an ice hockey game, which team starts with possession of the puck?

1. The home team
2. The away team
3. The team winning the puck drop
4. The team which host the tournament

29. Which trophy is given to the winning team of the NHL Finals?

1. The Super Bowl
2. The Memorial Cup
3. The Stanley Cup
4. The Champions Cup

30. Which material is used for making a puck, which is the hard rubber disc that players hit in ice hockey?

1. Wood
2. Rubber
3. Plastic
4. Steel