Adam Jones
Creator of the Cordova, Shaolin and Stripper flips. Won X Games gold in 2007.
Freestyle (FMX) Trivia
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Freestyle (FMX) Riders
Andre Villa
Norway's top X-Fighters freestyle rider. Multiple FIM FMX World Championship event wins.
Axell Hodges
Owner of the Slayground in Ramona, California. Built his own 'Slayground' compound that hosted X Games events.
Blake Williams
The 2009 X Games freestyle champion from Victoria, Australia. Won X Games Moto X Freestyle gold in 2009.
Brian Deegan
Founder of Metal Mulisha and father of moto prodigy Haiden. Co-founded the Metal Mulisha crew.
Cam Sinclair
The comeback double-backflip specialist from Australia. Landed the first double backflip combo in competition.
Carey Hart
The backflip pioneer married to pop star Pink. First to attempt a backflip on a full-size bike in competition, 2000.
Clinton Moore
The 2015 Red Bull X-Fighters world champion from Australia. First Australian to win the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour, 2015.
Colby Raha
The QuarterPipe High Air king with seven X Games golds. Multiple-time X Games QuarterPipe High Air champion.
Dany Torres
Spain's 2011 X-Fighters world champion. 2011 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour champion.
Harry Bink
A Nitro Circus FMX star from the Gold Coast. Landed a world-first rock-solid frontflip, Nitro World Games 2017.
Jackson Strong
The front-flip pioneer and Best Trick king from Australia. Landed the first front flip in X Games competition, 2011.
Jarryd McNeil
From Yarrawonga, the king of the Best Whip. Most dominant Best Whip rider in X Games history.
Jeremy Lusk
The Metal Mulisha rider lost in a 2009 Costa Rica crash. Won Moto X Freestyle gold at X Games 2008.
Jeremy Stenberg
Goes by Twitch. Rode in the first-ever X Games Moto X Freestyle in 1999.
Josh Sheehan
Nicknamed Sheeny. Landed the world's first triple backflip, 2015.
Kenny Bartram
Known simply as Cowboy. Perennial X Games Moto X Freestyle silver medalist.
Levi Sherwood
The Rubber Kid from New Zealand. 2012 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour champion.
Libor Podmol
The Czech Republic's FMX world champion. 2010 FIM FMX World Champion.
Maikel Melero
Spain's five-time FMX world champion. Five-time FIM FMX World Champion.
Mat Rebeaud
The floaty Swiss rider who won the 2008 X-Fighters world tour. 2008 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour champion.
Mike Metzger
Known as the Godfather of FMX. First to land back-to-back backflips in competition, X Games 2002.
Nate Adams
Known as The Destroyer. Won X Games Moto X Freestyle gold in 2004 and 2011.
Rob Adelberg
An Aussie Nitro Circus and X-Fighters stalwart. Longtime Nitro Circus and Red Bull X-Fighters competitor.
Robbie Maddison
Nicknamed Maddo. Jumped the open Tower Bridge in London, 2009.
Ronnie Renner
The all-time Moto X Step Up king. Seven-time X Games Moto X Step Up gold medalist.
Taka Higashino
Japan's most successful X Games freestyle motocross rider. First Japanese rider to win X Games Moto X gold, 2012.
Tom Pages
A French legend celebrated for inventing the bike flip. Invented the bike flip on a quarterpipe.
Travis Pastrana
Number 199, founder of Nitro Circus and the most famous FMX rider ever. First to land a double backflip in competition, X Games 2006.
Vicki Golden
The pioneering female Metal Mulisha rider. First woman to earn an X Games Moto X medal, 2013.
Freestyle (FMX) Trivia Questions
Which rider landed the first double backflip in competition history, at X Games 2006?
Answer: Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana landed the first-ever competition double backflip at X Games 2006 in Los Angeles, scoring 98.60 for Moto X Best Trick gold.
Who won the first-ever Moto X Freestyle gold medal at the X Games in 1999?
Answer: Travis Pastrana
A 15-year-old Travis Pastrana won the inaugural X Games Moto X Freestyle event in 1999 in San Francisco.
After his 1999 gold-medal run, Travis Pastrana famously rode his bike off a berm into what body of water?
Answer: San Francisco Bay
Pastrana capped his 1999 X Games win by launching off a course berm into San Francisco Bay; his prize money was withheld to help fund the cleanup.
Mike Metzger earned which nickname for his pioneering role in freestyle motocross?
Answer: The Godfather of FMX
Mike Metzger is widely known as the 'Godfather of FMX' for helping pioneer the backflip on dirt bikes.
Travis Pastrana co-founded which action-sports collective and stunt show?
Answer: Nitro Circus
Nitro Circus was co-founded in 2003 by Travis Pastrana, growing from backyard-stunt DVDs into an MTV show and global live tour.
In 2015, Josh Sheehan became the first rider to land which trick on a motocross bike?
Answer: Triple backflip
Josh Sheehan landed the world's first motorcycle triple backflip in April 2015 at Travis Pastrana's Pastranaland compound in Maryland.
Which 1970s daredevil is widely credited as the inspiration behind modern freestyle motocross?
Answer: Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel attempted more than 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps and is cited by countless action-sports athletes as their original inspiration.
Freestyle rider Jeremy Stenberg is nicknamed 'Twitch' because of which condition?
Answer: Tourette's syndrome
Jeremy 'Twitch' Stenberg was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome at age eight, and its tics gave him his enduring nickname.
At X Games 17 in 2011, Jackson Strong landed the first-ever competition version of which trick?
Answer: Front flip
Australian Jackson Strong landed the first competition front flip on a dirt bike to win Moto X Best Trick gold at X Games 17 in 2011.
Who landed the first backflip on a dirt bike in X Games competition, in 2002?
Answer: Mike Metzger
Mike Metzger landed the first backflip on a dirt bike in X Games competition at Philadelphia in 2002, winning Moto X Freestyle gold.
At the 2000 Gravity Games, Carey Hart is credited with the first competition attempt of which trick, though he did not cleanly ride away?
Answer: Backflip
Carey Hart is credited with the first competition backflip attempt on a 250cc bike at the 2000 Gravity Games, over-rotating and losing the seat on landing.
In the 2002 X Games Moto X Freestyle, Mike Metzger stunned crowds by landing what during his run?
Answer: Back-to-back backflips
Metzger claimed 2002 X Games Freestyle gold by landing the first-ever back-to-back backflips over two large gaps in a single run.
In 2006, Mike Metzger set a Guinness record by backflipping his bike over what Las Vegas landmark?
Answer: The Caesars Palace fountains
On May 4, 2006, Metzger backflipped his bike 125 feet over the Caesars Palace fountains, a tribute to Evel Knievel's famous 1968 attempt there.
On New Year's Eve 2008, Robbie Maddison jumped his bike onto and off a Las Vegas replica of which monument?
Answer: The Arc de Triomphe
Maddison launched onto the roughly 96-foot replica Arc de Triomphe at Paris Las Vegas, then dropped 60-plus feet to a landing ramp below.
Robbie Maddison's 2015 film 'Pipe Dream' showed him riding a modified dirt bike where?
Answer: On ocean waves in Tahiti
In 'Pipe Dream,' Maddison rode a modified KTM fitted with ski-like paddles across the waves at Teahupoo and Papara in Tahiti.
Which rider landed the first-ever Bike Flip in FMX competition, at Red Bull X-Fighters Madrid in 2014?
Answer: Tom Pages
France's Tom Pages landed the first competition Bike Flip to dirt at Red Bull X-Fighters Madrid on June 27, 2014.
Ronnie Renner set an X Games Moto X Step Up record in 2012 by clearing a bar at what height?
Answer: 47 feet
Renner cleared 47 feet at X Games Los Angeles 2012 to win Step Up gold, a Guinness-recognized record height.
In 2013, Vicki Golden became the first woman to compete in and medal in which X Games Moto X event?
Answer: Best Whip
Vicki Golden earned bronze in Moto X Best Whip at X Games Los Angeles 2013, the first woman to compete in and medal in the event.
At the 2004 Gravity Games, which rider became the first to defeat Travis Pastrana in a freestyle motocross contest?
Answer: Nate Adams
Nate 'The Destroyer' Adams became the first rider to beat Travis Pastrana in a freestyle motocross competition at the 2004 Gravity Games.
New Zealand's Levi Sherwood won the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour championship in which year?
Answer: 2012
Levi Sherwood won three tour stops and clinched the 2012 Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour title in Sydney.
Red Bull X-Fighters events are iconically associated with which Madrid bullring?
Answer: Las Ventas
The Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid hosted 16 Red Bull X-Fighters events between 2002 and 2017, its most emblematic venue.
X Games discontinued the Moto X Best Trick event in which year, citing safety and format changes?
Answer: 2013
X Games announced in March 2013 that it was dropping Moto X Best Trick and Snowmobile Best Trick, following broader safety scrutiny.
Japan's Taka Higashino won X Games Moto X Freestyle gold in which year?
Answer: 2013
Taka Higashino took Moto X Freestyle gold at X Games Los Angeles 2013 and also won the Red Bull X-Fighters stop in Osaka that year.
The X Games Moto X Best Whip winner is decided by what?
Answer: Fan voting
Moto X Best Whip is decided by fan vote; Vicki Golden's 2013 bronze came from 21 percent of the vote.
Which FMX crew and clothing brand was co-founded by Brian Deegan?
Answer: Metal Mulisha
Brian Deegan is a co-founder of the Metal Mulisha, one of freestyle motocross's most recognizable crews and clothing brands.
The 'Volt' body varial and the 'Special Flip' are signature tricks invented by which innovative French rider?
Answer: Tom Pages
Tom Pages built his career on invented tricks like the Volt, the 540 Flair and his own Special Flip rather than backflip combos.
Brian Deegan, nicknamed 'The General,' landed the first competition 360 and named it what?
Answer: The Mulisha Twist
Deegan landed the first freestyle motocross competition 360, a trick often called an underflip that he dubbed the 'Mulisha Twist.'
Travis Pastrana's winning 1999 X Games Freestyle run earned what then-record score?
Answer: 99.00
Pastrana posted a then-record 99.00 in the 1999 X Games Moto X Freestyle, the highest freestyle run score to that point.
At Melbourne's 2008 Crusty Demons Night of World Records, Robbie Maddison set a long-distance jump record of roughly how far?
Answer: 351 feet (107 m)
Maddison covered about 106.98 meters (351 feet) at Melbourne's Etihad Stadium in March 2008, a ramp-to-dirt distance world record.
Freestyle rider Jeremy Lusk, who died in 2009 after a crash, was competing at an event in which country?
Answer: Costa Rica
Jeremy Lusk, a Metal Mulisha rider, suffered a fatal crash under-rotating a backflip variation at an event in San Jose, Costa Rica, in February 2009.
Axell Hodges won 2018 X Games gold and set a record in which high-flying Moto X event?
Answer: QuarterPipe High Air
Hodges won Moto X QuarterPipe High Air gold at X Games Minneapolis 2018 with a record height of 34 feet 3 inches above the takeoff.
Colby Raha won 2022 X Games Moto X QuarterPipe High Air gold with a peak height of how high?
Answer: 49 feet
Colby Raha soared 49 feet on his final attempt to defend his QuarterPipe High Air title at X Games 2022, edging Axell Hodges by 12 inches.
The inaugural Red Bull X-Fighters event, in 2001, was held in which Spanish city?
Answer: Valencia
The first Red Bull X-Fighters was held in Valencia in 2001 before the series moved to Madrid's Las Ventas bullring in 2002.
American Mike Jones won the very first Red Bull X-Fighters contest in 2001, ahead of which Spanish rider?
Answer: Edgar Torronteras
Mike Jones won the 2001 inaugural Red Bull X-Fighters in Valencia, with Spain's Edgar Torronteras second and France's Xavier Fabre third.
Ronnie Renner's 2012 Step Up record of 47 feet broke the previous X Games mark, set by Matt Buyten, by how much?
Answer: 10 feet
Renner's 47-foot Step Up clearance at X Games 2012 broke Matt Buyten's previous-year record by a full 10 feet.
