Friday, April 15, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #113 Trivia Quiz About Baseball

Baseball trivia quiz questions with answers.
  1. What slugger did Boston name its third harbor tunnel after?
     
  2. What moniker did relief pitcher Jeff Reardon share with an
    Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
     
  3. What punctuation mark did baseball clown Max Patkin wear on
    the back of his jersey?
     
  4. Whose record of 59 did Babe Ruth break when he hit 60 homers
    in one season?
     
  5. What National League ballpark is known as the "Friendly
    Confines"?
     
  6. What strikeout artist is nicknamed "The Big Unit"?
     
  7. Who was Joe DiMaggio nearly traded to the Red Sox for in 1976?
     
  8. What two Players led the National League in stolen bases every
    year from 1981 to 1990?
     
  9. What left-handed baseball legend's statue in Baltimore
    mistakenly depicted him with a right-handed fielder's glove?
     
  10. What does Yogi Berra advise you to do when you come to a fork
    in the road?
     
  11. What was installed in front of major league baseball
    fences in 1950?
     
  12. Whose number 4 was the first number ever retired in
    major league baseball, in 1939?
     
  13. How many career grand slams did Frank Robinson swat besides
    the two he hit in consecutive at bats in 1970?
     
  14. What baseball team retired the jerseys of Ken Boyer, Lou Brock
    and Dizzy Dean?
     
  15. What sports figure, when asked if he'd seen Dr. Zhivago,
    allegedly said: "No I feel fine"?
     
  16. What former L.A. Dodgers southpaw autographed yarmulkes that
    fetched $75 each in 1995?
     
  17. Whose single-season strikeout record did Nolan Ryan beat
    by one?
     
  18. What 1995 change to Kansas City's stadium "smells like
    baseball" to Cal Ripken?
     
  19. Who did the Boston Bruins lose 18 straight playoff series to,
    form 1946 to 1987?
     
  20. What did Phil Niekro throw six times in one 1979 game,
    including four in one inning, typing per game and per inning
    records?
     
  21. Who was baseball's acting commissioner during the infamous
    1994-95 strike?
     
  22. What Baltimore hurler claimed the only thing manager
    Earl Weaver knew about pitching was that "he couldn't hit it"?
     
  23. What Yankee pitcher threw his first no-hitter the night
    before hid dad had open-heart surgery, in 1996?
     
  24. What relief pitcher was nicknamed for the pet he kept while
    playing for the Pirates?
     
  25. What major league baseball team started playing in Coors
    Stadium in 1995?
     
  26. Who was the first Baltimore Oriole to be named American League
    MVP

     
  27. What Atlanta Braves slugger do fans call "Crime Dog"?
     
  28. What base did Babe Ruth touch for luck while running
    form the outfield between innings?
     
  29. What Negro League home run king died less than three months
    before Jack?
     
  30. What Cleveland Indians slugger nixed a five-year, $43-million
    contract offer in 1996?
     


Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 113 - Baseball
Trivia.

  1. Ted Williams.
  2. The Terminator.
  3. "?".
  4. Babe Ruth's.
  5. Wrigley Field.
  6. Randy Johnson.
  7. Ted Williams.
  8. Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.
  9. Babe Ruth's.
  10. Take it. 
  11. A warning track. 
  12. Lou Gerhig's. 
  13. Zero. 
  14. The Saint Louis Cardinals.
  15. Yogi Berra.
  16. Sandy Koufax.
  17. Sandy Koufax's
  18. Natural grass.
  19. The Montreal Canadians.
  20. Wild pitches. 
  21. Bud Selig. 
  22. Jim Palmer. 
  23. Dwight Gooden.
  24. "Goose" Gossage.
  25. The Colorado Rockies.
  26. Brooks Robinson.
  27. Fred McGriff.
  28. Second base.
  29. Josh Gibson.
  30. Albert Belle.