How much do you know about American basketball teams? (1)

QUESTIONS.
What are the names of the teams from the following towns or states:
1. Los Angeles?
2. New York?
3. San Antonio?
4. Washington?
5. Chicago?
6. Sacramento?
7. New Jersey?
8. Houston?
9. Minnesota?
10. Orlando?
11. Indiana?
12. Detroit?
13. Atlanta?
14. Portland?
15. Golden State?

ANSWERS.
1. Lakers. 2. Knickerbockers. 3. Spurs. 4. Bullets. 5. Bulls. 6. Kings. 7. Nets. 8. Rockets.
9.Timberwolves. 10. Magic. 11. Pacers. 12. Pistons. 13. Hawks. 14.Trail Blazers. 15.
Warriors.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (7)

QUESTIONS.
1. He was the first black American to be appointed captain of a major league team
the New York Giants, and the first player to hit 300 home runs and steal 300
bases, and first NL player to reach 600 home runs on his way to a career total
of 660. Considered by many to have been the greatest baseball player of all
time, his name was ……what?
2. In which city is the College World Series staged every year?
3. The Shea Stadium is home ground to which NL club?
4. He started as a left-handed pitcher for Baltimore and went on to become one of
the greatest outfielders and batters the game has ever known, finishing his
career with a total of 714 home runs.Who was he?
5. Which team has it’s home ground in the Veterans Stadium?
6. Which team won the World Series in 1997?
7. Who was the Japanese batter who hit at least 30 home runs per season for 19
consecutive seasons, leading the Japanese Central League 15 times, retiring in
1980 with a career total of 868 home runs?
8. Who was the Seattle Mariners catcher, winner four years in succession (1990-
93) of the Gold Glove, who was the first major league player to play in the
same team with his father?
9. Who was the baseball player known as ‘The Iron Horse’?
10. Who was the hard-throwing, right-handed pitcher whose fastball helped him
win 251 major league games over 17 seasons (1959-75), all with St Louis
Cardinals, and two of three World Series championships?
11. Which team plays its home games in the Jack Murphy Stadium?
12. He is considered to have been one of the greatest centre fielders and hitters of
all time. He led the New York Yankees to 9 World Series titles.Who was he?
13. Which team plays it’s home games in the Kingdome?
14. Who was nicknamed the ‘Georgia Peach’ and considered by many to have been
the outstanding offensive player of all time?
15. Who was nicknamed ‘The Hammer’, who, at his retirement in 1976 could claim
many batting records, including most home runs (755), times at bat (12,364),
total bases ( 6,856) etc. etc?

ANSWERS.
1.Willie Howard Mays Jnr. 2. Omaha, Nebraska. 3. New York Mets. 4. Babe Ruth. 5.
Philadelphia Phillies. 6. Florida Marlins. 7. Oh Sadaharu. 8.Ken Griffey Jnr. 9. Lou
Gehrig. 10. Robert Gibson. 11. San Diego Padres. 12. Joe DiMaggio. 13. Seattle
Mariners. 14.Ty Cobb. 15. Hank Aaron.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (6)

QUESTIONS.
1. The major league baseball season in North America lasts from April to October.
How many games does each team play as part of their regular season (not
counting play-offs and World Series)?
2. What are the ‘play-offs’?
3. How many teams from each of the two leagues enter the first stage of the playoffs?
4. The final series in the play-offs determines which team wins the championship
of each league.What prize are they awarded?
5. The winners of the league pennants then meet each other to decide who is the
major league world champion. Which team won the World Series in 1998, 1999
and 2000?
6. What is the annual competition called which matches two teams of players
drawn from clubs in each league which takes place during the mid-season
break?
7. What was so extraordinary about the 1956 World Series between New York
Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers?
8. What was the name of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ second baseman who hit a home
run at the end of the ninth inning to defeat New York Yankees and give the
Pirates their first championship title since 1925?
9. Which ex-Oakland Athletics ex Baltimore Orioles hitter became a star for New
York Yankees in the 1977 championship by hitting four consecutive home runs
off four different Brooklyn Dodger’s pitchers in the fifth and sixth games?
10. Which club was the first club based outside the USA to win the World Series,
which they did twice, in 1992 and 1993?
11. Who was the Boston Red Sox pitcher who, in1904, became the first player in
major league history to pitch a perfect game, allowing no batters to reach first
base? The award for the best pitcher of the year is named after him?
12. Which baseball team has its home ground in the Olympic Stadium, St Helene’s
Island?
13. Considered to be one of baseball’s greatest catchers, he played for Philadelphia
Athletics 1925-34, and was player-manager of Detroit Tigers 1934-38.What was
his name?

ANSWERS.
1. 162. 2. Qualifying rounds for the World Series. 3. Four. (Three divisional winners
and one wild card). 4.The League Pennant. 5. New York Yankees. 6.The ‘All-Star
Game’. 7. In one innings Yankee’s Don Larsen got 27 Dodger’s batters out, without
score.The first World Series ‘no-hitter’. 8. Bill Mazeroski. 9. Reggie Jackson. 10.
Toronto Blue Jays. 11. Cy Young. 12. Montreal Expos. 13. Mickey Cochrane.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (5)

QUESTIONS.
1. Who bats first? The home team or the visiting team?
2. What is the area into which the pitcher must throw the ball known as?
3. Pitches thrown into this area that the batter does not hit are known as
…..what?
4.‘ Strikes’ also includes pitches that the batter swings at but misses and the first
two times that a batter hits the ball out of the playing area (into foul territory).
After how many ‘strikes’ is a batter given out by the umpire?
5. Pitches outside the ‘strike zone’ are called ‘balls’.A batter can proceed to first
base after a pitcher has thrown how many ‘balls’?
6. What is this action called?
7. What is it called if a batter gets to first base after hitting the ball into the
playing area?
8. What is it called if the batter gets to seconds base after hitting the ball?
9. What is it called if the batter gets to third base?
10. What is it called if the batter gets all the way round the four bases (including
the ‘home plate’) on one hit?
11. What is it called if a batter scores a home run from a ball which remains inside
the field of play (as opposed to a ball knocked over the outfield fence, the usual
source of home runs)?
12. What is the play called if there are three runners, one at each base, preceding
the batter who hits the ‘home run’, all of whom get home and all score runs?
13. How many professional teams are there in each of the National League and the
American League?
14. How many divisions are there in each of the leagues?
15. What are the divisions called?

ANSWERS.
1.The visitors 2.The ‘strike zone’. 3.‘Strikes’. 4.Three. 5. Four. 6.‘A walk’. 7.A ‘base
hit’ 8.A ‘double’. 9.A ‘triple’. 10.A ‘home run’. 11.An ‘inside-the-park home run’. 12.A
‘grand slam’. 13. Fourteen. 14.Three. 15. Eastern, Central and Western Divisions.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (4)

QUESTIONS.
1. What major innovation occurred to baseball during the 2nd World War?
2. In 1953 the Boston Braves relocated.Where did they go to?
3. In 1958 the Brooklyn Dodgers also relocated.Where to?
4. Also in 1958 the New York Giants also went West.Where to?
5. In September 1994 a very unusual situation presented itself, which lasted until
May 1995.What was it?
6. What was the name of the American who introduced baseball to Japan in 1872?
7. How large is a baseball field?
8. A baseball field is divided into two areas: the first is the playing area; the second
is all the rest. In baseball terminology what is the playing area called?
9. And what is all the rest?
10. The playing area (fair territory) is again divided into two areas.What are they
called?
11. The infield is a square shaped plot.What is it called?
12. What does each side of the square measure?
13. One corner of the square (or diamond) is marked by a five-sided piece of
rubber.What is this called?
14. How many players are there in each team?
15. How many umpires officiate at each major league baseball game?

ANSWERS.
1. Establishment of American Girls Professional Baseball League. 2. Milwaukee. 3. Los
Angeles. 4. San Francisco. 5. Player’s strike. 6. Horace Wilson. 7.About 2 acres (0.8
hectares) 8. Fair territory. 9. Foul territory. 10. Infield and outfield. 11.The ‘diamond’.
12. 90 feet (27 metres). 13.The ‘home plate’. 14. Nine. 15. Four.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (3)

QUESTIONS.
1. According to popular legend, who invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York
in 1839?
2. The first organised baseball club was formed in 1842.What was its name?
3. Who was the principal organiser?
4. In which town did all this take place?
5. When did the first official modern baseball game take place?
6. What was the name of the other club, against which the Knickerbockers
played?
7. What was the final score?
8. In 1862 the first fully enclosed baseball park was completed.Where was it?
9. In 1869 the first fully professional baseball team was launched.What it called?
10. In 1876 eight professional clubs formed the National League. In 1901 the
American League was formed.Who was its founder?
11. In what year did teams from each league meet in the first World Series?
12. Which team was involved in a scandal in 1919, after losing the World Series to
the Cincinnati Reds?
13. Who was the federal judge who became baseball’s commissioner, establishing
stricter rules and regulations?
14. What institution was opened in 1939 to display baseball memorabilia and to
honor the game’s greatest players?
15. Who was the major league’s first black player, joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in
1947?

ANSWERS.
1.Abner Doubleday. 2.The ‘Knickerbocker Base Ball Club’. 3.Alexander Cartwright.
4. New York. 5. June 19th, 1846. 6.The ‘New York Club’. 7. NYC 23 – Knickerbockers
1. 8. Union Grounds, Brooklyn. 9. Cincinnati Red Stockings. 10. Ban Johnson. 11.
1903. 12. Chicago White Sox. 13.Kenesaw Mountain Landis. 14. National Baseball
Hall of fame. 15. Jackie Robinson.

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (2)

QUESTIONS.
What are the names of the teams from the following towns or states:
1. Chicago?
2. Colorado?
3. Florida?
4. Houston?
5. Milwaukee?
6. Minnesota?
7. New York?
8. Oakland?
9. Pittsburgh?
10. San Diego?
11. San Francisco?
12. Seattle?
13. Texas?
14. Washington? >1971
15. Boston? >1952

ANSWERS.
1.White Sox (AL). 2. Rockies (NL). 3. Marlins (NL). 4.Astros (NL). 5. Brewers (AL). 6.
Twins (AL). 7.Yankees (AL). 8.Athletics (AL). 9. Pirates (NL). 10. Padres (NL). 11.
Giants (NL). 12. Mariners (AL). 13. Rangers (AL). 14. Senators (AL). 15. Braves (NL).

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How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (1)

QUESTIONS.
What are the names of the teams from the following towns or states:
1. Detroit?
2. Cincinnati?
3. Baltimore?
4. Anaheim?
5. Toronto?
6. Los Angeles?
7. Kansas City?
8. Montreal?
9. St. Louis?
10. Philadelphia?
11. Cleveland?
12. Boston?
13. Atlanta?
14. Chicago?
15. New York?

ANSWERS.
1.Tigers (AL). 2. Reds. )NL). 3. Orioles (AL). 4.Angels (AL). 5. Blue Jays (AL). 6.
Dodgers. (NL). 7. Royals (AL). 8. Expos (NL). 9. Cardinals (NL). 10. Phillies (NL) 11.
Indians (AL). 12. Red Sox (AL). 13. Braves (NL). 14. Cubs. (NL). 15. Mets (NL).
Leagues : NL = National League;AL = American League.

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How much do you know about American football? (6)

QUESTIONS.
1. Which team won the Super Bowl in the year 2000?
2. Who was the New York Jets quarterback who led them to a famous victory
over the defending champions, the Baltimore Colts, in the 1969 Super Bowl?
3. Which team’s home ground is in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome?
4. Who was the star receiver for the San Francisco ‘49ers, making such effective
passing combinations with Joe Montana, and helping them to win the Super
Bowl in 1989 and 1990?
5. Who was the great running back who went from the University of Pittsburgh
to the Dallas Cowboys in 1979 and set an NFL record with a run of 99 yards
against Minnesota Vikings in 1983? He had a career rushing total of 12,739
yards.
6. Which team won the Super Bowl in both 1998 and 1999?
7. Who was the Cleveland Brown’s full back who led the NFL statistics for rushing
yards 8 times in a 9 year (1957 – 1966) career?
8. Which team has its home ground at Rich Stadium, Orchard Park?
9. Who was the head football coach at Yale University who, in 1889, in collaboration
with the editor Caspar W.Whitney, began honouring the best football
players by nominating them to an ‘All-American’ team?
10. Which team won the Super Bowl in 1993, 1994 and 1996?
11. Who was the Norwegian born player and coach at the University of Notre
Dame who revolutionised football strategy by the introduction of the forward
pass? He led Notre Dame to 3 National Collegiate Championships (1924, 29 and
30), winning 105 games, losing 12 and drawing 5.
12. Who was the running back for the Chicago Bears who retired in 1987, the
NFL’s career leader with 3,838 rushing attempts; 16,726 rushing yards and 110
rushing touchdowns? His nickname was ‘Sweetness’
13. Which team reached the Super Bowl four years in succession, 1991-92-93 and
94 , only to lose each time?
14. Which team plays its home games in the Riverfront Stadium?
15. Two teams have won the Super Bowl 5 times each. One is the San Francisco
‘49ers.What is the other?

ANSWERS.
1. St.Louis Rams. 2. Joe Namath. 3. Minnesota Vikings. 4. Jerry Rice. 5.Tony Dorsett. 6.
Denver Broncos. 7. Jim Brown. 8. Buffalo Bills. 9.Walter Chauncey Camp. 10. Dallas
Cowboys. 11. Knut Rockne. 12.Walter Jerry Paton. 13. Buffalo Bills. 14. Cincinnati
Bengals. 15. Dallas Cowboys.

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How much do you know about American football? (5)

QUESTIONS.
1. Who was the great football coach who is commemorated by the trophy
awarded to the winner of the Super Bowl contest?
2. Who was the great player who is commemorated by the trophy awarded to the
player voted Most Valuable Player of the year?
3. National League football is played according to what rules?
4. Which team won the Super Bowl in the year 2001?
5. Which team plays on a home ground called ‘Three Rivers Stadium’?
6. Who coached Miami Dolphins in 1972 when they were the only professional
team to complete the season undefeated with 17 wins, and in ’73 and ’74
when they won the Super Bowl ? He retired in 1996 with the highest record
in the NFL of 347 wins over 33 seasons.
7. Who was the football defensive back and baseball outfielder who, in September
1989, scored a touchdown for the Atlanta Falcons and a home run for the New
York Yankees in the same week?
8. Which team plays its home games in Arrowhead Stadium?
9. Who was the quarterback for the San Francisco ‘49ers who led them to victory
in the Super Bowl in 1982-85-89-90? He was the NFL’s first three-time winner of
the MVP award, 82-83-90.
10. Which team plays its home games at Lambeau Field?
11. Who scored 5 touchdowns the first 5 times he carried the ball in a game for
University of Illinois against Michigan, in 1924, earning himself the nickname
‘The Galloping Ghost’ and a professional career with the Chicago Bears?
12. Who was a student at Rutgers University when he was made the first black ‘All-
American? He went on to make a career in music, on the stage and in the
cinema.
13. Which team plays its home games at Candlestick Park?
14. Who was the Miami Dolphin’s quarterback who, in 1984, became the first
quarterback to pass for more than 5,000 yards in a season, and broke the singleseason
record for touchdown passes?
15. What is the name of the Miami Dolphins home ground?

ANSWERS.
1.Vince Lombardi. 2. Jim Thorpe. 3. Harvard Rules. 4. Baltimore Ravens. 5. Pittsburgh
Steelers. 6. Don Shula. 7. Deion Sanders. 8. Kansas City Chiefs. 9. Joe Montana. 10.
Green Bay Packers 11. Red Grange. 12. Paul Robeson. 13. San Francisco ‘49ers.
14.Dan Marino. 15. Joe Robbie Stadium.

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