50 free A League of Their Own trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free A League of Their Own trivia questions with answers. There may be no crying in baseball, but there is plenty of trivia. This quiz covers Penny Marshall's 1992 film from tryouts at Wrigley Field to the reunion at Cooperstown: the cast (Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Lovitz), the recruiting trip to an Oregon dairy, Marla Hooch, the Life magazine split, Kit's trade to Racine and the collision at the plate that ends the World Series. It also covers the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that inspired it (Wrigley, the charm school, the tunic dress, four Peaches titles), Madonna's number-one closing song, and the 1993 CBS and 2022 Prime Video series. Early questions are for anyone who has quoted Jimmy Dugan; later ones test the superfans: which Indiana town stood in for Rockford, who broke her nose with a mitt, and which compilation album carried the theme song. Good for a movie night, a softball-team social or a women's-history quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, the league, the song and the series, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Who directed A League of Their Own (1992)?
Penny Marshall
She had directed Big in 1988; the film was inspired by a 1987 television documentary of the same name.
Q 02Which real wartime women's sports organisation does the film fictionalise?
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The AAGPBL ran from 1943 to 1954 and more than 600 women played in it.
Q 03Geena Davis plays which character, the star catcher of the film's Rockford team?
Dottie Hinson
She wore number 8; Lori Petty plays her pitcher sister Kit, number 23.
Q 04Tom Hanks plays Jimmy Dugan, the Peaches' manager. What is Dugan's back-story?
A former star Cubs slugger turned cynical alcoholic
His 'There's no crying in baseball!' ranks 54th on the AFI's list of 100 movie quotes.
Q 05What is the nickname of Madonna's character, Mae Mordabito?
'All the Way' Mae
She played centre field in the number 5 shirt; Rosie O'Donnell's Doris Murphy played third base.
Q 06Jon Lovitz plays Ernie Capadino, who discovers Dottie doing what?
Catching for a local dairy in Oregon
He is the AAGPBL scout who drags the sisters east to try out.
Q 07Which candy-bar mogul bankrolls the league in the film, played by the director's brother Garry Marshall?
Walter Harvey
He is a stand-in for the real founder, Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley, and fears the war will shut down Major League Baseball.
Q 08David Strathairn plays Ira Lowenstein. What is his job?
AAGPBL general manager
It is Lowenstein who begs the players to do something spectacular for a Life photographer, prompting Dottie's split catch.
Q 09Megan Cavanagh plays which power-hitting second baseman, unforgettably introduced as 'what a hitter'?
Marla Hooch
Tracy Reiner played Betty 'Spaghetti' Horn and Anne Ramsay played Helen Haley, who broke her nose with a mitt during filming.
Q 10Who was originally cast as Dottie before dropping out four weeks before shooting?
Debra Winger
She later said the casting of Madonna was the reason; Marshall had liked Demi Moore, but she was pregnant.
Q 11The tryout scenes at the fictional Harvey Field were shot at which real Chicago ballpark?
Wrigley
Principal photography began on 10 July 1991.
Q 12The Rockford team's home games were filmed at League Stadium in which Indiana town?
Huntingburg
The championship game against Racine was shot at Bosse Field in Evansville.
Q 13How does Kit score the winning run for Racine in the film's championship game?
She collides with Dottie at the plate, knocking the ball loose
Q 21Which studio released A League of Their Own?
Columbia Pictures
Rotten Tomatoes has it at 82 percent, and Roger Ebert gave it three stars out of four.
Q 22In which year was A League of Their Own selected for the National Film Registry?
2012
The Library of Congress preserves films deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.
Q 23Who took over Geena Davis's role of Dottie in the short-lived 1993 CBS series?
Carey Lowell
Jon Lovitz, Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh and Tracy Reiner reprised their film roles.
Whether Dottie let go on purpose is the film's great unanswered question.
Q 14Why does Dottie leave the Peaches just before the World Series?
Her husband Bob returns wounded from the war
Bill Pullman plays Bob; she changes her mind and rejoins for the seventh game.
Q 15The film opens and closes in 1988 with an older Dottie attending what event?
The opening of the AAGPBL exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame
Sixty-five original AAGPBL players appeared in the Cooperstown scenes, shot in late October 1991.
Q 16How many original AAGPBL players took part in the closing Cooperstown scenes?
65
The real league had been inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988.
Q 17What was A League of Their Own's production budget?
$40M
It grossed $132.4 million worldwide after opening on 1 July 1992.
Q 18Which film kept A League of Their Own off the top of the box office in its opening weekend?
Batman Returns
It made $13.2 million, dropped just 15 percent the next weekend and went to number one.
Q 19Madonna's closing-credits song 'This Used to Be My Playground' became her how-manyeth US number one?
Tenth
It broke her tie with Whitney Houston; for contractual reasons it was left off the film's soundtrack album.
Q 20'This Used to Be My Playground', absent from the film's soundtrack, appeared on which compilation?
Barcelona Gold
The album promoted the 1992 Summer Olympics; the song lost the Golden Globe to 'A Whole New World'.
Q 24Who co-created and starred in the 2022 Prime Video series A League of Their Own?
Abbi Jacobson
She played catcher Carson Shaw; the show expanded the story to Black and queer players the real league excluded.
Q 25Which original film cast member appeared in the 2022 series as Vi, owner of an underground gay bar?
Rosie O'Donnell
The series premiered with eight episodes on 12 August 2022.
Q 26Why was the planned final season of the 2022 series scrapped in August 2023?
Delays caused by the WGA strike
Amazon had renewed it in March 2023 for a four-episode final season.
Q 27Chanté Adams plays Max Chapman in the 2022 series. What is Max?
A gifted pitcher
D'Arcy Carden plays the glamorous Peach Greta Gill.
Q 28Who founded the real AAGPBL in 1943?
Philip K. Wrigley
The Cubs owner and chewing-gum magnate wanted baseball kept in the public eye while the men were at war.
Q 29Roughly how many women played in the AAGPBL across its twelve seasons?
More than 600
At its height the league had ten teams, all in the Midwest.
Q 30Which team won a league-best four AAGPBL championships?
The Rockford Peaches
Their titles came in 1945, 1948, 1949 and 1950; Racine won the first, in 1943, so the film's ending flips history.