Arizona Diamondbacks Trivia
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50 free Arizona Diamondbacks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Arizona Diamondbacks trivia quiz covers the youngest franchise ever to win a World Series: Jerry Colangelo's expansion bid, the $130 million fee, Buck Showalter hired two years before the first pitch, Travis Lee's first hit, the 100-win second season, Randy Johnson's four straight Cy Youngs and 2004 perfect game, and the 2001 World Series with Byung-hyun Kim's nightmares and Luis Gonzalez's bloop off Mariano Rivera. Then come Brandon Webb, the 2007 sweep by the Rockies, Kirk Gibson's 2011 division winners, Paul Goldschmidt, Torey Lovullo, Corbin Carroll's rookie year and the 2023 pennant. Chase Field gets its own round: the retractable roof over real grass, the swimming pool and Mark Grace's splash homer, the Dodgers' 2013 pool party, plus Baxter the Bobcat, purple-and-teal versus Sedona red, and the Serpientes City Connect uniforms. Easy questions suit any D-backs fan; the hard ones are for people who remember which Suns modelled the first uniforms. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01The Diamondbacks began play in which season?
1998
The Diamondbacks played their first game in 1998, three years after Major League Baseball awarded the expansion franchise to Phoenix in March 1995.
Q 02How much was the expansion fee Arizona paid to join Major League Baseball?
$130 million
Arizona paid a $130 million expansion fee, the price Major League Baseball set for each of the two clubs it added in its late-1990s expansion.
Q 03Which Phoenix Suns owner assembled the group that landed the Diamondbacks franchise?
Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo, who became the Suns' general manager at 28 in 1968, led the ownership group awarded the Arizona franchise in March 1995.
Q 04The Diamondbacks, youngest team ever to win a World Series, did so in which season of their existence?
4th
Arizona won the 2001 World Series in its 4th season, beating the three-time defending champion Yankees in seven games.
Q 05Which ex-Yankees manager was hired by Arizona two years before its first game?
Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter, hired in November 1995, managed the Diamondbacks through their first three seasons before being fired after 2000.
Q 06Which pitcher started the Diamondbacks' first regular-season game on March 31, 1998?
Andy Benes
Andy Benes, a free-agent signing from the Cardinals, started and lost the Diamondbacks' 9-2 opening-night defeat.
Q 07The Diamondbacks' home opened under what name?
Bank One Ballpark
The stadium opened as Bank One Ballpark under a naming-rights deal with the bank, and carried that name until a 2005 rebranding.
Q 08Chase Field was the first U.S. stadium to pair a retractable roof with what playing surface?
Natural grass
Natural grass grew under Chase Field's retractable roof from its opening until the club switched to a synthetic surface for the 2019 season.
Q 09Which player was the first to hit a home run into the Chase Field swimming pool?
Mark Grace
Mark Grace, then with the Cubs, hit the first homer into the pool in May of the ballpark's inaugural season; he later played three years for Arizona.
Q 10Which team infuriated Arizona by celebrating a 2013 division clinch with a swim in the Chase Field pool?
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the 2013 NL West at Chase Field and jumped into the pool, drawing public complaints from Arizona's front office.
Q 11The Diamondbacks won 100 games and their first division title in which season?
1999
In 1999 Arizona went 100-62 and won the NL West, an improvement of 35 wins on its 65-97 debut season.
Q 12Randy Johnson won how many consecutive Cy Young Awards with Arizona from 1999?
4
Only Greg Maddux has matched four in a row; Johnson won five in all, one of them with Seattle.
Q 13Randy Johnson's nickname was what?
The Big Unit
The Big Unit nickname came from Expos teammate Tim Raines, who collided with the 6-foot-10 Johnson during batting practice in 1988 and blurted out 'You're a big unit.'
In May 2004 Randy Johnson threw a perfect game for Arizona at what age, the oldest ever to do so?
Q 21The Diamondbacks' original colour scheme featured purple, black, copper and which fourth colour?
Teal
Teal joined purple, black and copper in the original palette, worn from the inaugural season until the 2007 rebrand.
Q 22The red shade Arizona adopted in 2007 is named after which place?
Sedona
Sedona red, paired with Sonoran sand and black, replaced the original palette for the 2007 season as part of a full rebrand.
Q 23The Diamondbacks' 2021 City Connect jerseys carried which Spanish word across the chest?
Serpientes
Serpientes, Spanish for 'serpents', ran across the chest of the 2021 City Connect jersey, with the leading 'S' drawn as a rattlesnake.
40
Randy Johnson was 40 years old when he retired all 27 Braves on May 18, 2004, the 17th perfect game in major league history.
Q 15The 2001 World Series went to a Game 7 played on what then-record late date?
November 4
Game 7 fell on November 4 because the September 11 attacks had pushed the schedule back a week; it was the first World Series to reach November.
Q 16Which Yankees closer gave up the bases-loaded bloop single that ended the 2001 World Series?
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera, protecting a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning of Game 7, gave up the single that scored the winning run.
Q 17Which Diamondbacks closer gave up game-tying homers with one out left in Games 4 and 5 of the 2001 World Series?
Byung-hyun Kim
Byung-hyun Kim, the 22-year-old submariner, surrendered two-out, ninth-inning homers to Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius on consecutive nights at Yankee Stadium.
Q 18Which two pitchers shared the 2001 World Series MVP award?
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling shared the award: Johnson went 3-0, winning Game 7 in relief a day after starting Game 6, while Schilling started three games.
Q 19Arizona's left fielder tied an MLB record in April 2001 with how many home runs in the month?
13
The 13 homers in April 2001 tied the record for that month at the time; Arizona's left fielder finished the season with 57.
Q 20Who managed the Diamondbacks to the 2001 title in his first season, straight from the broadcast booth?
Bob Brenly
Bob Brenly, a former catcher working as a Fox TV analyst, was hired for 2001 and won the title in his first season as a manager.
Q 24The Diamondbacks' bobcat mascot Baxter, introduced in 2000, takes his name from what?
The 'BOB' nickname of the ballpark
The 'BOB' nickname of the ballpark inspired both the bobcat species and the Baxter name when the mascot debuted in June 2000.
Q 25Which sinkerballer won the 2006 NL Cy Young Award for Arizona?
Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb went 16-8 with a 3.10 ERA over 235 innings in 2006, beating Trevor Hoffman in the Cy Young vote.
Q 26The division-winning 2007 Diamondbacks were swept in the NLCS by which wild-card team?
Colorado Rockies
It sent the Rockies to their only World Series and gave the young division rivals a grudge.
Q 27Which former Dodgers World Series hero managed Arizona to the 2011 NL West title?
Kirk Gibson
Kirk Gibson took over as interim manager in July 2010 and was named NL Manager of the Year after the 2011 division title.
Q 28Paul Goldschmidt was drafted by Arizona in which round of the 2009 draft?
Eighth
Goldschmidt went in the Eighth round out of Texas State in 2009 and won the 2022 NL MVP with St. Louis after a December 2018 trade.
Q 29Which manager led Arizona to the 2017 wild card and the 2023 pennant?
Torey Lovullo
Torey Lovullo, hired from the Red Sox bench in late 2016, was NL Manager of the Year in 2017 and took the 2023 team to the World Series.
Q 30The Diamondbacks reached the 2023 World Series by winning NLCS Game 7 on the road against whom?
Philadelphia Phillies
Arizona won Game 7 of the NLCS 4-2 at Citizens Bank Park, beating the Philadelphia Phillies after trailing the series 2-0.