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
They entered alongside one other expansion club; the franchise had been awarded in March 1995.
Q 02How much was the expansion fee Arizona paid to join Major League Baseball?
$130 million
The new clubs were also shut out of national revenue for five years, which later strained the finances badly.
Q 03Which Phoenix Suns owner assembled the group that landed the Diamondbacks franchise?
Jerry Colangelo
He had been the NBA's youngest general manager when the Suns hired him in 1968.
Q 04The Diamondbacks, youngest team ever to win a World Series, did so in which season of their existence?
4th
They beat the three-time defending champion Yankees, and remain Arizona's only men's major-league champion.
Q 05Which ex-Yankees manager was hired by Arizona two years before its first game?
Buck Showalter
He was fired after 2000 and replaced by a broadcaster who won the World Series in his first year in the dugout.
Q 06Which pitcher started the Diamondbacks' first regular-season game on March 31, 1998?
Andy Benes
The club's first baseman singled in his first at-bat for the franchise's first hit.
Q 07The Diamondbacks' home opened under what name?
Bank One Ballpark
Fans called it 'the BOB'; the name changed in 2005 after the bank merged with JPMorgan Chase.
Q 08Chase Field was the first U.S. stadium to combine a retractable roof with what?
Natural grass
It switched to artificial turf in 2019, but the pool in right-center remains.
Q 09Which player was the first to hit a home run into the Chase Field swimming pool?
Mark Grace
The pool suite in right-center rented for $3,500 a game in 2011 and holds 35 guests.
Q 10Which team infuriated Arizona by celebrating a 2013 division clinch with a swim in the Chase Field pool?
Los Angeles Dodgers
The D-backs got some revenge by sweeping them in the 2023 NLDS.
Q 11The Diamondbacks won 100 games and their first division title in which season, only their second?
1999
A busy off-season had brought in Randy Johnson, who won the Cy Young in his first year in Arizona.
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
At 6-foot-10 he was the tallest pitcher in the majors for most of his 22 seasons.
Q 14In 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
The italic 'A' logo used a snake's tongue for its crossbar.
Q 22The red shade Arizona adopted in 2007 is named after which place?
Sedona
Sedona red and Sonoran sand replaced purple and teal, though turquoise has since crept back.
Q 23The Diamondbacks' 2021 City Connect jerseys carried which Spanish word across the chest?
Serpientes
The first 'S' is drawn as a rattlesnake, and the 2025 version brought back the original purple and teal.
The Diamondbacks' mascot, introduced in 2000, is a bobcat named Baxter; the name comes from what?
40
It was the 17th perfect game in MLB history and came against Atlanta.
Q 15The 2001 World Series went to a Game 7 played on what then-record late date?
November 4
The season had been delayed by the September 11 attacks, making it the first Series to reach November.
Q 16Which Yankees closer gave up the bases-loaded bloop single that ended the 2001 World Series?
Mariano Rivera
New York had led entering the ninth inning of Game 7 before Arizona rallied for two runs.
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
New York won both in extra innings, but Arizona blew out the Yankees in Game 6 to force the decider.
Q 18Which two pitchers shared the 2001 World Series MVP award?
Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
Johnson won Game 7 in relief a day after starting Game 6.
Q 19Arizona's left fielder tied an MLB record in April 2001 with how many home runs in the month?
13
He finished with 57 homers, third in MVP voting, and remains the club's all-time leader in most hitting categories.
Q 20Who managed the Diamondbacks to the 2001 title in his first season, straight from the broadcast booth?
Bob Brenly
He later returned to the booth as the club's TV analyst in 2013.
The 'BOB' nickname of the ballpark
The species and name both nod to the ballpark's original initials.
Q 25Which sinkerballer won the 2006 NL Cy Young Award for Arizona?
Brandon Webb
He started that season 8-0 with a 30-inning scoreless streak.
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
He had taken over on an interim basis in 2010 alongside interim GM Jerry Dipoto.
Q 28Paul Goldschmidt was drafted by Arizona in which round of the 2009 draft?
Eighth
The Texas State product became a seven-time All-Star and was traded to St. Louis before winning the 2022 MVP.
Q 29Which manager led Arizona to the 2017 wild card and the 2023 pennant?
Torey Lovullo
He was NL Manager of the Year in 2017, the club's first playoff trip since 2011.
Q 30The Diamondbacks reached the 2023 World Series by winning NLCS Game 7 on the road against whom?
Philadelphia Phillies
They had swept the Brewers and Dodgers to get there as a wild card.