Baltimore Orioles Trivia
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60 free Baltimore Orioles trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Baltimore Orioles trivia quiz covers the whole franchise: the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Browns years, Bill Veeck, the 1954 move, the Frank Robinson trade and 1966 sweep of the Dodgers, the Miracle Mets, Earl Weaver, three championships and six pennants, the 0–21 start of 1988, Camden Yards, Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 games, the Angelos era, Buck Showalter's teams, the 115-loss season and the 101-win 2023 club. Expect easy questions on the ballpark, the anthem tradition and the biggest names, plenty of history for regular fans, and hard ones about Paul Richards, the record 257 homers of 1996, Rex Barney and the uniform contest the O's won as a 13 seed. Caps, City Connect uniforms and broadcasters get their turn too. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources before it went in, so when you miss one you can trust the explanation. Play it solo or run it as a round at your next watch party. For the wider game, our MLB baseball trivia page is the natural next stop.
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Q 01What is the name of the Orioles' ballpark, opened in downtown Baltimore in 1992?
Camden Yards
Camden Yards was built beside an old railroad warehouse in the style of the ballparks of a century ago. It was such a hit that parks built across the majors over the next two decades copied its retro look.
Q 02Under what name did the Orioles franchise spend its first American League season in 1901?
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Brewers was the name for one last-place season before the club moved to St. Louis. The Baltimore Orioles of that year were a different club, which folded after two seasons and was replaced by a team in New York.
Q 03What were the Orioles called during the franchise's 52 seasons in St. Louis?
Browns
Browns was a hand-me-down name, used in the 1880s by the St. Louis club that became the Cardinals. The Browns owned Sportsman's Park, and for decades their far more successful rivals were only tenants there.
Q 04Which one-armed outfielder played for the Orioles' St. Louis forerunners in 1945?
Pete Gray
Pete Gray, who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, hit .218 in 77 games, fielding by flipping the ball from glove to bare hand in one motion. His club was defending the only pennant it ever won in St. Louis.
Q 05Which showman owned the Orioles' St. Louis forerunners from 1951 but was blocked from moving them to Baltimore himself?
Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck once sent Eddie Gaedel, who stood 3 feet 7 inches, up to bat, and he walked on four pitches. Rival owners voted down Veeck's own move to Baltimore, so he sold to investors there, who took the club east for 1954.
Q 06Which team acquired Don Larsen from the Orioles in 1954?
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees got Don Larsen in a 17-player trade after he had gone 3–21 in Baltimore; two years later he threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
Q 07Which future slugger began his professional career in 1914 with the minor-league Baltimore Orioles, in his home city?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth signed with Jack Dunn's Orioles as a teenage pitcher, but Dunn ran short of money that summer and sold him to the Boston Red Sox.
Q 08Orioles manager Paul Richards designed an oversized catcher's mitt in 1960 to handle which pitch?
Knuckleball
Knuckleball: Hoyt Wilhelm's pitch fluttered so unpredictably that Richards, once a big-league catcher himself, devised a far bigger mitt so his own catchers could handle it.
Q 09Which starting pitcher did the Orioles send to Cincinnati in the 1965 trade for Frank Robinson?
Milt Pappas
Milt Pappas was a steady winner, but Cincinnati's president had judged Robinson old at 30, and Robinson answered by winning the Triple Crown in his first Baltimore season.
Q 10Frank Robinson, the first MVP of both leagues, became the majors' first Black manager in 1975 with which team?
Cleveland Indians
The Cleveland Indians made him player-manager while he was still an active hitter, and he homered in his first game in charge, on Opening Day.
Q 11Which team did the Orioles sweep in the 1966 World Series for their first championship?
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers did not score after the third inning of Game 1: Baltimore's pitchers threw 33 straight scoreless innings and beat Sandy Koufax along the way.
Q 12Which team pulled off one of the great World Series upsets by beating the Orioles in five games in 1969?
New York Mets
The New York Mets lost Game 1, then won four straight against an Orioles team that had won 109 games; until that year the Mets had never finished above ninth, and the team is remembered as the 'Miracle Mets'.
Q 13The 108-win Orioles beat which team in five games in the 1970 World Series?
Cincinnati Reds
Q 21Which Orioles manager was fired six games into the record 0–21 start of 1988?
Cal Ripken Sr.
Cal Ripken Sr. had two of his sons in his infield when he was dismissed; Frank Robinson took over and lost the next 15 before the first win, on April 29.
Q 22Which rallying cry belonged to the 1989 Orioles, who finished second a year after losing 107 games?
Why Not?
Why Not? caught on as the team spent much of the summer in first place; the chase ended on the season's next-to-last day, after two one-run losses to Toronto.
Q 23Whose record did Cal Ripken Jr. break in 1995 by playing his 2,131st consecutive game?
Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig had held it for 56 years with 2,130; once the game became official, play stopped for more than 20 minutes while Ripken was pushed into taking a lap around the field.
The Cincinnati Reds, the 'Big Red Machine', took an early three-run lead in each of the first two games at home and lost both by a single run.
Q 14Which Pirates star hit .414 as his team rallied from 0–2 down to beat the Orioles in the 1971 World Series?
Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente broke a scoreless Game 7 with a home run off Mike Cuellar, Pittsburgh won it 2–1 in Baltimore, and he was named the Series MVP.
Q 15Which disco hit was the anthem of the 1979 Pirates, who beat the Orioles from 3–1 down?
We Are Family
We Are Family, by Sister Sledge, was taken up by slugger Willie Stargell that June, and his two-run homer in Game 7 in Baltimore finished the comeback.
Q 16Which team did the Orioles beat in five games to win the 1983 World Series?
Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies won Game 1 and then lost four straight, and the Series MVP was Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey, a career .233 hitter who batted .385.
Q 17Which fiery Orioles manager summed up his philosophy as 'pitching, defense and the three-run homer'?
Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver came to distrust the sacrifice bunt, arguing that 'if you play for one run, that's all you'll get' and that a team's 27 outs were too precious to give away.
Q 18Which saying was the motto of Cal Ripken Sr., longtime teacher of the 'Oriole Way'?
Perfect practice makes perfect
Perfect practice makes perfect was his correction of the old proverb; in 36 years with the organisation he drilled it into hundreds of prospects, his sons Cal Jr. and Billy among them.
Q 19Which three-time Cy Young winner for the Orioles modelled Jockey underwear?
Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer nearly never got there: after arm trouble in 1968 Baltimore left him unprotected in the expansion draft, and neither new team picked him.
Q 20Which Orioles slugger, famed for his ballpark barbecue, won the 1970 AL MVP?
Boog Powell
Boog Powell won a year after finishing second. By his own account, 'Boog' was his father's shortening of a Southern word for a mischievous child.
Q 24What ended Cal Ripken Jr.'s record streak at 2,632 games in 1998?
His own request
His own request: before the last home game of 1998, Ripken walked into his manager's office and said it was time, ending the speculation over when the streak would stop.
Q 25Why did the Orioles refuse to field replacement players during the 1994–95 strike?
Their owner was a labour lawyer
Their owner was a labour lawyer who sided with the players' union; a substitute team would also have put Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive-games streak at risk, months before he broke the record.
Q 26Who won the Orioles in bankruptcy court in 1993, with Tom Clancy as partner?
Peter Angelos
Peter Angelos wanted the club in Baltimore hands, and at the auction his group's $173 million bid, then a record for a baseball team, beat New York art dealer Jeffrey Loria.
Q 27Which Orioles leadoff hitter hit 50 home runs in 1996, more than twice his next-best total?
Brady Anderson
Brady Anderson had never hit more than 21 and never again hit more than 24; that April he led off four straight games with a home run.
Q 28Which 12-year-old fan turned a Derek Jeter fly ball into a home run in the 1996 ALCS?
Jeffrey Maier
Jeffrey Maier reached his glove over the wall above right fielder Tony Tarasco and pulled the ball into the stands; umpire Rich Garcia signalled home run and later admitted he had got it wrong.
Q 29The 1997 Orioles won the AL East 'wire-to-wire', which means they did what all season?
Led the division every day
Led the division every day: they were in first place from the opening game on, yet manager Davey Johnson's resignation was accepted the very day he was named AL Manager of the Year.
Q 30Which Oriole denied steroid use to Congress, then failed a 2005 drug test?
Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro tested positive weeks after his testimony and was suspended that August, soon after his 3,000th hit, during a run of 14 straight losing seasons for the club.