Chicago White Sox Trivia
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48 free Chicago White Sox trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This White Sox trivia quiz runs through the whole history of Chicago's South Siders: the franchise's start as the Sioux City Cornhuskers, the Hitless Wonders who beat the Cubs in 1906, the eight men banned after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the Go-Go Sox of 1959, Bill Veeck's exploding scoreboard, Disco Demolition Night, the Winning Ugly 1983 team, Frank Thomas's back-to-back MVPs, and the 2005 team that swept Houston to end an 88-year wait. It also covers the ballparks (South Side Park, old Comiskey, the many names of the current stadium), the uniforms (shorts, the black cap that hip-hop adopted), Nancy Faust and 'Na Na Hey Hey', Mark Buehrle's perfect game, the Field of Dreams walk-off, and the record-breaking 121-loss season of 2024. Questions range from easy (which league the Sox play in) to expert (the umpire behind the plate for both Buehrle no-hitters). Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01In which division do the White Sox play?
AL Central
AL Central. The White Sox came over from the AL West when the leagues went to three divisions in 1994, and were leading the new division when a players' strike ended that season in August.
Q 02Which part of Chicago is home to the White Sox?
South Side
South Side. When Pope Leo XIV was elected, his brother confirmed he was a White Sox fan, and the club marked the seat where he had watched Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.
Q 03Where did the White Sox franchise begin in 1894, as the Cornhuskers?
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa. The Cornhuskers won the Western League pennant in their only season there, and a new owner promptly moved the champions to St. Paul and, in 1900, to Chicago.
Q 04For which White Sox minor-league team did Michael Jordan play during the 1994 season?
Birmingham Barons
Birmingham Barons. Jordan batted .202 with 30 stolen bases for the Double-A club in 1994, then gave up baseball the following spring and went back to the Bulls.
Q 05Whom did the White Sox beat to win their first World Series in 1906?
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs. They had gone 116-36, the best record of baseball's modern era, yet lost in six games in the first World Series ever played between two clubs from one city.
Q 06Why were the 1906 White Sox nicknamed the 'Hitless Wonders'?
Their .230 average was the AL's worst
Their .230 average was the AL's worst, and they hit only seven home runs all season, yet 19 straight wins in August carried them into first place and on to the pennant.
Q 07Which team did the White Sox lose the fixed 1919 World Series to?
Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati Reds. They took the best-of-nine Series five games to three, and Chicago's ace hit the first Reds batter with his second pitch, long said to be the signal that the fix was on.
Q 08How many White Sox players were banned for life over the Black Sox scandal?
Eight
Eight. Buck Weaver took none of the gamblers' money and batted .324 in the Series, yet he was banned with the rest for knowing about the plot and keeping quiet.
Q 09Which commissioner banned the Black Sox players?
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis. A federal judge hired as baseball's first commissioner, he barred the players a day after a jury cleared them, in an edict that began 'Regardless of the verdict of juries'.
Q 10Which gambler is often said to have bankrolled the 1919 World Series fix?
Arnold Rothstein
Arnold Rothstein. He always denied it and was never convicted, but the legend stuck: F. Scott Fitzgerald turned him into Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the World Series in The Great Gatsby.
Q 11Who claimed to copy Shoeless Joe Jackson's swing?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth. He said he copied Jackson's style because he was the greatest natural hitter he ever saw; Jackson's .356 career average is one of the highest in major-league history.
Q 12How did Joe Jackson earn the nickname 'Shoeless'?
New shoes made him play in socks
New shoes made him play in socks. His new spikes were too painful to wear, so he played one game in his stockings; he said it was the only time he ever did, yet the name followed him for the rest of his life.
Q 13Which pitcher earned his 300th career win in a White Sox uniform in 1985?
Tom Seaver
Q 21What became of the doubleheader's second game after the Disco Demolition Night riot?
The White Sox forfeited it to Detroit
The White Sox forfeited it to Detroit. The Tigers' manager would not send his players onto the wrecked field, and the league ruled the next day that the home club had failed to provide a playable one.
Q 22Which manager led the 1983 'Winning Ugly' White Sox to their first division title?
Tony La Russa
Tony La Russa. He had just finished a law degree when the Sox made him, at 34, the youngest manager in the majors, and he was admitted to the Florida bar a year into the job.
Q 23Which Florida city nearly lured the White Sox away in the late 1980s?
Tom Seaver. Chicago had claimed him in 1984 when his old club left him off its protected list, sure that nobody would want a 39-year-old; he won No. 300 the next summer at Yankee Stadium.
Q 14Which team's 86-year title drought ended the year before the White Sox's 88-year one?
Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox. They won in 2004 after 86 years; Chicago, without a title since 1917, then swept them out of the first round of the 2005 playoffs on the way to ending an even longer wait.
Q 15What nickname did the pennant-winning 1959 White Sox earn?
Go-Go White Sox
Go-Go White Sox. They hit the fewest home runs in the 1959 American League but stole 113 bases, 45 more than any other club, and ran their way to the team's first pennant in 40 years.
Q 16Who beat the White Sox in the 1959 World Series?
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers. Chicago won the opener 11-0 and then lost four of the next five; the three games in California each drew more than 92,000 to the Coliseum, still a World Series record.
Q 17Which White Sox owner unveiled baseball's first 'exploding scoreboard' in 1960?
Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck. His scoreboard shrieked and shot off fireworks whenever a White Sox batter homered, and the club drew 1.6 million fans that year, its best attendance to that point.
Q 18In 1960 the White Sox became the first major-league team to do what?
Put players' names on jerseys
Put players' names on jerseys. The names went on the road uniforms in 1960 and the home ones a year later, and the idea caught on until almost every club in baseball had copied it.
Q 19What unusual item did the White Sox wear for a 1976 doubleheader game against Kansas City?
Shorts
Shorts. The owner added the Bermuda-length shorts to that year's new uniforms as one more stunt, and the experiment was dropped after only a few games that summer.
Q 20Which radio shock jock blew up a crate of records at Disco Demolition Night in 1979?
Steve Dahl
Steve Dahl. Tickets cost 98 cents with a disco record, a nod to his station's 97.9 FM; the stunt filled the park to capacity and left thousands more shut outside the gates.
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg. The city built a domed stadium to tempt a team and nearly landed the White Sox, but Illinois came up with money for a new park and the dome sat without a ball club for almost a decade.
Q 24What was the White Sox's current ballpark commonly called when it opened in 1991?
New Comiskey Park
New Comiskey Park. Officially it simply took the old park's name, Comiskey Park, and kept it until 2003, when the naming rights were sold and the park became U.S. Cellular Field.
Q 25What is Frank Thomas's nickname?
The Big Hurt
The Big Hurt. A White Sox broadcaster coined it to sum up both the first baseman's size and what he did to a baseball, and Thomas soon justified it with back-to-back MVP awards.
Q 26At which university did future White Sox star Frank Thomas play football as a tight end?
Auburn
Auburn. No baseball team drafted him out of high school in 1986, and he went to college on a football scholarship; seven years later he was the unanimous AL MVP, and he won the award again in 1994.
Q 27Which White Sox slugger won the AL MVP in 1972?
Dick Allen
Dick Allen. In his first season in Chicago he led the league with 37 home runs and 113 RBIs, and on July 31 he hit two inside-the-park homers in a single game.
Q 28Who managed the White Sox to the 2005 World Series title?
Ozzie Guillén
Ozzie Guillén. The club's shortstop for 13 seasons and its 1985 Rookie of the Year, he came back as a first-time manager in 2004 and ended an 88-year title wait in his second season.
Q 29Whom did the White Sox sweep in the 2005 World Series?
Houston Astros
Houston Astros. It was Houston's first World Series, and a sweep in name only: Chicago's four wins came by a combined six runs, one of them after 14 innings.
Q 30Who was named MVP of the 2005 World Series?
Jermaine Dye
Jermaine Dye. He homered in the first inning of Game 1 and, in Game 4, singled home the only run of the 1-0 win that finished the sweep.