Home Run Trivia
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50 free Home Run trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Nothing in baseball gets a crowd on its feet like a home run, and nothing generates more arguments: whose record counts, who really hit the longest one, and whether 61 deserves an asterisk. This quiz covers the whole subject: the career and single-season records in MLB, Japan and the Negro leagues; the famous shots (Bobby Thomson, Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirk Gibson, Joe Carter); grand slams and walk-offs; the rules and history behind the play; and the Home Run Derby. You'll get questions on Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sadaharu Oh, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, plus oddities like the last bounce home run, the only father-and-son back-to-back and the home run cycle that has never happened in the majors. Difficulty ranges from questions any fan will get to details for people who read box scores for fun. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source before publishing.
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Q 01What is the MLB career home run record, set by Barry Bonds?
762
He passed Hank Aaron's 755 on August 7, 2007, and finished with seven more.
Q 02Whose all-time record did Bonds break with his 756th home run in 2007?
Hank Aaron
Oddly, the pitcher who gave up 756, Mike Bacsik, was the son of a pitcher who had faced Aaron right after his 755th.
Q 03Which pitcher gave up Bonds's record-breaking 756th home run?
Mike Bacsik
It came at 8:51 p.m. on August 7, 2007, against the Washington Nationals in San Francisco.
Q 04The record-breaking 715th home run of 1974 came off which Dodgers pitcher?
Al Downing
A record Braves crowd of 53,775 saw it; Bill Buckner nearly went over the fence trying to catch it.
Q 05Who holds the verified world record for professional career home runs, with 868?
Sadaharu Oh
He played all 22 of his seasons for Japan's Yomiuri Giants and retired in 1980.
Q 06The world career home run leader spent his entire playing career with which Japanese team?
Yomiuri Giants
He later managed the Giants, the SoftBank Hawks and Japan's 2006 World Baseball Classic winners.
Q 07Which Negro league slugger's Hall of Fame plaque says he hit 'almost 800' home runs?
Josh Gibson
Ken Burns's Baseball put his true total as high as 950; league records were too patchy to know.
Q 08What is the MLB single-season home run record?
73
Barry Bonds set it in 2001, three years after McGwire's 70.
Q 09How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit in his record 1927 season?
60
The 60th landed barely fair down the right-field line and stood as the record for 34 years.
Q 10Who broke Ruth's single-season mark with 61 home runs in 1961?
Roger Maris
He hit number 61 in the season's final game off Boston's Tracy Stallard.
Q 11Why was the 1961 record considered controversial?
The season had grown from 154 to 162 games
Commissioner Ford Frick said the record had to be set within 154 games; there was never actually an asterisk.
Q 12Which fan caught the 61st home run ball in 1961?
Sal Durante
He caught it in the right-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium in front of 23,154 fans.
Q 13How many home runs did Aaron Judge hit in 2022 to set the American League record?
62
Number 62 came off Jesús Tinoco of the Rangers in the second-to-last game of the season.
Q 21Whose ninth-inning homer in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series is the only Game 7 walk-off ever?
Bill Mazeroski
The Pirates second baseman was better known for his glove; the shot beat the heavily favoured Yankees.
Q 22Joe Carter's 1993 World Series-winning home run came off which Phillies pitcher?
Mitch Williams
Carter had been 0-for-4 against 'Wild Thing' in his career before that at-bat.
Q 23The 1951 'Shot Heard 'Round the World' was hit by which New York Giant?
Bobby Thomson
It won the National League pennant against the Dodgers; the 'Staten Island Scot' called it the best thing that ever happened to him.
Q 14Who was Mark McGwire's rival in the 1998 home run chase, finishing with 66?
Sammy Sosa
He hit 60 or more three times, and never led the league in any of those seasons.
Q 15McGwire's record-breaking 62nd home run in 1998 came off which Cubs pitcher?
Steve Trachsel
Because the game was against the Cubs, Sosa could congratulate him in person.
Q 16According to The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, the term 'grand slam' comes from which card game?
Contract bridge
A four-run homer is never called a four-run homer.
Q 17Fernando Tatís Sr. hit two grand slams in one inning in 1999, both off which pitcher?
Chan Ho Park
His eight RBI in one inning are still a Major League record.
Q 18Who is the only player to hit two grand slams in one game from opposite sides of the plate?
Bill Mueller
The Red Sox switch-hitter did it in consecutive at-bats against Texas in 2003.
Q 19Who hit the only walk-off grand slam in World Series history, in Game 1 in 2024?
Freddie Freeman
It came in the bottom of the tenth and gave the Dodgers a 6-3 win over the Yankees.
Q 20Which Hall of Fame reliever is credited with coining the term 'walk-off'?
Dennis Eckersley
The losing team, he reasoned, has to walk off the field.
Q 24Whose pinch-hit walk-off in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series is one of the most replayed home runs ever?
Kirk Gibson
He could barely walk, and it was his only at-bat of the Series.
Q 25Fenway Park's left-field foul pole is named after which catcher, whose 1975 World Series homer struck it?
Carlton Fisk
Footage of him waving the ball fair even turns up in Good Will Hunting.
Q 26Which light-hitting Yankees shortstop homered over the Green Monster in the 1978 tiebreaker?
Bucky Dent
He was that year's World Series MVP, but Red Sox fans still add a middle name for him.
Q 27Babe Ruth's 'called shot' in the 1932 World Series was hit at which ballpark?
Wrigley Field
Film confirms he pointed; whether he was calling a homer or taunting the Cubs' dugout is still unknown.
Q 28Who hit three home runs in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, on three consecutive first pitches?
Reggie Jackson
Add his last swing of Game 5 and it was four homers on four consecutive swings.
Q 29Rickey Henderson holds the career record for leadoff home runs with how many?
81
George Springer is second all-time; Craig Biggio holds the National League mark.
Q 30Which team hit four consecutive home runs against the Phillies in July 2022?
St. Louis Cardinals
Arenado, Gorman, Yepez and Carlson went back-to-back-to-back-to-back in the first inning off Kyle Gibson.