Los Angeles Angels Trivia
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60 free Los Angeles Angels trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Los Angeles Angels trivia quiz covers the whole Halo story: the singing cowboy who bought the name from Walter O'Malley for $350,000, the years renting Dodger Stadium, the move to Anaheim and the Big A, and the four names the franchise has carried. There are questions on Nolan Ryan's arrival for Jim Fregosi, Rod Carew and Reggie Jackson's milestones, Mike Witt's perfect game, the heartbreaks of 1982 and 1986, the Disney era and the periwinkle uniforms, the Rally Monkey and the 2002 World Series comeback, Vladimir Guerrero, Mike Trout's three MVPs and Shohei Ohtani's two-way seasons. The ballpark and culture get a round too: the California Spectacular rock pile, the halo that lights up after wins, thundersticks, 'Calling All Angels', Angels in the Outfield, and the retired No. 26 for the club's 26th man. Easy questions suit any Angels fan; the hard ones are for people who remember Bo Belinsky. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which entertainer founded the Angels in 1961?
Gene Autry
Gene Autry, Hollywood's Singing Cowboy, was negotiating for the new team's radio rights when the first bidder dropped out, and he ended up owning the club instead.
Q 02The newly formed Angels agreed to pay $350,000 to which rival owner before their first season in 1961?
Walter O'Malley
Walter O'Malley had moved the Dodgers to Los Angeles three years earlier; he took $350,000 from the newcomers and then made them rent his new ballpark.
Q 03In their first season, 1961, the Angels played home games at which Los Angeles ballpark?
Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles opened in 1925 and had the name first: the Cubs' Chicago ballpark was still called Cubs Park and was not renamed until 1926.
Q 04From 1962 to 1965 the Angels rented Dodger Stadium, but insisted on referring to it as what?
Chavez Ravine
Chavez Ravine is the canyon the ballpark sits in; the Angels were unhappy tenants on a costly lease there, drew small crowds in the Dodgers' shadow, and left for Anaheim after four seasons.
Q 05The Los Angeles Angels took which new name in September 1965, ahead of leaving the city?
California Angels
California Angels became the name on September 2, 1965, and it lasted until Anaheim agreed in 1996 to help pay for rebuilding the ballpark on condition that the city's own name went on the team.
Q 06Which rookie pitcher started and won Game 7 of the 2002 World Series for the Angels?
John Lackey
John Lackey had started 2002 in the minor leagues and was not called up until late June, yet four months later he won the deciding game 4-1.
Q 07Which owner added 'Los Angeles' back to the team's name in 2005?
Arte Moreno
Arte Moreno wanted to sell the team to the whole Los Angeles market, but the stadium lease required Anaheim in the name, so it became the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; the city sued and lost.
Q 08Along with the Angels, which team was created in the 1961 American League expansion?
Washington Senators
The Washington Senators of 1961 were a replacement team: the original Senators had just left to become the Minnesota Twins, and the new club moved too, becoming the Texas Rangers in 1972.
Q 09Nolan Ryan came to the Angels in a December 1971 trade that sent which shortstop to the Mets?
Jim Fregosi
Jim Fregosi, a six-time All-Star, struggled with injuries in New York and was sold to Texas in 1973, while Ryan became a star; Fregosi later came back as Ryan's manager with the Angels.
Q 10Whose single-season strikeout record did the Angels' Nolan Ryan break by one in 1973?
Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax's 382 fell in Ryan's last start of 1973: level with it after eight innings, he pitched on into the 11th before striking out Minnesota's Rich Reese for number 383.
Q 11Which Hall of Famer collected his 3,000th hit as an Angel in 1985?
Rod Carew
Rod Carew singled off Frank Viola of the Minnesota Twins, the club where he had won all seven of his batting titles, on August 4, 1985, in what proved to be his final season.
Q 12Which slugger hit his 500th career home run as an Angel in 1984?
Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson reached 500 at Anaheim Stadium on September 17, 1984; four years later he played himself in 'The Naked Gun', as an Angels outfielder hypnotised into trying to shoot the Queen.
Q 13The Angels were one strike from the 1986 World Series before losing the pennant to which team?
Red Sox
Q 21What did Tim Salmon wave at the sky after the 2002 World Series win to honour the club's late founder?
A white Stetson hat
A white Stetson hat was the founder's trademark, and Salmon ran out of the dugout with one of his because the owner had died four years earlier, never having seen the club win a pennant.
Q 22Why did the Angels retire No. 26 for their founding owner?
He was the team's '26th man'
He was the team's '26th man': rosters held 25 players at the time, so the club retired the next number for an owner who never played an inning but often travelled with his team.
Q 23Which two-sport star, later an Angel, led off the 1989 All-Star Game at Anaheim Stadium with a home run?
Red Sox outfielder Dave Henderson homered with two strikes in the ninth inning of Game 5; Boston won that game in 11 innings, then took the next two to reach the World Series.
Q 14Which manager led the Angels to their 2002 World Series title?
Mike Scioscia
Mike Scioscia spent his whole 13-year playing career as a Dodgers catcher, then crossed town to manage the Angels for 19 seasons, from 2000 to 2018.
Q 15The Angels beat which team in the 2002 World Series?
San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds hit four home runs and was walked 13 times, yet his team lost in seven games in the first World Series played between two wild-card teams.
Q 16Who was named MVP of the 2002 World Series?
Troy Glaus
Troy Glaus hit .385 with three home runs and eight RBIs in the Series, and his two-run double in the eighth inning of Game 6 put the Angels ahead to complete a comeback from 5-0 down.
Q 17Whose three-run homer in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series began the Angels' comeback from 5-0 down?
Scott Spiezio
Scott Spiezio fouled off pitch after pitch before lifting a three-run homer that just cleared the right-field wall in the seventh inning; the Angels scored three more in the eighth to win 6-5.
Q 18Which player was the Angels' only All-Star in their 2002 championship season?
Garret Anderson
Garret Anderson went as a reserve, the lone pick from a team that won 99 games, and three months later his three-run double decided Game 7 of the World Series.
Q 19The Rally Monkey was born in 2000 when the scoreboard showed a clip from which film?
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective supplied the monkey clip, flashed up with the words 'Rally Monkey' in June 2000; the Angels came back to win, and to avoid copyright trouble the club then hired a monkey from 'Friends'.
Q 20Which 1992 hip-hop hit plays whenever the Rally Monkey appears on the Angel Stadium scoreboard?
Jump Around
Jump Around, by House of Pain, plays as the monkey bounces on screen late in games when the Angels are tied or behind; the routine won national fame during the 2002 World Series run.
Bo Jackson
Bo Jackson, then also an NFL running back, was named the game's MVP while former president Ronald Reagan sat in the broadcast booth; he played his final season in the same ballpark as an Angel in 1994.
Q 24Which pitcher, born without a right hand, joined the Angels' rotation in 1989 without pitching in the minor leagues?
Jim Abbott
Jim Abbott had won Olympic gold in Seoul the year before; he rested his glove on his right forearm as he threw, then slipped his left hand into it in time to field, and won 12 games as a rookie.
Q 25The fake mountain with a waterfall and fireworks beyond Angel Stadium's outfield fence is called what?
The California Spectacular
The California Spectacular arrived with Disney's late-1990s rebuild of the ballpark, which is why the rock pile, with its geysers and stream, looks like a theme-park ride; it fires off when an Angel homers.
Q 26Which NFL team shared Anaheim Stadium with the Angels from 1980 to 1994?
Los Angeles Rams
Los Angeles Rams left the ageing Coliseum for Anaheim in 1980, and enclosing the ballpark for football pushed its giant scoreboard out to the parking lot; the team left for St. Louis after 1994.
Q 27'Calling All Angels', the anthem played before Angels home games, is a hit by which band?
Train
Train's singer Pat Monahan is a fan of the club the Angels beat in the 2002 World Series, yet his song became their anthem, played over a video of the team's history before every home game.
Q 28Which noisemaker did the Angels introduce to Major League Baseball in 2002 and make famous in that year's World Series?
Thundersticks
Thundersticks, pairs of long balloons banged together, began with baseball crowds in South Korea; the Angels handed them out from July 2002, and their World Series run that autumn made them a fixture across sport.
Q 29Which pitcher threw a perfect game for the Angels against Texas in 1984?
Mike Witt
Mike Witt did it on the final day of the 1984 season, with both teams out of the race, and had no margin for error: the only run of the game scored on a fielder's choice in the seventh inning.
Q 30Which Angels pitcher threw the first no-hitter in Dodger Stadium history, in May 1962?
Bo Belinsky
Bo Belinsky was a rookie making only his fourth big-league start when he no-hit Baltimore, and overnight he became the toast of Hollywood, soon better known for dating film stars than for his pitching.