This Dodgers trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and runs from the Brooklyn trolley dodgers of the 1880s to the back-to-back champions of 2024 and 2025. It covers Ebbets Field and the move west, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, Vin Scully's 67 seasons, Fernandomania, Kirk Gibson's impossible home run, Orel Hershiser's streak, Tommy Lasorda and Walter Alston, Clayton Kershaw, Shohei Ohtani and Dodger Stadium itself. It is written for fans and family game nights: some questions any Dodgers fan can answer in their sleep, others that will separate the lifers from the bandwagon. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries and baseball records before publishing.
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Q 01The Dodgers' name comes from Brooklyn pedestrians who dodged what?
Streetcars
Sportswriter Charles Dryden coined 'Trolley Dodgers'; the word did not appear on a jersey until 1932.
Q 02In which year did the Dodgers play their first game in Los Angeles?
1958
Owner Walter O'Malley moved the franchise after 68 seasons in Brooklyn; the first LA game was a 6-5 win over the Giants on 18 April.
Q 03Where did the Dodgers play their first four seasons in Los Angeles before Dodger Stadium opened?
The LA Memorial Coliseum
A 1959 exhibition there to honour Roy Campanella drew 93,103 fans, a record crowd for a major league game at the time.
Q 04Jackie Robinson broke baseball's colour line at Ebbets Field on 15 April of which year?
1947
He played first base that day before 26,623 fans and won the first-ever Rookie of the Year award that season.
Q 05Which Dodgers executive signed Jackie Robinson, wanting a player 'with guts enough not to fight back'?
Branch Rickey
Robinson's number 42 was retired across all of Major League Baseball in 1997, a first for any professional athlete.
Q 06Which Dodgers catcher won three NL MVP awards in the 1950s before a car accident ended his career?
Roy Campanella
His car hit ice in January 1958 and left him paralysed; he entered the Hall of Fame in 1969.
Q 07The Dodgers won their first World Series in 1955 by beating which team?
The Yankees
Brooklyn had lost the 1941 Series and several others to the same opponent before finally winning it all.
Q 08Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957, was replaced on its site by what?
Apartment buildings
Demolition began in February 1960 and the Ebbets Field Apartments opened in 1962.
Q 09Dodger Stadium was built in which Los Angeles neighbourhood, controversially cleared of residents?
Chavez Ravine
The $23 million park opened in 1962 as the first fully privately financed MLB stadium since the original Yankee Stadium.
Q 10With about 56,000 seats, the Dodgers' home ground holds what distinction?
Largest MLB park by seating
It is also the third-oldest active MLB park after Fenway and Wrigley, and it hosted Olympic baseball in 1984.
Q 11Which other major league team shared Dodger Stadium from 1962 to 1965?
The Angels
The expansion club left for Anaheim after four seasons.
Q 12Sandy Koufax pitched his perfect game against which team on 9 September 1965?
The Cubs
It was the last of his four no-hitters, a record at the time, in a season when he struck out 382 batters.
Q 13Why did Sandy Koufax decline to start Game 1 of the 1965 World Series?
It fell on Yom Kippur
He came back to win Games 5 and 7; arthritis forced him to retire a year later at 30, and he became the youngest Hall of Famer at 36.
Q 21Kirk Gibson's famous 1988 World Series homer came off which Oakland closer?
Dennis Eckersley
Hobbled by a hamstring and a swollen knee, Gibson hit a 3-2 backdoor slider for the walk-off in his only at-bat of the Series.
Q 22Before baseball, Kirk Gibson was an All-American in which sport at Michigan State?
Football
He set receiving records as a wide receiver and joined the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
Q 23Orel Hershiser's 1988 record streak of consecutive scoreless innings reached what number?
59
He broke Don Drysdale's mark of 58 2/3 and swept the Cy Young, NLCS MVP and World Series MVP the same season, a unique treble.
Q 14How many Cy Young Awards did Sandy Koufax win, each by unanimous vote?
Three
In 1963, 1965 and 1966 only one award was given for both leagues, which makes the sweep more remarkable.
Q 15Don Drysdale set a modern National League record for what?
Most batters hit by a pitch
He plunked 154 hitters in his career; he also threw six straight shutouts and 58 2/3 scoreless innings in 1968.
Q 16Vin Scully called Dodgers games for how many seasons?
67
From 1950 to 2016, the longest run of any broadcaster with one team; he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in his final year.
Q 17Which broadcasting legend mentored the young Vin Scully in Brooklyn?
Red Barber
Barber taught him to stay impartial rather than root openly for the home team.
Q 18Walter Alston managed the Dodgers from 1954 to 1976 on how many consecutive one-year contracts?
Twenty-three
'The Quiet Man' won four World Series and had exactly one big-league at-bat as a player, a strikeout.
Q 19Fernando Valenzuela became the only player to win which two awards in the same season, in 1981?
Rookie of the Year and Cy Young
He started the year 8-0 with five shutouts and an ERA of 0.50, throwing a screwball few pitchers still used.
Q 20Fernando Valenzuela was named the 1981 Opening Day starter as a rookie because which pitcher was injured?
Jerry Reuss
He shut out Houston 2-0; the Dodgers retired his number 34 in 2023 even though he is not in the Hall of Fame.
Q 24Which manager gave Orel Hershiser the nickname 'Bulldog'?
Tommy Lasorda
Lasorda thought he was too timid on the mound and showed hitters too much respect.
Q 25The Dodgers' 1976-96 manager, who 'bled Dodger blue', led which country to Olympic baseball gold in 2000?
The United States
The man who 'bled Dodger blue' beat Cuba in Sydney four years after ending his 1976-96 run as manager.
Q 26Which uniform number did the Dodgers retire in 1997 for their manager of 1976 to 1996?
2
Number 24 belongs to Walter Alston; Lasorda entered the Hall of Fame the same year.
Q 27Clayton Kershaw's 2014 NL MVP made him the first NL pitcher to win the award since which Cardinals ace?
Bob Gibson (1968)
Gibson had won it in 1968; Kershaw added a no-hitter that June and his third Cy Young.
Q 28Clayton Kershaw was drafted by the Dodgers with which overall pick in 2006?
7th
He spent all 18 seasons in Los Angeles, recorded his 3,000th strikeout in July 2025 and retired after that season with three rings.
Q 29Shohei Ohtani's record 2023 contract with the Dodgers was worth how much over ten years?
$700 million
It was the biggest deal in sports history at the time, and he was a unanimous NL MVP in his first Dodgers season.
Q 30In 2024 Shohei Ohtani founded the 50-50 club with how many home runs and stolen bases?
54 and 59
He did it as a full-time designated hitter while his elbow healed, then won the World Series in his first postseason.