Dodgers Trivia
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This Dodgers trivia quiz has 96 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
Streetcars: Brooklyn's crisscrossing trolley lines made its residents 'trolley dodgers', an 1890s press nickname that was shortened to Dodgers and became the club's official name in 1932.
Q 02In which year did the Dodgers play their first game in Los Angeles?
1958
1958: the Dodgers' first Los Angeles game was a 6-5 win over the Giants at the Coliseum on 18 April 1958, their first season after leaving Brooklyn.
Q 03Where did the Dodgers play their first four seasons in Los Angeles before Dodger Stadium opened?
The LA Memorial Coliseum
The LA Memorial Coliseum, a football stadium with a 251-foot left-field line, hosted the Dodgers from 1958 to 1961; a 1959 exhibition there honouring Roy Campanella drew 93,103 fans.
Q 04Jackie Robinson broke baseball's colour line at Ebbets Field on 15 April of which year?
1947
1947: on 15 April 1947 Robinson played first base for Brooklyn against the Boston Braves before 26,623 fans, and that season he won the first-ever Rookie of the Year award.
Q 05Which Dodgers executive signed Jackie Robinson, wanting a player 'with guts enough not to fight back'?
Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey, Brooklyn's president and general manager, signed Robinson in October 1945 and promoted him to the Dodgers in April 1947 after one season with the club's top farm team.
Q 06Which Dodgers catcher won three NL MVP awards in the 1950s before a car accident ended his career?
Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella won NL MVP in 1951, 1953 and 1955; his car skidded on ice in January 1958, leaving him paralysed, and he entered the Hall of Fame in 1969.
Q 07The Dodgers won their first World Series in 1955 by beating which team?
The Yankees
The Yankees: Brooklyn beat New York in seven games in 1955, clinching with a 2-0 shutout at Yankee Stadium, after losing Series to the Yankees in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953.
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
Chavez Ravine: the city traded the ravine land to Walter O'Malley and the last holdout families were evicted in May 1959; the $23 million stadium opened in April 1962.
Q 10With about 56,000 seats, the Dodgers' home ground holds what distinction?
Largest MLB park by seating
Largest MLB park by seating: Dodger Stadium's roughly 56,000 capacity tops every other major league ballpark, ahead of second-place Coors Field at roughly 50,000.
Q 11Which other major league team shared Dodger Stadium from 1962 to 1965?
The Angels
The Angels, an expansion club born in 1961, rented Dodger Stadium (which they called Chavez Ravine) from 1962 to 1965 before moving to Anaheim Stadium in 1966.
Q 12Sandy Koufax pitched his perfect game against which team on 9 September 1965?
The Cubs
The Cubs: Koufax retired all 27 Chicago batters at Dodger Stadium on 9 September 1965, striking out 14, in a 1-0 game in which Cubs starter Bob Hendley allowed a single hit.
Q 13Why did Sandy Koufax decline to start Game 1 of the 1965 World Series?
It fell on Yom Kippur
Q 21Kirk Gibson's famous 1988 World Series homer came off which Oakland closer?
Dennis Eckersley
Dennis Eckersley, Oakland's Hall of Fame closer, threw the 3-2 backdoor slider that the hobbled Gibson hit for a walk-off two-run homer in Game 1, 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 23Which manager gave Orel Hershiser the nickname 'Bulldog'?
Tommy Lasorda
Lasorda thought he was too timid on the mound and showed hitters too much respect.
Game 1 fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, so Koufax sat out and Don Drysdale started; Koufax returned to win Games 5 and 7, the clincher a three-hit shutout.
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
67 seasons: Scully broadcast Dodgers games from 1950 to 2016, the longest tenure of any broadcaster with one team, and 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
Twenty-three: Alston signed a new one-year deal every season from 1954 to 1976, winning four World Series; as a player he had exactly one big-league at-bat, 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
Rookie of the Year and Cy Young: Valenzuela won both in 1981 after opening the season 8-0 with five shutouts and a 0.50 ERA, riding a screwball taught by teammate Bobby Castillo.
Q 20Fernando Valenzuela was named the 1981 Opening Day starter as a rookie because which pitcher was injured?
Jerry Reuss
Jerry Reuss pulled a calf muscle the day before the 1981 opener, so rookie Valenzuela started and shut out Houston 2-0; the Dodgers retired his number 34 in 2023.
Q 24The Dodgers' 1976-96 manager, who 'bled Dodger blue', led which country to Olympic baseball gold in 2000?
The United States
The United States: Tommy Lasorda's team of minor leaguers beat Cuba 4-0 in the Sydney 2000 final, with Ben Sheets pitching a three-hit shutout.
Q 25Which uniform number did the Dodgers retire in 1997 for their manager of 1976 to 1996?
2
Number 2: the Dodgers retired Tommy Lasorda's 2 in 1997, the year the Veterans Committee elected him to the Hall of Fame; 24 is Walter Alston's retired number.
Q 26Clayton Kershaw was drafted by the Dodgers with which overall pick in 2006?
7th
7th: the Dodgers took Kershaw seventh overall out of Highland Park High School in Dallas in 2006; he spent all 18 seasons in Los Angeles and retired after 2025 with three rings.
Q 27Shohei Ohtani's record 2023 contract with the Dodgers was worth how much over ten years?
$700 million
$700 million over ten years, signed in December 2023 with $680 million deferred, the biggest contract in sports history at the time; Ohtani was unanimous NL MVP in 2024.
Q 28In 2024 Shohei Ohtani founded the 50-50 club with how many home runs and stolen bases?
54 and 59
54 home runs and 59 stolen bases: Ohtani reached 50-50 on 19 September 2024 in Miami with a three-homer, two-steal game, playing only as designated hitter while his elbow healed.
Q 29Which group bought the Dodgers in 2012 for a North American record price of about $2 billion?
Guggenheim Baseball Management
Guggenheim Baseball Management, fronted by Mark Walter with Magic Johnson as a partner, paid about $2.15 billion in May 2012, then a record for a North American sports franchise.
Q 30Through the 2025 season, how many World Series titles have the Dodgers won?
Nine
Nine: 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988, 2020, 2024 and 2025, to go with a record 26 National League pennants through 2025.