Major League Movie Trivia
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49 free Major League Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Major League was written by a Clevelander who figured the only way he would ever see the Indians win anything was to write a movie where they did. This Major League trivia quiz covers that 1989 film and its two sequels: Rachel Phelps's plot to move the team to Miami, Lou Brown from the Toledo Mud Hens, Jake Taylor's knees, Roger Dorn's portfolio, Pedro Cerrano and Jobu, Willie Mays Hayes, Eddie Harris's doctored baseballs, and Ricky 'Wild Thing' Vaughn's glasses. Easy questions cover the cast and the one-game playoff against the Yankees. Harder ones ask why the film was shot in Milwaukee rather than Cleveland, which Randy Newman song scores the opening montage, what the scrapped twist ending revealed about Phelps, which future Scrubs actor plays the longshoreman, and which real reliever took Vaughn's number 99. Major League II and Back to the Minors get their share too, from Jack Parkman to Gus Cantrell's Buzz. Every answer has been checked against a source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation once you answer. Just a bit outside is still a miss.
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Q 01Which actor plays veteran catcher Jake Taylor in Major League?
Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen had been enemies in Platoon three years earlier, as the ruthless Sergeant Barnes and the recruit who turns on him; here they are catcher and pitcher on the same side.
Q 02Major League's director won a writing Oscar for which film?
The Sting
The Sting won David S. Ward his Oscar. He grew up near Cleveland and wrote Major League, he said, because a movie was the only way he would ever see the Indians win anything.
Q 03In Major League, to which city does new owner Rachel Phelps plan to move the Indians?
Miami
Miami has offered a new stadium, plus a Boca Raton mansion for Phelps herself, and the lease lets the club leave if attendance drops below 800,000, so she assembles a roster meant to lose.
Q 04In Major League, what was Rachel Phelps's job before she inherited the Indians from her late husband?
Las Vegas showgirl
Las Vegas showgirl is the past her players turn against her: they hang a life-size picture of Phelps in the locker room and peel away a piece of its outfit after every win.
Q 05In Major League, manager Lou Brown arrives after thirty years running which minor-league club?
Toledo Mud Hens
Toledo Mud Hens manager Lou Brown is selling tires when the Indians call, and he asks for time to think it over because a customer is holding on the other line about whitewalls.
Q 06Major League's spring training scenes were shot at the Indians' real spring home, Hi Corbett Field, in which state?
Arizona
Arizona's Hi Corbett Field in Tucson was the real club's spring base, and the actors trained there beside college ballplayers hired as extras to fill out the squads.
Q 07In Major League, rookie Ricky Vaughn throws 100 mph and soon picks up which nickname?
Wild Thing
Wild Thing suits a pitcher who throws 100 mph with no idea where it is going, and when Vaughn comes in for the ninth inning of the playoff the whole stadium sings the old Troggs hit.
Q 08In Major League, what turns out to cause Ricky Vaughn's lack of control?
Poor eyesight
Poor eyesight is the cause: once Lou Brown has him fitted with glasses, the rookie who walked the bases loaded on twelve straight pitches in his debut becomes a dominant pitcher.
Q 09In Major League, where is pitcher Ricky Vaughn when the Indians invite him to spring training?
Prison
Prison is where the Indians' call finds him. Asked in camp which league he last played in, Vaughn answers the California Penal League, and says he got there by stealing a car.
Q 10In Major League, which pitch does power hitter Pedro Cerrano struggle to hit?
The curveball
The curveball beats him all season, whatever rum and cigars he offers his voodoo idol, until in the playoff he tells the idol he will do it himself and hits the game-tying home run.
Q 11In Major League, what is the name of Pedro Cerrano's voodoo figure?
Jobu
Jobu sits in a shrine in Cerrano's locker and is offered cigars and rum to take the fear out of the slugger's bats; stealing Jobu's rum, he warns his teammates, is very bad.
Q 12In Major League, how does speedster Willie Mays Hayes get into the Indians' spring camp?
He turns up uninvited
He turns up uninvited and is thrown out on the first night, then crashes the next day's sprints and outruns everyone, which is enough for Lou Brown to order him a uniform.
Q 13In Major League, veteran pitcher Eddie Harris makes up for a fading arm by doing what?
Doctoring the baseball
Q 21In Major League, how does Jake Taylor win the playoff in the bottom of the ninth?
A surprise bunt-and-run
A surprise bunt-and-run fools everyone: Jake twice points to the bleachers like Babe Ruth calling his shot, then lays the ball down, and Hayes scores all the way from second for a 3-2 win.
Q 22In Major League, which slugger homers off Ricky Vaughn, then strikes out against him in the playoff?
Clu Haywood
Clu Haywood, the league's home-run champion, goes down on three straight fastballs. He is played by Pete Vuckovich, who in real life was no slugger but a Cy Young Award-winning pitcher.
Q 23In Major League, why does Roger Dorn punch Ricky Vaughn during the final celebration?
Doctoring the baseball takes whatever he can find: Harris hides Crisco, Bardahl and Vagisil on his body, and rubs jalapeño in his nose so that he can load up the ball just by wiping it.
Q 14Which classic does Major League's Jake Taylor read in comic-book form?
Moby Dick
Moby Dick is the novel he works through as a comic book, then proves he has finished by naming Queequeg's coffin as what saves Ishmael.
Q 15In Major League, Jake Taylor's ex-girlfriend Lynn Wells has what job when he tries to win her back?
Librarian
Librarian Lynn is engaged to another man when Jake tracks her down at work, but after the playoff win she holds up a bare ring finger from the stands to show him the wedding is off.
Q 16In Major League, which real broadcaster plays sardonic radio man Harry Doyle?
Bob Uecker
Bob Uecker's deadpan call of a pitch that misses by yards, 'Just a bit outside', became so familiar that critic Richard Roeper wrote in 2019 that every sportscaster had used it for 30 years.
Q 17In Major League, what does Rachel Phelps take from the Indians once they start winning?
Their private jet
Their private jet is swapped for a propeller plane and then a run-down bus, but the punishment backfires: the Indians keep improving anyway.
Q 18In Major League, who finally reveals Rachel Phelps's scheme to Lou Brown?
Her general manager
Her general manager, Charlie Donovan, has had enough of the scheme. Lou passes it on to his players, who decide that the only thing left to do is win the whole thing.
Q 19In Major League, the suddenly popular Indians film a tongue-in-cheek TV commercial for which company?
American Express
American Express gets a send-up of its celebrity ads: the players admit nobody recognises them even in their own town, and Hayes slides home in a tuxedo with the tagline 'Don't steal home without it.'
Q 20In Major League, which team do the Indians face in the one-game playoff that ends the film?
New York Yankees
New York Yankees, in radio man Harry Doyle's words, are the Indians' long-time nemesis, and Ricky Vaughn starts the playoff on the bench because of his poor record against them.
He slept with Suzanne
He slept with Suzanne, Dorn's wife, without knowing who she was: she picked him up in a bar to get even after seeing her husband with another woman on television.
Q 24In Major League's scrapped alternate ending, what does Rachel Phelps reveal to Lou Brown?
She wanted them to win
She wanted them to win all along, having scouted players whose flaws hid real talent. Test audiences had grown too fond of hating her, so the scene was cut and survives only as a DVD extra.
Q 25Which Randy Newman song about Cleveland's Cuyahoga River plays over Major League's opening montage?
Burn On
Burn On is about the day in 1969 when the polluted Cuyahoga caught fire, an embarrassment for Cleveland that helped push Congress toward the Clean Water Act.
Q 26Most of Major League was shot in which city, standing in for Cleveland?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee stepped in because Cleveland's stadium was busy with Browns preseason football, director David S. Ward said, and thousands of locals turned out to play Indians fans in the stands.
Q 27In Major League, Harry Doyle says the playoff's feared relief pitcher, the Duke, once threw at whom?
His own kid
His own kid, in a father-son game, Doyle claims. The Duke lives up to the story minutes later by firing a fastball at Jake Taylor's head when Taylor points to the bleachers.
Q 28Which future Scrubs star plays a sceptical longshoreman in Major League, his first credited film role?
Neil Flynn
Neil Flynn, later the Janitor, plays a dockworker who writes the Indians off as the season starts, grudgingly decides they aren't so bad, and ends the film celebrating in a bar.
Q 29Dennis Haysbert, Major League's Pedro Cerrano, later became famous for playing which TV president?
David Palmer on 24
David Palmer on 24 is the role Haysbert has said he believes helped pave the way for Barack Obama.
Q 30Charlie Sheen later admitted using what to add speed to his fastball for Major League?
Steroids
Steroids, for six to eight weeks, he told Sports Illustrated in 2011: his fastball climbed from 79 mph to about 85, and he said it was the only time he ever took them.