Milwaukee Brewers Trivia
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50 free Milwaukee Brewers trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Milwaukee Brewers trivia questions with answers. The Milwaukee Brewers began life as a bankrupt Seattle expansion team, wore hand-me-down Pilots uniforms, and have spent 57 seasons chasing a World Series they have reached only once. Along the way they gave baseball Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, Harvey's Wallbangers, a mascot who slides into a beer mug, a sixth-inning sausage race and Bob Uecker in the booth for 54 years. This Brewers trivia quiz covers the franchise history, the ballparks, the MVPs and Cy Young winners, the retired numbers, the mascots and traditions, and the recent run of NL Central titles under Craig Counsell and Pat Murphy. The 50 questions run from easy for anyone who has been to American Family Field to hard for fans who remember County Stadium, so it suits a tailgate, a bar quiz or a solo test. Every answer is checked against the documented record rather than fan lore.
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Q 01Where did the Seattle Pilots, who became the Brewers, play their only season of home games in 1969?
Sick's Stadium
Sick's Stadium was an ageing minor-league park whose plumbing was never upgraded: with a big crowd in, the water pressure all but vanished, one reason the club lasted a single season.
Q 02Which future commissioner bought the bankrupt Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee in 1970?
Bud Selig
Bud Selig, a Milwaukee car dealer who had been the largest public shareholder in the departed Braves, wanted his new club to carry on the minor-league Brewers he had watched as a boy.
Q 03Which pitcher's diary of the Pilots' only season became the famous tell-all book Ball Four?
Jim Bouton
Jim Bouton kept the diary as a fading knuckleballer, and its clubhouse candour so alarmed baseball's commissioner that he called the book 'detrimental to baseball' and pressed Bouton to disown it.
Q 04Why did the 1970 Brewers play in altered Seattle Pilots uniforms?
The move came days before the opener
The move came days before the opener: a bankruptcy court cleared the sale about a week ahead of the first game, so 'Pilots' was torn off the blue and gold jerseys and 'Brewers' sewn on.
Q 05The Brewers moved from the American League to the National in 1998; which team later switched the other way?
Houston Astros
Houston Astros, in 2013, to give each league 15 clubs; the Brewers had gone the other way so that both leagues kept an even number of teams when two expansion clubs arrived in 1998.
Q 06Which team did the 1982 Brewers beat in the ALCS after losing the first two games?
California Angels
California Angels: beaten twice in Anaheim, the Brewers won three straight at County Stadium to take the pennant, and with it their only World Series place through 2025.
Q 07What nickname did the slugging 1982 Brewers earn, after their manager?
Harvey's Wallbangers
Harvey's Wallbangers, a play on the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail, were 23-24 when hitting coach Harvey Kuenn took over as manager; they went 72-43 the rest of the way and hit 216 home runs.
Q 08The 1982 World Series was dubbed the 'Suds Series' because of what?
Both cities' beer-industry rivalry
Both cities' beer-industry rivalry supplied the name: Milwaukee was the home of several of America's biggest brewers, while their great rival Anheuser-Busch owned the opposing ball club outright.
Q 09Which relief pitcher became the first Brewer to win the MVP award, in 1981?
Rollie Fingers
Rollie Fingers saved 28 games with a 1.04 ERA in the strike-shortened 1981 season, added the Cy Young Award to his MVP, and carried the Brewers to the first postseason in their history.
Q 10Which polka have Brewers fans sung during the seventh-inning stretch since the 1970s?
Roll Out the Barrel
Roll Out the Barrel, properly the Beer Barrel Polka, began as a Czech tune of the 1920s and is now so much a Wisconsin anthem that it also rings out at Badgers and Packers games.
Q 11The Brewers' 18-year-old rookie of 1974, a future two-time MVP, almost quit baseball in 1978 for which sport?
Golf
Golf: in the spring of 1978 he left the team and weighed a career as a professional golfer before coming back; four years later he was the American League's Most Valuable Player.
Q 12Which two positions did the Brewers' 1982 and 1989 MVP play across his 20-year career?
Shortstop and center field
Shortstop and center field: shoulder trouble forced him off shortstop in 1985, and his 1989 award as a center fielder made him only the third player to win MVPs at two positions.
Q 13Which Brewer hit safely in 39 straight games in 1987, the longest streak since Pete Rose's 44?
Paul Molitor
Q 21Which Pirates first baseman was arrested for hitting a racing sausage with his bat in Milwaukee in 2003?
Randall Simon
Randall Simon swung at the Italian Sausage as the racers passed the visitors' dugout and toppled the young woman inside the costume; he was fined $432 and suspended for three games.
Q 22What was American Family Field called from its 2001 opening through 2020?
Miller Park
Miller's $40 million naming deal expired and American Family Insurance took over on a 15-year contract.
Q 23The roof of the Brewers' ballpark, unique in North America, opens and closes like which object?
A folding fan
A folding fan: the roof's 12,000 tons of panels swing out from a pivot behind home plate and can cover the whole field in about ten minutes.
Paul Molitor never got the chance to make it 40: hitless that night, he was waiting on deck in the tenth inning when team-mate Rick Manning's single won the game and ended the streak.
Q 14Which Hall of Fame slugger finished his career with the Brewers in 1975 and 1976, back where he began?
Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron, traded by Atlanta after 21 seasons with the Braves, called it 'going back home'; as a designated hitter he hit his 755th and last home run at County Stadium on 20 July 1976.
Q 15Which 1989 comedy cast Bob Uecker as a baseball announcer?
Major League
Major League cast him as Harry Doyle, the hard-drinking voice of a hopeless Cleveland team, yet many of its ballpark scenes were shot at Milwaukee County Stadium, where Uecker called real Brewers games.
Q 16What honour did the Baseball Hall of Fame give Bob Uecker in 2003?
The Ford C. Frick Award
The Ford C. Frick Award is the Hall's honour for broadcasters, so it reached Cooperstown ahead of the playing record of a backup catcher who batted exactly .200 over six seasons.
Q 17The fan who inspired Bernie Brewer lived high above County Stadium in 1970 until what happened?
A crowd of 40,000 came
A crowd of 40,000 came: Milt Mason, 69, moved into his perch above the outfield that June and vowed to stay until the new team filled the park, and a Bat Day gate of 44,387 brought him down in August.
Q 18Into what did Bernie Brewer originally slide after Brewers home runs at County Stadium?
A giant beer mug
A giant beer mug: from 1973 Bernie shot down a slide from his chalet into the mug after every Brewers home run and win, sending balloons into the air; since the move to a new ballpark in 2001 the slide has ended on a platform.
Q 19Where was the Brewers' Sausage Race run in its earliest years?
On the scoreboard
On the scoreboard: the race began as a cartoon of three animated sausages, and only later did runners in sausage costumes take it down onto the field for real.
Q 20Which sausage became the fifth racer in the Brewers' Sausage Race, in the mid-2000s?
The Chorizo
The Chorizo first ran in 2006 on Cerveceros Day, the club's salute to its Latino fans (cerveceros is Spanish for brewers), joining a field that had started with only the bratwurst, the Polish and the Italian.
Q 24Why did the Brewers' new ballpark open a year late, in 2001?
A crane collapse
A crane collapse: on 14 July 1999 the giant crane known as Big Blue fell while lifting a section of the roof, killing three ironworkers, who are honoured by a sculpture outside the park.
Q 25How did the Brewers come by their ball-in-glove logo, introduced in 1978?
A fan design contest
A fan design contest: Tom Meindel, an art history student from Eau Claire, beat some 2,000 entries by shaping the letters m and b into a glove holding a ball.
Q 26Which ace, acquired from Cleveland in July 2008, went 11-2 to pitch the Brewers into the playoffs?
CC Sabathia
CC Sabathia had a 1.65 ERA and seven complete games in his 17 Milwaukee starts, ending the Brewers' 26-year wait for a postseason place before he left that winter as a free agent.
Q 27In 2007, which Brewer became the youngest player ever to hit 50 home runs in a season?
Prince Fielder
Prince Fielder was 23 when he reached 50; a neck injury ended his career at 32 with 319 home runs, exactly the total hit by his father, the former Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder.
Q 28Ryan Braun's 2011 NL MVP season was later tainted when he admitted using what?
Banned PEDs
Banned PEDs: a positive test from 2011 was thrown out on appeal over the handling of the sample, but the Biogenesis investigation brought a suspension in 2013, and Braun then admitted using them in his MVP year.
Q 29From which team did the Brewers acquire Christian Yelich before the 2018 season?
Miami Marlins
Miami Marlins: the price was four prospects, headed by outfielder Lewis Brinson, and Yelich repaid it at once with the batting title and the NL MVP award in his first Milwaukee season.
Q 30Through 2025, Christian Yelich had hit for the cycle three times, all against which team?
Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati Reds: two of the cycles came within three weeks of each other in his 2018 MVP season and the third in 2022, which made him the first player with three against a single club.