Minnesota Twins Trivia
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59 free Minnesota Twins trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Minnesota Twins have one of baseball's stranger biographies: born as the Washington Senators, renamed for two rival cities, housed for 28 years under an inflatable Teflon roof, nearly erased by contraction in 2002, and owners of two of the most dramatic World Series ever played. This quiz walks through all of it, from the 1924 title in Washington to the Bomba Squad and the night the 18-game playoff losing streak finally ended. The easier questions are for anyone who has waved a Homer Hanky: which ballpark the team calls home, who hit the Game 6 homer in 1991, what T.C. stands for. The harder ones dig into Rod Carew's steals of home, César Tovar's nine-position game, the two triple plays in one night, and how the Twins ended up with Johan Santana in the first place. Every answer was checked against the published record and each question links to its source, so you can settle an argument in the Target Field concourse without a second search.
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Q 01The Twins take their name from which pair of cities?
Minneapolis and Saint Paul
Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The owner would not favour either city, so the club took the state's name, and its logo shows players from the two cities' old rival teams shaking hands across the river.
Q 02Before moving to Minnesota for the 1961 season, the franchise played in which city?
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. The capital was not left without baseball: a new expansion club took the Senators name the very year the old one left, and that team later became the Texas Rangers.
Q 03Which pitcher's Game 7 relief win gave the Twins franchise its first World Series, in 1924?
Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson. Aged 36, in his first World Series and beaten in both his starts, he came out of the bullpen and shut out the Giants over the last four innings of a 12-inning decider.
Q 04From 1961 to 1981 the Twins played their home games at which ballpark?
Metropolitan Stadium
Metropolitan Stadium. It opened in 1956, five years before the Twins arrived, built on farmland to major-league standards as bait to lure a big-league club to Minnesota.
Q 05What has stood on the site of the Twins' original Bloomington ballpark since 1992?
Mall of America
Mall of America. A plaque in the floor of its indoor theme park marks where home plate lay, and a red seat bolted to a wall shows where Harmon Killebrew's 520-foot home run landed in 1967.
Q 06Which manager led the Twins to World Series titles in both 1987 and 1991?
Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly. A Twins coach promoted to manager in September 1986, he won the title a year later and stayed in the job through 2001.
Q 07Since 2010 the Twins have played at which ballpark?
Target Field
Target Field. It has no roof, so it brought outdoor baseball back to Minnesota after 28 seasons indoors, with heated concourse areas for the cold days.
Q 08What caused the Metrodome roof to tear open in December 2010?
A heavy snowstorm
A heavy snowstorm. Seventeen inches fell on Minneapolis, the inflated roof gave way before dawn, and the Vikings' game with the Giants was moved to Detroit.
Q 09The Metrodome was the only venue ever to host a Super Bowl, a World Series and which other event?
NCAA Final Four
NCAA Final Four. Duke beat Michigan there for the 1992 title, ten weeks after the dome's Super Bowl and under six months after its 1991 World Series.
Q 10Which slugger hit a ball into the Metrodome roof in May 1984 that never came down?
Dave Kingman
Dave Kingman. His towering pop-up for Oakland went into a drainage hole in the roof's inner layer and stayed there, so the umpires gave him a ground-rule double.
Q 11The Twins lost their first World Series in Minnesota, in 1965, to which team?
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers. The Twins knocked out Don Drysdale and beat Sandy Koufax to lead two games to none, then lost the Series in seven.
Q 12Why did Sandy Koufax sit out Game 1 of the 1965 World Series against the Twins?
It fell on Yom Kippur
It fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. His stand-in, Don Drysdale, gave up seven runs in under three innings, but Koufax later shut the Twins out twice.
Q 13Which Twins shortstop won the American League MVP award in 1965?
Zoilo Versalles
Q 21As a Twins broadcaster, Bert Blyleven became known for doing what on screen?
Circling fans with the telestrator
Circling fans with the telestrator began as his way to point out Twins fans at road games, and soon crowds everywhere were holding up 'Circle me Bert' signs.
Q 22The Twins won their first World Series in Minnesota in 1987 by beating which team?
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Cardinals. It was the first World Series with games played indoors, and the deafening crowd noise under the dome's fabric roof became a story of its own.
Q 23The 1987 World Series was the first in which what happened?
Zoilo Versalles, the first Latin American player voted MVP, led the league in runs, doubles and total bases that year, and also in strikeouts and errors.
Q 14Which slugger alone topped Harmon Killebrew's eight 40-homer seasons?
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth, who did it 11 times. Killebrew, a feared hitter nicknamed 'the Killer', once named washing the dishes as his hobby.
Q 15Harmon Killebrew was born and raised in which state?
Idaho
Idaho. One of the state's U.S. senators told the team's owner about the teenage slugger, and the scout sent to watch him signed Killebrew at 17.
Q 16Harmon Killebrew was long rumored to be the batter silhouetted in whose logo?
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball. Killebrew believed it himself after seeing an artist sketch over his photo, but designer Jerry Dior said the 1968 logo was drawn to be no one in particular.
Q 17Which Twins great was born aboard a train in the Panama Canal Zone?
Rod Carew
Rod Carew. His mother went into labor in the rear car reserved for non-white passengers, and she named him Rodney Cline after the doctor who came back to help.
Q 18Who alone topped Rod Carew's seven American League batting titles?
Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb, who won 11 or 12 depending on a disputed 1910 race. In 2016 the American League batting title itself was named after Carew.
Q 19Which Twin was the first to win Rookie of the Year and a batting title in the same season, in 1964?
Tony Oliva
Tony Oliva, who won the batting title again in 1965, had come to the United States from Cuba on his brother's papers.
Q 20Bert Blyleven, the curveball artist whose number 28 hangs at the ballpark, was born in which country?
Netherlands
Netherlands. Born in Zeist, he grew up in Southern California, where his father built a pitcher's mound in the backyard so he could practice.
The home team won every game
The home team won every game: the Twins took all four in their deafening dome and lost all three on the road, a pattern they repeated in 1991.
Q 24Who was named MVP of the 1987 World Series?
Frank Viola
Frank Viola won Games 1 and 7. Fans treated a 'Frankie Sweet Music Viola' banner, hung by one supporter whenever he pitched, as the team's good-luck charm.
Q 25The 1987 Twins won the World Series despite doing what in the regular season?
Being outscored by their opponents
Being outscored by their opponents. They won only 29 road games all year and made up for it at home, where their 56-25 record was the best in the majors.
Q 26The Homer Hanky was created in 1987 by which organization?
The Star Tribune newspaper
The Star Tribune newspaper. Promotions staffer Terrie Robbins wanted the paper along for the playoff ride, so it printed thousands of white hankies and gave most of them away.
Q 27Which Twins slugger, raised in suburban Bloomington, hit a Game 6 grand slam in the 1987 World Series?
Kent Hrbek
Kent Hrbek was drafted in the 17th round by his hometown team, never played for anyone else, and turned down bigger offers from three clubs to stay.
Q 28What was the Twins' first baseman accused of doing to Ron Gant in the 1991 Series?
Pulling him off the bag
Pulling him off the bag is how the Braves saw it, but umpire Drew Coble ruled that Gant's own momentum had carried him off the base, and the out stood.
Q 29What made the 1991 Twins-Braves World Series a first?
Both teams had finished last the previous season
Both teams had finished last the previous season. Their Series went to a seventh game that stayed scoreless until the Twins won it 1-0 in the tenth inning.
Q 30Who hit the walk-off home run in the 11th inning of Game 6 of the 1991 World Series?
Kirby Puckett
Kirby Puckett had already robbed Ron Gant with a leaping catch at the Plexiglas, then homered off Charlie Leibrandt, a starter pressed into relief, to force Game 7.