New York Mets Trivia
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100 free New York Mets trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
45 free New York Mets trivia questions with answers. The Mets have packed more misery and miracle into six decades than most clubs manage in a century, and this quiz covers all of it. Forty-five questions run from the 40-120 expansion season under Casey Stengel and the 1969 Miracle Mets, through the 108-win 1986 team and the ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs, to the Subway Series, the 2015 pennant, Johan Santana's no-hitter, Pete Alonso's rookie record and the Grimace summer of 2024. Along the way you get the ballparks (Polo Grounds, Shea and Citi Field), the songs and symbols (Meet the Mets, the Home Run Apple, Mr. Met), the retired numbers, the trades that still hurt (the Midnight Massacre) and the ones that saved the franchise (Piazza). Easy ones for casual fans, hard ones for people who can name the 1962 mascot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its seasons, players and stadiums, and each question carries its source. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01In which New York City borough do the Mets play?
Queens
Queens has been home since Shea Stadium opened in 1964 beside the World's Fair grounds. Its replacement went up in Shea's parking lot, and Shea was then flattened to become the new parking lot.
Q 02The Mets joined the National League in 1962 alongside which other expansion team?
Houston Colt .45s
Houston Colt .45s was the name for only three seasons: in 1965 the club moved indoors to the Astrodome and became the Astros.
Q 03The Mets' blue and orange colours honour which two New York teams?
The Dodgers and the Giants
The Dodgers and the Giants both left for California after 1957, so the new club took Dodger blue and Giant orange and revived the Giants' old NY monogram for its cap.
Q 04Which team's 121 losses in 2024 broke the modern record set by the 1962 Mets?
Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox finished 41-121, yet the 40-120 Mets keep one distinction: their .250 winning percentage is still a shade worse than Chicago's .253.
Q 05Which former Yankees manager ran the Mets in their first seasons and coined the nickname 'Amazin' Mets'?
Casey Stengel
Casey Stengel's exasperated question, 'Can't anybody here play this game?', became the title of Jimmy Breslin's book about the 1962 team.
Q 06Where did the Mets play their home games in 1962 and 1963 while their stadium was being built?
The Polo Grounds
The Polo Grounds was already condemned to make way for public housing. When demolition began in April 1964, the wrecking crew tipped their hard hats to the old ballpark before starting work.
Q 07Shea Stadium was named after William Shea, who is remembered for what?
Founding a proposed third major league
Founding a proposed third major league, the Continental League, paid off without a game played: it disbanded once the National League agreed to put a new team in New York.
Q 08Which band opened its 1965 North American tour at Shea Stadium before a record crowd of more than 55,000?
The Beatles
The Beatles were drowned out: the screaming was so loud that nobody, the band included, could hear the music at what is remembered as the first major stadium rock concert.
Q 09Which future Hall of Famer did the Mets pass over in the 1966 draft for Steve Chilcott?
Reggie Jackson
Reggie Jackson went second, to the Kansas City Athletics, and hit 563 home runs. Chilcott, a 17-year-old catcher, never played a single major-league game.
Q 10Which team did the Miracle Mets beat in the 1969 World Series?
Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles had won 109 games and had four future Hall of Famers, counting manager Earl Weaver. The Mets lost the opener, then won four straight.
Q 11Who managed the 1969 Miracle Mets?
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges carried a ball smudged with shoe polish out to the umpire in Game 5 of the World Series; the umpire then ruled that the pitch had hit Cleon Jones, and the next batter hit a two-run homer.
Q 12Which team led the 1969 Mets by 10 games in mid-August, only to finish eight games behind them?
Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs players watched a black cat stroll past their dugout at Shea on September 9, in the middle of a slide that cost them 17 of their last 25 games.
Q 13Which pitcher, nicknamed 'The Franchise', won 25 games and the Cy Young Award for the 1969 Mets?
Tom Seaver
Q 21Which team's fans nicknamed the 1980s Mets 'pond scum'?
St. Louis Cardinals
The St. Louis Cardinals and the Mets traded the division title back and forth for four straight years, the Cardinals winning it in 1985 and 1987 and the Mets in 1986 and 1988.
Q 22Which two Mets each hit 30 home runs and stole 30 bases in 1987?
Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson
Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson both did it, and Johnson's sudden power made rival managers so suspicious that umpires confiscated his bats and had them X-rayed; they came up clean.
Q 23Which pitcher's 27 consecutive losses over 1992-93 set a major-league record?
Tom Seaver reached the Mets by luck: his 1966 contract with the Braves was voided, and the commissioner pulled the Mets' name out of a hat to decide who could sign him.
Q 14Which rookie broke up a Mets ace's perfect-game bid with a ninth-inning single at Shea in July 1969?
Jim Qualls
Jim Qualls, a reserve outfielder who finished his career with only 31 major-league hits, lined a clean single with one out in the ninth after the first 25 batters had gone down in order.
Q 15The 1977 trade of the Mets' ace pitcher to the Reds is remembered by what nickname?
The Midnight Massacre
The Midnight Massacre ended a bitter contract feud between the pitcher and chairman M. Donald Grant, and the fallout drove fans away from Shea in their thousands.
Q 16Which slogan, coined by reliever Tug McGraw, carried the 82-79 Mets to the 1973 pennant?
'Ya Gotta Believe'
'Ya Gotta Believe' burst out of him in the middle of a clubhouse pep talk by the team chairman while the Mets sat in last place; by October they were in the World Series.
Q 17Which manager led the 1986 Mets to 108 wins and a World Series title?
Davey Johnson
Davey Johnson, a maths major, was one of the first managers to lean on computer analysis; as a player back in 1969 he was already feeding batting orders into a college computer.
Q 18Which Red Sox first baseman let Mookie Wilson's grounder through his legs in the 1986 World Series?
Bill Buckner
Bill Buckner was hobbling, and manager John McNamara had sent in Dave Stapleton for late defence in all three of Boston's earlier wins, but he left his veteran on the field that night.
Q 19Who was named MVP of the 1986 World Series?
Ray Knight
Ray Knight hit .391 in the Series, scored the winning run in Game 6 and then hit the tie-breaking home run in Game 7.
Q 20Which pitcher, nicknamed 'Dr. K', won the 1985 Cy Young Award for the Mets?
Dwight Gooden
Dwight Gooden went 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA that year, aged 20, while a Shea rooting section called the K Korner hung up a red K card for every one of his strikeouts.
Anthony Young
Anthony Young pitched far better than the streak suggests: in the middle of it he filled in as the closer and went 23 2/3 innings without allowing a run.
Q 24Which Dodgers manager had Mike Piazza drafted in the 62nd round as a favour to Piazza's father?
Tommy Lasorda
Tommy Lasorda had grown up in the same Pennsylvania neighbourhood as Piazza's father, and the college first baseman he asked for became a Hall of Fame catcher.
Q 25Against which team did Mike Piazza hit his go-ahead homer in New York's first game after 9/11?
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves led 2-1 in the eighth inning when he swung, in a stadium whose parking lots had spent the previous week as a staging area for rescue supplies.
Q 26Which Yankees pitcher threw a shattered bat toward Mike Piazza in the 2000 World Series?
Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens had hit Piazza in the head with a fastball that July; when the bat broke in Game 2 he flung the barrel toward him and later said he thought it was the ball.
Q 27Which outfielder leapt the wall to rob Scott Rolen of a homer in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS?
Endy Chávez
Endy Chávez snagged the ball in the tip of his glove above the wall, then threw it back in to double a runner off first base and end the inning; the Mets lost the game anyway.
Q 28The Mets' current ballpark copies the brick entrance of which demolished ballpark?
Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field's tenants were once offered this very site for a new ballpark, but their owner lost interest and took the team to Los Angeles instead.
Q 29Which pitcher threw the first no-hitter in Mets history, in the club's 8,020th regular-season game?
Johan Santana
Johan Santana threw more pitches that night than in any other game of his career, and he was saved in the seventh when Mike Baxter, who grew up a Mets fan, crashed into the wall making a catch.
Q 30Which knuckleballer won the NL Cy Young Award for the Mets in 2012?
R.A. Dickey
R.A. Dickey has no ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow; when the Rangers' doctors discovered that after drafting him, they cut their signing offer to $75,000.