St. Louis Cardinals Trivia
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50 free St. Louis Cardinals trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
45 free St. Louis Cardinals trivia questions with answers. The Cardinals have won more World Series than any National League club, and this quiz covers all of it. Forty-five questions run from the 1882 Brown Stockings and the birds-on-the-bat logo through the Gashouse Gang, Stan Musial's perfectly split hit total, Bob Gibson's 1.12, Whiteyball, the McGwire summer, and the two-strikes-from-dead Game 6 of 2011. It opens with questions any fan in a red cap can answer (the mascot, the stadium, the number of titles) and works up to trades, records and front-office history that separate Cardinals Nation lifers from bandwagon riders. Use it to settle arguments at Ballpark Village or to run a round at your next trivia night; the whole set is free. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the franchise, its players and its World Series, and each question carries its source. No fan-forum guesses, no recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01The Cardinals won their 11th World Series in 2011 by beating which team?
Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers pitchers were twice one strike from the title in Game 6, but the Cardinals tied it both times, won in the 11th inning and took Game 7 for an 11th championship, the most of any National League club.
Q 02What is the name of the Cardinals' feathered mascot?
Fredbird
Fredbird debuted in 1979 and is famous for 'beaking' fans' heads with his oversized bill and tossing T-shirts into the stands.
Q 03The future Cardinals began play in 1882 in which beer-selling league?
American Association
American Association clubs charged 25 cents, played on Sundays and sold beer, all things the National League banned; St. Louis moved to the National League in 1892 after the Association folded.
Q 04The Cardinals' name first meant a color: as the story goes, who admired the red of their new uniforms?
A woman in the stands
A woman in the stands called the red trim 'a lovely shade of cardinal', and sportswriter Willie McHale put 'Cardinals' in print; birds reached the jersey only in 1922.
Q 05Which Cardinals executive got the birds-on-the-bat logo idea from a table arrangement in a Ferguson, Missouri church?
Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey was the evening's speaker in 1921 when Allie May Schmidt's cardboard redbirds caught his eye; her father, a printing-firm art director, drew up the logo that reached jerseys in 1922.
Q 06The Cardinals' first World Series title, in 1926, came against which team?
New York Yankees
New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth walked with two out in the ninth inning of Game 7, then was thrown out trying to steal second, and the tag by player-manager Rogers Hornsby ended the Series.
Q 07Which veteran pitcher struck out Tony Lazzeri with the bases loaded in Game 7 of the 1926 World Series?
Grover Cleveland Alexander
Grover Cleveland Alexander was 39 and had pitched a complete-game win the day before; stories say he came in hung over, though he always insisted he was sober.
Q 08What was the nickname of Rogers Hornsby, who hit .424 for the Cardinals in 1924?
The Rajah
'The Rajah' won two Triple Crowns in St. Louis, yet ten weeks after managing the Cardinals to the 1926 title he was traded to the Giants for Frankie Frisch.
Q 09The rowdy 1934 champion Cardinals are remembered by what nickname?
The Gashouse Gang
The Gashouse Gang played to the name in Game 7 of the World Series: after Joe Medwick's hard slide into third, Detroit fans pelted him with fruit and bottles until the commissioner ordered him out of the game.
Q 10Which Cardinal was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in a season, doing it in 1934?
Dizzy Dean
Dizzy Dean went 30-7, and he and his brother Paul combined to win all four Cardinals games in that year's World Series against Detroit.
Q 11The 1944 World Series pitted the Cardinals against which crosstown team?
St. Louis Browns
The St. Louis Browns shared Sportsman's Park with the Cardinals, so every game was played there and it was nicknamed the Streetcar Series.
Q 12Whose 'Mad Dash' from first base won Game 7 of the 1946 World Series against the Red Sox?
Enos Slaughter
Enos Slaughter was running on the pitch when Harry Walker lined a hit to left-center; legend has him ignoring his coach's stop sign while Boston shortstop Johnny Pesky held the relay a beat too long.
Q 13Stan Musial's 3,630 career hits split exactly evenly between which two categories?
Home and road games
Q 21The 1967 champion Cardinals, led by MVP Orlando Cepeda, went by what nickname?
El Birdos
El Birdos won 101 games and the World Series; Cepeda, traded away by the Giants a year earlier after a knee injury, was the National League's unanimous MVP.
Q 22Which Cardinals center fielder took baseball's reserve clause to the Supreme Court?
Curt Flood
Curt Flood refused a 1969 trade to Philadelphia and sued baseball; he lost Flood v. Kuhn 5-3 in 1972, but an arbitrator gave players free agency just three years later.
Q 23Which manager led the Cardinals to the 1967 title, eight years after tuberculosis cost him part of a lung?
Red Schoendienst
Home and road games each brought Musial 1,815 hits, and the last two of them were singles in his final game, played in St. Louis in 1963.
Q 14Stan Musial became 'Stan the Man' after which rival team's fans kept saying 'Here comes the man' as he batted?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn Dodgers fans had watched Musial wreck their pitching at Ebbets Field; St. Louis writer Bob Broeg learned of the line from the Cardinals' traveling secretary and put it in his column.
Q 15After Anheuser-Busch bought the Cardinals in 1953, Gussie Busch tried to rename the ballpark after which beer?
Budweiser
Budweiser Stadium was turned down by baseball as a beer advertisement, so he settled for the family name, Busch Stadium, and the brewery then brought out a beer called Busch.
Q 16In June 1964 the Cardinals acquired Lou Brock from the Cubs in exchange mainly for which pitcher?
Ernie Broglio
Ernie Broglio had won 18 games in 1963 but won only seven in three seasons as a Cub, while Brock helped St. Louis win the World Series that October and went on to the Hall of Fame.
Q 17Whose 130 steals in 1982 broke Lou Brock's modern single-season record of 118?
Rickey Henderson
Rickey Henderson took the record for Oakland; Brock had built his own mark by filming opposing pitchers with a home-movie camera to study their pickoff moves.
Q 18After Bob Gibson's 1.12 ERA in 1968, the 'Year of the Pitcher', what did baseball change for 1969?
The mound's height
The mound's height was cut from 15 inches to 10 and the strike zone narrowed, to give hitters a chance after a season in which Gibson threw 13 shutouts.
Q 19Bob Gibson struck out 17 Tigers in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series, breaking whose record?
Sandy Koufax
Sandy Koufax's 15 from 1963 was matched when Gibson fanned Al Kaline, then passed with Norm Cash and Willie Horton; no pitcher has topped 17 in a World Series game since.
Q 20Before baseball, Cardinals Hall of Famer Bob Gibson briefly played for which basketball team?
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Globetrotters games filled four months for Gibson after college, until the Cardinals offered a contract on the condition that he give up basketball and play baseball only.
Red Schoendienst had beaten long odds before: an injury to his left eye as a teenager left him struggling against right-handed pitchers, so he became a switch-hitter.
Q 24What name was given to the speed-and-defense style of the 1980s Cardinals?
Whiteyball
'Whiteyball' took its name from manager Whitey Herzog, who was also general manager from 1980 to 1982 and built the 1982 champions for Busch Stadium's turf.
Q 25The 1982 Fall Classic against Milwaukee earned what beer-themed nickname?
The Suds Series
The Suds Series matched two beer capitals: St. Louis, where Anheuser-Busch owned the Cardinals at the time, and Milwaukee, home of its rival Miller.
Q 26After Garry Templeton made obscene gestures at home fans in 1981, the Cardinals traded him to San Diego for which shortstop?
Ozzie Smith
Ozzie Smith had just hit .222 to Templeton's .288, yet he went on to win 11 straight Gold Gloves in St. Louis and a plaque in the Hall of Fame.
Q 27Which rookie base stealer missed the 1985 World Series after Busch Stadium's automatic tarp rolled over his leg?
Vince Coleman
Vince Coleman had stolen 110 bases, a rookie record, before the freak accident during the playoffs; the Cardinals played the World Series without their leadoff man and lost in seven games.
Q 28Which umpire called Jorge Orta safe in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series, a call replays showed was wrong?
Don Denkinger
Don Denkinger's call put the tying run on base with St. Louis three outs from the title; Kansas City rallied to win 2-1, then took Game 7 by 11-0.
Q 29Which split-finger reliever was the first pitcher in the Hall of Fame without ever starting a game?
Bruce Sutter
Bruce Sutter lost his old pitches to arm surgery as a teenage minor leaguer, so a Cubs instructor taught him the split-finger; it carried him to the Hall of Fame without a single start.
Q 30For nearly 47 years the Cardinals' radio voice ended every win with what phrase?
"That's a winner!"
"That's a winner!" became the title of Jack Buck's memoir; the man who became the club's voice had once been fired from its booth to make room for another announcer, and was later hired back.