Toronto Blue Jays Trivia
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70 free Toronto Blue Jays trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Toronto Blue Jays trivia quiz covers the whole story of Canada's only big-league club: the near-miss that almost made them the Toronto Giants, the snowstorm on opening day in 1977, Exhibition Stadium, the SkyDome years, and the two World Series championships under Cito Gaston. There are questions on Roberto Alomar's home run off Dennis Eckersley, Dave Winfield's seagull, Joe Carter's walk-off, Dave Stieb's no-hitter, Roger Clemens and Pat Hentgen, Roy Halladay, Carlos Delgado, José Bautista's 54 homers and the bat flip, Josh Donaldson, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s giant extension and 2025 pennant run. The ballpark, culture and uniforms get their own rounds too: the retractable roof, the hotel rooms that overlook the field, BJ Birdy and Ace, 'OK Blue Jays', Canada Day reds, the graphite years and the 'Night Mode' City Connect look, plus Tom Cheek's 4,306-game streak. Easy questions suit any casual fan; the hard ones are for people who remember the Pearson Cup and Early Wynn on the radio. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which brewing company originally owned the Toronto Blue Jays?
Labatt
Labatt's best-known beer was Labatt Blue, yet Ontario law kept the brewery from selling a single cup at its own team's home games until July 1982, midway through the club's sixth season.
Q 02Whose Game 7 homer won the Blue Jays the 2025 pennant?
George Springer
George Springer, playing on a knee still sore from a pitch that hit him in Game 5, turned a 3-1 deficit into a 4-3 win and Toronto's first pennant since 1993.
Q 03The Blue Jays' very first game, played in a snowstorm on April 7, 1977, was a win over which team?
Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox scored twice in the first inning, but rookie Doug Ault answered with the first home run in franchise history, hit another two innings later, and Toronto won 9-5.
Q 04Before SkyDome opened, where did the Blue Jays play their home games?
Exhibition Stadium
Exhibition Stadium was a football field converted for baseball on the cold, windy shore of Lake Ontario, and the club's own president later called it "the worst stadium in sports".
Q 05In 1976, which existing MLB club nearly relocated to Toronto before a court ruling halted the sale?
San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants owner Horace Stoneham agreed to sell to a Toronto group in January 1976, but the new mayor, George Moscone, went straight to court and a local buyer stepped in to keep the team.
Q 06Roughly how much did the Blue Jays' founding owners pay the American League for the expansion franchise in 1976?
$7 million
$7 million in US funds bought the franchise, and the last-place newcomers were a hit at the gate at once: 1.7 million fans came in 1977, a record for a first-year expansion team.
Q 07Which manager led the Blue Jays to their first AL East title in 1985?
Bobby Cox
Bobby Cox turned a last-place club into division champions in four seasons, then left that October to become general manager of his old National League team, which he later managed to 14 straight division titles.
Q 08Who managed the Blue Jays to back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993?
Cito Gaston
Cito Gaston was the hitting coach who took over a 12-24 team in May 1989 and won the division that same season, three years before the first of his two titles.
Q 09The Blue Jays' 1992 title was the first World Series won by what kind of manager?
An African-American manager
An African-American manager had never won the World Series before 1992, and Toronto's skipper had at first said no to the job three years earlier, happy to stay on as the hitting coach.
Q 10Which Blue Jays catcher was named Most Valuable Player of the 1992 World Series?
Pat Borders
Pat Borders batted just .242 in the regular season, then went 9-for-20, a .450 average, across the six games of the Series.
Q 11Whose two-run double in the 11th inning of Game 6 won the 1992 World Series for the Blue Jays?
Dave Winfield
Dave Winfield, 41, finally shook off "Mr. May", the label George Steinbrenner had pinned on him in New York for coming up short when it mattered.
Q 12Which Blue Jay hit the game-tying ninth-inning home run off Dennis Eckersley in Game 4 of the 1992 ALCS?
Roberto Alomar
Roberto Alomar's two-run shot came off that year's league MVP and Cy Young winner and finished a comeback from 6-1 down; Toronto won 7-6 in 11 innings and he was named series MVP.
Q 13Which slugger did Toronto send to San Diego with Tony Fernández in the 1990 trade that brought Joe Carter?
Fred McGriff
Q 21Who won the pitching Triple Crown and the Cy Young Award in each of his two seasons as a Blue Jay?
Roger Clemens
Roger Clemens signed after Boston's general manager spoke of the "twilight" of his career, then led the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts two years running before asking to be traded to a contender.
Q 22Roy Halladay's nickname 'Doc' was a reference to which figure?
Wild West gunslinger Doc Holliday
Wild West gunslinger Doc Holliday gave the club's radio announcer his pun, and Halladay made the name his own: "Doc's Box" was the stadium suite where he hosted children from a Toronto hospital.
Q 23Which Blue Jays left-hander won the 2021 AL Cy Young Award?
Robbie Ray
Fred McGriff had led the American League with 36 home runs a year earlier, yet it was the pair who came back, Carter and a 22-year-old second baseman, who anchored Toronto's two title teams.
Q 14Joe Carter's walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series came against which team?
Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia Phillies had scored five runs in the seventh inning of Game 6 to lead 6-5 and were two outs from forcing a seventh game when Carter homered with two men on.
Q 15Which pitcher gave up Joe Carter's series-ending home run in 1993?
Mitch Williams
Mitch Williams, the closer known as Wild Thing, shook off his catcher's call for a slider and threw a fastball; Carter said expecting the breaking ball was the only reason he kept it fair.
Q 16Before Joe Carter in 1993, who was the only player to end a World Series with a home run?
Bill Mazeroski
Bill Mazeroski, a Pittsburgh second baseman prized for his glove rather than his bat, led off the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 in 1960 with the score tied and beat the Yankees with one swing.
Q 17In 1983 Toronto police charged a Yankees outfielder with cruelty to animals after his warm-up throw killed what?
A seagull
A seagull was hit by his throw before the bottom of the fifth inning; police booked him after the game, he posted a $500 bond, and the charge was dropped the next day.
Q 18Which Blue Jays first baseman, who wore a batting helmet in the field, won the 1993 AL batting title?
John Olerud
John Olerud wore the helmet because a brain aneurysm had nearly killed him in college; in 1993 he was still batting above .400 in August and finished at .363.
Q 19The first no-hitter in Blue Jays history, on September 2, 1990, was thrown against which opponent?
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians had spoiled the same pitcher's no-hitter with two outs in the ninth two years earlier, when a grounder took a freak hop over the second baseman; this time he finished a 3-0 win.
Q 20Which pitcher won the first Cy Young Award in Blue Jays history, in 1996?
Pat Hentgen
Pat Hentgen had gone 10-14 with a 5.11 ERA the year before; in 1996 he won 20 games and threw 10 complete games for a team that lost 88.
Robbie Ray had led baseball in walks in 2020 and re-signed with Toronto for one year at $8 million; he then led the league in ERA and strikeouts and won 29 of the 30 first-place votes.
Q 24Who managed the Blue Jays to the 2025 American League pennant?
John Schneider
John Schneider, a catcher who never got past the club's minor leagues as a player, took a team that had finished last with 88 losses in 2024 to 94 wins and first place a year later.
Q 25Which Blue Jays radio voice called 4,306 straight games from 1977 to 2004?
Tom Cheek
Tom Cheek, whose call of the 1993 winner was "Touch 'em all, Joe", never missed a game until his father died in June 2004; the number 4,306 now hangs beside his name at the ballpark.
Q 26Which slugger hit a club-record 336 home runs as a Blue Jay?
Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado signed as a teenage catcher and ended up at first base; on September 25, 2003, he homered in all four of his trips to the plate in a single game.
Q 27Which Blue Jays left fielder was named American League MVP in 1987?
George Bell
George Bell hit 47 home runs and drove in a league-best 134 runs, yet Toronto was swept on the final weekend of the season and lost the division by two games.
Q 28In 1988 a Blue Jay became the first to hit three home runs on Opening Day, all off which Kansas City ace?
Bret Saberhagen
Bret Saberhagen gave up all three to a hitter who had spent the spring furious at his manager's plan to make him a designated hitter, and who was batting as the DH that very afternoon.
Q 29Which Blue Jay led the majors with 54 home runs in 2010?
José Bautista
José Bautista had arrived two years earlier from Pittsburgh in a minor trade as a utility man; his 54 broke a club record that had stood since 1987.
Q 30The Blue Jays' famous bat-flip home run in the 2015 ALDS came against which team?
Texas Rangers
Texas Rangers had gone ahead minutes earlier when the Toronto catcher's throw back to the mound struck the batter's bat; three straight Texas errors then set up the three-run homer and the flip in Game 5.