Q 01/05

The Bears began as a company team for a starch manufacturer in which Illinois city?

A) Peoria

B) Decatur

C) Springfield

D) Rockford

Answer · why

B) Decatur

Decatur's A. E. Staley starch company ran the works team, then in 1921 handed it to George Halas with $5,000 to move it to Chicago, on condition he ke...

Q 02/05

In 1922 George Halas renamed the Staleys as a nod to which Chicago team, whose ballpark his players shared?

A) The White Sox

B) The Cubs

C) The Blackhawks

D) The Cardinals

Answer · why

B) The Cubs

The Cubs shared Wrigley Field, then Cubs Park, with Halas's team, and since football players are bigger than baseball players he reasoned that if they...

Q 03/05

The catchphrase 'Da Bears' comes from the Superfans, a recurring sketch on which TV show?

A) Saturday Night Live

B) In Living Color

C) The Tonight Show

D) Second City TV

Answer · why

A) Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live built the Superfans on the swagger of the 1980s team: its mustachioed Chicagoans insisted that 'Da Bears' and coach Mike Ditka cou...

Q 04/05

The Bears' famous helmet logo is a wishbone-shaped version of which letter?

A) B

B) C

C) G

D) S

Answer · why

B) C

C, for Chicago, first went on the helmet in 1962, and it stayed there even after the club made an orange bear's head its primary logo in 2023.

Q 05/05

The Bears' nickname 'Monsters of the Midway' originally belonged to which institution?

A) Northwestern

B) U of Chicago

C) Notre Dame

D) Chicago Cardinals

Answer · why

B) U of Chicago

U of Chicago, whose Maroons played beside the Midway Plaisance, dropped big-time football in 1939; the Bears picked the name up in the 1940s, when Sid...