Q 01/05

The Lions franchise began in which Ohio town, as the Spartans?

A) Portsmouth

B) Canton

C) Dayton

D) Youngstown

Answer · why

A) Portsmouth

Portsmouth fielded the Spartans, who in 1932 beat the reigning champions 19-0 with the same eleven men playing all 60 minutes, because their coach ref...

Q 02/05

The team was renamed the Lions in 1934 as a nod to which other Detroit club?

A) The Red Wings

B) The Tigers

C) The Pistons

D) The Cougars

Answer · why

B) The Tigers

The Tigers were the tie-in, and a team spokesman added that the lion is monarch of the jungle and the club hoped to be monarch of the league.

Q 03/05

The 1932 Spartans–Bears playoff moved indoors to Chicago Stadium, onto dirt left behind by which event?

A) A rodeo

B) A horse show

C) A circus

D) A livestock fair

Answer · why

C) A circus

A circus had just left, elephants and all, so the teams played on its dirt, and the makeshift rules worked well enough that the NFL adopted hash marks...

Q 04/05

George A. Richards owned which kind of business when he bought the Spartans and moved them to Detroit in 1934?

A) Department store

B) Newspaper

C) Brewery

D) Radio station

Answer · why

D) Radio station

A radio station, Detroit's WJR, was his, and he used his broadcasting ties to put the team's first Thanksgiving game on national radio that same year.

Q 05/05

Lions stars Lem Barney and Mel Farr sang background vocals on which Marvin Gaye classic?

A) What's Going On

B) Let's Get It On

C) Sexual Healing

D) Got to Give It Up

Answer · why

A) What's Going On

What's Going On features both Lions, and Gaye then trained for a Lions tryout of his own, saying he would rather score one touchdown than earn another...