Q 01/05

At which ballpark did Jackie Robinson make his major league debut on April 15, 1947?

A) The Polo Grounds

B) Yankee Stadium

C) Ebbets Field

D) Wrigley Field

Answer · why

C) Ebbets Field

Ebbets Field held 26,623 fans that day, an estimated 14,000 of them Black, and Robinson went hitless yet scored the winning run as Brooklyn beat the B...

Q 02/05

In which Southern state was Jackie Robinson born to a family of sharecroppers in 1919?

A) Alabama

B) Georgia

C) Texas

D) Mississippi

Answer · why

B) Georgia

Georgia was home only briefly: in 1920 his mother Mallie took her five children by train to Pasadena, California, where she worked as a maid to suppor...

Q 03/05

Robinson's middle name honoured which president, who died 25 days before Jackie was born?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) William McKinley

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt died on January 6, 1919, and the baby became Jack Roosevelt Robinson; his father walked out while he was still an infant, leaving M...

Q 04/05

Robinson's older brother Mack won Olympic silver in 1936, finishing behind Jesse Owens in which event?

A) The 100 metres

B) The 200 metres

C) The 400 metres

D) The 800 metres

Answer · why

B) The 200 metres

The 200 metres final in Berlin saw Mack Robinson finish 0.4 seconds behind Jesse Owens; back in Pasadena, he was the big brother who pushed Jackie tow...

Q 05/05

Robinson became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports at which university?

A) USC

B) Stanford

C) UCLA

D) Oregon

Answer · why

C) UCLA

UCLA saw him star in football, basketball and track, yet baseball, the sport that made him famous, was reckoned his weakest of the four.