Q 01/05

The Dodgers' name comes from Brooklyn pedestrians who dodged what?

A) Horse carts

B) Streetcars

C) Bicycles

D) Ferries

Answer · why

B) Streetcars

Streetcars: Brooklyn's crisscrossing trolley lines made its residents 'trolley dodgers', an 1890s press nickname that was shortened to Dodgers and bec...

Q 02/05

In which year did the Dodgers play their first game in Los Angeles?

A) 1958

B) 1960

C) 1962

D) 1965

Answer · why

A) 1958

1958: the Dodgers' first Los Angeles game was a 6-5 win over the Giants at the Coliseum on 18 April 1958, their first season after leaving Brooklyn.

Q 03/05

Where did the Dodgers play their first four seasons in Los Angeles before Dodger Stadium opened?

A) The Rose Bowl

B) Wrigley Field (Los Angeles)

C) The LA Memorial Coliseum

D) Gilmore Field

Answer · why

C) The LA Memorial Coliseum

The LA Memorial Coliseum, a football stadium with a 251-foot left-field line, hosted the Dodgers from 1958 to 1961; a 1959 exhibition there honouring ...

Q 04/05

Jackie Robinson broke baseball's colour line at Ebbets Field on 15 April of which year?

A) 1947

B) 1949

C) 1951

D) 1953

Answer · why

A) 1947

1947: on 15 April 1947 Robinson played first base for Brooklyn against the Boston Braves before 26,623 fans, and that season he won the first-ever Roo...

Q 05/05

Which Dodgers executive signed Jackie Robinson, wanting a player 'with guts enough not to fight back'?

A) Walter O'Malley

B) Larry MacPhail

C) Branch Rickey

D) Buzzie Bavasi

Answer · why

C) Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey, Brooklyn's president and general manager, signed Robinson in October 1945 and promoted him to the Dodgers in April 1947 after one seaso...