Q 01/05

The word 'mascot' comes from a French word meaning what?

A) Funny face

B) Wild animal

C) Team spirit

D) Lucky charm

Answer · why

D) Lucky charm

Lucky charm is the sense of the French 'mascotte', itself from Provençal 'mascoto', a talisman; the word spread across Europe in the early 1880s and e...

Q 02/05

The Phillie Phanatic is the mascot of which baseball team?

A) The Pittsburgh Pirates

B) The Philadelphia Phillies

C) The Boston Red Sox

D) The Chicago Cubs

Answer · why

B) The Philadelphia Phillies

The green creature debuted in 1978 with a party-horn tongue.

Q 03/05

According to his backstory, the Phillie Phanatic hails from which Pacific archipelago?

A) The Canaries

B) The Falklands

C) The Galapagos

D) The Azores

Answer · why

C) The Galapagos

The Galapagos Islands are his official birthplace in team lore, and he is said to have come to the city as a baseball-mad fan; his mother, Phoebe Phan...

Q 04/05

The San Diego Chicken, played by Ted Giannoulas, originated in 1974 as a promotion for what?

A) A radio station

B) A fast-food chain

C) A baseball team

D) A shopping mall

Answer · why

A) A radio station

A radio station, KGB-FM, hired the 20-year-old Giannoulas in 1974 to hand out Easter eggs at the San Diego Zoo in the chicken suit; he soon took the a...

Q 05/05

Mr. Met is believed to be the first mascot in Major League Baseball to appear as what?

A) An inflatable balloon

B) A costumed human

C) A live team animal

D) A wind-up robot

Answer · why

B) A costumed human

A costumed human version of Mr. Met first walked Shea Stadium in 1964, the year the park opened; a giant baseball serves as his head, and he was retir...