Q 01/05

The Twins take their name from which pair of cities?

A) Duluth and Superior

B) Fargo and Moorhead

C) Minneapolis and Saint Paul

D) Minneapolis and Bloomington

Answer · why

C) Minneapolis and Saint Paul

Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The owner would not favour either city, so the club took the state's name, and its logo shows players from the two cities'...

Q 02/05

Before moving to Minnesota for the 1961 season, the franchise played in which city?

A) New York City

B) Milwaukee

C) Washington, D.C.

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

C) Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. The capital was not left without baseball: a new expansion club took the Senators name the very year the old one left, and that team ...

Q 03/05

Which pitcher's Game 7 relief win gave the Twins franchise its first World Series, in 1924?

A) Cy Young

B) Christy Mathewson

C) Walter Johnson

D) Lefty Grove

Answer · why

C) Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson. Aged 36, in his first World Series and beaten in both his starts, he came out of the bullpen and shut out the Giants over the last fou...

Q 04/05

From 1961 to 1981 the Twins played their home games at which ballpark?

A) Nicollet Park

B) Midway Stadium

C) Metropolitan Stadium

D) Lexington Park

Answer · why

C) Metropolitan Stadium

Metropolitan Stadium. It opened in 1956, five years before the Twins arrived, built on farmland to major-league standards as bait to lure a big-league...

Q 05/05

What has stood on the site of the Twins' original Bloomington ballpark since 1992?

A) Mall of America

B) U.S. Bank Stadium

C) Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport

D) Valleyfair amusement park

Answer · why

A) Mall of America

Mall of America. A plaque in the floor of its indoor theme park marks where home plate lay, and a red seat bolted to a wall shows where Harmon Killebr...