Q 01/05

Which Boston business executive was awarded the eighth and final AFL franchise on November 16, 1959?

A) Billy Sullivan

B) Robert Kraft

C) Victor Kiam

D) James Orthwein

Answer · why

A) Billy Sullivan

Billy Sullivan kept the Patriots until 1988, when losses from his family's bankrolling of the Jacksons' 1984 Victory Tour forced him to sell the team ...

Q 02/05

Which of these venues was NOT one of the Patriots' borrowed home fields during their AFL years?

A) Fenway Park

B) Foxboro Stadium

C) Boston College's Alumni Stadium

D) Harvard Stadium

Answer · why

B) Foxboro Stadium

The team never had a regular home in the AFL, rotating among Boston University Field, Harvard, Fenway and BC.

Q 03/05

The Patriots' 1971 Foxborough stadium originally carried which beer company's name?

A) Budweiser

B) Narragansett

C) Schaefer

D) Sam Adams

Answer · why

C) Schaefer

Schaefer Stadium, named for the brewery that bought the rights, gave the Patriots a home of their own after a decade spent borrowing Boston fields, Fe...

Q 04/05

The Patriots' logo from 1961 to 1992 showed a Revolutionary War minuteman doing what?

A) Firing a musket

B) Waving a flag

C) Kicking a field goal

D) Hiking a football

Answer · why

D) Hiking a football

Hiking a football: the minuteman began in 1960 as a newspaper cartoonist's sketch, and the team's owner liked it so much that he adopted it as the clu...

Q 05/05

The Patriots' logo unveiled in 1993 is popularly known by what nickname?

A) The Flying Elvis

B) The Minuteman

C) The Tricorne

D) The Silver Ghost

Answer · why

A) The Flying Elvis

The Flying Elvis nickname stuck because fans thought the gray minuteman's face, with its streaming red, white and blue hat, resembled a young Elvis Pr...