Q 01/05

Which team joined the NHL alongside Pittsburgh in 1967?

A) Buffalo Sabres

B) Philadelphia Flyers

C) Vancouver Canucks

D) Atlanta Flames

Answer · why

B) Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers arrived decades after Pittsburgh's first NHL club, the Pirates, had moved to Philadelphia for a single season.

Q 02/05

What inspired Pittsburgh's 1967 expansion team to call itself the Penguins?

A) The tuxedo look of the first uniforms

B) The Civic Arena's nickname, the Igloo

C) The owner's Antarctic expedition

D) A colony at the Pittsburgh Zoo

Answer · why

B) The Civic Arena's nickname, the Igloo

The Civic Arena's nickname, the Igloo, is what led a team owner's wife to suggest Penguins.

Q 03/05

Which Pittsburgh sports owner leaned on the Norris brothers for votes to bring the NHL to Pittsburgh?

A) Art Rooney

B) John Galbreath

C) Barney Dreyfuss

D) Benny Leonard

Answer · why

A) Art Rooney

Art Rooney pressed both Norris brothers, who each owned an NHL club, and both then voted to make Pittsburgh the sixth expansion city.

Q 04/05

What did the shape behind the skating penguin in the Penguins' original logo symbolise?

A) Downtown Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle

B) The Fort Pitt blockhouse

C) The steep slope of the Duquesne Incline

D) The Allegheny Mountains

Answer · why

A) Downtown Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle

Downtown Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle sat behind the skating penguin, a logo modernised in 1992 and revived on a throwback third jersey in 2000.

Q 05/05

Which rookie led the Penguins to their first playoffs in 1970, then died after a car crash?

A) Glen Sather

B) Ken Schinkel

C) Michel Briere

D) Andy Bathgate

Answer · why

C) Michel Briere

Michel Briere spent 11 months in a coma before dying at 21; no one wore his No. 21 again, though it wasn't officially retired until 2001.