Q 01/05

What colours do all of Pittsburgh's major pro teams uniquely share?

A) Blue and white

B) Red and black

C) Green and gold

D) Black and gold

Answer · why

D) Black and gold

The Penguins were the last to switch, in 1979, over objections from the Boston Bruins, who had used the combination since 1935.

Q 02/05

Pittsburgh became the 'City of Champions' after the Pirates, Pitt and Steelers won titles in which decade?

A) The 1920s

B) The 1970s

C) The 1950s

D) The 1990s

Answer · why

B) The 1970s

In 1979 alone the Pirates won the World Series and the Steelers won the Super Bowl.

Q 03/05

Who became the first known professional football player when paid $500 for a game in 1892?

A) Jim Thorpe

B) Walter Camp

C) Pudge Heffelfinger

D) Fielding Yost

Answer · why

C) Pudge Heffelfinger

He scored the game's only points in a 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Athletic Club at Recreation Park.

Q 04/05

The Pirates got their name after a rival league called their 1891 signing of Lou Bierbauer what?

A) Treasonous

B) Larcenous

C) Underhanded

D) Piratical

Answer · why

D) Piratical

The club had been the Alleghenys since 1881, and did not switch to black and gold until 1948.

Q 05/05

Which Pittsburgh native, 'the Flying Dutchman', was among the first five Baseball Hall of Fame inductees?

A) Pie Traynor

B) Fred Clarke

C) Honus Wagner

D) Paul Waner

Answer · why

C) Honus Wagner

He was born in Chartiers, now Carnegie, and left school at 12 to work in the coal mines with his father and brothers.