Q 01/05

The Cardinals won their 11th World Series in 2011 by beating which team?

A) Detroit Tigers

B) Texas Rangers

C) Boston Red Sox

D) Kansas City Royals

Answer · why

B) Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers pitchers were twice one strike from the title in Game 6, but the Cardinals tied it both times, won in the 11th inning and took Game 7 fo...

Q 02/05

What is the name of the Cardinals' feathered mascot?

A) Redbird Rick

B) Fredbird

C) Cardinal Carl

D) Buster Bird

Answer · why

B) Fredbird

Fredbird debuted in 1979 and is famous for 'beaking' fans' heads with his oversized bill and tossing T-shirts into the stands.

Q 03/05

The future Cardinals began play in 1882 in which beer-selling league?

A) Union Association

B) Federal League

C) American Association

D) Players' League

Answer · why

C) American Association

American Association clubs charged 25 cents, played on Sundays and sold beer, all things the National League banned; St. Louis moved to the National L...

Q 04/05

The Cardinals' name first meant a color: as the story goes, who admired the red of their new uniforms?

A) The owner's wife

B) A rival manager

C) The city's mayor

D) A woman in the stands

Answer · why

D) A woman in the stands

A woman in the stands called the red trim 'a lovely shade of cardinal', and sportswriter Willie McHale put 'Cardinals' in print; birds reached the jer...

Q 05/05

Which Cardinals executive got the birds-on-the-bat logo idea from a table arrangement in a Ferguson, Missouri church?

A) Branch Rickey

B) Sam Breadon

C) Bill Veeck

D) Gussie Busch

Answer · why

A) Branch Rickey

Branch Rickey was the evening's speaker in 1921 when Allie May Schmidt's cardboard redbirds caught his eye; her father, a printing-firm art director, ...