Q 01/05

Which Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop's rare T206 card became the first sports card to sell for over $1 million?

A) Ty Cobb

B) Honus Wagner

C) Cy Young

D) Walter Johnson

Answer · why

B) Honus Wagner

Honus Wagner refused to let production of his card continue, so only about 50 to 200 copies ever reached the public. One of them sold for $1,265,000 a...

Q 02/05

Where did Topps executive Sy Berger say he dumped truckloads of unsold 1952 baseball cards in 1960?

A) Hudson River

B) Lake Erie

C) Atlantic Ocean

D) Chesapeake Bay

Answer · why

C) Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean tale has Berger riding the barge himself to free up warehouse space, though some researchers believe the unwanted cards were really...

Q 03/05

Which product's packs often carried baseball cards in the 1880s, partly to protect the contents from damage?

A) Cigarettes

B) Chewing gum

C) Breakfast cereal

D) Chocolate bars

Answer · why

A) Cigarettes

Cigarettes were sold with pictures of ballplayers by early 1886, and the stiff card doubled as an advertisement for the brand.

Q 04/05

Which Pokémon's holographic card from the trading card game's first release is the most desired by collectors?

A) Blastoise

B) Venusaur

C) Mewtwo

D) Charizard

Answer · why

D) Charizard

Charizard cards have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and one graded copy fetched $336,000 at Heritage Auctions in 2022.

Q 05/05

Which Magic: The Gathering card, printed only in early core sets, sold for $3 million in 2024?

A) Time Walk

B) Black Lotus

C) Mox Sapphire

D) Ancestral Recall

Answer · why

B) Black Lotus

Black Lotus can be played at zero cost and still grants a burst of three mana. It is the best known of the 'Power Nine', nine famously strong cards fr...