36 Miracle Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Jim Craig

Head coach Herb Brooks brought in another player in late during their training and many of the players were upset about it, thinking is was not fair. This was star goalie Jim Craig's response to those who felt Brooks was just messing with their minds. Jim had an amazing game against the Soviet Union and was a key part in their victory! He sometimes felt he was pushed too hard by head coach Herb Brooks, but all of the boys on the team seemed to respect him and he smiled a lot.

Answer: Jim Craig

After the team won, Jim Craig, wrapped in a US flag, skated around to search the crowds for his father. Jim Craig's mother had just passed away before he made the Olympic team, and many said that his game was off because of it.

Answer: Joey Mullen

Jim Craig mentions his name to Jack O'Callahan when they first meet up with each other at the Colorado tryouts. Mullen was the first US born player to score 500 goals in the NHL.

Answer: Rob McClanahan

Many of the players recognize and know each other, because they have played either with or against each other before.

Answer: Jack O'Callahan

O'Callahan was an outstanding defender, but indeed had a temper. He greatly assisted in their first goal scored against the Soviets. This comment was in response to Phil Verchota whispering "Do these guys EVER smile?".

Answer: Buzz Schneider, John "Bah" Harrington, and Mark Pavelich

These three guys were named the coneheads because they were a little out there like the coneheads in the comedy sketch on "Saturday Night Live," according to assistant coach, Craig Patrick. Coach Herb Brooks told these three that they would be sticking together and would not be cut before the games started.

Answer: Tim Harrer/Minnesota

The boys speak out about how they were a family now, so Brooks sends Harrer back to Minnesota.

Answer: Jim Craig

Jim tells Herb he doesn't understand what the quiz has to do with hockey. Herb tells him that its okay because he took it anyway. He has them take the quiz so he can make sure that he can push them extremely hard.

Answer: Ralph Cox

Jack O'Callahan and Rob McClanahan had an old rivalry that stemmed from when they were playing for different colleges. After they got into a fight during the first day of practice, Herb Brooks decided to do a couple of team introductions. This was Cox's response to 'Where are you from?' Ralph was a very easy going guy, and it made the team (and the audience) very sad when he had to be cut a week before the Olympics.

Answer: UNH

Ralph Cox played forward at UNH, and was the last player cut from the team. Ralph said he went to UNH when Brooks asked him who he was and who he played for. His response was, "I'm Ralph Cox, I play for UNH, and I'm from wherever's not gonna get me hit."

Answer: Schnieder to Pavelich to Baker

This last second goal kept their medal hopes alive. You have to watch closely to see Schnieder kick the puck to Pavelich, who passes it to Baker, who scores on a one-timer.

Answer: Mike Eruzione

He is not necessarily the best player on the team. During one of the games, the announcers comment on the fact that he had recently been named captain because of his leadership skills on and off the ice.

Answer: underwear

At a Christmas party at Doc's house, all the boys were exchanging gifts. As a joke, the boys got Silk some nice silky womens underwear.

Answer: 1960

This was the same year team USA won its first hockey gold. So the players knew that Brooks would now stop at nothing, until he got the gold that slipped away 20 years earlier.

Answer: Herb Brooks

Herb Brooks was the head coach of Team USA and before he even took the job, he stated his goal was to dethrone the Soviet Union. He said this in the locker room during his speech before the big game with the Soviet Union.

Answer: Buzz Schneider

Billy Schneider got to play his father in the movie. Billy heard about the auditions from his mother, and decided to try out for a small skating part. He went into auditions and they handed him a script, and he kept getting called back. When making the film, the director Gavin O'Connor would come up to Billy and ask him if his dad knew about certain situations that happened with the team. Billy would call up Buzz and hand O'Connor the phone.

Answer: O'Callahan

Rob McClanahan had robbed him of a victory in the past. Jack O'Callahan tells his friends this in a bar after Rob walks in. The only time we see them fight is at the first practice. After this, they begin to get along.

Answer: Jack O'Callahan

O'Callahan, the defender who was 'the first to drop his gloves,' ran into Jim Craig at tryouts and jokingly called him a sieve. Apparently, in hockey slang, a sieve is a goaltender who lets too many pucks past him. Craig did not appear to be offended at all.

Answer: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson scored the second shot right before the period ended. Buzz had scored the first goal. To everyone's surprise, Tretiak was taken out of the game, something not seen in the Winter Games. The announcers could not even remember a time when this had happened before. Brooks then told his players that the best goalie in the world was on the bench.

Answer: Atlanta Flames

He mentions this after he refused to take the test and is talking to Coach Brooks about the rough times his family, and his father in particular, is going through. (the Atlanta Flames are now the Calgary Flames, and The Atlanta Thrashers didn't exist in 1979.)

Answer: Mark Johnson

Herb Brooks doesn't necessarily choose the best hockey players. He says he is looking for the right ones. Some he chooses because of leadership skills, etc. He knows which players to pick so that he can have a successful team.

Answer: Jim Craig

Jimmy's mom had died shortly before their training began. Herb was worried about the level of concentration Craig would have due to his mother's recent passing. When the two were briefly speaking at the beginning of training, this topic was brought up. Herb seemed to be pretty convinced with Craig's commitment after that.

Answer: Mike Eruzione

After Herb brought in Tim, the players were upset. They confronted Herb after the game and told him that he shouldn't have brought him in so late, and that he wasn't part of their family. During the game, Brooks was favoring Tim, and Eruzione saw and was bothered by it.

Answer: Mark Johnson

One was with just one second left in the period, and after that goal the Soviets pulled goalie Vladislav Tretiak. Although Tretiak never played in the NHL, due to political reasons, he is still said to be one of the best goalies ever to play the game, and Mark Johnson and Team USA drove him out of the most significant hockey game ever.

Answer: Ralph Cox

Herb is very sorry that he had to cut him and wishes he could keep him, but the rules say he could only have 20 players. He knows what it's like after being cut a week before the Olympic games in 1960.