Entertaining Baseball Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Natural

In "The Natural", the main character Roy Hobbs, is at first a teenage baseball prodigy in the early 20th century, but his future is ruined after being shot and hospitalized. In his 30s, however, he joins the New York Knights, and after getting the chance to play due to the right-fielder's death, begins hitting home runs at an incredible rate.

In addition to Redford, the movie stars Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, and Wilford Brimley.

Answer: A League of Their Own

"Bull Durham" (1988) is consistently regarded as one of the greatest sports movies of all time. Costner plays a minor-league catcher; the film also stars Susan Sarandon. "Field of Dreams" (1989) stars Costner as an Iowan farmer who builds a baseball field and summons the 1919 Chicago White Sox, who were banned from playing baseball. "For Love of the Game" (1999) has Costner as an aging major-league pitcher playing the final game of his career at Yankee Stadium. "A League of Their Own" (1992) stars Tom Hanks as the manager of an all-women's baseball team.

Answer: Moneyball

"Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" focuses on the 2002 Oakland Athletics and their general manager, Billy Beane, and their focus on analytics in managing a baseball team. The A's, despite having the third-lowest payroll in the league, went on to win their division.

A film titled "Moneyball", based on the book, was released in 2011, and starred Brad Pitt (as Beane), and Jonah Hill.

Answer: Baseball

"Baseball", about the history of the game, first aired in September of 1994 on PBS, and was written by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward. It came at an opportune time for baseball fans, as the Major-League strike had started only in the previous month. It had 9 episodes, each titled an "Inning" and covering roughly one decade of baseball history.

It focuses heavily on New York and Boston teams, and extensively covers race relations and player ownership by teams.

Answer: South Park

"The Losing Edge" was a Season 9 episode of South Park, in which the kids were on a Little League team. They tried to lose because it was too boring for them -- any loss would have ended their season -- but kept winning because the other teams were simply better at losing than they were.

They eventually got disqualified from a game because one of the parents (Randy Marsh) was constantly getting in fights with other parents.

Answer: New York Yankees & Boston Red Sox

"Lost" ran on ABC for six seasons from 2004 to 2010. Jack Shephard often referenced the Yankees and Red Sox, with him being on the Boston side of the rivalry. While they lived on the island (in 2004, the year in which the first few seasons takes place on the show), the Red Sox had won the World Series for the first time in 87 years; the main antagonist, Benjamin Linus, showed him a tape of the victory, emphasizing how much had occured in the time he was on the island.

Answer: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, even though neither of them had been to a baseball game. Fans at ballparks often stand up during the middle of the seventh inning and sing along. The song has been re-recorded numerous times by musicians including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Carly Simon, and the Goo Goo Dolls.

Answer: Centerfield

John Fogerty, the former lead singer of Creedence Clearwater Revival, released "Centerfield" both as a single and on the album of the same name in 1985. The album was his first release in ten years. The song is often played at ballparks and baseball Hall-of-Famers Joe DiMaggio, Ty Cobb, and Willie Mays are mentioned in it. Both Fogerty and the song were celebrated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.

Answer: Dice

Strat-O-Matic is a game company founded in Glen Head, New York in 1961, and is best known for its baseball simulation games. The game play involves cards for each athlete based on real-life statistics, giving all the possible outcomes of rolling three dice, and gamers set a line-up and pitcher for each game. New player cards come out each year.

It was also adapted for computer play starting in the 1990s. The game company also makes versions for football, basketball, and hockey.

Answer: MLB: The Show

"MLB: The Show", a video game series based on MLB baseball, started in 2006. The game is published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and is only available for the Sony game platforms. The title of the game changes depending on the year it is released, the current title starting in 2016 with "MLB The Show 16" The game simulates a typical baseball game, and the player can take control of a player or team for a single game, an entire season, or multiple seasons.