Cleveland Sports History Trivia Quiz

Answer: Crunch

The Crunch was Cleveland's old NPSL soccer franchise. They changed their name to the Force, and moved into the MISL for the 2002-2003 season. The Fusion is Cleveland's professional women's football franchise. The Cavaliers are Cleveland's long-suffering NBA team.

Answer: Richfield Coliseum

The Cavs played in Richfield for years until moving to Gund Arena in downtown Cleveland in the mid 1990's. Richfield is about 25 miles south of Cleveland.

Answer: Art Modell

If you want to see a Clevelander's face turn red with anger, just mention Modell's name. Gund is the owner of the Cavaliers, Lerner owned the Browns until his death in 2002, and Dolan owns the Indians.

Answer: Detroit

Detroit was placed in the East so Cleveland could play in the Central. When Tampa Bay received an expansion team, they were placed in the East, Detroit was moved to the Central, and Milwaukee was moved from the AL Central to the NL Central.

Answer: Brian Sipe

Sipe was famous for leading the Browns to many thrilling last-minute comebacks. He is also infamous for "Red Right 88", a play late in the 1981 AFC Championship Game against the Raiders in which he threw an interception deep in Raiders' territory to seal the game for Los Angeles.

Answer: Hector Marinaro

Hector led the Crucnh to several NPSL titles in the mid 1990's. He is widely regarded as the greatest player in indoor soccer history.

Answer: Barons

The Barons were a very good team in the 1950's. They were revived in name after the Lumberjacks' franchise left town.

Answer: Gateway

The huge Gateway project built two state-of-the-art venues in downtown Cleveland and helped revitalize the entire downtown area in the early 1990's.

Answer: Wayne Kirby

In the eleventh inning of the inaugural game at Jacobs Field in 1994, Wayne Kirby knocked in the winning run for the Indians.

Answer: John Hart

Hart built Cleveland's teams from home-grown talent and astute trades. He changed the way general managers built teams by signing his promising young players to long-term contracts at bargain salaries.

Answer: Cleveland Municipal Stadium

The Stadium, which was home of the Browns, Indians, and many other events from 1932 to 1995, was an object of much derision in Cleveland. Holding over 70,000 spectators, it was considered much too large for a baseball stadium. After the Browns left in 1995, the Stadium was demolished and later a new football stadium was built on-site.

Answer: Mark Price

Price consistently led the league in free-throw percentage and he also won several 3-point shooting contests in the early 1990's.

Answer: Paul Warfield

Schottenheimer coached them in the 1980's, Palmer in the late 1990's as an expansion team, and Brown in the early years of Cleveland football.

Answer: 1932

They won in 1920, won in 1948, were swept by the Giants in 1954, lost 4-2 to the Braves in 1995, and lost 4-3 to the Marlins in 1997.

Answer: Browns-Bears

The Browns and Steelers have one of the fiercest and most storied rivalries in NFL history. The Indians and Yankees have always been competing with each other in the American League, and the Cavs and Bulls had a bitter rivalry in the late 1980's and early 1990's.