Arizona Diamondbacks Trivia
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49 free Arizona Diamondbacks trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Arizona Diamondbacks trivia quiz covers the youngest franchise ever to win a World Series: Jerry Colangelo's expansion bid, the $130 million fee, Buck Showalter hired two years before the first pitch, Travis Lee's first hit, the 100-win second season, Randy Johnson's four straight Cy Youngs and 2004 perfect game, and the 2001 World Series with Byung-hyun Kim's nightmares and Luis Gonzalez's bloop off Mariano Rivera. Then come Brandon Webb, the 2007 sweep by the Rockies, Kirk Gibson's 2011 division winners, Paul Goldschmidt, Torey Lovullo, Corbin Carroll's rookie year and the 2023 pennant. Chase Field gets its own round: the retractable roof over real grass, the swimming pool and Mark Grace's splash homer, the Dodgers' 2013 pool party, plus Baxter the Bobcat, purple-and-teal versus Sedona red, and the Serpientes City Connect uniforms. Easy questions suit any D-backs fan; the hard ones are for people who remember which Suns modelled the first uniforms. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Which future three-time Cy Young winner made his debut for Arizona in 2008 by retiring all 13 batters he faced?
Max Scherzer
Max Scherzer, Arizona's first-round pick in 2006, was traded to Detroit after only two seasons and won all three of his Cy Young Awards elsewhere.
Q 02Which Diamondback was named MVP of the 2023 National League Championship Series?
Ketel Marte
Ketel Marte hit .387 in the series, won Game 3 with a walk-off single, and stretched a hitting streak that reached 20 games, the longest in postseason history.
Q 03Which Phoenix Suns owner assembled the group that landed the Diamondbacks franchise?
Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo led the group awarded the franchise in March 1995, but the debts run up building the 2001 champions caught up with the club, and his partners forced him out in 2004.
Q 04Arizona's 2001 title in its fourth season broke which club's record for fastest expansion champion?
Florida Marlins
The Florida Marlins had won it all in 1997, their fifth season; Arizona got there a year sooner by beating a Yankees team that had taken the previous three titles.
Q 05Which ex-Yankees manager was hired by Arizona two years before its first game?
Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter built the club from scratch and managed its first three seasons; as with the Yankees before, he left just before the title came, which Arizona won the year after firing him.
Q 06Which pitcher started the Diamondbacks' first regular-season game on March 31, 1998?
Andy Benes
Andy Benes threw Arizona's first pitch and took its first loss; he was available only because his new deal with the Cardinals was filed just after a deadline and voided.
Q 07The Diamondbacks' home opened under what name?
Bank One Ballpark
Bank One Ballpark kept its name until 2005, when Bank One was absorbed by JPMorgan Chase and the naming rights, and with them the name on the building, passed to the new owner.
Q 08Chase Field was the first U.S. stadium to pair a retractable roof with what playing surface?
Natural grass
Natural grass grew under the roof for 21 seasons, but keeping it alive in desert heat meant opening the roof and running the cooling hard, so the club switched to synthetic turf in 2019.
Q 09Which future Diamondback hit the first home run into the Chase Field pool in 1998 while visiting with the Cubs?
Mark Grace
Mark Grace, then a visiting Cub, hit the first ball into the pool before any Diamondback managed it; he later played three seasons for Arizona and stayed on as a television analyst.
Q 10Which team infuriated Arizona by celebrating a 2013 division clinch with a swim in the Chase Field pool?
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the 2013 division at Chase Field and several players jumped into the outfield pool; Arizona's chief executive shot back that the visitors had no pool at their old park and must have wanted to try one.
Q 11The 1999 Diamondbacks won 100 games, then lost their first playoff series to which team?
Mets
The Mets ended it in four games on Todd Pratt's 10th-inning home run; Arizona had just become the first expansion team to reach the playoffs in its second year.
Q 12Randy Johnson's nickname was what?
The Big Unit
The Big Unit nickname came from Expos teammate Tim Raines, who collided with the 6-foot-10 Johnson during batting practice in 1988 and blurted out 'You're a big unit.'
Q 13In May 2004 Randy Johnson, aged 40, became the oldest pitcher to throw what?
A perfect game
A perfect game: Johnson retired all 27 Atlanta batters on May 18, 2004, finishing it on his 117th pitch with a 98 mph fastball for a strikeout.
Q 21The red shade Arizona adopted in 2007 is named after which place?
Sedona
Sedona red is named for the red sandstone canyons near the Arizona town; the club unveiled it with Sonoran sand and black in November 2006, retiring its original palette for the 2007 season.
Q 22The Diamondbacks' 2021 City Connect jerseys carried which Spanish word across the chest?
Serpientes
Serpientes, Spanish for snakes, ran across the sand-coloured jersey in black script with the first 'S' shaped like a rattlesnake; the wordmark returned on a second City Connect jersey in 2025, redone in the club's original colours.
Q 23D. Baxter, the Diamondbacks' mascot since 2000, is what kind of animal?
A bobcat
Q 14Whose walk-off homer against Arizona, hit just after midnight in the 2001 World Series, earned the nickname 'Mr. November'?
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter: the September 11 attacks had delayed the season, so when his extra-inning homer won Game 4 the clock had passed midnight into November, a month no major-league season had reached before.
Q 15Which Hall of Fame closer blew the save in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series on a bases-loaded bloop single?
Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera had converted 23 straight postseason saves, but protecting a 2-1 lead in the ninth he let in two runs, the only postseason loss of his career.
Q 16Which Diamondbacks closer gave up game-tying homers with one out left in Games 4 and 5 of the 2001 World Series?
Byung-hyun Kim
Byung-hyun Kim, a 22-year-old submariner, gave up tying homers with two out in the ninth on consecutive nights and lost both leads, yet Arizona still won the Series and he left with a ring.
Q 17Which slugger, acquired from Detroit that July, hit four home runs in one game for Arizona in September 2017?
J. D. Martinez
J. D. Martinez hit all four on September 4, 2017, part of a run of 29 home runs in just 62 games for Arizona before he left as a free agent that winter.
Q 18Which Diamondbacks ace set a franchise record in 2022 with more than 44 straight scoreless innings?
Zac Gallen
Zac Gallen went from early August to mid-September 2022 without allowing a run, breaking a club mark that had stood since 2007; Arizona had landed him from Miami in 2019 for prospect Jazz Chisholm.
Q 19Who managed the Diamondbacks to the 2001 title in his first season, straight from the broadcast booth?
Bob Brenly
Bob Brenly came straight from the Fox broadcast booth and won it all in his first season; fired midway through 2004, he went back to the microphone and later returned as Arizona's own television analyst.
Q 20The Diamondbacks' original colour scheme featured purple, black, copper and which fourth colour?
Teal
Teal sat beside purple, black and copper until the 2007 rebrand dropped it, but fans never let it go: the club brought it back as trim in 2016 and as a primary colour of its 2024 uniforms.
A bobcat: the idea came from Brantley Bell, the son of Arizona infielder Jay Bell, and Baxter made his debut on June 23, 2000.
Q 24Which sinkerballer won the 2006 NL Cy Young Award for Arizona?
Brandon Webb
Brandon Webb won it with a 16-8 record and a 3.10 ERA, but a shoulder injury after his Opening Day start in 2009 ended his career at 29: he never pitched in the majors again.
Q 25The division-winning 2007 Diamondbacks were swept in the NLCS by which wild-card team?
Colorado Rockies
The Colorado Rockies swept Arizona as part of a run of 21 wins in 22 games and reached their first World Series, where Boston swept them in turn.
Q 26Which former Dodgers World Series hero managed Arizona to the 2011 NL West title?
Kirk Gibson
Kirk Gibson took over as interim manager in July 2010 and turned a 65-97 team into 94-68 division winners a year later, which made him NL Manager of the Year.
Q 27Which future MVP did Arizona draft in the eighth round in 2009?
Paul Goldschmidt
Paul Goldschmidt, a Texas State first baseman passed over for seven rounds, was traded to St. Louis in December 2018 and won the National League MVP award there four years later.
Q 28Which manager led Arizona to the 2017 wild card and the 2023 pennant?
Torey Lovullo
Torey Lovullo, hired after four years as Boston's bench coach, took a team that had lost 110 games in 2021 to the World Series two years later.
Q 29The Diamondbacks reached the 2023 World Series by winning NLCS Game 7 on the road against whom?
Philadelphia Phillies
Arizona won Game 7 of the NLCS 4-2 at Citizens Bank Park, beating the Philadelphia Phillies after trailing the series 2-0.
Q 30The Diamondbacks lost the 2023 World Series in five games to which team?
Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers, twice one strike from the title in 2011 before losing it, finally won their first championship by taking all three games played in Phoenix.