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50 free Colorado Rockies trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Colorado Rockies trivia quiz covers baseball at altitude from the 1993 expansion onward: the record 4.48 million fans at Mile High Stadium, Eric Young's leadoff homer, David Nied, Don Baylor, Andrés Galarraga's batting title, the Blake Street Bombers, Larry Walker's MVP, Todd Helton's .372, the Mike Hampton contract, Ubaldo Jiménez's no-hitter, Troy Tulowitzki's unassisted triple play, and the 21-of-22 'Rocktober' run capped by Matt Holliday's slide in Game 163. It also covers Nolan Arenado's ten Gold Gloves, the four-cities-in-five-days finish of 2018, and the record-setting misery of 2025. Coors Field gets its own round: the purple row marking one mile, the humidor, the dinosaur fossils that gave the club its mascot, the Rooftop, and the green-and-white City Connect uniforms with the license-plate lettering. Easy questions suit any Rockies fan; the hard ones are for people who know the Pantone number of the official purple. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01The Rockies began play as an expansion team in which season?
1993
They entered with the Florida Marlins, and the two remain the only MLB clubs never to win a division title.
Q 02Where did the Rockies play their first two seasons while Coors Field was built?
Mile High Stadium
They shared it with the Broncos and set the all-time MLB attendance record there in 1993.
Q 03The 1993 Rockies set the all-time single-season MLB attendance record by drawing how many fans?
4,483,350
The mark still stands, and the club led the majors in attendance for its first seven years.
Q 04Who in Denver had used the name 'Rockies' before the ballclub adopted it?
An NHL team
The hockey Colorado Rockies moved east in 1982 and became the New Jersey Devils.
Q 05Which trucking magnate saved the Rockies franchise in 1992 after an ownership scandal?
Jerry McMorris
Original partner Michael Monus had been ruined by an accounting scandal at his drugstore chain.
Q 06The Rockies were the first MLB team based in which time zone?
Mountain
Phoenix's Diamondbacks followed five years later.
Q 07The Rockies' first pick in the 1992 expansion draft was which pitcher from the Braves system?
David Nied
He started the first game in club history, a 3-0 loss in New York.
Q 08Which second baseman hit a leadoff home run in the first inning of the Rockies' first home game in 1993?
Eric Young
Bryn Smith beat his former Mets teammates for the club's first Denver win.
Q 09Who was the Rockies' first manager, named NL Manager of the Year in 1995?
Don Baylor
He took the club to the playoffs in its third season, the fastest postseason trip by an expansion team at the time.
Q 10Which first baseman hit .370 in 1993, the first batting title for an expansion-team player?
Andrés Galarraga
'The Big Cat' was also the first Venezuelan to win one, and later beat cancer to win a Comeback Player award.
Q 11The 1995 Rockies' four 30-homer hitters were nicknamed the Bombers of which Denver thoroughfare?
Blake
Coors Field sits on that street; Bichette, Castilla, Galarraga and Walker combined for 139 homers in a shortened season.
Q 12Which of the four 1995 Bombers led the club with 40 home runs?
Dante Bichette
He also won a Silver Slugger that year in the strike-delayed 144-game season.
Q 13Which Canadian outfielder won the 1997 NL MVP for Colorado?
Larry Walker
He grew up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, dreaming of being an NHL goaltender.
Q 21The Rockies' team colour purple was inspired by a line from which song?
America the Beautiful
The lyric is 'For purple mountain majesties'; the club finally standardised on Pantone 2685 in 2017.
Q 22The Rockies were the first Major League team to wear what on their home uniforms?
Purple pinstripes
The pinstripes have been on the home whites since 1993.
Q 23The lettering on the Rockies' 2022 green City Connect uniforms was taken from what?
Colorado license plates
A sleeve patch carried '5280', two black diamonds for expert ski runs and the exact coordinates of Coors Field.
Q 14The first Hall of Famer to wear a Rockies cap on his plaque was inducted in which year?
2020
His No. 33 was retired in 2021, following Todd Helton's No. 17 in 2014.
Q 15Todd Helton won the 2000 NL batting title with what average?
.372
He also won the Hank Aaron Award that year and reached the Hall of Fame in 2024 after playing all 17 seasons in Colorado.
Q 16Before baseball, Todd Helton played which position for the Tennessee Volunteers football team?
Quarterback
He was briefly the starter ahead of a freshman named Peyton Manning.
Q 17The Rockies' first retired number, in 2014, was Todd Helton's what?
17
He is the only Hall of Famer to have spent his whole career with the club.
Q 18The purple seats in the 20th row of Coors Field's upper deck mark what?
One mile above sea level
The rest of the seats are dark green; 5,280 feet is the magic number.
Q 19To reduce home runs in the thin air, Coors Field stores its baseballs in what?
A humidor
The room-sized humidor keeps the balls from drying out and flying too far.
Q 20The Rockies' mascot Dinger is what creature, inspired by fossils found at Coors Field?
A triceratops
The fossil fragments were small, including part of a rib, and are housed at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Q 24Which pitcher did the Rockies sign to an eight-year, $121 million deal after the 2000 season?
Mike Hampton
He had won 22 games for Houston two years earlier; by 2002 he was 7-15 with an ERA above 6.
Q 25The Rockies' 2007 run to the pennant, winning 21 of 22 games, was nicknamed what?
Rocktober
They were 76-72 on September 16 and needed a 13-inning tiebreaker just to reach the playoffs.
Q 26The Rockies' 2007 'Game 163' tiebreaker was a 9-8, 13-inning win over which team?
San Diego Padres
A controversial head-first slide, in which the runner appeared to miss the plate, scored the winning run.
Q 27The 2007 Rockies were swept in their only World Series by which team?
Boston Red Sox
They had swept the Phillies and Diamondbacks to get there, then ran into an eight-day layoff and Josh Beckett.
Q 28Who won the 2007 NLCS MVP after his three-run homer clinched the pennant against Arizona?
Matt Holliday
He also won the NL batting title that year and later signed with St. Louis.
Q 29Which Rockies shortstop turned an unassisted triple play against Atlanta in April 2007?
Troy Tulowitzki
He was a rookie that year and went on to win two Gold Gloves and two Silver Sluggers in Colorado.
Q 30Which pitcher threw the first no-hitter in Rockies history, at Atlanta in April 2010?
Ubaldo Jiménez
Dexter Fowler's diving catch in center preserved it in the seventh.