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50 free New York Mets trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
45 free New York Mets trivia questions with answers. The Mets have packed more misery and miracle into six decades than most clubs manage in a century, and this quiz covers all of it. Forty-five questions run from the 40-120 expansion season under Casey Stengel and the 1969 Miracle Mets, through the 108-win 1986 team and the ball that went through Bill Buckner's legs, to the Subway Series, the 2015 pennant, Johan Santana's no-hitter, Pete Alonso's rookie record and the Grimace summer of 2024. Along the way you get the ballparks (Polo Grounds, Shea and Citi Field), the songs and symbols (Meet the Mets, the Home Run Apple, Mr. Met), the retired numbers, the trades that still hurt (the Midnight Massacre) and the ones that saved the franchise (Piazza). Easy ones for casual fans, hard ones for people who can name the 1962 mascot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its seasons, players and stadiums, and each question carries its source. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01In which New York City borough do the Mets play?
Queens
The founders wanted a home that could claim both Dodgers and Giants fans without looking like a revival of either borough's old team.
Q 02In what year did the Mets play their first season?
1962
They were created to fill the hole left when the Dodgers and Giants both moved to California after 1957.
Q 03The Mets' blue and orange colours honour which two departed New York teams?
The Dodgers and the Giants
The interlocking NY on the cap is the old Giants logo, and the blue cap is a nod to the Dodgers.
Q 04What was the Mets' record in their disastrous first season?
40-120
It stood as the most losses by any post-1900 team until the 2024 Chicago White Sox managed 121.
Q 05Which former Yankees manager ran the Mets in their first seasons and coined the nickname 'Amazin' Mets'?
Casey Stengel
His exasperated line 'Can't anybody here play this game?' became the title of Jimmy Breslin's book on the 1962 season.
Q 06Where did the Mets play their home games in 1962 and 1963 while their stadium was being built?
The Polo Grounds
They shared the old Giants ballpark in upper Manhattan with the AFL's New York Titans, soon renamed the Jets.
Q 07Shea Stadium was named after William Shea, who is remembered for what?
Founding a proposed third major league
The threat of a rival third major league is what pushed the National League into adding New York and Houston.
Q 08Which band opened its 1965 North American tour at Shea Stadium in front of a record 55,600 fans?
The Beatles
The crowd noise was so loud the band could barely hear themselves, and the show became a template for stadium rock.
Q 09Which future Hall of Famer did the Mets pass over in the 1966 draft for Steve Chilcott?
Reggie Jackson
Chilcott never played a major-league game; a year later the Mets got lucky and drew a future ace in a lottery.
Q 10Which team did the Miracle Mets beat in the 1969 World Series?
Baltimore Orioles
The Orioles had four future Hall of Famers on the roster, which is why the result is still rated one of the great upsets.
Q 11Who managed the 1969 Miracle Mets?
Gil Hodges
The former Dodgers first baseman was finally elected to the Hall of Fame in 2022, more than 50 years after the title.
Q 12How far behind the Cubs were the Mets on August 14, 1969, before finishing eight ahead of them?
10 games
They won 24 of their last 32 games, an 18-game swing that remains one of the largest turnarounds in the sport's history.
Q 13Which pitcher, nicknamed 'The Franchise', won 25 games and the Cy Young Award for the 1969 Mets?
Tom Seaver
He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1992 with the highest vote share ever recorded at the time.
Q 21Which team's fans nicknamed the 1980s Mets 'pond scum'?
St. Louis Cardinals
The two clubs swapped NL East titles from 1985 to 1988 after the Mets acquired Keith Hernandez from St. Louis.
Q 22Which two Mets became the first teammates to each hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in the same season, in 1987?
Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson
It was the highlight of a season that ended with Terry Pendleton's September homer handing the division to St. Louis.
Q 23Which pitcher's 27 consecutive losses over 1992-93 set a major-league record?
Anthony Young
Q 14Which rookie broke up a Mets ace's perfect-game bid with a ninth-inning single at Shea in July 1969?
Jim Qualls
Tom Seaver had retired the first 25 Cubs in front of more than 50,000 fans before the backup outfielder lined a clean hit to left.
Q 15The 1977 trade of the Mets' ace pitcher to the Reds is remembered by what nickname?
The Midnight Massacre
Board chairman M. Donald Grant refused to renegotiate Tom Seaver's contract; Dave Kingman was dealt the same night.
Q 16Which slogan, coined by reliever Tug McGraw, carried the 82-79 Mets to the 1973 pennant?
'Ya Gotta Believe'
He shouted it at a July team meeting; the Mets went 20-8 from there, shocked the Big Red Machine and pushed the A's to seven games.
Q 17What was the Mets' record in the 1986 regular season, one of the best in National League history?
108-54
They won the East by 21.5 games and then survived a 16-inning Game 6 against Houston to reach the World Series.
Q 18Which Red Sox first baseman let Mookie Wilson's grounder through his legs in the 1986 World Series?
Bill Buckner
Boston had been one strike from the title twice that inning; manager John McNamara had removed him for defence in every earlier Red Sox win but not that night.
Q 19Who was named MVP of the 1986 World Series?
Ray Knight
He hit .393 in the series and scored the winning run in Game 6, then the Mets declined to re-sign him that winter.
Q 20Which pitcher, nicknamed 'Dr. K', won the 1985 Cy Young Award for the Mets?
Dwight Gooden
The Mets retired his number 16 in April 2024, and Darryl Strawberry's 18 followed that June.
The 1993 team lost 103 games and is remembered mostly for firecrackers thrown by Vince Coleman and Saberhagen.
Q 24Mike Piazza was picked where in the 1988 draft, as a favour to his father?
62nd round
He was the 1,390th of 1,395 players taken; Tommy Lasorda then talked him into switching from first base to catcher.
Q 25Against which team did Mike Piazza hit his go-ahead homer in New York's first game after 9/11?
Atlanta Braves
The jersey he wore that night sold for $365,000 in 2016, then the highest price ever paid for a modern jersey.
Q 26Who beat the Mets in the 2000 'Subway Series' World Series?
The Yankees in five games
The Mets had beaten the Giants and Cardinals to win the pennant, then lost the first all-New York Series since 1956.
Q 27Which outfielder leapt the wall to rob Scott Rolen of a homer in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS?
Endy Chávez
The catch is one of the most replayed in Shea history, but the Mets still lost the game and the pennant to St. Louis.
Q 28In which year did the Mets move into Citi Field?
2009
The first game there was actually a college matchup between St. John's and Georgetown, days before the Mets played exhibitions against Boston.
Q 29Which pitcher threw the first no-hitter in Mets history, in the club's 8,020th regular-season game?
Johan Santana
It came against the defending champion Cardinals in June 2012, only his 11th start back from shoulder surgery, and earned him a key to the city.
Q 30Which knuckleballer won the NL Cy Young Award for the Mets in 2012?
R.A. Dickey
The same season produced the franchise's first no-hitter, in a stretch when the team otherwise never had a winning record.