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70 free Toronto Blue Jays trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Toronto Blue Jays trivia quiz covers the whole story of Canada's only big-league club: the near-miss that almost made them the Toronto Giants, the snowstorm on opening day in 1977, Exhibition Stadium, the SkyDome years, and the two World Series championships under Cito Gaston. There are questions on Roberto Alomar's home run off Dennis Eckersley, Dave Winfield's seagull, Joe Carter's walk-off, Dave Stieb's no-hitter, Roger Clemens and Pat Hentgen, Roy Halladay, Carlos Delgado, José Bautista's 54 homers and the bat flip, Josh Donaldson, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s giant extension and 2025 pennant run. The ballpark, culture and uniforms get their own rounds too: the retractable roof, the hotel rooms that overlook the field, BJ Birdy and Ace, 'OK Blue Jays', Canada Day reds, the graphite years and the 'Night Mode' City Connect look, plus Tom Cheek's 4,306-game streak. Easy questions suit any casual fan; the hard ones are for people who remember the Pearson Cup and Early Wynn on the radio. 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 brewing company originally owned the Toronto Blue Jays?
Labatt
The name Blue Jays was chosen from over 4,000 contest suggestions, and the brewery's flagship beer, Labatt Blue, did not hurt its chances.
Q 02The Blue Jays played their first Major League season in which year?
1977
They arrived with one other club in the same American League expansion, and the two met in the 2025 ALCS.
Q 03The Blue Jays' very first game, played in a snowstorm on April 7, 1977, was a win over which team?
Chicago White Sox
Snow had to be cleared from the artificial turf before the first pitch, and Toronto won 9-5.
Q 04Before SkyDome opened, where did the Blue Jays play their home games?
Exhibition Stadium
The club's president later called it not just the worst stadium in baseball but the worst stadium in sports.
Q 05In 1976, which existing MLB club nearly relocated to Toronto before a court ruling halted the sale?
San Francisco Giants
The Canadian consortium planned to call them the Toronto Giants; the deal collapsed and Toronto got an expansion team instead.
Q 06How much did the new Toronto franchise cost when it was purchased in 1976?
$7 million
By 2025 the club was handing a single player, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., a contract worth more than 70 times that amount.
Q 07Which manager led the Blue Jays to their first AL East title in 1985?
Bobby Cox
He left after the season for a National League job and went on to win 14 straight division titles there.
Q 08Who managed the Blue Jays to back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993?
Cito Gaston
He had been the club's hitting coach on the 1985 division winner and returned for a second stint as manager from 2008 to 2010.
Q 09The Blue Jays' 1992 championship was a World Series first for whom?
An African-American manager
That 1992 win was also the first World Series championship for a team based outside the United States.
Q 10The Blue Jays won their first World Series in 1992 against which National League club?
Atlanta Braves
The clinching Game 6 went 11 innings and was decided by a two-run double from a 41-year-old outfielder.
Q 11Who drove in the series-winning run with an 11th-inning double in Game 6 of the 1992 World Series?
Dave Winfield
He was 41 years old, and the hit finally buried the 'Mr. May' label George Steinbrenner had hung on him in New York.
Q 12Which Blue Jay hit the game-tying ninth-inning home run off Dennis Eckersley in Game 4 of the 1992 ALCS?
Roberto Alomar
He was named MVP of that series and in 2011 became the first player inducted into Cooperstown primarily as a Blue Jay.
Q 13In December 1990 the Blue Jays traded Fred McGriff and Tony Fernández to San Diego for which pair?
Roberto Alomar and Joe Carter
Q 21Roger Clemens won the pitching Triple Crown as a Blue Jay in which two consecutive seasons?
1997 and 1998
He led the AL in wins, ERA and strikeouts both years and collected a Cy Young Award for each, then forced a trade to the Yankees.
Q 22Roy Halladay's nickname 'Doc' was a reference to which figure?
Wild West gunslinger Doc Holliday
Broadcaster Tom Cheek coined it, and Halladay's Rogers Centre suite for sick children was naturally called Doc's Box.
Q 23Roy Halladay went 22-7 and won the AL Cy Young Award in which season?
2003
He led the American League in complete games five times in seven seasons for Toronto, and later threw a perfect game for Philadelphia.
Both newcomers were All-Stars in each of the next five seasons, and the deal is usually ranked among the most lopsided in Padres history.
Q 14Joe Carter's walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series came against which team?
Philadelphia Phillies
Toronto trailed 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth of Game 6 when Carter connected with Rickey Henderson and Paul Molitor on base.
Q 15Which pitcher gave up Joe Carter's series-ending home run in 1993?
Mitch Williams
Carter had been 0-for-4 against him in his career before the 2-2 pitch that ended the Series.
Q 16Before Joe Carter in 1993, who was the only player to end a World Series with a home run?
Bill Mazeroski
Mazeroski's came for Pittsburgh against the Yankees in 1960; Carter remains the only one hit by a player whose team was trailing at the time.
Q 17In 1983 Toronto police charged a Yankees outfielder with cruelty to animals after his warm-up throw killed what?
A seagull
The thrower insisted it was an accident; nine years later he was a Blue Jays hero, delivering the 1992 World Series-winning hit.
Q 18Who threw the only no-hitter in Blue Jays history, in September 1990?
Dave Stieb
He had reached the ninth inning with a no-hitter intact four times in the previous five years before finally finishing one.
Q 19The franchise's only no-hitter, on September 2, 1990, was thrown against which opponent?
Cleveland Indians
The pitcher had lost three previous no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning, so nobody in the dugout was breathing.
Q 20Which pitcher won the first Cy Young Award in Blue Jays history, in 1996?
Pat Hentgen
He went 20-10 with a league-leading 10 complete games that year, edging Andy Pettitte in the vote.
Q 24Which uniform number did the Blue Jays retire in March 2018?
32
It honoured Roy Halladay, who had died in a plane crash the previous November; only two numbers hang retired at Rogers Centre.
Q 25How many consecutive regular-season Blue Jays games did Tom Cheek call before his streak ended in 2004?
4,306
The streak ran from the first game in 1977 until he took two days off after his father died; the number now sits beside his name in the ballpark.
Q 26Carlos Delgado set the Blue Jays' career home run record with how many?
336
He also holds the club marks for RBI and walks, and was a rookie on the 1993 championship roster without appearing in the postseason.
Q 27Which Blue Jays left fielder was named American League MVP in 1987?
George Bell
Toronto still finished two games behind Detroit that year after losing its final seven games.
Q 28In 1988 a Blue Jays slugger became the first to hit three home runs on Opening Day, all off which pitcher?
Bret Saberhagen
The batter spent much of that season feuding with manager Jimy Williams over a move to designated hitter.
Q 29José Bautista led the majors with how many home runs in 2010?
54
He had never hit more than 16 in a season before, and it was the highest total in baseball since Alex Rodriguez in 2007.
Q 30José Bautista's famous 2015 bat flip came in the ALDS against which team?
Texas Rangers
The seventh-inning homer capped a chaotic Game 5 at Rogers Centre and became the image of Toronto's first playoff run in 22 years.