Major League Baseball's "World Series"

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1) The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball and the culmination of the sport's postseason each October. Because the Series takes place in mid-autumn, what have sportswriters many years ago dubbed the event?

• “The Thrilla’ In Fall”
• “The Fall Classic”
• “Before the Snow Flies”

2) The modern baseball era is from 1903 to today. The first World Series was between Boston (American League) and the National League team. Who was the NL team?

• New York Giants
• Pittsburgh Pirates
• Philadelphia Phillies

3) The “Black Sox” were acquitted in a criminal conspiracy trial. However, baseball in the meantime had established the office of Commissioner in an effort to protect the game's integrity, and the first commissioner, banned all of the players involved for life. The White Sox would not win a World Series again until 2005. Who was baseball’s first Commissioner?

• Bowie Kuhn
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis
• A. B. "Happy" Chandler, Sr.

4) What team holds the record for most consecutive World Series titles with five.

• New York Yankees
• New York Giants
• Oakland Athletics

5) What team leads the National League with ten World Series titles in seventeen appearances?

• St Louis Cardinals
• New York Giants
• New York Mets

6) What teams holds the record for the longest World Series drought (99 years)?

• Chicago Cubs
• Chicago White Sox
• Cleveland Indians

7) From 1949 to 1956, every Series game was won by a team from what city?

• New York City
• Philadelphia City
• Chicago City

8) Every non-expansion team has won at least one World Series title. Who was the last team to do it?

• Pittsburgh Pirates
• Philadelphia Phillies
• Atlanta Braves

9) Since the addition of wild card teams in 1995, only one team in Major League Baseball has swept both the LDS and the LCS on its way to the World Series,. Who is the team?

• Colorado Rockies.
• Arizona Diamondbacks
• San Diego Padres

10) What team has represented the most cities in the World Series?

• Braves
• Giants
• Athletics

Check Your Answers

1. “The Fall Classic”
2. Pittsburgh Pirates.
3. Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
4. New York Yankees.
5. St Louis Cardinals.
6. Chicago Cubs
7. New York City.
8. Philadelphia Phillies.
9. Colorado Rockies.
10. Braves.