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Baseball quiz
How well do you really know Baseball? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Baseball questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
When a baseball player fields a sharply hit ball, what job does the glove do, what does it protect, and which hand usually wears it?
Show the answer
- Helps catch or stop the ball
- Cushions or protects the hand
- Usually worn on the non-throwing hand
- Warm-up
When a fair ball sails over baseball’s outfield fence, what scoring play is it, and what happens to the batter and any runners?
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- It is a home run.
- The batter scores.
- Any runners on base score.
- Warm-up
During a baseball play, how many players from one team defend at once, and what is the other team doing?
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- Nine players defend at once.
- The opposing team bats.
- The pitcher is one of the nine defenders.
- Easy
Who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, and which team did he play for?
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- Jackie Robinson
- Brooklyn Dodgers, now the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Easy
A standard baseball game keeps switching the batting team: how many innings are scheduled, what are each inning’s halves called, and which team bats in each half?
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- A standard game has nine scheduled innings
- The halves are called the top and bottom
- The visiting team bats in the top; the home team bats in the bottom
- Medium
A pitcher sends a batter straight to first without throwing: what’s the move called, and what’s one strategic reason to do it?
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- The move is an intentional walk (or intentional base on balls).
- The batter is awarded first base.
- A team might do it to avoid pitching to a dangerous hitter or set up a force play.
- Medium
A changeup looks like trouble for a hitter’s timing. What makes it different from a fastball, and how does it fool the batter?
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- It is thrown slower than a fastball
- The pitcher uses a similar arm motion or delivery
- The batter expects a faster pitch and swings too early or mistimes it
- Boss
An uncaught foul ball comes from an ordinary swing: how does it affect the count with fewer than two strikes versus two strikes, and where must runners return?
Show the answer
- With fewer than two strikes, a strike is added to the count
- With two strikes, an ordinary foul ball does not add a strike
- Runners return to the bases they occupied when the pitch was thrown
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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