Opening Day Trivia
 

Opening Day is coming up soon!

Below are some trivia questions. There may be too many to answer in this forum, but if you want to take them in the form of an online quiz, you can here.

1) For over a century, this team has played Opening Day at home
Cincinnati

2) In 1907, disgruntled NY Giants fans threw so many of these onto the field that they forced the only Opening Day forfeit
Snowballs

3) He was the first President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch in 1910
Taft

4) He pitched a record 7 shutouts on Opening Day (and met some Presidents in the process)
Walter Johnson

5) This 21 year-old phenom hurled the only Opening Day no-hitter in 1940
Feller

6) This President threw out left-handed and right-handed pitches on Opening Day in 1950 (he was ambidextrous)
Truman

7) On Opening Day in 1974, several naked fans streaked at what Park, causing disruptions and inciting violence

8) He tied Babe Ruth's all-time Home Run record of 714 HRs on Opening Day in 1974
Hank Aaron

9) Boston Braves fans sat down on what unpleasant surprise on Opening Day in 1946?

10) He started the most Opening Days as a pitcher (16)
Seaver

11) In 1999 the first Opening Day outside the U.S took place in this country
Mexico

12) In 2004, this Japanese born player recorded the first hit on Opening Day in the same park he played in for a decade with the Yomiuri Giants
Matsui

13) He tied Frank Robinson and Ken Griffey Jr for the most Opening Day Home Runs in 2012 with 8
Adam Dunn

14) 2019's Opening Day in Tokyo saw this player become the 2nd oldest Opening Day position player starter at age 45, the day before he retired.
Ichiro Suzuki

15) In 2022, this team tied the Boston Beaneaters with 10 consecutive Opening Day victories

16) He homered in 6 straight Opening Days (from 2020-2025 with the Cardinals, Red Sox, and now Orioles)

17)This pitcher struckout 14 in both the 1993 and 1996 Opening Days
Randy Johnson

18) Who christened Yankee Stadium on 1923’s Opening Day by hitting a home against the Red Sox?
Babe Ruth

8 has to be Aaron.
12 - Hideki Matsui?

Opening Day shut outs is the Big Train.

1) Cincinnati
3) Taft
5) Feller
10) Seaver
11) Mexico
18) Ruth

12) Is kinda Godzilla. I believe he hit his homerun in game 2 instead of opening day at the Tokyo Dome.

I believe everyone’s right so far, including Ben. Matsui did hit a Homer in the 2nd game of the season, not the first in his old ballpark in Japan. I’ve changed the question to reflect that Matsui got the first hit on Opening Day in 2004 at the Tokyo Dome, but it wasn’t a Home Run (it was a double). Good catch!

6) Truman

My bad, already answered.

It would be real helpful to note the answers that have been correctly guessed next to the original clues, otherwise this thread is going to get completely unwieldy.

9) Snow?

13? Jim Thome?

14) Julio Franco?

Yes, snowballs!

Close. Big white guy slugger.

Extremely close. Julio Franco is the oldest position player to start an Opening Day game. This guy was also 45, but was a little younger.

14 is Ichiro

17 Randy Johnson? Or Clemens?

Correct!

Johnson is correct!

13 Pujols?

Hint--5 of the 8 HRs occurred for the team that was the answer to question #1.

Only Reds HR hitter I can think of is Dunn.

Dunn is correct