Baseball Final Jeopardy: Sporcle Style (1 Viewer)

[Epic Problem]

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Every baseball related question that has appeared on Final Jeopardy since 1984. 

 

[Epic Problem]

Got 35/41 right before the timer went out. Would say that I got high 20s right on first try. 


Ones I didn't get

BASEBALL TEAMS: When translated, the full name of this Major League Baseball team gets you a double redundancy  

19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Armor-clad knights face off in a game of baseball in an 1889 work by this author

BURIED AT ARLINGTON: His grave notes his 1842 West Point graduation, his time at Ft. Sumter, Gettysburg & 2nd Bull Run, but does not mention sports

BASEBALL HISTORY: For nearly 30 years, California's Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League team -    

AMERICANA: In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock - I'd be putting up a fight with the producer if my answer wasn't accepted 

CLASSIC AMERICAN SONGS: The introductory verse to this 1908 song begins, 'Katie Casey was baseball mad' 

 

[Eephus]

40/41.  Missed the one about the 1908 song.

 

[Epic Problem]

40/41.  Missed the one about the 1908 song.

Its probably a little easier when you've lived through all of it. 

 

[Eephus]

Its probably a little easier when you've lived through all of it. 

First rule of baseball trivia is to just answer Babe Ruth if you're stumped

 

[Northern Voice]

I got 29 but there were way too many that you needed a working knowledge of American History and Geographyin there.

 

[worrierking]

37/41

Kicked myself for missing the one about the animated teens.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Love the sports/baseball answers. The rest can be trouble.

 

[Hov34]

You all got ZERO correct because you didn't phrase your answer as a question.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

40/41.  Missed the one about the 1908 song.

ugh, same but missed the rappahannock one.  still have no idea what that refers to.

though a few i certainly took multiple guesses on and i got that song and the catalina island for sure by just guessing a variety of things.

 

[Cyclones]

33/41, although I answered "whiffle ball" and didn't get credit for it. So 34