Hey, baseball fans! Here's a quiz

[AuntShecky]

While weeding through some old papers recently, I came across this baseball quiz someone created decades ago. I've updated the clues to reflect the expansion teams; also some of my clues are customized for my fellow LitNetters. Okay?

See how many names of Major League Baseball teams you can guess from these clues:

1. NYC Opera House and Museum
2. George Jetson’s pet
3. Dickens’s artful one
4. Sometimes you don't know who is who
5. They flock in Mencken’s hometown
6. Emotionally depressed Leno
7. Takes a risk.
8. Thoroughbred gals
9. Twain’s time traveler
10. Broadway backers
11. Coleridge’s ancient one
12. They hear confessions in Espanol.
13. According to Blake, it burns bright
14. Opposite of blue states
15. Potent potable pros
16. Brando, Perkins, and one of the Wayans brothers
17. Jack killed ‘im.
18. Charles’s first name and Rachael’s last name
19. Newspaper newbies
20. Long John Silver and his colleagues
21. Nothing higher than this rule.
22. They live at the end of E. M. Forster’s “passage”
23. Masked lawmen
24. Stallone’s sequels
25. Agile ones
26. Found in Shakespeare’s history plays
27. Precedes the Anthem
28. Returned after a broken engagement
29. Well-bleached hosiery
30. Found in a fireman’s laundry basket


ANSWERS
( No peeking! Don't “strike out, looking.”)

1. Mets
2. Astro(s)
3. Dodger(s)
4. Twins
5. Orioles
6. Blue Jay(s)
7. Braves
8. Phillies (fillies)
9. Yankee(s)
10. Angels
11. Mariner(s)
12. Padres
13. Tiger(s)
14. Red(s)
15. Brewers
16. Marlins (Marlons)
17. Giant(s)
18. Rays
19. Cubs
20. Pirates
21. Cardinals
22. Indians
23. Ranger(s)
24. Rockies
25. Athletics
26. Royals
27. National(s)
28. Diamondback(s)
29. White Sox
30. Red Sox

[Scheherazade]

I know next to nothing about baseball. The rules have been explained to me on more than one occassion (even on here, I think) but I still fail to grasp them. Who's on first....

What's more, on Wii baseball, I am a disgrace... I can pitch but as a catcher *shakes head*...

Having said that, I could still answer couple of these questions!

[papayahed]

I got them all!!! I especially like #28.

[Virgil]

I got them all!!! I especially like #28.

Wow, that's very good. I didn't get that one. I got about 20ish, maybe a little more. I couldn't keep count.

[papayahed]

Wow, that's very good. I didn't get that one. I got about 20ish, maybe a little more. I couldn't keep count.

I admit it. I had a little help from my friend google (Who knew Mencken's Hometown?).

[Virgil]

I admit it. I had a little help from my friend google (Who knew Mencken's Hometown?).

Oh I knew that one.

[DickZ]

That's great, Auntie. I figured out 20 of the teams on my first sweep through the clues, but I needed a list of teams to refer to, in order to identify the final 10 teams.

I applaud the following clues in particular, assuming that you were responsible for at least some of them: the artful one, Mencken's birds, Twain's time traveler, Coleridge's ancient, Blake's burner, Silver's colleagues, Forster's passage, and Shakespeare's characters.

And some people think that it doesn't pay to listen in class.