Question: Who did the Cubs began play as?
Answer: the Chicago White Stockings

Question: When the Cubs started playing, who was their owner?
Answer: William Hulbert

Question: Where did the White Stockings play their home games?
Answer: West Side Grounds

Question: Who assumed ownership of the Cubs after Hulbert died?
Answer: Spalding

Question: What year did the White Stockings capture their third consecutive pennant?
Answer: 1882

Question: While Anson led the Chicago cubs how many National League pennants did they win?
Answer: six

Question: What did the Chicago Cubs become know as by 1890?
Answer: Chicago Colts

Question: Who was the first player in history credited with collecting 3,000 career hits?
Answer: Anson

Question: Who did Spalding sell the Cubs to in 1902?
Answer: Jim Hart

Question: Who nicknamed the franchise the Cubs in 1902?
Answer: Chicago Daily News

Question: Who holds the longest championship drought in North American professional sports?
Answer: the Cubs

Question: Who wrote the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon?
Answer: Franklin P. Adams

Question: Who obtained a large block of the Cub's shares in 1914?
Answer: Albert Lasker

Question: Who assumed majority ownership of the Cubs franchise by the 1916 season?
Answer: Albert Lasker

Question: Who did Albert Lasker bring in to be his partner of the Chicago Cubs?
Answer: Charles Weeghman

Question: Where did the Cubs move to after leaving the West Side Grounds?
Answer: Weeghman Park

Question: What year did Hack Wilson have one of the most impressive seasons in MLB history?
Answer: 1930

Question: How many games in a row did the Cubs win in a row during 1935?
Answer: 21

Question: What year did the Cubs win the NL pennant?
Answer: 1929

Question: Why were the first three games of the 1945 World Series played in Detroit?
Answer: wartime travel restrictions

Question: Where were the final four games of the 1945 World Series played?
Answer: Wrigley

Question: In what game was the Curse of the Billy Goat allegedly laid upon the Cubs?
Answer: Game 4 of the Series

Question: What was ejected from Wrigley park because of it's bad odor?
Answer: goat

Question: Who had been a key player in the 1945 season?
Answer: Phil Cavarretta

Question: What season was Phil Cavarretta a key player for the Cubs?
Answer: the '45 season

Question: Who was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the Cubs were unlikely to finish above fifth place?
Answer: Phil Cavarretta

Question: Who managed the Cubs in 1969?
Answer: Leo Durocher

Question: The Cubs built a substantial lead in what league under management of Leo Durocher?
Answer: National League Eastern Division

Question: When did Ken Hoitzman pitch a no-hitter?
Answer: August 19

Question: Who threw a surprise pickoff attempt to third baseman Ron Santo?
Answer: Dick Selma

Question: During what decade did the Cubs become known as "The Loveable Losers"?
Answer: the 70s

Question: What is often pointed to as the one reason for the Cubs' inconsistent late season play?
Answer: unusually high number of day games

Question: What year did the Cubs experience one of their biggest collapses?
Answer: 1977

Question: What year did the Cubs hire GM Dallas Green?
Answer: 1981

Question: Where was GM Dallas Green from?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: What team had Dallas Green managed in 1980?
Answer: Phillies

Question: Who shored up the 1984 roster with a series of transactions?
Answer: Green

Question: When was Scott Sanderson acquired from Montreal?
Answer: December, 1983

Question: When did LF Gary Matthews and CF Bobby Dernier come from Philadelphia to the Cubs?
Answer: March 26

Question: When did Green make a deal to shore up the starting rotation?
Answer: June 15

Question: Why did Green make a deal to shore up the starting rotation?
Answer: due to injuries to Rick Reuschel (5–5) and Sanderson

Question: Who was the 1979 NL Rookie of the Year pitcher?
Answer: Rick Sutcliffe

Question: Where had Rick Sutcliffe been before moving to the Cubs?
Answer: the Cleveland Indians

Question: What contest shift the Cubs' Fortunes? 
Answer: NBC Saturday Game of the Week

Question: What had the contest between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals been dubbed as?
Answer: The Sandberg Game

Question: How many game-tying home runs did Sandberg get against the Cardinals at the Sandber Game?
Answer: two

Question: In what year did the league have two divisions? 
Answer: 1984

Question: The division winners met in what kind of series to advance to the World Series?
Answer: best-of-5 series

Question: Where were the first two games of the 1984 division winners held?
Answer: Wrigley Field

Question: Why did the cubs need to host their home games at an alternative site?
Answer: Wrigley Field did not yet have lights

Question: Where was it rumored that the Cubs could home their home games?
Answer: Comiskey Park

Question: Comiskey Park was the home to what team?
Answer: Chicago White Sox

Question: Who had the home field advantage in 1983?
Answer: Baltimore Orioles

Question: Who easily won the first two games in the NLCS?
Answer: , the Cubs

Question: Where did the Cubs easily win the first two games of the NLCS?
Answer: Wrigley Field

Question: Who did the cubs play against in the first two games of the NLCS?
Answer: San Diego Padres

Question: What year was the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field?
Answer: 1989

Question: Who was rookie of the year in 1989?
Answer: Jerome Walton

Question: Who was rookie of the year Runner-Up in 1989?
Answer: Dwight Smith

Question: Who did the Cubs meet in the NLCS during 1989?
Answer: San Francisco Giants

Question: What legendary broadcaster died in the '98 season?
Answer: Harry Caray

Question: Who was affectionately known as "H-Rod"?
Answer: Henry Rodríguez

Question: How many round-trippers did Rodriguez slug in his first season in Chicago?
Answer: 31

Question: Who put together a good season for the Cubs in 2001?
Answer: Don Baylor

Question: Who was brought in to preach "positive thinking"?
Answer: Mack Newton

Question: Who hit a three run walk off homer off of closer Tom "Flash" Gordon?
Answer: Preston Wilson

Question: When did the Cubs promote assistant general manager and player personnel director Jim Hendry?
Answer: July 5, 2002

Question: What was Jim Hendry promoted to?
Answer: the General Manager position

Question: Who did the Cubs hire in response to Jim Hendry's promotion?
Answer: Dusty Baker

Question: In what game did Florida shut the Cubs out?
Answer: Game 5

Question: What pitcher led the Cubs in Game 6?
Answer: Mark Prior

Question: Who hit the foul ball that several spectators attempted to catch?
Answer: Luis Castillo

Question: What year did most media outlets pick the Cubs to win the World Series?
Answer: 2004

Question: Who was acquired in a trade with Florida for Hee-seop Choi?
Answer: Derek Lee

Question: Who was the mid-season deal for?
Answer: Nomar Garciaparra

Question: Who did the Cubs trade after leaving the final game early and lieing about it?
Answer: Sammy Sosa

Question: Who was a controversial figure due to a corked-bat incident?
Answer: Sammy Sosa

Question: What popular commentator left during the '04 season?
Answer: Steve Stone

Question: Who verbally attacked Steve Stone?
Answer: Kent Mercker

Question: How many wins did the Cubs finish the NL Central with in 2006?
Answer: 66

Question: Who was signed to a contract at 8 years for $136 million?
Answer: Alfonso Soriano

Question: Who replaced Dusty Baker as the Cubs manager?
Answer: Lou Piniella

Question: What  Chunichi Dragons  start was signed to the Cubs in 2008?
Answer: Kosuke Fukudome

Question: Who was acquired from the Oakland Athletics in early July?
Answer: Rich Harden

Question: Who was named Rookie of the Year in 2008?
Answer: Geovany Soto

Question: Who pitched a no-hitter against the Astros on Spetember 14th?
Answer: Zambrano