Detroit Red Wings Trivia Challenge #1

Hi All!

People ask me all the time for trivia challenges for their favorite team, so I decided to learn how to do this - initially using an app from a company called "Wildfire" who designed a trivia app for use with Facebook. Although I have reproduced the questions below, if you want to answer the questions and see how many you get right, you'll need to take the quiz in Facebook or on Wildfire's trivia site.

The first quiz I have done happens to be the Detroit Red Wings - why the Red Wings? I'm not 100% sure - it just came to me.

If you would like to take the quiz and see your score, please visit:

The Trivia Quiz in Facebook
or
The Trivia Quiz on Wildfire's "Microsite"

As always, feedback is welcome and please share with Red Wings fans! More Trivia Quizzes to follow.

Thanks!
Scott

PS This stop-you-in-your-tracks beautiful framed piece of art, and over 1500 others each featuring an original watercolor painting of NHL, NFL, MLB or NCAA uniforms, is available for sale at Heritage Sports Art.

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Here are the questions:

1. When they first entered the NHL in 1926-27, the Red Wings were known as the Detroit Cougars. Why?
A. Detroit’s MLB team was the Tigers, their NFL team the Lions, so Cougars were a natural third team name.
B. Detroit had been the home of a popular minor league hockey team known as the Cougars.
C. When the Western Hockey League closed its doors, the Victoria (British Columbia) Cougars moved east to become the Detroit Cougars.
D. The Detroit Free Press ran a contest and Cougars was the most popular team name capturing 34% of the votes.

2. Prior to becoming known as the Red Wings in 1932-33, the team was known as:
A. Detroit Cougars
B. Windsor Cougars
C. Detroit Panthers
D. Detroit Falcons

3. In the franchise’s first season, 1926-27, the team played its home games in what arena:
A. University of Detroit’s Trumball Arena
B. Border Cities Arena in Windsor, ON
C. Palace of the Fans in Birmingham, MI
D. The Detroit Olympia

4. The Detroit Red Wings franchise first made an appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals in what season:
A. 1927-28
B. 1933-34
C. 1935-36
D. 1942-43

5. The Franchise’s first team captain was:
A. Carson Cooper
B. George Hay
C. Reg Noble
D. Art Duncan

6. When Detroit entered the NHL in 1926-27, how many teams wore two-color uniforms?
A. One – Detroit
B. Two – Detroit and Toronto
C. Three – Detroit, Toronto and Chicago
D. Four – Detroit, Toronto, Chicago, Montreal Maroons

7. What is the origin of the Red Wings’ winged wheel logo?
A. Team owner james E. Norris once played for the Montreal AAA hockey team, whose nickname and logo was the winged wheel.
B. The winged wheel pays tribute to Detroit’s already longstanding position as the center of the US auto industry.
C. The winged wheel was the logo of a highly popular minor hockey league team in Detroit.
D. The Norris family chose 7 possible team logos and the readers of the Detroit Free Press decided on their favorite logo – 26% chose the winged wheel.

8. How many of the Red Wings’ 11 Stanley Cup Championships were won with final series sweeps?
A. Two cups were won in final series sweeps
B. Three cups were won in final series sweeps
C. Four cups were won in final series sweeps
D. Five cups were won in final series sweeps

9. The Wings played their final game at the Detroit Olympia on December 15, 1979, but when was the Olympia actually demolished?
A. September 1980
B. September 1984
C. September 1987
D. September 1990

10. How many jersey numbers have the Red Wings officially retired (this does not include those jerseys whose numbers are merely out of circulation):
A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven

Detroit Red Wings jerseys

Greetings!

Fall 2022: To purchase a reasonably priced 8" x 24" plaqued mounted version of the Red Wings poster that's ready to hang on your wall, please visit Heritage Sports Stuff.

Just the quickest of blogs to let you know that I have recently loaded all the Detroit Red Wings jersey images, 16 images in total, to Flickr and to Facebook.

Flickr: You can see all the Detroit Red Wings jerseys here.

Facebook: You can see all the Detroit Red Wings jerseys here.

These are highly detailed, original watercolor paintings, created to celebrate the history of the jerseys of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings franchise Initially the Detroit Cougars, then the Detroit Falcons). Each of these 16 original paintings, and more than 1500 other NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA football and CFL uniform paintings, is available for sale at our Heritage Sports Art Detroit Red Wings web page.

Each original painting can be purchased in one of three formats - unframed, Classic Framed and Deluxe Framed - but it appears that almost all of our customers seem to prefer the Deluxe Framed version as shown below (please click on the image below to see a detailed image):

Many thanks for being a fan and as always, please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks -
Scott Sillcox

Heritage Uniforms and Jerseys goes Technorati

Greetings!

I get a little smarter every day, or at least that's the hope! As I learn more and more about electronic marketing, the more fun it gets - my hope is that after another month or two the pieces will all begin to mesh together and that I will be able to take the tangle of information that I have accumulated and create order out of chaos.

What I learned today relates to a thing called Technorati - Technorati is a very powerful and well respected blog that summarizes and catalogues blogs from around the world - almost 1.5 million blogs!

In order for my blog to be registered with Technorati, I have to embed a code in a recent blog posting, and here it is in all its glory: 9HYQ2S3X25B4 . Now that wasn't too hard?!? We'll see where this takes us. In the meantime, forgive me for boring you to tears with this blog posting.

So here's a tidbit to make this posting Heritage Uniform oriented:

In my very first posting on this blog I wrote about Charles A. Coleman's remarkable three volume set "The Trail of the Stanley Cup". It seems Mr. Coleman feels that the Detroit Red Wings franchise changed their name from the Cougars to the Falcons at the beginning of the 1929-30 season, yet everywhere else in the entire internet, including the official sites of the NHL and the Detroit Red Wings, they say that the team changed from Cougars to Falcons prior to the start of the 1930-31 season. Care to offer your opinion on which is right?

I will do the research over the next several weeks and get back to you.

I can't help but feel Mr. Coleman has it right...

Thanks -
Scott Sillcox

PS This invisible info is for the folks from Digg:

Detroit Red Wings - Franchise, Team, Arena and Uniform History

Almost all of the actual original watercolor paintings used in this poster are available for sale – see Section 5 of this blog.

Fall 2022: To purchase a reasonably priced 8" x 24" plaqued mounted version of the Red Wings poster that's ready to hang on your wall, please visit Heritage Sports Stuff.

1. Detroit Red Wings – The Franchise History

This franchise was established (by established we mean the year of the franchise’s first game) in 1926. The franchise has been known as:
Detroit Cougars 1926-1930
Detroit Falcons 1930-1932
Detroit Red Wings 1932-Present

2. Detroit Red Wings – Championships/Great Accomplishments
Eleven Stanley Cup Championships:
1935-36 defeated Toronto Maple Leafs 3 games to 1
1936-37 defeated New York Rangers 3 games to 2
1942-43 defeated Boston Bruins 4 games to 0
1949-50 defeated New York Rangers 4 games to 3
1951-52 defeated Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 0
1953-54 defeated Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3
1954-55 defeated Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 3
1996-97 defeated Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 0
1997-98 defeated Washington Capitals 4 games to 0
2001-02 defeated Carolina Hurricanes 4 games to 1
2007-08 defeated Pittsburgh Penguins 4 games to 2

3. Detroit Red Wings – Home Arena History
1. Border Cities Arena, Windsor ON
1926 – 1927


2. The Olympia, Detroit
1927 – 1979


3. Joe Louis Arena, Detroit
1979 - 2017


4. Little Caesar's Arena, Detroit
2017 - Present

4. For more information on the Red Wings, you should visit/bookmark these great websites:

A. I personally think Wikipedia keeps getting better and better with each passing year – here is the Red Wings Wikipedia site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Red_Wings

B. For a great season-by-season summary of each Red Wings season:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Detroit_Red_Wings_seasons

C. These guys do a great job of team (and player) stats for all active and defunct franchises
http://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/

D. For some good info about arenas past, present and future, visit this site (and don’t be fooled by the their name – even though it’s ballparks dot com, they do a good job on hockey arenas too):
http://hockey.ballparks.com/

E. For great stats on past and present players and prospects, these guys do an amazing job:
http://www.hockeydb.com/

5. Celebrate the Red Wings' jersey history by owning a famous piece of jersey artwork:
If you love the Detroit Red Wings and the history of the Red Wings franchise, you might really love to own an original piece of artwork celebrating the team's historic jerseys as seen in the poster at the top of this blog - you can actually own one of those original pieces of art! There are only 16 pieces of original art available for sale, and when these 16 are sold, that's it, they're all sold out.

These original watercolor paintings would make a great gift (birthday gift, anniversary gift, retirement gift, Christmas gift, etc.) for someone you love or even a great gift for yourself (one of these framed pieces would look fantastic in your home or office). Each piece can be bought one of three ways:
1. As unframed art that you could have framed or mounted yourself (the one on the left)
2. Framed in our "Classic" framed version (the middle version)
3. Framed in our "Deluxe" framed version (the version on the right)



If you would like more information about this great artwork including the three ways you could purchase each piece, please visit our Detroit Red Wings YouTube video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_58Rx0-j5w or go directly to the artwork website www.heritagesportsart.com/Detroit-Red-Wings-c174/ where you can see and purchase the artwork.

And if someone you know loves the history of sports uniforms (but maybe another team) and loves great art, please let them know that we have over 1500 pieces of great original artwork for sale at www.heritagesportsart.com (all NFL teams, all MLB teams, all NHL teams, all CFL teams, select NCAA football teams) or check out each team's video at the Heritage Sports Art YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/ssillcox .

6. The original pen and ink drawings of the arenas shown above are also for sale.
Please note that the actual original, highly detailed, hand-drawn pen and ink sketches used for the 3 arena images shown above are available for sale as a complete collection to one Red Wings fan. If you are interested in being the one and only owner of this complete and original collection of Detroit Red Wings arena images, please contact me by email ssillcox@rogers.com and I can explain how they can all be framed in one beautiful piece.

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This text was written by Scott Sillcox and was last updated August 23, 2010. I have tried to ensure the accuracy of the information, but I am human and can make mistakes. If you believe I have made a mistake, please let me know by email at ssillcox@rogers.com !

Many thanks!!!
Scott

PS In the summer of 2019, my team and I worked with my partners at Frameworth Sports Marketing and Winning Streak Sports and we updated all of the NHL posters including the Detroit Red Wings poster shown below. They can be purchased from my new website Heritage Sports Stuff. These 8" x 24" plaqued posters are ready-to-hang and make a great gift for a huge Red Wings fan.