Cleveland Cavaliers Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What are the Cleveland Cavaliers?
A: The Cleveland Cavaliers, also known as the Cavs, are an American professional
basketball team based in Cleveland,
Ohio.
They began playing in the National Basketball Association
(NBA) in 1970 as a what?
A: An expansion team.
Where do they play their home games?
A: At Quicken Loans Arena, which they share with the Arena
Football League's
Cleveland Gladiators and the American Hockey League's Lake Erie Monsters.
They play in what division of the Eastern Conference?
A: The Central Division.
The Cavs are the only remaining charter member of the what?
A: The division (all the other Central Division teams joined later from the
now-defunct Midwest Division).
The team has won how many Central Division championships?
A: Three. (1976, 2009, and 2010).
How many total playoff seasons have they had?
A: 18.
The Cavaliers first began play in the NBA in 1970 under the
ownership of whom?
A: Nick Mileti.
Jerry Tomko, the father of future Major League Baseball
pitcher Brett Tomko, submitted the winning entry to name the team what?
A: The "Cavaliers".
Supporters preferred “Cavaliers” to what?
A: "Jays", "Foresters" and "Presidents".
Where did they play their home games?
A: At Cleveland Arena.
Who was their head coach?
A: Bill Fitch.
The Cavaliers compiled a league-worst 15–67 record in their
what?
A: Inaugural season.
The team hoped to build around what number one
1971 draft
pick?
A: Austin Carr.
Carr had set numerous scoring records at Notre Dame, but he
what?
A: He severely injured his leg shortly into his pro career and never was able to
realize his potential.
The following seasons saw the Cavaliers gradually improve
their on-court performance, thanks to season-by-season additions of talented
players such as whom?
A: Bingo Smith, Jim Chones, Jim Cleamons and Dick Snyder.
In their sophomore season Cleveland improved to what?
A: 23–59.
In 1974, the Cavaliers moved into the what?
A: Brand-new Richfield Coliseum.
That season, the Cavaliers finished with a 40–42 record,
falling just short of a what?
A: A playoff berth.
In the 1975–76 season with Carr, Smith, Chones, Snyder, and
newly acquired Nate Thurmond, Fitch led the Cavaliers to what season record?
A: A 49–33 record and a division title.
Fitch received the league's “what” as the Cavs made their
first-ever playoff appearance, and clinched their first Central Division Title?
A: Coach of the Year award.
Cleveland won 43 games in both of the 1976–77 and 1977–78
seasons, but both seasons resulted in what?
A: Early playoff exits.
After a 30–52 season in 1978–79, Fitch did what?
A: He resigned as head coach.
The following season, after going 37–45, the original owner
Mileti sold his shares to whom?
A: Minority owner Joe Zingale.
In 1980, after just a few months, Zingale sold the team to
whom?
A: Nationwide Advertising magnate Ted Stepien on April 12, 1980.
The new owner oversaw the hiring and firing of a succession
of coaches and was involved in making a number of what?
A: Poor trade and free agent signing decisions.
Stepien introduced a polka-flavored fight song and a
dance
team known as the what?
A: "The Teddy Bears".
