Test Your Hobby Knowledge!
In the inaugural 2026 edition of Topps RIPPED Trivia, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1976 sets, dig up an obscure Barry Bonds card, figure out which college football player once gathered over 400 turkeys for charity, and more. Much more!
As always, you will be judged on your acumen. Answers are at the bottom, but we work on the honor system here!
Score:
0-3: You’re extremely normal. Nobody should answer all of these correctly!
4-6: You should try out for Card Jeopardy! (that’s a thing, right?)
7-8: You are a former or current Topps employee.
9-10: You most definitely looked at the bottom first. May all your corners be creased!
Let’s jump in!
1. While searching for One-Eyed Willie’s treasure, the Goonies happen upon Chester Copperpot’s skeleton. He has a trading card of which MLB legend on him?
2. The year 1952 is famous for Mickey Mantle’s card, but which other Topps set from that year featured Australia’s Target Plane and a Flying Wing?
3. The No. 1 card in the 1976 Topps Baseball set, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, was a “Record Breaker” card of this player.
4. The 1976 Topps Basketball set featured Julius Erving as card No. 1. Which team was he playing for at the time?
5. The 2006 “Barry Bonds Home Run History” set featured MLB’s home run champion hitting various milestone home runs in his career — including No. 699, which came off which Arizona pitcher?
6. Card No. 274 in 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back set features which bounty hunter?
7. Which set featured a “Top Gun” card that explained the program thusly: “30-40 of the Air Force’s best pilots compete for six slots at the Fighter Weapons School.”
8. Whose 2025 Bowman University Chrome® Football card notes that he organized a turkey drive in high school that gave away 436 turkeys to families in Miami-Dade County?
9. January 12th is National Kiss a Ginger Day — created in 2009 to promote all the goodness that redheads have contributed to society. Which red-headed now-Cardinals pitcher has a 3.86 ERA and 1.20 WHIP over six MLB seasons?
10. The back of this 2000 Topps card features the words “seductively wiggles,” “Santa Claus,” “power to make people dance,” and “a wild race to the North Pole.”
Answers
1. Chester Copperpot had a Lou Gehrig card.
2. That would be the 1952 “Wings” set.
3. Hank Aaron.
4. Erving was on the Nets.
5. Barry Bonds’ 699th home run came off Mike Koplove.
6. Card 274 featured the bounty hunter Dengar.
7. 1991’s Desert Storm Series 2 featured the Top Gun card.
8. Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza.
9. Dustin May.
10. The 2000 Topps Chrome Pokemon TV “Jynx” card.
