Test Your Knowledge!
Welcome to the August 2025 edition of RIPPED Trivia, where you can test your knowledge of Topps cards — the obscure, the sentimental, the head-scratchers, and the weird. This month, we have several legends and a couple of pop culture cards, so get excited.
Answers are at the bottom, but no cheating!
Score:
0-3: You’re actually pretty normal — these are meant to be hard!
4-6: You likely buy your penny sleeves by the million.
7-8: You are a former or current Topps employee
9-10: You definitely looked at the answers.
Let’s jump in!
1. In the history of Topps baseball cards, there has been one player with the last name August, and one with the last name Agosto. Can you name one of them?
2. The back of Deion Sanders’ 1990 Topps Baseball card says that he has acquired…this.
3. According to his 1968 card, Floyd Little was the only player to accomplish what feat in 1967?
4. This 1987 non-sport set based on a movie that grossed over $300 million worldwide features a card titled “Pattycake Betrayal.” Can you name the movie (and set)?
5. Which slick-fielding, glasses-wearing infielder-turned-manager, with just 22 home runs over 1077 major league games, had cards across three decades: the 50s, 60s, and 70s?
6. Bo Jackson’s 1986 Topps Traded card with the Royals has “no record” for his stats. How many at-bats did he have with the team that season?
7. The 2022 Topps MLB x GPK Series 1 set featured a Keith Shore card called “Many Machado.” How many heads did he have?
8. The 2023 Topps x Bob Ross collaboration features a subset of “Happy Mistakes” cards. What are the “happy mistakes”?
And now, in honor of the Dog Days of Summer, we present two canine-inspired questions:
9. The 1974 Wacky Packages set featured this “soft drink for dogs,” with “Fleas don’t litter” written on the top of the can.
10. On the 2024 Topps Baseball Update Series card PP-1 of Aaron Judge, he is joined by the Paw Patrol. On the back, the card says that Judge has been “______ from the start.” What’s the missing word? HINT: It’s a dog pun.
Answers:
1. Don August and Juan Agosto
2. The nickname “Prime Time”
3. Return a punt for a TD
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Eddie Kasko
6. 82
7. 5
8. Players’ helmets were replaced by Bob Ross’ signature hair
9. PUPSI-COLA
10. “Paw-some”
