Q 01/05

Brentford Football Club was formed in October 1889 by members of which existing sports club?

A) The town's rowers

B) The Boston Park cricketers

C) Local cyclists

D) Kew athletes

Answer · why

A) The town's rowers

The rowers voted to play association football rather than rugby on the town's new recreation ground.

Q 02/05

Brentford's nickname 'The Bees' came about in 1894-95 when the media misheard which chant?

A) 'Bring 'em back!'

B) 'Buck up Bs!'

C) 'Brentford, Brentford!'

D) 'Bees to the honey!'

Answer · why

B) 'Buck up Bs!'

Students from Borough Road College were cheering their friend Joseph Gettins with the college chant.

Q 03/05

Brentford won a place in the Southern League's top flight in July 1901 after which club dropped out?

A) Sheppey United

B) Thames Ironworks

C) Gravesend United

D) Chatham Town

Answer · why

C) Gravesend United

The club had turned professional in 1899-1900 after rising through the London League.

Q 04/05

Griffin Park, Brentford's home from 1904 to 2020, was built on what?

A) A traveller camp on waste ground

B) A disused cricket ground

C) A market garden owned by the council

D) An orchard owned by Fuller's brewery

Answer · why

D) An orchard owned by Fuller's brewery

Local volunteers cut the trees down and were allowed to keep the wood; the name came from the griffin in the brewery's logo.

Q 05/05

Griffin Park was famous as the only English league ground to have what?

A) A pub on each corner

B) A railway line under the pitch

C) Four different stands' names on the roof

D) A church inside the ground

Answer · why

A) A pub on each corner

The ground was named after The Griffin, one of those pubs, owned by the Griffin Brewery.