Q 01/05

The amateur Victorian-era Crystal Palace football club was set up by members of what?

A) The local cricketers

B) The exhibition company's staff

C) A Sydenham church

D) The London rowers

Answer · why

A) The local cricketers

The local cricketers of the Crystal Palace Cricket Club founded the amateur football side; it was a founder member of the Football Association and rea...

Q 02/05

Why did the Crystal Palace Company form a professional football club in 1905?

A) To rival Woolwich Arsenal in south London

B) To fill the FA Cup final stadium in its grounds and draw crowds

C) To satisfy a Football League invitation

D) To keep the exhibition building's cricket team busy in winter

Answer · why

B) To fill the FA Cup final stadium in its grounds and draw crowds

The club was founded 'To fill the FA Cup final stadium in its grounds and draw crowds': the company relied on visitor income, and the FA had staged th...

Q 03/05

Palace's founding secretary Edmund Goodman came from which club, whose colours Palace adopted?

A) Scunthorpe United

B) West Ham United

C) Aston Villa

D) Burnley

Answer · why

C) Aston Villa

Aston Villa had employed Goodman as assistant secretary, so Palace adopted Villa's claret and blue and wore it until Malcolm Allison rebranded the clu...

Q 04/05

How did Edmund Goodman find Palace's first chairman, Sydney Bourne?

A) Through an advert in a London newspaper

B) He was the Crystal Palace Company's accountant

C) He was Goodman's brother-in-law

D) By checking records of FA Cup final ticket buyers

Answer · why

D) By checking records of FA Cup final ticket buyers

Goodman found him 'By checking records of FA Cup final ticket buyers': Sydney Bourne had bought a batch every year, and he stayed chairman until his d...

Q 05/05

Which FA Cup holders did Southern League Palace beat 4-2 in January 1909?

A) Wolves

B) Manchester United

C) Sheffield Wednesday

D) Newcastle United

Answer · why

A) Wolves

Wolves, the 1908 Cup winners, lost 4-2 to Palace in the first round in January 1909; two years earlier Palace had stunned Newcastle 1-0 at St James' P...