Q 01/05

Leicester City were founded in 1884 under what name, taken from the road where they first played?

A) Fosse

B) Wyggeston

C) Filbert

D) Belgrave

Answer · why

A) Fosse

Fosse came from the field beside Fosse Road where the club first played. After money troubles it was re-formed in 1919 as Leicester City, just as Leic...

Q 02/05

Leicester's record victory, 13-0 in an FA Cup qualifier in 1894-95, came against which club?

A) Grimsby Town

B) Notts Olympic

C) Loughborough

D) Rotherham United

Answer · why

B) Notts Olympic

Notts Olympic were beaten 13-0 in October 1894, in the very season that Leicester began life in the Football League by losing their first match 4-3 at...

Q 03/05

Which rival club inflicted Leicester's record defeat, a 12-0 league thrashing in April 1909?

A) Coventry City

B) Derby County

C) Nottingham Forest

D) Notts County

Answer · why

C) Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest won so easily that the Football League held an inquiry, which heard that the already relegated Leicester players had spent the previ...

Q 04/05

In 1928-29 Leicester finished First Division runners-up by a single point to which club?

A) Huddersfield Town

B) Arsenal

C) Everton

D) The Wednesday

Answer · why

D) The Wednesday

The Wednesday, as Sheffield Wednesday were then known, had only just escaped relegation a year earlier. Second place stayed Leicester's best finish un...

Q 05/05

Leicester's first FA Cup final, in 1949, ended in a 3-1 defeat to which club?

A) Wolverhampton Wanderers

B) Tottenham Hotspur

C) Manchester United

D) Manchester City

Answer · why

A) Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolverhampton Wanderers won 3-1 at Wembley, and a week later Leicester needed a last-day draw to stay in the Second Division by a single point.