Q 01/05

Newcastle United trace their origins to an 1881 team formed by cricketers from which district?

A) Byker

B) Heaton

C) Elswick

D) Gosforth

Answer · why

A) Byker

Byker's Stanley Cricket Club started the football team in November 1881. Within a year it took a new name, because people kept confusing it with a clu...

Q 02/05

Newcastle United's forerunner took over the lease of St James' Park in 1892 after which rival club folded?

A) Tyne Association

B) West End

C) Rosewood

D) Cheviot

Answer · why

B) West End

West End were wound up in May 1892 after a dismal season. Their rivals took on several of their players, most of the backroom staff and the ground tha...

Q 03/05

Which of these was a rejected suffix considered before Newcastle chose 'United' as their name in 1892?

A) Albion

B) Wanderers

C) Rangers

D) Athletic

Answer · why

C) Rangers

Rangers lost out, as did Newcastle City and City of Newcastle. The club settled on United on 9 December 1892, hoping to win over the supporters of bot...

Q 04/05

Newcastle's first Football League match, in September 1893, was a 2-2 draw against which club?

A) Liverpool

B) Bury

C) Wolverhampton Wanderers

D) Woolwich Arsenal

Answer · why

D) Woolwich Arsenal

Woolwich Arsenal held them 2-2 in London. A year earlier the Tyneside club had turned down a Second Division place, fearing the gates would not cover ...

Q 05/05

In 1908-09 Newcastle won the league title despite losing 9-1 at home to which club?

A) Middlesbrough

B) Everton

C) Sunderland

D) Aston Villa

Answer · why

C) Sunderland

Sunderland won 9-1 at St James' Park on 5 December 1908. Newcastle shrugged it off and still finished the season as champions, nine points ahead of th...