Q 01/05

Nottingham Forest were founded in 1865 at a meeting in the Clinton Arms by players of which sport?

A) Shinty

B) Rugby

C) Cricket

D) Lacrosse

Answer · why

A) Shinty

Shinty: the stick-and-ball players backed J. S. Scrimshaw's proposal to take up association football instead, and at the same meeting ordered a dozen ...

Q 02/05

Forest's 'Garibaldi red' colours honour Giuseppe Garibaldi, leader of which volunteer force?

A) The Sardinian Guard

B) The Italian Redshirts

C) The Papal Zouaves

D) The Red Brigades

Answer · why

B) The Italian Redshirts

The Italian Redshirts: clubs were then told apart by their headgear, so the founders' tribute to Garibaldi's volunteers began as a dozen red caps with...

Q 03/05

Which club, founded in 1886 with former Forest players in its ranks, took its red from Forest's colours?

A) Southampton

B) Sheffield United

C) Arsenal

D) Manchester United

Answer · why

C) Arsenal

Arsenal: ex-Forest men such as Fred Beardsley helped start the Woolwich club and chose its colours; the old tale that Forest posted them a full set of...

Q 04/05

Forest's Sam Weller Widdowson is credited with inventing which piece of football kit in 1874?

A) Goalkeeping gloves

B) Screw-in studs

C) Numbered shirts

D) Shin pads

Answer · why

D) Shin pads

Shin pads: Widdowson, also a Nottinghamshire cricketer, cut down a pair of cricket pads and strapped them outside his stockings; today the Laws of the...

Q 05/05

Forest's presumed name comes from Forest Racecourse, historically part of what?

A) Sherwood

B) The Forest of Dean

C) Charnwood

D) The New Forest

Answer · why

A) Sherwood

In their early years Forest were a multi-sport club whose baseball team were British champions in 1899.