Q 01/05

Wolves' founders, two pupils at St Luke's Church School, were given their first football by whom?

A) Their headmaster

B) The local vicar

C) A cricket club captain

D) A brewery owner

Answer · why

A) Their headmaster

Their headmaster, Harry Barcroft, handed it over in Blakenhall; two years later the school side merged with the footballers of a local cricket club, t...

Q 02/05

Which English composer was a Wolves fan who cycled more than 40 miles from Malvern to watch them play?

A) Gustav Holst

B) Edward Elgar

C) Ralph Vaughan Williams

D) Benjamin Britten

Answer · why

B) Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar also wrote the club a song in the 1890s, 'He Banged the Leather for Goal', in honour of Wolves half-back Billy Malpass; Wolves call it th...

Q 03/05

Wolves' gold and black shirts allude to which motto of Wolverhampton's city council?

A) Light from the furnace

B) Forward into light

C) Out of darkness cometh light

D) By strength and light

Answer · why

C) Out of darkness cometh light

Out of darkness cometh light: black for the dark, gold for the light. The club says it swapped the deeper 'old gold' for a brighter shade in 1954 so t...

Q 04/05

Which West Midlands rivals did Wolves face in their first Football League match, in September 1888?

A) Preston North End

B) Everton

C) West Bromwich Albion

D) Aston Villa

Answer · why

D) Aston Villa

Aston Villa drew 1-1 at Dudley Road on the League's opening day; the competition existed because Villa director William McGregor had written to leadin...

Q 05/05

Wolves' record win, 14-0 in an 1886 FA Cup tie, came against a team representing what?

A) A brewery

B) A church

C) A railway works

D) A colliery

Answer · why

A) A brewery

A brewery: Crosswell's Brewery was a works team from nearby Oldbury, and Jack Brodie, one of the schoolboys who had founded Wolves nine years earlier,...