Quiz on football clubs

Quiz on football clubs and origins:
 

1) Which famous European soccer club was formed when Joan Gamper placed an advert in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a football club on 22nd October 1889?
 

2) Which famous club was formed as the Newton Health Lancashire Yorkshire Railway Club in 1878 at Newton Health, England?
 

3) Which football club was founded on 15th August 1889 at 14, Balaram Ghosh Street in Kolkata?
 

4) Which world renowned football club was founded as a cricket club in 1899 by British expatriates by Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kiplin?
 

5) Which football club started out as Dial Square in 1886 by workers in Woolwich, south-east London?
 

6) Which club English club, now co-owned by Lakshmi Narayan Mittal was founded when a team known as St Jude’s merged with Christchurch Rangers and the resulting team was called Queens Park Rangers, because most of the players came from the Queen’s Park area of North-West London?
 

7) Which club was formed in 1885 following a meeting at the Swan and Cemetery Hotel, between the Bury Wesleyans and Bury Unitarians Football Clubs?
 

Which club was formed when a congregation of members of MTV 1879 decided on February 27, 1900 that the footballers of the club would not be allowed to join the German Football Association (DFB), eleven members of the football division left the congregation and on the same evening founded?
 

9) Which club was formed in the late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D’Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin?
 

10) Which club started out as a work team for employees of electronics conglomerate Phillips on 31 August, 1913 to celebrate the centennial defeat of the French in the Napoleonic wars?

Quiz Answers:

1) Barcelona
 

2) Manchester United
 

3) Mohun Bagan
 

4) A.C. Milan
 

5) Arsenal
 

6) Queen’s Park Rangers
 

7) Bury F.C. (the club represented by Baichung Bhutia)
 

Bayern Munich
 

9) Juventus
 

10) PSV Eindhoven

Author: Geetanav Ojha (Kozhikode)