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Snooker trivia questions and answers

Will you be snookered by these snooker trivia questions or will you be able to answer them all right on cue? Try them now!

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Easy snooker trivia questions for kids

Question 1
How many points is the blue ball worth in snooker?
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Five points.
Question 2
How many red balls are on the table at the start of a frame of snooker?
View Answer
15.
Question 3
What is the maximum break in snooker, assuming no foul shot has been played?
View Answer
147.
Question 4
In what order do you have to pot the 6 colors in snooker?
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Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.
Question 5
What is the total number of balls on a snooker table at the start of a frame?
View Answer
22 balls. The 15 reds, 6 colors and the white ball.
Question 6
How many pockets are there on a standard snooker table?
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Six pockets.
Question 7
How long, in feet, is a regulation snooker table?
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12 feet.
Question 8
What is the name given to the elongated and elevated rest that is used to reach the cue ball over an intervening ball?
View Answer
Spider.
Question 9
When is a free ball awarded in snooker?
View Answer
When a player plays a foul shot and snookers the other player so that they cannot see the target ball to hit.
Question 10
What piece of equipment is used to place the red balls in the correct position at the start of a frame of snooker?
View Answer
The rack, also known as the triangle.

Hard snooker trivia questions

Question 1
Who was the youngest ever winner of a professional ranking tournament in snooker?
View Answer
Ronnie Sullivan, when he won the 1993 UK Championships at the age of 18.
Question 2
Which Welsh snooker player was nicknamed Dracula?
View Answer
Ray Reardon.
Question 3
Which three tournaments make up snooker’s Triple Crown Series?
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The World Snooker Championship, the UK Championship and the Masters.
Question 4
The 2005 UK Championship final featured the biggest age gap between professional tournament finalists ever, when Steve Davis lost to Ding Junhui. What was the age gap?
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30 years. Steve Davis was 48 and Ding Junhui was 18.
Question 5
Which Irish player won the inaugural UK Championship at Tower Circus, Blackpool, in 1977?
View Answer
Patsy Fagan.
Question 6
In 2016, the Masters trophy was renamed in honor of which three-time champion who died in 2006, aged just 27?
View Answer
Paul Hunter.
Question 7
In 2019, who became the first player to win over £1 million in prize money in a single season?
View Answer
Judd Trump.
Question 8
When world rankings were introduced during the 1976-1977 season, who was the first snooker player to ranked as world number one?
View Answer
Ray Reardon.
Question 9
Which player from Thailand reached a career-high world ranking of three for the 1994-95 season?
View Answer
James Wattana.
Question 10
By what name was the European Open known between 2005 and 2008?
View Answer
The Malta Cup.

Snooker World Championship trivia

Question 1
In what year was the first ever World Snooker Championship held?
View Answer
1927.
Question 2
Which legendary snooker player won 15 successive world championships between 1927 and 1946?
View Answer
Joe Davis.
Question 3
Only three qualifiers have ever won the World Snooker Championship. Can you name them?
View Answer
Alex Higgins in 1972, Terry Griffiths in 1979 and Shaun Murphy in 2005.
Question 4
Every World Snooker Championship since 1977 has been staged at which venue?
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The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.
Question 5
Who made the first ever maximum break at the Snooker World Championship, in 1983?
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Cliff Thorburn.
Question 6
How many players entered the 1931 World Snooker Championship?
View Answer
Two – Joe Davis and Tom Dennis.
Question 7
In which country was the 1975 World Snooker Championship held?
View Answer
Australia.
Question 8
How many times was Alex Higgins world champion?
View Answer
Twice – in 1972 and 1982.
Question 9
Which Scottish player knocked Ronnie O’Sullivan out of the World Championships in the first round, when O’Sullivan made his debut in the tournament as a 17 year old in 1993?
View Answer
Alan McManus.
Question 10
Jimmy White never won the World Snooker Championship. How many times did he finish runner-up?
View Answer
Six times.

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