Definitely one purely for the anoraks here. There have been 206 players who have competed at the Crucible Theatre since the World Snooker Championship moved to the Sheffield venue in 1977. Almost one-third of those – 67, in fact – have participated in only one edition, until now at least[Read More…]
Quizzes
QUIZ! Nationalities in the World Snooker Championship
Snooker is becoming ever more global, with World Snooker supremo Barry Hearn and World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association Chairman Jason Ferguson always trying to find new markets to explore for the game. In recent years, events have been staged in more than a dozen different countries across Europe, as[Read More…]
QUIZ! World Championship Players at the Crucible
It’s the day before the World Snooker Championship gets under way and there’s just enough time to revisit this testing quiz. Four debutants in the 2018 draw bring the total number of players at the Crucible Theatre to 206. More than a quarter of them, some 58, only graced the[Read More…]
QUIZ! Players With More Than 20 Crucible Matches
It’s Judgement Day in Sheffield as the World Snooker Championship qualifying rounds come to an end at the English Institute of Sport on Wednesday. Over the last week, more than 100 competitors have attempted to fight their way through the preliminaries but only 16 will remain by the end of[Read More…]
QUIZ! PTC Snooker Event Winners
The Gibraltar Open, a pro-am ranking event, has been running since Wednesday but it’s from today that the Main Tour players enter the fray at the Victoria Stadium. The Gibraltar Open is one of the last surviving tournaments from the Players Tour Championship era and, in fact, its inaugural edition[Read More…]
QUIZ! World Snooker Championship Moments
Fifty days and counting. That’s right – only 50! As we move into March, there is the exciting realization that the season-ending World Snooker Championship starts next month, with less than six weeks until the qualifiers and a cool half century of days until the main event itself at the[Read More…]
QUIZ! Snooker Trivia XI
It’s Friday, so that’s as good a reason as any to dish out a new quiz. We’re going back to the old favourite this time and the return of the Snooker Trivia speed quiz series. If you don’t recall, this quiz provides a dozen questions for you to answer in[Read More…]
QUIZ! Triple Crown Snooker Champions
The Masters snooker final reached its conclusion on Sunday with Mark Allen joining the illustrious club of Triple Crown champions after emotionally claiming his maiden major in London. The standard in the showdown against Kyren Wilson might not live long in the memory but the victory for the Northern Irishman,[Read More…]
Masters Quizzes
The problem with creating so many quizzes is that eventually you start running out of topics to cover. That said, it’d be rude to go through a whole Masters edition and not provide a few teasers for you to have a go at. Last year, we perhaps went a bit[Read More…]
QUIZ: The Big Snooker Quiz of 2017
From January until December, it has sometimes felt as though snooker has been running on autopilot such has been the constant flow of tournaments throughout the year. The calendar has been as busy as ever with old events and new combining to produce terrific action on the baize that has[Read More…]