So the first trivia speed round was too hard, and the second too easy. Let’s see if we can get one jussssssst right. It’s the same formula – you have two minutes to answer 12 random teasers about the sport you claim to know and love. I believe it gets[Read More…]
Quizzes
New Quiz: Snooker Trivia II
On Saturday, I started a new general snooker knowledge speed round style of quiz. The reaction was mixed, with some liking the quick tempo and others describing it as a little too hard. Question four seemed to stump a lot of people, who clearly only remember Paul Hunter’s Plan B[Read More…]
New Quiz: Snooker Trivia I
Over the last couple of months I’ve been happy to bring you a few quizzes as a bit of lighthearted relief during the down periods on the calendar. We’ve done several specific ones – period, tournament, player, ranking, etc. – but a kind of test that has been lacking so[Read More…]
New Quiz: Most Match Victories
Contrary to the current state of the calendar, there are actually quite a lot of matches contested throughout each season. According to the excellent CueTracker snooker database, a total of 3076 competitors have played a professional match. Some, like poor old Rogelio Esteiro, have played in many – in his[Read More…]
New Quiz: Chinese Ranking Event Champions
September is another quiet enough month on the snooker calendar. It’s a little difficult to get into this season as, even more so perhaps than in the previous couple of years, there is a distinct stop-start feeling. It’s something that I personally can’t stand and think, in many ways, that[Read More…]
New Quiz: Ronnie O’Sullivan Crucible Defeats
Ronnie O’Sullivan is certainly the most naturally gifted cueist to ever grace a snooker table, and arguably the greatest player of all time. In a career spanning more than two decades, the 39 year-old has won dozens of tournaments, including 27 ranking events – placing him joint third on the all-time list.[Read More…]
New Quiz: 2015 World Championship
It’s only been three months since the conclusion of this year’s World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield. 32 players contested the televised stages and of course Stuart Bingham emerged with the trophy after a total of 31 matches were played. Guessing the result of each of those encounters is[Read More…]
New Quiz: 2015/16 Main Tour Players
We have already deciphered that there are 20 different nations represented for the current 2015/16 campaign. From those countries, a total of 128 professional players make up the Main Tour. Many of these will be household names but others I suspect even the experts will struggle with – especially when[Read More…]
New Quiz: 2014/15 Tournament Winners
The 2014/15 campaign was a very busy season on the snooker circuit. There were 11 ranking events, a further 9 European and Asian Tour tournaments, as well as an array of invitationals and pro-ams. Most of the events were dominated by the select band of competitors who manage to share[Read More…]
New Quiz: Nations to Stage Ranking Events
The first official ranking event in snooker was way back in 1974, more than four decades ago. Since then snooker has travelled around the globe but the majority of events have been staged in one country – I don’t think you need to be a genius to work out where[Read More…]