Darts Trivia
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46 free Darts trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This darts trivia quiz covers the pub game and the professional sport in equal measure. On the equipment and rules side you will find the height of the bull, the length of the oche, why boards are made of sisal, who invented the numbering, the maximum three-dart score, the highest checkout and what 'going bust' means. On the history side there is the 1908 court case that let pubs keep their boards, the split that created the PDC, the move to Alexandra Palace and the first televised nine-darter. The player questions run from Leighton Rees, Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson and John Lowe through Phil Taylor, Raymond van Barneveld and Michael van Gerwen to Luke Humphries, Luke Littler, Fallon Sherrock and Beau Greaves, and there is room for Bobby George's candelabra, Sid Waddell's commentary and Bullseye's Bully. Some questions are easy for anyone who watches the Worlds at Christmas; others will test league players. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and each question carries a citation to the page it came from.
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Q 01Which darts referee, nicknamed 'The Voice', refereed his last world final in January 2024?
Russ Bray
Russ Bray got his start by accident, volunteering to call a county match when the regular caller failed to turn up.
Q 02Darts' highest checkout, 170, must finish with the last dart in which target?
Inner bull
The inner bull is worth 50 and counts as a double for finishing, so no three-dart checkout can top 170.
Q 03What is the line that darts players must stand behind to throw called?
The oche
The oche must sit 2.37 m from the face of the board, so if a board sticks out from the wall, the oche moves back.
Q 04Before bristle boards took over, English pub dartboards were usually solid blocks of which wood?
Elm
Elm boards had to be soaked regularly to stay soft, a chore that paper-coil and bristle boards later did away with.
Q 05Which England cricketer presented The Indoor League, the 1970s ITV show of pub games including darts?
Fred Trueman
Fred Trueman fronted every series and signed off each show with the phrase 'I'll see thee'.
Q 06Which Lancashire carpenter is traditionally credited with devising the dartboard's numbering in 1896?
Brian Gamlin
Brian Gamlin is said to have placed low numbers beside high ones, such as the 1 next to the 20, to punish inaccuracy, though his role is disputed.
Q 07Modern quality dartboards are made from the fibres of which plant?
Sisal
Sisal fibres packed into the board simply part to let a dart in, then close the hole again when it is pulled out.
Q 08In which city did a 1908 court case rule darts a game of skill, so pubs could keep playing it?
Leeds
In Leeds, darts were thrown in court to prove the game took skill, since games of chance were then banned on licensed premises.
Q 09What are the fins at the back of a dart called?
Flights
Flights attach to the shaft behind the barrel, and a heavier dart generally needs a larger flight to fly steadily.
Q 10Which metal, far denser than brass, is used to make slim dart barrels?
Tungsten
Pure tungsten is brittle, so barrels use a tungsten alloy, and the slimmer darts it allows can group more tightly on the board.
Q 11Under standard rules, when a darts player busts, which total is their score set back to?
Its total before that turn
Its total before that turn is restored, and no score from that turn counts, so any darts left in it are wasted.
Q 12Which double do darts players nickname 'the madhouse'?
Double 1
Double 1 is the only finish for a player left on 2, because hitting a single 1 would leave 1, which busts.
Q 13Who threw the first televised nine-dart finish, at the 1984 MFI World Matchplay?
John Lowe
John Lowe won a £102,000 prize for that perfect leg and went on to win the whole event.
Q 21Scottish world champion Jocky Wilson, who won in 1982 and 1989, came from which Fife town?
Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy's Jocky Wilson had lost his last tooth by 28, and after his 1982 title he paid £1,200 for dentures.
Q 22Who won the first BDO World Championship in 1978?
Leighton Rees
Leighton Rees lost the title a year later to the very player he had beaten in the 1978 final.
Q 23Keith Deller's 1983 world title was notable because he was the first what?
Qualifier to win it
Keith Deller was the first qualifier to win it, clinching the title with a famous 138 checkout in the final.
Q 14Who became the first player from outside Britain to win the BDO world title, in 1994?
John Part
John Part, a Canadian, won it as an unseeded player and later added two PDC world titles to make three.
Q 15Who was the first player to hit a nine-dart finish at a World Championship, in 1990?
Paul Lim
Paul Lim did it in a second-round win, and he was still playing at the World Championship aged 71 in December 2025.
Q 16Which debutant beat Phil Taylor in the 2018 world final, Taylor's last World Championship?
Rob Cross
Rob Cross, a former electrician nicknamed Voltage, won less than 12 months after his first throw as a professional.
Q 17In which seaside town is darts' World Matchplay traditionally held?
Blackpool
In Blackpool in 2002, Phil Taylor hit a live televised nine-darter at the Matchplay and collected a £100,000 bonus.
Q 18In which city was 16-time world champion Taylor born?
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent-born Phil Taylor was making ceramics for a living until financial backing let him turn professional.
Q 19Which player was nicknamed the Crafty Cockney?
Eric Bristow
Eric Bristow sponsored a young Phil Taylor with £10,000, and in 1990 Taylor beat him in the world final.
Q 20The Crafty Cockney took his darts nickname from an English pub in which Californian city?
Santa Monica
Santa Monica's pub gave him the name, and his own Crafty Cockney pub back in England is where a young Phil Taylor began practising seriously.
Q 24Where was the BDO World Championship held from 1986 to 2019?
Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green
The final BDO Worlds in 2020 was staged at Indigo at the O2 in London.
Q 25Who became chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation in 2021?
Eddie Hearn
Eddie Hearn took over as his father Barry stepped aside after almost 40 years to become president of Matchroom.
Q 26Where has the PDC World Championship been held since 2008?
Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace staged the 2023 final in which Michael Smith hit a nine-dart finish.
Q 27The PDC World Championship trophy is named after which commentator?
Sid Waddell
Sid Waddell, 'the Voice of Darts', had produced The Indoor League, and the trophy took his name after his death in 2012.
Q 28Which three events make up darts' Triple Crown?
World Championship, World Matchplay and Premier League
Phil Taylor won six of the thirteen Premier Leagues he played in.
Q 29Who was the first player to win both the BDO and PDC world titles?
Dennis Priestley
Dennis Priestley crushed Phil Taylor 6–1 to win the first PDC world final, in 1994.
Q 30Whose world titles are credited with starting the darts boom in the Netherlands?
Raymond van Barneveld
Raymond van Barneveld became the first Dutch BDO world champion in 1998, and millions of Dutch fans tuned in.