50 free Darts trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 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 01What is the highest possible score with three darts?
180
Referees famously bellow the score in exuberant style on television.
Q 02What is the highest possible three-dart checkout, known as the 'Big Fish'?
170
It requires two treble twenties and the inner bull.
Q 03How far is the oche from the face of the dartboard under World Darts Federation rules?
2.37 m (7 ft 9 in)
The figure was a compromise between the distances used in the UK and the rest of the world.
Q 04How high above the floor is the centre of the bullseye on a regulation board?
1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
It is meant to be eye level for a six-foot player.
Q 05How many points is the outer bull worth?
25
The inner bull counts as a double when finishing.
Q 06Which Lancashire carpenter is traditionally credited with devising the dartboard's numbering in 1896?
Brian Gamlin
There are 19 factorial possible layouts once you fix the 20 at the top.
Q 07Modern quality dartboards are made from the fibres of which plant?
Sisal
Before that, boards were solid elm that had to be soaked to stay soft.
Q 08Who proved in court in 1908 that darts was a game of skill, clearing a Leeds pub landlord?
William 'Bigfoot' Anakin
Games of chance were banned on licensed premises at the time.
Q 09What is the maximum permitted weight of a dart in competition?
50 grams
Most professionals throw darts of about 20 to 26 grams.
Q 10Which metal, twice as dense as brass, is used in most professional dart barrels?
Tungsten
Pure tungsten is brittle, so barrels are 80 to 95 percent tungsten alloyed with nickel, iron or copper.
Q 11In the standard game, what is the most common starting score for a singles match?
501
Teams sometimes start on 701 or even 1001.
Q 12What happens when a player 'goes bust'?
Their score reverts to what it was at the start of the turn
Under 'Northern Bust' rules the score only reverts to before the offending dart.
Q 13The segment nicknamed 'double top' is worth how many points?
40
The 20 sits at the top of the board, flanked by the 1 and the 5.
Q 21Which player was nicknamed the Crafty Cockney?
Eric Bristow
He won five BDO world titles and was a regular on Bullseye.
Q 22How many BDO World Championships did the Crafty Cockney win?
Five
He came from Hackney in East London.
Q 23Scottish world champion Jocky Wilson, who won in 1982 and 1989, came from which Fife town?
Kirkcaldy
He turned professional after winning £500 at a Butlins competition in 1979 while unemployed.
Q 24Who won the first BDO World Championship in 1978?
Q 14What is the minimum number of darts needed to finish a 501 leg?
Nine
Seven treble twenties, a treble nineteen and double twelve is the classic route.
Q 15Who threw the first televised nine-dart finish, at the 1984 MFI World Matchplay?
John Lowe
It earned him £102,000, a fortune in 1984 darts money.
Q 16How much prize money did that first televised nine-darter of 1984 earn its thrower?
£102,000
The feat was not shown live; the first live TV nine-darter came later.
Q 17Who was the first player to hit a nine-dart finish at a World Championship, in 1990?
Paul Lim
Phil Taylor holds the record for televised nine-darters, with 11.
Q 18How many World Championships did 'the Power' win across the BDO and PDC?
16
Two came in the BDO and 14 in the PDC.
Q 19The 1990 BDO world title went to a 125/1 outsider who beat which player, his mentor, 6–1 in the final?
Eric Bristow
Bristow had sponsored and mentored Taylor after Taylor claimed he could beat him at a Smallthorne pub exhibition.
Q 20In which city was 16-time world champion Taylor born?
Stoke-on-Trent
His wife Yvonne bought him a new set of darts for his 25th birthday after he boasted he could beat Bristow.
Leighton Rees
The Welshman won it at the Heart of the Midlands Nightclub in Nottingham.
Q 25Keith Deller's 1983 world title was notable because he was the first what?
Qualifier to win it
He used 18-gram spring-loaded darts that were later banned, then made legal again.
Q 26Where 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 27In which year did leading players split from the BDO to form what became the PDC?
1992
Sky Sports signed up to cover three tournaments a year and transformed how darts was televised.
Q 28Who became chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation in 2021?
Eddie Hearn
He took over in 2021 from his father Barry, who had run the PDC for two decades.
Q 29Where has the PDC World Championship been held since 2008?
Alexandra Palace
From 1994 to 2007 it was at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex.
Q 30The PDC World Championship trophy is named after which commentator?
Sid Waddell
Waddell was 'the Voice of Darts' and, thanks to his puns, 'the Thief of Bad Gags'.