Q 01/05

How many balls are used in a frame of snooker, including the cue ball?

A) 15

B) 18

C) 22

D) 21

Answer · why

C) 22

Fifteen reds, six colours and the white.

Q 02/05

Which British Army officer devised snooker's first rules in India in the 1870s and 1880s?

A) Herbert Kitchener

B) Garnet Wolseley

C) Robert Baden-Powell

D) Neville Chamberlain

Answer · why

D) Neville Chamberlain

Not the prime minister: this Chamberlain was only revealed as the inventor in a letter to The Field in 1938.

Q 03/05

What did the word 'snooker' originally mean in British Army slang?

A) A cheat at cards or dice

B) A hopelessly drunk officer

C) A first-year or inexperienced recruit

D) A badly missed shot

Answer · why

C) A first-year or inexperienced recruit

Chamberlain used it to mock a young fellow officer's poor play at the table.

Q 04/05

Snooker's rules were finalised in 1882 at Stone House in which Indian hill station?

A) Simla

B) Darjeeling

C) Jabalpur

D) Ootacamund

Answer · why

D) Ootacamund

The table, by Burroughes & Watts, had been shipped to India by sea.

Q 05/05

How many points is the black ball worth?

A) 7

B) 3

C) 5

D) 6

Answer · why

A) 7

Yellow is two, green three, brown four, blue five and pink six.