| 1. | What is the most commonly played billiard game in the United States? |
| a. | | 8-ball |
| b. | | Snooker |
| c. | | Balkline |
| d. | | One-pocket
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| 2. | How many inches in diameter are regulation balls in the billiard game of 9-ball? |
| a. | | 2.25 inches |
| b. | | 2.5 inches |
| c. | | 2.75 inches |
| d. | | 3 inches
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| 3. | What material is used to cast billiard balls and virtually the only billiard ball material used today in tournaments and by the pros? |
| a. | | Ivory |
| b. | | Cellulose nitrate |
| c. | | Bakelite |
| d. | | Phenolic resin
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| 4. | How long is the longest side of a snooker billiard table? |
| a. | | 7-foot |
| b. | | 8-foot |
| c. | | 10-foot |
| d. | | 12-foot
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| 5. | How many corner pockets are normally found on a pocket billiard table? |
| a. | | 3 |
| b. | | 4 |
| c. | | 5 |
| d. | | 6
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| 6. | What is the name given to the frame used to organize billiard balls at the beginning of a game? |
| a. | | Triangle |
| b. | | Rack |
| c. | | Cue |
| d. | | Wood
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| 7. | What kind of hardwood generally makes up a high quality snooker cue? |
| a. | | Maple |
| b. | | Oak |
| c. | | Pine |
| d. | | Ash
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| 8. | How many cue balls are used in a carom billiards game? |
| a. | | 1 |
| b. | | 2 |
| c. | | 3 |
| d. | | 4
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| 9. | How many balls must a player pocket to win the billiard game one-pocket? |
| a. | | 3 |
| b. | | 5 |
| c. | | 8 |
| d. | | 15
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| 10. | What is the billiard game called which requires a player to make contact with the other two balls on the table and contact three rail cushions in the process? |
| a. | | Three-cushion billiards |
| b. | | Three-ball |
| c. | | Balkline |
| d. | | Bank pool
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| 11. | How many balls make up a typical rack of bank pool? |
| a. | | 9 |
| b. | | 11 |
| c. | | 15 |
| d. | | 16
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| 12. | In the strategic billiard game of one-pocket, what are low percentage shots known as? |
| a. | | Chess |
| b. | | Flyers |
| c. | | Bank |
| d. | | Cues
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| 13. | Billiards was the first sport to have a world championship. What year? |
| a. | | 1923 |
| b. | | 1873 |
| c. | | 1777 |
| d. | | 1931
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| 14. | What is Minnesota Fats' real name? |
| a. | | William Dukenfield |
| b. | | Rudolph Wanderone |
| c. | | Orville Branstetter |
| d. | | Rolf Benirschke
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| 15. | Who invented the celluloid billiard ball, the first item made of plastic, for a contest? What year? Where? |
| a. | | John Fulton Gluck, 1933, in Philadelphia, PA |
| b. | | George Balabushka, 1943, New York, NY |
| c. | | John Wesley Hyatt, 1868, in Albany, NY |
| d. | | John Harford Davis, 1893, in London, Eng.
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| 16. | What is a "Maximum"? |
| a. | | a snooker term for 147 consecutive points |
| b. | | excessive force on a 9-Ball break shot |
| c. | | a trick shot making 15 balls in 1 shot |
| d. | | the percentage of difficult shots
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