General Awareness

SNOOKER & BILLIARDS

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport played on a large rectangular table covered with green cloth. Players use a cue stick to strike a white cue ball and pocket colored balls in a specific sequence to score points.

Key Features

  • Players : 2 players (or teams).
  • Table Size : About 12 ft × 6 ft.
  • Equipment : Cue stick, cue ball, 15 red balls, and 6 colored balls.
  • Objective : Score more points than the opponent by potting balls in the correct order.

Basic Rules

  1. 1A red ball must be potted first, followed by a colored ball.
  2. 2Each ball has a specific point value.
  3. 3Fouls result in penalty points for the opponent.
  4. 4The player with the highest score at the end of the frame wins.

Billiards

Billiards is a cue sport played on a table without pockets. Players score points by striking the cue ball so that it contacts the other balls according to the rules.

Key Features

  • Players : Usually 2 players.
  • Table : Pocketless billiards table.
  • Equipment : Cue stick and three balls (one red and two cue balls).
  • Objective : Score points through successful cannon and rebound shots.

Basic Rules

  1. 1The cue ball must strike the other balls in a prescribed manner.
  2. 2Points are awarded for successful shots.
  3. 3Players continue their turn while scoring.
  4. 4The player with the highest score wins.

The Snooker game is a cue sport that is played on a baize – covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions ……. A player or team wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponents, using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls.

Billiard Sports or Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skills generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth – covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions.

Trophies

  1. 1Walker Trophy
  2. 2Thomas Cup
  3. 3Goldflake Trophy

Related Terms

  1. 1Cue
  2. 2Canon
  3. 3Long jenny
  4. 4Short jenny
  5. 5Frame
  6. 6In-off
  7. 7Pot
  8. 8Balting
  9. 9Browk
  10. 10Bak
  11. 11Spot stroke
  12. 12Handi caph

Famous Snooker Players

  1. 1Pankaj Advani (India)
  2. 2Mark Selby (India)
  3. 3Geet Sethi (India)
  4. 4Ashok Shandilya (India)
  5. 5Michael Ferreira (India)