Can you name the World Snooker champions (Crucible)?

Year	Player	Score
1977		25–12
1978		25–18
1979		24–16
1980		18–16
1981		18–12
1982		18–15
1983		18–6
1984		18–16
1985		18–17
1986		18–12
1987		18–14
1988		18–11
1989		18–3
1990		18–12
1991		18–11
1992		18–14
1993		18–5
1994		18–17

Year	Player	Score
1995		18–9
1996		18–12
1997		18–12
1998		18–12
1999		18–11
2000		18–16
2001		18–14
2002		18–17
2003		18–16
2004		18–8
2005		18–16
2006		18–14
2007		18–13
2008		18–8
2009		18–9
2010		18-13
2011		18-15

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World Snooker Champions Quiz

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Published: May 24th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 22,407

Tags: World Quizzes, champion, player, score, snooker, crucible, World Snooker

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	yankeessuck8991:	May 24th, 2009 at 04:49 GMT	15 points
	People with the last name "Johnson" always get me at least one.

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	Kalessin:	May 24th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	3 points
	Knowing 4 people got me well over half the answers, without resorting to guessing common last names. I'll take it.

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	Kalessin:	May 24th, 2009 at 06:49 GMT	32 points
	Once the Brits wake up people will start to do well on the quiz. I barely ever watch snooker and I know a few names. These are mostly legends in the sport. Far, far easier than bingo calls, etc.

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	ghetom:	May 24th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT	12 points
	Looking at the distribution of answers so far, it's pretty clear most people are just guessing surnames. In Britain, it's almost impossible not to know something about snooker; its on TV for weeks on end.

	davidr:	May 24th, 2009 at 07:58 GMT	16 points
	Thanks, Sporcle. I'd considered submitting this quiz myself but I figured nobody would be interested. Looks like I was right but it's good to see it, anyway. (And, gaaaaaah. I got most of them but couldn't think of the common-surnamed one, even though he lived in the town I was born in.)

	adal:	May 24th, 2009 at 08:07 GMT	22 points
	I for one think it's good to have diversity: quizzes that apply to a diverse audience for one, but you also need to have quizzes that are specialised, and these should have as diverse a range as possible.

	PresidentJSC:	May 24th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	8 points
	Any pre-1977 champions? Well that'll probably make the quiz harder...

	DerekH:	May 24th, 2009 at 08:24 GMT	10 points
	The Snooker World Championships moved to the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield in 1977, so there aren't any pre-1977 Crucible champions... Two I knew but couldn't spell, and another I could only remember his first name!

	BrettCaudill:	May 24th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	47 points
	i suppose this is payback for the infinite number of completely american quizzes on sporcle...

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	Bethannie:	May 24th, 2009 at 09:30 GMT	14 points
	Should I be ashamed of acing this one?!.....and dare I also admit to being a bit of a snooker fan...I even played the 1985 champion once!...an exhibition match and only the one frame...I only got the table twice! - and one of those was 'cos he let me break!

	Lauro:	May 24th, 2009 at 09:33 GMT	11 points
	Very good quiz! I am from Germany, but Eurosport made Snooker famous all over Europe. Had all since 86...

	spurtle:	May 24th, 2009 at 10:00 GMT	8 points
	This is what I like to see. The less American the better! :)

	rahv:	May 24th, 2009 at 10:34 GMT	17 points
	@onetheta: there are a lot of really good snooker players from china, a few from australia ... not so many from america though, especially in the top ranking, that's true. but then again, there are world championchips in curling, too ...

	catman_dave:	May 24th, 2009 at 10:57 GMT	33 points
	I never understand why people play a quiz, and then complain about how they don't find the subject interesting. I don't go into Starbucks and complain that I don't like coffee.

	banutzu:	May 24th, 2009 at 11:01 GMT	13 points
	got them all. yanks, there is a world outside of america.

	jesus:	May 24th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT	4 points
	@onetheta: there are good foreigners. Just not as good as us plucky Brits. Hoorah!!

	banutzu:	May 24th, 2009 at 11:06 GMT	18 points
	onetheta - a bit like having a 'world series' based in one country.

	Loenla:	May 24th, 2009 at 11:43 GMT	8 points
	I got most of them. Never really been one to watch the snooker but I remember lots of names from the game show 'Big Break'.

	bton_hero:	May 24th, 2009 at 11:53 GMT	16 points
	This quiz makes up for all the baseball quizzes I have no clue about! onethatta: There are actually very talented players from Asia, including Ding Junhui, Marco Fu and in the past, James Wattana. And my favourite player, Neil Robertson, is from Australia.

	gfmk23:	May 24th, 2009 at 12:04 GMT	10 points
	onetheta:the 1980 Champion Cliff Thorburn is Canadian. Great quiz, missed 2, forget Graeme Dott and, for shame, couldn't remember John Spencer, DUH!

	Edge:	May 24th, 2009 at 12:23 GMT	15 points
	@BrettCaudill: I think 'payback' is a poor way of terming it, but yeah. For every periodic table of the elements quiz or countries of Asia quiz or anything else that anyone anywhere can conceivably be interested in, there are probably ten quizzes with limited appeal. Most of those "limited appeal" quizzes are geared to Americans, because I imagine most of the users of this site are Americans, but of course there will be "limited appeal" quizzes for others.

	Zalx:	May 24th, 2009 at 12:24 GMT	10 points
	Great quiz Sporcle! To anyone complaining, at least outside of the USA there is plenty of divesity here. There are far more people likely to guess Hendry or Davis than to guess an Incubus album or a party member from Final Fantasy 7.

	GeordieGuitarist:	May 24th, 2009 at 12:45 GMT	3 points
	Good luck yanks.

	The_Snakes:	May 24th, 2009 at 13:19 GMT	-2 points
	I got 28. Americans are stupid for not knowing about Snooker, it is one of the biggest sports in the world, far bigger than the stuporbowl

	MacZidane:	May 24th, 2009 at 13:38 GMT	9 points
	Got them all inside a minute. But then Snooker is my 2nd favourite sport behind football. That's proper football, Americans. ;-)

	y2jdilemma:	May 24th, 2009 at 13:43 GMT	-4 points
	-4. Wow. No love for The Hustler, eh? Ah well.

	juusosieni:	May 24th, 2009 at 14:08 GMT	-4 points
	21, pretty good for a Finn. Best Finnish snooker player is Robin Hull, why wasn't he on the list :D?

	Sabrestar:	May 24th, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	5 points
	Good quiz, way better than all those American College Sports ones that no one outside the USA could care less about. Snooker is a worldwide sport these days and over the years there has been a number of participants from China, Thailand, Malta, Canada and Australia. So there can be no complaints that it's a British only sport.

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	zalagreensbury:	May 24th, 2009 at 15:05 GMT	-3 points
	I see NO ONE here watches 'South Park' lmfao and or isn't a republican.