Pool And Billiards Quiz
1. You begin an Eight Ball game by sinking a stripe and also a solid on a legal break. The first ball to consider on the table before you bend to shoot again is:A) Whichever stripe (or solid) that sinks easily to secure your choice of hi- or low-balls.
B) Whichever trouble ball (along a rail, perhaps) that might hurt your run later
C) The 8-ball
2. If you could, you'd play this cut shot angle constantly to make life easy:
A) 30 degrees
B) 10 degrees
C) 90 degrees
3. When shooting the cue ball with english on a cut shot, sidespin affects this the most:
A) The object ball's direction after impact with the cue ball
B) The cue ball's direction after impact with the object ball
C) The cue ball's direction after impact with a cushion
Pool And Billiards Quiz Answers
1. C) - Always look at the eight ball first to determine whether it can be sunk with ease and which key ball leads up to it last. Memorize this phrase, "Run 'em all including the eight or play safe." The absolute worst Eight Ball play is a run of all solids or stripes without the eight. That's like asking your opponent, "What's easier for you? To run the table since I've cleared all my obstacle balls off or to play safe behind one of your seven balls?"2. B) - 10 degrees (up to about 15 degrees) aka the golden angle of cut shots. 10 degrees is almost straight in, yet there's enough cut angle to maneuver the cue ball for shape with ease. If you prefer C) to cut extremely thin shots near 90 degrees instead, you are a truly masterful pool shooter.
3. C) - Using a near level cue, english has significant affect on A) only on relatively slow strokes and B) not at all-if you believe shooting with english alters cue ball direction at impact with an object ball it's because you're not aimed in the direction you think you are.
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