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Darts Trivia Update

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One of the more popular stories is of darts emerging as a game developed by soldiers during the reign of King Henry VIII in England. Basically, archers decided to throw their arrows with their hand instead of the bow. Eventually they moved it to the pub and started shortening their arrows and that’s how the whole game of darts got started. This lore is further supported by the fact that King Henry VIII was gifted with a pair of darts during his reign.

  1. Darts is more than just a hobby played in pubs or bars by middle aged men after work. Darts is also for women and children. 
  2. There is a darts youth league and a darts women’s league. 
  3. Darts is also popular to the point where they have their own televised league like the premiere league, called premier league darts.
  4. Darts is much more popular in England. There is no doubt that that’s where the game was created. It is believed to have moved to America during the latter parts of the nineteenth century because of an increase in travel between England and the United States.
  5. Darts has an almost non-existent entry barrier. Unlike other sports that have certain physical requirements.
  6. Originally, man would throw steel-tipped darts in to circular blocks of elm, which the bar owners would have to soak overnight to close the holes up.
  7. Nodor is the oldest dart brand credited with producing the first dartboard made of clay. Currently they are one of the most successful darts brands. They are in possession of the famous dartboard company Winmau. They also own the Red Dragon Darts Brand.
  8. Originally, darts were made from cut down arrows or crossbow bolts. The primary purpose of the flights is to prevent the rear of the dart from overtaking the front of the dart.
  9. Dartboards are made from the sisal plant – this grows naturally in only a few countries with the best quality found in Kenya, which is backed up by its premium market price – so if it’s made in China it probably hasn’t got the best quality fibre.
  10. The first man to sell matched sets of brass darts was a Hungarian salesman of boiler linings named Frank Lowy. He went on to found Unicorn darts, still the largest darts manufacturers in the world.
  11. In November of 1989, Tony Jones recorded 28 perfect 180 scores in just one hour and 25 minutes for a charity event in Manchester, England.
  12. An impressive 7-man superstar line up consisting of Bob Anderson, Eric Bristow, John Lowe, Chris Johns, Martin Phillips, Alan Warriner, and Ritchie Gardner established a 15-minute fast-scoring mark of 8,806 points in a charity throw at the 1988 British Professional Championships.
  13. Big Cliff Lazarenko fired his first 9-dart perfect 501 game at an exhibition at the Aberlynon Leisure Centre. Using 25-gram titanium tungsten darts, he threw two 180s and a T20, T19, D12 for the 141 out in the last match of the night.
  14. A lessor known fact is that the first book about darts was published in 1936 by a writer named Rupert Croft-Cooke.
  15. The first major organized tournament the “News of the World”, nicknamed NOW for short was held in 1927 – 1997. with over 100 entries.
  16. Shanghai apart from being a game on its own can also refer to a player hitting the single, double, and treble area of a number in any game.
  17. Paul Lim of San Bernardino, California. Threw a perfect 9-dart 501 leg at the 1990 Embassy World Championships. Because he did it before the TV cameras, he received £52,000 ($88,000 US) for his remarkable achievement.
  18. Jim Pike, a darts legend in England before most of you even threw one, was such a marksman that he could shoot a cigarette from someone's mouth with a dart - AND STICK IT IN ANY DOUBLE.
  19. The average speed of a dart hitting a board is around 64kph (40mph).
  20. On March 28-29, 1986, Graham Innis, Graham Miller, Graham Parker, and Richie Davis scored 1,003,769 points in 24 hours at the Maxilla Club in London, England. During that period, they hit 152 perfect 180s.
  21. London, 1937. The great Jim Pike went around the board on doubles, retrieving his own darts, in the time of 3 minutes 30 seconds. He did this shooting from the old distance of 9 feet.
  22. At an exhibition match at the Gipsy Stadium, in England, in July 1977, Muhammed Ali faced former Welsh champ Alan Evans. With Evans scoring only on triples, Ali won hitting a bullseye on the way out and immediately proclaimed himself darts champion of the world.
  23. On February 21st., 1989, at Buckingham Palace, London, Eric Bristow became the first dart player to receive the coveted Member of the British Empire award (M.B.E.). Mr. Bristow admitted he was nervous meeting the queen, saying, "It was more nerve-racking than any TV final." This gives him the right to have the letters M.B.E. present after his name.
  24. In June of 1978, All-World John Lowe captured a 1001 leg in 22 darts: 140-180-140-100-140-140-125-D18. John averaged 137 per throw or a grand 45.6 per dart en-route to this memorable game.
  25. Pat Irwin of the Mitre hotel, playing in a double start/double finish 501 match, hit a 170 in (Dbull-60-60) and a 170 out (60-60-Dbull) in the same leg, in April of 1987.
  26. Probably the most notable individual effort occurred on October 13, 1984 in the quarter-finals of the MFI World Matchplay Championships. The match featured British stars John Lowe and Keith Deller with Lowe hitting the first televised nine-dart perfect 501 game in the history of the sport. 
  27. Darts has two governing bodies the BDO and the PDC. The BDO were formed in 1976. The PDC (originally WDC) formed in 1992 following a disagreement between the leading players of the time and the BDO hierarchy.
  28. Phil Taylor has won the most world darts championships a record 16 times among other impressive dart feats. He is also the first darts player to hit two nine dart finishes in one match.
  29. In the British Dart Organization (BDO), Indian Sikhs are exempt from the rule forbidding headgear.
  30. Eric Bristow got his nickname "The Crafty Cockney" not from his accent, as some may think, but from a T-shirt he picked up in a California darts pub.
  31. Apparently there 3,944 possible ways to hit a 9-dart finish in a game of 501.
  32. On 17 December 2019, Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to beat a man at the PDC World Championships, beating Ted Evetts 3–2 in the first round at the 2020 World Championship. (Sherrock has faced hateful comments online after her PDC matches of 2019, but said she learned how to use the feeling to perform better; "If I’m feeling a bit slouchy, I’ll look at some of the comments and I’ll be like: ‘OK, now I need to prove you wrong.)

 

 

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