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Answer: Snooker

The cue is the long stick like object used to hit the balls. English billiards and carom billiards are played with only three balls. Pool has several versions, with different numbers of balls, but not 22. Snooker is played with 15 red balls, six different coloured balls (yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black), which have different points values and one white cue ball.

The picture shows a snooker table with the balls set up at the beginning of the game.

Answer: Badminton

Badminton is played on indoor courts normally, with the shuttlecock (as shown in the picture) having to be hit over the net with the racquet. The shuttlecock shown is a traditional one, made with feathers, although they are often made from plastic. The shuttlecock is also known as a birdie in some parts of the world.

Answer: Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team game played with a small ball, which has to be caught in the net at the end of the lacrosse stick. There are reports of the game having been played in what is now America for hundreds of years, although the nets used in those early days look very different from the one in the photograph, which is a modern version.

Answer: Polo

Riders compete in teams of four, riding specially developed horses referred to as polo ponies. The riders have a mallet, which must be held in the right hand even if the rider is normally left handed. The object of the game is to hit a ball into the opposition's goal. The game was first played thousands of years ago, possibly as far back as the sixth century BC, in Asia.

Answer: Cricket

The game of cricket was definitely being played in Tudor England, and possibly earlier. It is played by two teams of eleven players. The original kind of international matches are called Test Matches, where teams from two countries play against each other over five days. Shorter versions of the game are also played. Apart from England, cricket is played at international level by countries like South Africa, Australia, India and Sri Lanka.

The photo shows a bat used by one of the most famous crickets of all time, the Australian Sir Donald Bradman.

Answer: Darts

Some people might argue that darts isn't really a sport, but it does have several championships so I've included it. Small, pointed missiles, called darts, are thrown at the board with the score being the total of the numbered sections in which the darts land.

The middle of the board is called the bull's eye. Archery isn't an indoor sport and bowls and quoits do not use targets like the one in the photograph.

Answer: Dressage

In eventing, sometimes called the three day event, dressage is the first section followed by a ride across country, over different types of obstacles and a final round of show jumping. The dressage element, either as part of the longer event or in its own right, is designed to show that the horse and rider can work together and follow a set of movements laid down for them. Some of the movements can be intricate and involve changes of pace from the horse, while the rider has to give as little guidance as possible.

The picture is nothing to do with horses, but is of a dress to guide you towards the right answer.

Answer: Curling

All the sports listed need ice, but the picture is of a curling stone. This sport originated in Scotland a long time ago, in the sixteenth century although it was played outdoors then. The idea of the sport is to slide the stone along the ice to get it as close as possible to the target, called a house, at the other end of the ice rink. It became part of the Winter Olympic Games in 1998.

Answer: Formula One

Formula One is the highest level of motor racing for only one driver. The races are held on circuits around the world, from Australia to the USA and in many European and Asian countries. Points are awarded depending upon where the driver finishes in the race and there is also a competition for the team which owns the cars that are driven. Alain Prost was champion in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 while Ayrton Senna won in 1988, 1990 and 1991.

Answer: Greyhounds

Although all these dogs could run, the fastest dogs are greyhounds who are used to race around tracks chasing a pretend rabbit, called a lure. In the UK there are over twenty different tracks, mainly in England, in 2015, including in Doncaster, Birmingham and Poole. There used to be many more, but the sport is not as popular as it used to be.

The photo shows a race in progress.