Name a World Snooker Championship winner: rare answers

“Name a World Snooker Championship winner” has 30 accepted answers here, and 10 of them (33%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and Mark Selby are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

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Accepted answers: 30
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 10 (33%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 17 different; J is the most common (7)

🐙 Abyssal: 3 answers (10%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 7 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 9 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 8 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (10%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

3 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: John Pulman, Horace Lindrum and Walter Donaldson. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

John Pulman, Horace Lindrum, Walter Donaldson

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Peter Ebdon, Terry Griffiths, Cliff Thorburn, Fred Davis, Wu Yize, John Spencer, Joe Johnson

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Ray Reardon, Stuart Bingham, Luca Brecel, Zhao Xintong, Joe Davis, Ken Doherty, Dennis Taylor, Graeme Dott, John Parrott

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Judd Trump, Steve Davis, John Higgins, Mark Williams, Alex Higgins, Shaun Murphy, Neil Robertson, Kyren Wilson

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Mark Selby

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.