Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[davis_greatest]

I suspect that is right, so this is the provisional scoreboard:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . 13 .. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
10. . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . Obligation
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
13 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . berolina
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
17 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

Chasmmi, please verify this when you get back.

ROUND SEVENTY:

Another cryptic one.

Decipher this, and you wull have the name of a BOARD MEMBER. Like the question before, there are two stages to get to the answer, no one.

'Fiendish Gauntlet'

The point will be awarded for the person who correctly identifies the board member AND provides a reason.

Excellent. I think you were right to say it's pretty safe to assume that I had won the point for the previous round. Now it's been awarded, I think it's mine whatever happens anyway.

So, to your question. Well, it looks pretty obvious to me... the board member can only be the one and only davis_greatest. I think it's barely worth explaining, but to state the obvious:

Fiendish > "Fiend is h" is short for "Fiend is hottest". So which fiend is found in the hottest place? Well, the "Devil is". You only said "h" instead of "hottest" to indicate that we should only use the first leter of Devil. So we get "D is". The Devil is where? In hell. So what goes in the middle of hell? All that is vicious gets sent there, i.e. All Vicious, or to use the clue you gave of only using the first letters, we get AV. Since this goes in the middle of hell, we get "D AV is".

Gauntlet > G aunt let > so this is asking Generally what would an AUNT LET one do? An aunt IS generally known as someone who likes to eat and give food to you copiously, to feed you like a lion. So we get EAT, preceded by G being short for what a lion does when it will feed, i.e. go "GR". I.e. GR EAT. Now, because the aunt IS the one known for this, and you have also used "let" at the end to sound like "Lat", short for Latin, you are asking for the Latin word for "is", which of course is "EST". So we get "GR EAT EST".

Hence D AV is GR EAT EST or davis_greatest.

In the bag!

[Obligation]

Above, it is meant to say: not* one.

(I don't want to edit, to save ambiguity)

[Obligation]

I suspect that is right, so this is the provisional scoreboard:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . 13 .. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
10. . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . Obligation
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
13 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . berolina
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
17 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

Chasmmi, please verify this when you get back.

ROUND SEVENTY:

Another cryptic one.

Decipher this, and you wull have the name of a BOARD MEMBER. Like the question before, there are two stages to get to the answer, no one.

'Fiendish Gauntlet'

The point will be awarded for the person who correctly identifies the board member AND provides a reason.

[davis_greatest]

This is too easy!

It is the 2007 Snooker World Championships and due to a mass food poisoning epidemic at the BBC David Vine has been forced to come out of retirement to present the TV coverage from the quarter-final stage.

Unfortunately David now suffers from COMS (Confused Old Man Syndrome), so when reading out the quarter final line up instead of saying player names he comes up with people or items which have a very loose connection to the player themselves. In some cases it is so bad that the name is connected through more than one trail of thought.

For example instead of saying Joe Johnson he may say Spectator as the editor of Spectator is Boris Johnson ergo the link to Joe.

Anyhow confusion arise when the following quarter-final line-up is announced:

Robert Louis Stevenson vs King Arthur

Salad vs Bryan Adams

Penicillin vs Denzil Washington

Mcvities vs Caviar

So what was the line - up (and I want your thinking too)

Mark King v Shaun Murphy

(R L Stephenson wrote The Wrong Box, and Mark King was wrong to think he would win a boxing contest against Quinten Hann; King Arthur and his knights sat at the Round Table, and Murphy's face is known for being exceptionally round)


Jimmy White v Marco Fu

(Salad is green, often confused with other colours, such as white; Bryan Adams was best known for his hit single, Everything I do, I do it Fu)


Alex Higgins v Alain Robidoux

(The antibiotic properties of penicillin were discovered by Alexander Fleming, bound to be confused with Alex Fleming or Alex Higgins; Washington DC is the capital of the U.S., which is basically the same as Canada as far as anyone else is concerned, from where Robidoux comes)


James Wattana vs David Roe

(Mcvities make Jaffa cakes, often colloquially called Jameswataffa cakes; caviar>fish eggs> roe - by now Vine is barely confused at all)

[chasmmi]

OK it is now very late at night and I have to wake up in the morning so I'm going to bed.

I will see if there are any guesses either tomorrow morning or afternoon

[chasmmi]

It is the 2007 Snooker World Championships and due to a mass food poisoning epidemic at the BBC David Vine has been forced to come out of retirement to present the TV coverage from the quarter-final stage.

Unfortunately David now suffers from COMS (Confused Old Man Syndrome), so when reading out the quarter final line up instead of saying player names he comes up with people or items which have a very loose connection to the player themselves. In some cases it is so bad that the name is connected through more than one trail of thought.

For example instead of saying Joe Johnson he may say Spectator as the editor of Spectator is Boris Johnson ergo the link to Joe.

Anyhow confusion arise when the following quarter-final line-up is announced:

Robert Louis Stevenson vs King Arthur

Salad vs Bryan Adams

Penicillin vs Denzil Washington

Mcvities vs Caviar

So what was the line - up (and I want your thinking too)

[Obligation]

YAY!

If you're having trouble chasmmi, I've got one

[chasmmi]

OK I am annoyed so I'm gonna come up with a question now. Give me a min to type it up...

[davis_greatest]

Well done, Obligation!

You know you are watching this thread DGE...

Am I? I only logged back on this minute! Either I am still logged on on my other computer, or it continues to say someone is watching a thread for some time after he/she has gone out!

But TONY DRAGO, mixing up the letters of NOTARY DOG (or DOG NOTARY) is the correct answer! Congratulations, and welcome to the scoreboard!

So here is the scoreboard after round 68:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . 13 .. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
10. . . . . . . . . . .1 . . . . . . . . Obligation
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
12 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
13 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
14 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . berolina
15 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
16 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
17 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland



ROUND SIXTY-NINE

...anyone?

[Obligation]

You know you are watching this thread DGE...

[Obligation]

So is it right DGE?

[chasmmi]

damn that drago if he was a better player than nigel flipping bond i'd possibly be a point to the better now.

[chasmmi]

well thats the next name on my list once nigel gets turned down

[Obligation]

Notary Dog?

[Obligation]

Tony Drago