Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[The Statman]

Is the player in question still on the main tour?

No.

Interestingly, Mike Dunn and Spencer Dunn both have a highest Crucible break of 83.

[Alex0paul]

Silvinho Fransisco?

[The Statman]

No to Mick Price (132) and Silvino Francisco (109)

CLUE: It was made in the second half of the eighties.

[Alex0paul]

Steve Longworth?

[April madness]

Eugene Hughes

[The Statman]

Congratulations April madness. Seemed a pretty confident answer – absence of question mark!

So here is the scoreboard after Round 28:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . snookersfun
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
10 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . The Statman

ROUND THIRTY

[April madness]

I forgot to put it!

[The Statman]

ROUND THIRTY

Name two players who have reached the Crucible at least eight times – note the word reached – I am not counting years in which a player gained automatic entry, he must have qualified eight times.

[berolina]

Tony Drago and John Parrott?

[Cessy143]

Tony Drago/Joe Swail ?

[The Statman]

Congratulations berolina! Indeed Drago and Parrott are two, the others are Thorne and Wilkinson.

So here is the scoreboard after Round 30:

Pos. . . . . . . . Points . . . . . . Name
..1 . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..2 . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . Mitsuko
..3 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . snookersfun
..4 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..5 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . berolina
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . April madness
10 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland
11 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . The Statman

ROUND THIRTY-ONE

[PaulTheSoave]

You can always call yourself : "loser of all rounds"

[The Statman]

ROUND THIRTY-ONE

Concerning the Crucible:

a) In which year was the youngest average age of all the players? (i.e. add up all the players' ages, and divide by the number of them)

b) In which year was the combined age of the two finalists the lowest?

c) In which year was the combined age of the four semi-finalists the lowest?

The answer to two of these questions is the same year. First correct answer to all three in the same post will win.

New names for the scoreboard are particularly welcome, especially those lower in the alphabet than mine!

[Robert602]

a) 2001
b) 1984
c) 2001
?

[davis_greatest]

With your excellent Almanac now safely in my possession, I think I could comfortably answer these - but I think that would maybe be rather unfair / cheating .... would it?