Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[davis_greatest]

do i get a point for realising it was an anagram before everyone else?

Only if you also name the player and give the explanation before everyone else.

[chasmmi]

ok nigel bond has dog in it and there is maybe a public whatsitbloke which is an anagram of nielbn

[Obligation]

Will you give us any more clues?

[Obligation]

Tony Drago

[Obligation]

Notary Dog?

[chasmmi]

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

[chasmmi]

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

[Obligation]

So is it right DGE?

[Obligation]

You know you are watching this thread DGE...

[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?

[chasmmi]

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

[Obligation]

YAY!

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

[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)

[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

[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)