Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[davis_greatest]

Congratulations snookersfun! Just hanging on to your slender lead over that great challenger in 2nd place!

So here is the scoreboard after round 164:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 25½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . davis_greatest
..3 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..5 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..6 . . . . . . . . . 12½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
..7 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..8 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . chassmi
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . The Statman
10 . . . . . . . . . . 6½. . . . . . . Cyril
11 . . . . . . . . . . 5½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
12 . . . . . . . . . . 4½. . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . rambon
14 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . hegeland
15 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . JPK123
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Valderie
18 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
19 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April Madness
20 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
21 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
22 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
23 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
24 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . pat39
25 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . JoanneT63
26 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . In-off
27 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
28 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Ronnieisthebest
29 . . . . . . . . . . . ½. . . . . . . abextra

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE

...anyone? .... (or should I dig up another from the BBC 5 Live days?)...

[davis_greatest]

Wasn't Davis 15 points in front?

Sorry - that's what I meant! Corrected it above now.

[chasmmi]

Who are these players? Answer all correctly for big point. (hope this works)

Edit (it seems I can only use four images per message so this question is in four parts spread over four posts. sorry

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Good luck I reall yhope these work (even if it means making the answers is quicker than making the questions.

[chasmmi]

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Any broken pics will be edited once all four questions are up ...

[chasmmi]

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[chasmmi]

4)

[PaulTheSoave]

Its actually the third time this question has popped up. A couple of months ago on this board. Wishful thinking me thinks!

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR

(...shamelessly taken from a question I asked on the old BBC Five Live... but it was quite a while ago.... so no cheating please! The Statman answered it then! Maybe a bonus half-point if you read to the end)

It is Monday 3 May 2010. I am watching BBC7 with my friend, and there is more of that bloody snooker on. Worse still, there is no sound, because my friend for some unfathomable reason does not like the commentary and insists on using the Mute button. That means that I am not even able to learn English grammar from Professors Virgo and Thorne - just staring at balls being knocked around a green screen!

Anyway... it is no surprise to see that Davis is looking unstoppable. Bidding for his 3rd consecutive World Title in a triumph that would make him a nine-time World Champion, it is a repeat of the final of 26 years ago, with the 52-year old Legend up against James White Esq.

It has been a see-saw battle, with each player taking a few frames and then his opponent doing the same, which has seen this extraordinary encounter reach its climax at 17-17. My friend, one of 30 million viewers in the UK and 800 million globally, looks on expectantly as the final frame is about to commence. Even I glance up occasionally.

White breaks off and leaves a long red on. Davis, whose long potting has returned to amazing consistency over the last 3 years, blasts in the opening red, clean as a whistle, causing beaten semi-finalist Neil Robertson to gasp in amazement from the bar where he is watching proceedings and stroking his hair. By the time that Davis has knocked in 57, he is about to play a crucial shot off the blue to open up the remaining bunch of reds.

Unfortunately, I never see the next shot, as I remember that there are some weeds in my back garden which I must remove, and I head outside.

By the time my garden is clear, I return to see what is happening. "What's the score?" I ask my friend. "Ssssh!" she says, a huge Jimmy fan.

I am pleased to see Davis at the table. It looks like the frame is nearly over, with only white, pink and black on the table. I look at the scores - Davis leads by 15 points! The pink is in the jaws of one of the top pockets, with the white at the other end of the table, tight on the baulk cushion, diagonally opposite. The black is near the blue spot and I can see that it is snookering Davis on the pink. Or at the very least, partially snookering him.

The camera moves round to show the angle and it looks like Davis can just hit the thinnest edge of the pink, sticking out, to pot it. Or can he? I am not sure. It is certainly very, very tight, to get past the black.

Davis gets down, feathers the cue, and sends the white heading diagonally across the table towards the pink. But - what's this?! The cue ball glances the black first on its way, knocking the black towards the cushion, the black then heading perilously towards the pink. "Foul!" screams my friend. "Hahaha! Go on Jimmy!!!!"

Davis stops to look at the table as the balls come to rest, and the camera zooms in on the black and pink. They are now touching, the pink dangling over the pocket, impossible to hit without first hitting the black. It is astonishing that the pink has not dropped. In fact, the slightest touch on the black would knock in the pink. There is no way that one could fail to knock it in - everyone can see that. It is, I assume, even obvious to John Virgo.

The white (ball, not the man), meanwhile, has travelled back to the baulk cushion.

"Hehe!" continues my friend. "And it's going to be a free ball!" she delights, as the Whirlwind steps forward for a cursory inspection of pink and black. Suddenly, Jimmy stops, smiles and turns, and he and Steve are shaking hands.

What happened? And who will be the defending champion when the 2011 888.com World Championship kicks off?

(No bonus half-points for reading to the end really. But at least you got this far.)

[JPK123]

1 is James Wattana?

[davis_greatest]

Its actually the third time this question has popped up. A couple of months ago on this board. Wishful thinking me thinks!

??? Where??

[snookersfun]

4-Ding?

[snookersfun]

1-Wattana
2-Hendry
3-Ronnie?
4-Ding

[chasmmi]

3 out of 4 is the best so far.

[snookersfun]

1-Wattana
2-Hendry
3-King?
4-Ding

[chasmmi]

nope. I do admit number three does take some liberties which English pronounciation.

[davis_greatest]

1-Wattana
2-Hendry
3-Cope?
4-Ding