Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[snookersfun]

Hendry gets ready to take it on. A mobile phone goes off, and is quickly silenced. Hendry steps back, glowers at the audience, looks towards the commentary box, then at the referee, then at the trophy and sees his opponent, sitting expressionless in his chair, staring straight ahead. All is silent in the Crucible arena.
Hendry doesn't pot the ball

A minute later, he (Davis) is down, lining up the red. Bang! In it goes! And perfect position on the black. The crowd applauds rapturously. of course the would

[davis_greatest]

Hendry gets ready to take it on. A mobile phone goes off, and is quickly silenced. Hendry steps back, glowers at the audience, looks towards the commentary box, then at the referee, then at the trophy and sees his opponent, sitting expressionless in his chair, staring straight ahead. All is silent in the Crucible arena.
Hendry doesn't pot the ball

A minute later, he (Davis) is down, lining up the red. Bang! In it goes! And perfect position on the black. The crowd applauds rapturously. of course the would

Yet again, congratulations snookersfun! Well done! Of course, the last person to be mentioned before "he is down, lining up the red" was the opponent staring straight ahead - Davis! Hehe

So by the time that Davis had potted the final blue, Hendry needed snookers - Davis rolled the pink over the pocket and Hendry was unable to keep the pink out.


So here is the scoreboard after round 167:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 28. . ... . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 14½ .. . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . davis_greatest
..4 . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..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-EIGHT

... anyone?

[davis_greatest]

Oh, I forgot to mention a bit - but snookersfun still gets the point. Davis had just fouled to leave Hendry that long difficult red. Hendry looked at it, but after the phone rang, eventually decided that he didn't fancy it, the safety was too risky, and he signalled to the referee and Davis that he wanted Davis to play again. .... leading to Davis banging the red in.

[davis_greatest]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT

... anyone?

OK!

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT

I was really worried! Charlie, Oliver and Gordon had disappeared! Finally, after much frantic searching, I found them – they had just popped out of the Puzzles with numbers and things thread and appeared next door, here in Snooker’s Biggest Quiz!

“Where have you been?” I asked Oliver.

“We went to watch the Pro-Am Ape-Man Snooker Apen,” he replied.

“Oh? Whom did you see?”

“Well, it wasn’t that good,” chipped in Gordon, “’cos we didn’t get to see any gorillas playing. Just two men – one called Ding and one called Davis.”

“How did Davis play?” I asked.

“Oh,” said Oliver. “We didn’t see much of him. In fact, we only stayed for about 10 minutes of the match and only saw him play one shot – the break off!”

“And Ding?” I asked.

“Well,” piped up Charlie. “Ding wasn’t too bad. We saw him pot 15 reds, all with blues, and the first five colours (yellow to pink)!”

“Anything else?”

“No,” said Charlie. “That’s all we saw – just those 36 shots!”

“So what was the final score?” I asked.

“Well,” replied Charlie. “We didn’t see the whole match of course, but we did just look up the final score on the Chimpernet. It seems that Davis didn’t play too badly in the rest of the match.”

“So…. the score?” I asked again.

“Davis,” answered Gordon, “won 10-0. Of course.”

How did the match finish in such a way?

[Monique]

Well Davis an Ding didn't play each other ...
It was the Ape-Man snooker Apen!

[April madness]

Ding missed the black and "did Ronnie" by conceding the match right away?

[davis_greatest]

Ding missed the black and "did Ronnie" by conceding the match right away?

Hehehe... afraid not!

[davis_greatest]

Well Davis an Ding didn't play each other ...
It was the Ape-Man snooker Apen!

Yes, they did And some matches were 2 orang-utans playing...

[April madness]

oh, I'm sure those two little cuddly apes were chatting bit too much during the game and didn't notice that Davis actually snookered Ding with that brakeoff shot so Ding added 140 penalty points to Davis's score and thus didn't win the frame despite a good break. After this frame Davis stepped up and won the next 9 games with 3 centuries, 2 80+ and 1 60+ break.

[Alex0paul]

Ding potted 7 reds in one shot followed by a blue then potted the remaining 8 reds in one shot. He followed that up with another blue but after potting it he snookered himself on the yellow. He took 26 shots trying to get out of the snooker before he managed it on the 27th occasion. He then potted yellow, green, brown and blue before trying to lay a snooker on the pink but potted it. Ding conceded the frame because just the black was left. This frame left Ding mentally scarred for the rest of the match and it dawned on him he must be desperate for cash as he is playing in the Pro-Am Ape-Man Snooker Apen meaning an easy 10-0 triumph for Davis.

[Monique]

It was a match "first to 10" games, and each game was more than just one frame?

[davis_greatest]

oh, I'm sure those two little cuddly apes were chatting bit too much during the game and didn't notice that Davis actually snookered Ding with that brakeoff shot so Ding added 140 penalty points to Davis's score and thus didn't win the frame despite a good break. After this frame Davis stepped up and won the next 9 games with 3 centuries, 2 80+ and 1 60+ break.

Hehehe, my apes didn't miss any shots. That would be a lot of chatting to miss 140 penalty points...

[davis_greatest]

Ding potted 7 reds in one shot followed by a blue then potted the remaining 8 reds in one shot.

LOL!! Almost deserves the point for the comic value of this alone.

... He took 26 shots trying to get out of the snooker before he managed it on the 27th occasion.

Hahaha... I don't think the referee would call a miss that many times... think how many snookers Ding would require by then!

...an easy 10-0 triumph for Davis.

Now this bit IS right...

Gordon can confirm that Ding potted one blue after each red...

[davis_greatest]

It was a match "first to 10" games, and each game was more than just one frame?

Each game was one frame. Davis won ten frames to nil...

[Monique]

D_G ? Just to make sure ... this was "human" type snooker? Not the kind that's played on Astronomicus or elsewhere in ApeSpace? Just 15 reds?