Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[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.

[Obligation]

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

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

[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!

[chasmmi]

i'm afraid to say it's a grand total of one out of eight correct.

remember also this is the 2007 world championships here.

sorry DGE

[snookersfun]

lmao - that made my day....you are mad, genius and madness, so close together...
and Obli bought it, lol Now I am just waiting to see, if you convinced him, that you answered his question right.

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)

[snookersfun]

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.

Obli, I plump 'elvaago'- aa glove (fiendish because of the two a's?)

I also though about
mark curnow before- wunck armor (but there is no wunck, is there?- so cruel again)

[chasmmi]

its so exciting we have two live questions.

Points up for grabs for everyone.

(Well except me as cryptic crossword style things bug me.)

anyhow I shall guess that the answer is that snooker is a fiendish sport and gauntlet is a fun computer game so therefore it is code for...

Snooker fun

[davis_greatest]

i'm afraid to say it's a grand total of one out of eight correct.

remember also this is the 2007 world championships here.

sorry DGE

That's about one more than I expected.

I think, though, that once the next shot has been played and points awarded, the referee can't go back and call a foul on the previous shot?

[davis_greatest]

its so exciting we have two live questions.

Points up for grabs for everyone.

(Well except me as cryptic crossword style things bug me.)

anyhow I shall guess that the answer is that snooker is a fiendish sport and gauntlet is a fun computer game so therefore it is code for...

Snooker fun

and I'll go for snookersfun for the same reason.

[Obligation]

Good thinking DGE, but saadly no correct answers from anybody yet.

[davis_greatest]

Good thinking DGE, but saadly no correct answers from anybody yet.

Which letter did I get wrong?

[chasmmi]

That's about one more than I expected.

I think, though, that once the next shot has been played and points awarded, the referee can't go back and call a foul on the previous shot?

but this wasnt the referee awarding the point.

THis was more akin to some drunk in the audience incoherently shouting that a point had been scored irrespective of the fact that the green, blue pink and black had all been sunk on the same shot and before the ref had a chance to restore order the idiot player has carried on with his break as if the previous shot was actually valid.

[davis_greatest]

LOL chasmmi I suppose so!

[Obligation]

You got all the letters wrong sadly DGE, because it's not meant to be you.

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This is nothing to do with nothing..but it is my 300th post

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I feel that I am going green

Any more guesses?

[snookersfun]

Chasmmi, I'll try yours:
Robert Louis Stevenson vs King Arthur Ronnie vs. M. King

Salad vs Bryan Adams Greene vs. N. Stevenson

Penicillin vs Denzil Washington S. Hendry vs. R. Mc Leod

Mcvities vs Caviar S. Davis vs. D. Roe