Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Cyril]

Really clutching at straws here:

Horace Lindrum?

Nope. Note that player h is one of the more younger players pictured. Remember this pic is from the early 50's so, he would have been in his late 20's, perhaps 30.

[chasmmi]

george chenier?

[PaulTheSoave]

Fred Davis

[JPK123]

a) Alec Brown
b) Clark McConachy
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Willie Leigh?
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Kingsley Kennerley
k) Fred Davis
l) Sidney Lee

[Cyril]

No correct guesses for player H... hehe

[Robert602]

John Barrie?

[Cyril]

Well done Robert602! - you have won the point! I will update the board tomorrow, sir!

For the interest of those other participants, where did you summon up the answer? I have no doubt you knew from the picture, of course.

[Cyril]

Well done Robert602! Bad luck to chasmmi, Ginger and Statman, who got the other names.

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN
Answers:
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a) The fountain pen cueman. Alec Brown
b) Once walked around the table holding a chair above his head with one hand – with Joe Davis sitting on it! One of the billiards greats. Clark McConachy
c) Multiple world champion. John Pulman
d) Winner of the 1952 News of the World. Sidney Smith
e) Came within one frame of reaching a world final. As it was his career best was to lose in four semi’s. Albert Brown
f) The Greatest. Joe Davis
g) Regarded as the finest “all round” billiards player of all time. Willie Smith
h) His real surname was Smith, but played snooker under another name. John Barrie (Barrie Smith)
i) The lone Scot. Walter Donaldson
j) Great amateur career at both billiards and snooker. Played in the original Pot Black, in 1969. Kingsley Kennerley
k) Switched to contact lenses after playing in “sportsman’s glasses” for forty years. Fred Davis
l) Another player with an excellent amateur record at billiards. Later the referee in Pot Black. Sydney Lee

So here is the scoreboard after round 117:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 21½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..3 . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..4 . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 6½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
10 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
11 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . Cyril
12 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April madness
14 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
15 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
18 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
19 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
20 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
21 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN

Anyone...

[The Statman]

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN

"It's like climbing Mount Everest and then being expected to climb the flagpole."

Who said it, and about what was (s)he talking?

[Robert602]

Well done Robert602! - you have won the point! I will update the board tomorrow, sir!

For the interest of those other participants, where did you summon up the answer? I have no doubt you knew from the picture, of course.

Your clue about his age told me he was born not too far either side of 1930, which narrows it down a bit. Most of the bigger names born in the 30s didnt turn professional until much later and so I thought they'd be unlikely to feature in the picture, so that left Pulman, Rea and Barrie. Rea had been suggested (also I was sure he wasn't that tall), Pulman was already there at c), so I went with Barrie.

Feel a bit guilty taking the point only having got one name though .

Statman - Alex Higgins about playing dead frames after long matches? (Wild guess, but it sounds like something he'd say, with a few colourful metaphors )

[hegeland]

Ronnie O'Sullivan, about beating his fastest 147.

[Cyril]

I'll take a stab at Terry Griffiths, after beating Jamie Burnett at the Crucible 10-9 from 0-6 down.

[Cessy143]

I'm thinking it's something Michela Tabb said, or possibly Alison Fisher

[The Statman]

No correct answer yet. Clue: It was said long before the Crucible Theatre was even built!

[Cessy143]

I'll opt out then, away to watch the darts