Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[rambon]

Did I? I'm sure I remember seeing Read. Didn't I mark it? Silly me. Never mind....


Edit: Just checked... I had marked READ. The one I hadn't marked was MANS. I distinctly remember finding MANS, but it appears that I didn't colour it

I was in a rush to get the answers out before another meeting, apologies for picking out the wrong mistake...

35 out of 36 was a good effort. I thought Marco Fu might trip a few people up, but never mind. All good fun

[chasmmi]

It seems that some people think this round has been going on too long so... without further a due. the answers:

Well known pleb, Don Gilbert was arrested yesterday for stealing a packet of special edition Dr. Who Top Trumps playing cards. He confessed to the crime straight away, admitting that he could not cope with not being able to afford them. Don then made a big song and dance about his obsession with all entities within the Dr Who universe from Daleks to Cybermen. This combined with his card game fixation proved too much to bear. It was later discovered that Don had also stolen the Everton Football Club, Rivers of the World and Marilyn Monroe editions of the cards. For his crimes, Don was sent to prison. His cellmate was called (Steven [S)tolk], he was an underground rave DJ who went by the name of MC Man. Usually Don tried to avoid him because as well as being very muscular, he had a bad gas problem. On many a night Don would awake in gags as nauseating methane veered up to his bunk as he slept. As hideous fumes exited Steve’s rear, Don felt he was close to death or near suicide at least. A prison building is not designed to be well ventilated, thus compounded Don’s suffering. Two other inmates, Henry and Harold learnt about Steve’s wind problem and began to sp[(rea)d] malicious rumours around the prison. They told inmates that Steve was lactose intolerant and his bad wind came from him having to drink soya milk instead of regular. They even wrote lethal letters to the Warden: (O{wen) [Bo}nd] about Steve’s problem. At the end of the day though Don didn’t give two hoots about Steve, he just wanted to get out of prison and back to his old life. He was tired of having to keep his cell all spick and span whilst other prisoners just snorted lines of smuggled cocaine. After a month of incarceration, Don got his wish and was a free man, now he could live an honest life for once. When he got his personal effects back from the Warden, he sent a text to his girlfriend: Hey Les, U Wanna Watch ‘Martians Attack!’ Tonight?

[chasmmi]

So that is a list of:

1) Ebdon
2) Gilbert
3) Day
4) Trump
5) Cope
6) Ford
7) Song
8) Allen
9)Dale
10) Bear
11) Everton
12) Roe
13) Stevens
14) Stolk
15) Meo
16) Mcmanus
17) Haneveer
18) Fu
19) Reardon
20) Thorne
21) Ding
22) Henry
23) Harold
24) Rea
25) Read
26) Ali
27) Hallett
28) Owen
29) Wenbo
30) Bond
31) Spick
32) Lines
33) Mann
34) Suwannawat
35) Tian

As you can see I got my Chines names a bit muddled but there were 35 answers available and the winner with 30 is Snookersfun congrats.

[The Statman]

Congratulations snookersfun on chasmmi's hidden names round.

So here is the scoreboard after round 139:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 22½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..3 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..4 . . . . . . . . . 12½. . . . . . . Davis greatest
..5 . . . . . . . . . 12½. . . . . . . Robert602
..6 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
10 . . . . . . . . . . 5½. . . . . . . Cyril
11 . . . . . . . . . . 4½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
12 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . JPK123
14 . . . . . . . . . . 2½. . . . . . . hegeland
15 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Valderie
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April Madness
18 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
19 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
20 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
21 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
22 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . rambon
23 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . JoanneT63
24 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . In-off
25 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
26 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY

I know this is an easy one for you to look up yourself, but I am trusting you not to!

I have just googled the names of the 17 Crucible world champions, to see which yield the most results. I did it in the following format:

"John Spencer" snooker

What I want you to do is list them, starting with the one you think got most hits, in descending order ending in the one you think got the fewest.

The point will go to the person whose list contains the most players in the correct order (not necessarily the most in the correct position).

I searched for O'Sullivan using the normal ' apostrophe and also with the curly ’ apostrophe, and it does not make any difference to the positions whether the latter are included or not.

You may have ONE answer, and the deadline is 1:00p.m. GMT tomorrow (Tuesday 13).

[Ginger Freak]

Ill have a go:

Steve Davis
Shaun Murphy
Mark Williams
John Spencer
Dennis Taylor
Stephen Hendry
John Parrot
John Higgins
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Terry Griffiths
Joe Johnson
Graeme Dott
Peter Ebdon
Ken Doherty
Cliff Thorburn
Ray Reardon
Alex Higgins

[PaulTheSoave]

I will go for the common names and numerous titles going top and the old stagers and champs with not so common names going bottom of the list. I suppose we do not use middle names or initials. for instance Mark J Williams!!!

Mark Williams
Steve Davis
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Dennis Taylor
Stephen Hendry
Joe Johnson
John Higgins
John Spencer
Shaun Murphy
Ken Doherty
Peter Ebdon
Alex Higgins
John Parrott
Graeme Dott
Terry Griffiths
Ray Reardon
Cliff Thorburn

[rambon]

Mark Williams
Steve Davis
John Spencer
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Stephen Hendry
Dennis Taylor
Shaun Murphy
John Parrott
Joe Johnson
John Higgins
Alex Higgins
Ken Doherty
Peter Ebdon
Terry Griffiths
Ray Reardon
Cliff Thorburn
Graeme Dott

[Robert602]

Ronnie O'Sullivan
Steve Davis
Stephen Hendry
Mark Williams
Graeme Dott
John Higgins
Shaun Murphy
John Parrott
Peter Ebdon
Alex Higgins
Ken Doherty
Dennis Taylor
Cliff Thorburn
Ray Reardon
John Spencer
Terry Griffiths
Joe Johnson

[Parklife Ricky]

Mark Williams
Steve Davis
Stephen Hendry
Ronnie O'Sullivan
John Parrott
Shaun Murphy
Graeme Dott
Dennis Taylor
John Higgins
Peter Ebdon
Alex Higgins
John Spencer
Cliff Thorburn
Ken Doherty
Ray Reardon
Terry Griffiths
Joe Johnson

[davis_greatest]

Jimmy White
Steve Davis
Stephen Hendry
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Dennis Taylor
John Higgins
John Parrott
Mark Williams
Shaun Murphy
Graeme Dott
Ken Doherty
Peter Ebdon
John Spencer
Alex Higgins
Cliff Thorburn
Ray Reardon
Terry Griffiths
Joe Johnson
Kirk Stevens
Alan McManus
Fred Davis

[Alex0paul]

Mark Williams
Joe Johnson
Steve Davis
John Spencer
Alex Higgins
John Higgins
Cliff Thorburn
Dennis Taylor
Shaun Murphy
Terry Griffiths
John Parrott
Stephen Hendry
Ken Doherty
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ray Reardon
Peter Ebdon
Graeme Dott

[chasmmi]

1) Steve Davis
2) Ronnie O'Sullivan
3) Stephen Hendry
4) Alex Higgins
5) Dennis Taylor
6) John Parrott
7) Shaun Murphy
8) Ray Reardon
9) Mark Williams
10) Terry Griffiths
11) John Higgins
12) Grame Dott
13) John Spencer
14) Peter Ebdon
15) Ken Doherty
16) Cliff Thorburn
17) Joe Johnson

[The Statman]

Congratulations Robert602, who put 10 of the Crucible champions in the correct order of google hits. Davis_greatest did too, but I'm giiving Robert the point because d_g took it upon himself to also include several non-Crucible champions! Well OK then, ½ point each, but as they are tied I will put Robert at the top.

The extra-observant among you will notice that I had eliminated the inconsistent number of hits because of common names, by including the word 'snooker' in my search. These are the results:

..1 O'Sullivan, 263,000 (plus 9,400 using the curly apostrophe)
..2 Davis, 217,000
..3 Hendry, 171,000
..4 John Higgins, 108,000
..5 Murphy, 105,000
..6 Doherty, 102,000
..7 Ebdon, 99,900
..8 Williams, 88,400
..9 Dott, 73,100
10 Taylor, 63,200
11 Parrott, 47,400
12 Alex Higgins, 43,100
13 Reardon, 26,700
14 Griffiths, 21,200
15 Spencer, 20,800
16 Johnson, 17,700
17 Thorburn, 17,400
So here is the scoreboard after round 140:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 22½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..3 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..4 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..5 . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..6 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 7½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
10 . . . . . . . . . . 5½. . . . . . . Cyril
11 . . . . . . . . . . 4½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
12 . . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . JPK123
14 . . . . . . . . . . 2½. . . . . . . hegeland
15 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Valderie
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April Madness
18 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
19 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
20 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
21 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
22 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . rambon
23 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . JoanneT63
24 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . In-off
25 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
26 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE

Since this is round 141, please name all players who have made a 141 break at the Crucible – whether it won the highest break prize or not. If a player has made more than one, you only need name him once.

First single post with all correct players and no others, will win.

[Alex0paul]

John Higgins x2
Joe Swail
Stephen Hendry x2
Peter Lines
Ronnie O'Sullivan

[PaulTheSoave]

I wonder what google version you are using! Does not make any sense from *rse to bottom!

The extra-observant among you will notice that I had eliminated the inconsistent number of hits because of common names, by including the word 'snooker' in my search. These are the results: