Snooker trivia quiz

[dannyd0g]

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5. Which players who are not currently in the top 16 have been provisionally in it at some stage during the 2007-08 season?

Confusing one this, by 'not currently in the top 16' do you mean 'not in the the top 16 at the start of season official rankings', or 'not in the the top 16 as things stand in the current provisional rankings' ?

If its the former I have gone for Perry, Stevens, Fu, Allen and McCuloch.

[marshall]

This was a really tricky one. The only one I know of the 160+ players to have played at the Crucible who had a q anywhere in his name was Quinten Hann, but that's not his surname.

Maybe it's Norman Squire (1971)?

[Marc]

Maybe it's Norman Squire (1971)?

Norman squire never played at the crucible!

in fact nobody with the letter q in their surname did.

[ferret]

14: They would both of been civil servants

[crucible77]

2. And who previously held the record, outright, for most ranking finals without a title?

Matthew Stevens???

(Also please have a go at my quiz in the Snooker Quiz!!! thread)

[ADR147]

2 might be alan mcmanus?

[ADR147]

5 its a bit of a guess but. dominic dale , stuart bingham, michael holt and jamie cope.

[Alex0paul]

3. Tony Drago?

[ferret]

2. And who previously held the record, outright, for most ranking finals without a title?

Matthew Stevens???

I also thought Matthew but not too sure now!

[The Boss]

John Parrott?

[ferret]

16. Who is the only player to appear at the Crucible whose surname contains a ‘Q’?

This has got to be a trick question! I have been digging around and all I can find is two players with the letter Q in their christian name and thats it.

Quentin Hann & Qing Ling

No Q's in surnames!!

I also thought Matthew but not too sure now!

I thin it may well be Mr White

[davis_greatest]

16. Who is the only player to appear at the Crucible whose surname contains a ‘Q’?

Peter Lines? (line = queue?)

or Paddy Browne (row = queue similarly?)

[The Statman]

Here are the answers:

1. Currently, there are 8 players who have reached two ranking finals and been runner-up both times. Who are they?

Mark King, Darren Morgan, Dean Reynolds, Anthony Hamilton, Ian McCulooch, Ryan Day, Mark Johnston-Allen, Jamie Cope

2. And who previously held the record, outright, for most ranking finals without a title?

Graeme Dott, who had been in four finals before winning the 2006 World Championship

3. Which player, upon reaching his first ranking semi-final for 6 years, was provisionally top-16 briefly during the 2003-04 season, more than three years after leaving the official top-16?

Tony Drago after reaching the 2004 European Open semi-final

4. Which main-tour referee has a birthday of New Year's Day?

Alan Chamberlain

5. Which players who are not currently in the top 16 have been provisionally in it at some stage during the 2007-08 season?

Joe Perry (current prov. 14)
Matthew Stevens
Mark King (16 on the 1-year list at the start of the season)
Marco Fu (current provisional 13)
Mark Allen (current provisional 14)
Dominic Dale (prov. 16 after Shanghai)

6. Who beat two players with the same surname in consecutive matches at the Crucible (give me the year as well)?

Ken Doherty as previously discussed

7. In qualifying for the 2004 Welsh Open, which player beat Gerard Greene having needed three snookers in the decider and then doubling the re-spotted black?

Mike Dunn

8. Only once has there been only one player making his debut at the Crucible. Who's debut was it?

Barry Hawkins (2006)

9. Which player has had three official 147s made against him since the beginning of 2004, each of them being in a ranking event?

Mark Selby as previously discussed

10. In the 1999 Crucible semi-final between John Higgins and Mark Williams, what caused play to be delayed for about 20 minutes?

Water was dripping from the overhead camera/scaffold onto the table near the pink spot.

11. Who was a member of the top-16 for fourteen seasons, and for twelve of them had an even-numbered ranking?

Alan McManus

12. The final of the Scottish Pairs Championship in 1984 featured which twosome, who both later had Crucible finals to their names — one as a player and one as a referee?

Stephen Hendry and Lawrie Annandale

13. Match these rules with the year in which they were introduced:

Rules: Minimum 4-point penalty for a foul; Touching ball; Free ball; Player can be asked to play again after a foul; Re-spotted black to decide tied frame; Foul to snooker behind a free ball

Years: 1919, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1934, 1957.

1919 - re-spotted black and free ball
1923 - minimum 4 points for a foul
1927 - touching ball
1934 - mustn't snooker behind free ball
1957 - play again

14: What job might both Dean Reynolds and referee John Williams have ended up doing had they not taken up a career in snooker?

Footballer. Williams trialled for Bolton Wanderers and Lincoln City expressed an interest in Reynolds

15. What is the highest break that can be made three times in a single normal frame of snooker (i.e. excluding re-racks)?

56 as previously discussed

16. Who is the only player to appear at the Crucible whose surname contains a ‘Q’?

Lisa Quick. She won the Ladies' World Championship at the Crucible in 2001 and was also runner-up in 2002 and 2003

17. Who made more Curcible centuries than anyone else in 2006?

Marco Fu (8)

18. The distance from the Black spot to the nearest cushion was once described in the rules as being what fraction of the length of the playing area of the table — one tenth, one eleventh or one twelfth?

One eleventh

19. Since 1990, which players reached their first ranking quarter-final and went on to win that title?

Dave Harold (1993 Asian)
Dominic Dale (1997 Grand Prix
Stephen Maguire (2004 European)
Ding Junhui (2005 China)

20. Which player did Stephen Hendry beat at the Crucible four years in succession, apart from Jimmy White?

Nigel Bond