Snooker

Qustion for you…

Of the current top 16, 3 players suffer from colour blindness.

Name them!

Peter Ebdon, Mark Allen and Mark J. Willliams.

Not sure if this has been posted before.

What is the least number of strokes a player needs to make, to ‘win’ a frame of snooker (i.e. to leave his opponent needing snookers)?

pot all 15 reds in one shot then pot black, yellow and green(27 ahead 22 on the table)

one to break off, leave the q ball snookered and make the opponent miss 37 times.

Hello and welcome to my TSF Snookert Trivia Competition…a competition to find out the member of the tsf who knows the most snooker trivia.
I have put down 15 questions rated in difficulty from 1-5….5 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest. If you say answer a question rated 3 correctly then you get 3pts and so on….
So here are the questions (number next to each question is the rating)

1.How many points were scored in the final session of the 2008 World Championship final? 3

2.Who was the only player to lose 5-0 in round 1 of the of the 1975 Benson and Hedges Masters? 2

3.What is Stephen Hendry’s middle name 1

4.What season did Jim Wych become a professional? 2

5.Who came 3rd in the 1988 Lion Brown New Zealand Masters? 4

6.Which player won, in the Crucible era, the prize for the highest break with the lowest break in Crucible history, and in which year ? 3

7.What is Gino Rigitano highest ranking 3

8.Who was first winner of Junior Pot Black? 2

9.Which 3 players represented Rest of the World in the 1979 World Cup 4

10.Who did Joe Davis play in his first ever World Championship match 2

11.How many times did Fred Davis have the highest break in world championships 3

12.What tournament was the International S.C. in Birmingham host for 3

13.Who won the PIOS event 7 in 2008? 1

14.”It’s like climbing Mount Everest and then being expected to climb the flagpole.”
Who said it, and about what was (s)he talking? 5

15.List every world final referee since 1977 2

what is the smallest amount of points you can possibly have on the scoreboard at the end of a game after all the balls have been potted?

1. Which year was the first that the Embassy was staged at the Crucible?
1976
2. Who defeated Cliff Thorburn to become champion?
John Spencer
6. Dennis Taylor has made two Crucible finals, in which years?
1978 and 1985
7. What is the heaviest margin of victory in a Crucible final?
Davis 18 Parrott 3
9. What do the 1985 and 1991 finals have in common?
Final Frame Decider
10. A few years ago one player won the UK, Masters and the World titles, he also featured in the final of the Regal Welsh that year. His name?
Mark J Williams
11. Which players have defeated Jimmy White in a Crucible final?
Steve Davis, John Parrott and of course Stephen Hendry
18. Which player succeeded in winning 19 consecutive frames at the Crucible.
Stephen Hendry
20. Who was the 2002 final ref?
Paul Collier

I log onto my favourite quiz website today and what to I espy? A snooker quiz! Finally! Okay, for some of you this one will be just too easy, but you guys can at least compare times? Heh.

The quiz is “Can you name the World Snooker champions (Crucible)?”

Here’s a snooker teaser for you all to ponder over:

Before we start, thanks to Nic Barrow for telling me this. Nic, you’re not allowed to answer as you know!

I made a break of 17 and I took 4 blacks. How did I do it?

This is a little quiz to see how much you remember (or how much you can look up) about the professional circuit in 2008.

Just for fun – no rules, no deadlines – and the answers will be posted on this thread on December 31.

Masters
1. There were seven matches in the Masters that went to a decider – who was involved in three of them?
2. Who missed the 15th black, when on for a 147?
3. Mark Selby won the title with a 141 break in the final frame. With whom did that share the high-break prize?

Malta Cup
4. Which of the four semi-finalists had not made a century in the group stages?
5. Which player opened up a 3-0 lead over Peter Ebdon with three centuries?

Welsh Open
6. Michael Judge beat two former Crucible finalists before losing to Stephen Lee in the third round. Who were they?
7. Who made back-to-back centuries in the first round?
8. Who made a century in his only successful frame in losing 5-1 in the second roud?

China Open
9. Which wildcard made a century?
10. Which two players took part in the longest ever professional frame?
11. Who made a century in the frame following his opponent’s 147?

World Championship
12. Who on day two was on for the Crucible’s first ever 146, but had a nasty kick on the 14th black?
13. Who left the last red a fraction short of the pocket when on for a 147?
14. Which player reached the Crucible on his first entry into the championships?
15. Which two players each appeared at the Crucible for the first time in six years, and which other player appeared after an even longer gap?
16. Who scored 448 points during which his opponent failed to score a point, during a Crucible match?
16. Which two players recorded an 8-0 session win during the championship?
17. At one stage in the two table situation, all four players in action were qualifiers – who were they?

Northern Ireland
18. Against which three players had Ronnie O’Sullivan survived deciders on his way to the title?
19. Who made the highest break of 145?
20. Of the 11 players making their main-tour debut, how many managed to qualify for the venue in this, their debut event?

Shanghai
21. Which two qualifiers won their wildcard round matches only on a decider?
22. Which two qualifiers met in the quarter-finals?
23. Jamie Cope made a 147 in his first match in Shanghai, but it was opponent Mark Williams’s second match – how come?

Grand Prix
24. Ryan Day survived three deciders en route to the final – against whom?
25. Who gained a bye to the second round after Graeme Dott’s withdrawal owing to his broken wrist?
26. Which two former world champions met in the final qualifying round?

Bahrain
27. Who made a 147 and three other centuries during qualifying but did not make it through to the venue?
28. Who made five centuries in the venue stages?
29. Who surprisingly beat a former world champion 5-4 in the opening round only to lose on a decider in the second?

UK Championship
30. Which two players withdrew owing to illness midway through their first-round matches?
31. Against whom did Graeme Dott secure his first match win for well over a year?
32. Which three players won most prize money at the UK Championship?