Snooker

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?

World Snooker is delighted to announce that Teenage Cancer Trust has become one of its official charities.

Teenage Cancer Trust builds specialist units in NHS hospitals where young people with cancer can be treated with others their own age in a positive environment.

To mark this relationship, World Snooker has invited teenage snooker player Jack Lisowski, who recently underwent treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, to the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, where he will present the Junior Pot Black trophy.

The 17-year-old from Churchdown near Cheltenham battled the disease for almost a year, but is now in remission and was recently able to return to playing snooker.

“When I first found out I had cancer, I was petrified,” said Lisowski. “Then it sinks in and you realise you have to fight it. I was lucky to have my family around me. I had chemotherapy 16 times over an eight-month period. You’ve got to experience it to know what it’s like. It knocked me down and I constantly felt sick.

“At the time I was diagnosed, I had just left school and was ready to start snooker as my main career. One of the first things I thought of was that I would have to quit snooker. Once the chemo was finished, I still had to go through radiotherapy, but I was able to start playing again, which felt brilliant.”

Remarkably, within two months of resuming regular practice, Lisowski reached the final of a tournament on the sport’s secondary circuit, the Pontin’s International Open Series, and also reached the semi-finals of the European Under-19 Championship.

“My game is back to where it was when I was diagnosed,” he said. “I am mentally stronger as a player now because whenever I get frustrated with my game, I remind myself that there’s a lot more to life.

“I’m delighted that World Snooker has chosen Teenage Cancer Trust as one of its official charities, as hopefully this will help to raise awareness. Cancer can affect people of all ages so if you have any doubts, go to your GP. I found a lump on my shoulder one day so I went straight to my doctor, and the next day I was diagnosed.”

Junior Pot Black is staged each year during the Betfred.com World Snooker Championship, with the best up-and-coming under-16s from around the UK and Ireland competing for the title. The final will be played on Thursday, April 23 in the Crucible arena. Lisowski, who was Junior Pot Black runner-up in 2007, will then present the trophy to the winner.

Simon Davies, Chief Executive of Teenage Cancer Trust, said: “We are very excited to be working with World Snooker. Their support will be a great benefit to many young cancer patients, helping Teenage Cancer Trust to raise awareness of this often-neglected group. So far we have built enough units within NHS hospitals for half of young people diagnosed with cancer to have access to the dedicated, specialist support they need. Our aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every single teenager will be treated on one.”

Notes to editors:
Each day in the UK, six teenagers will find out they have cancer – that is almost 2,000 new diagnoses every year. These young people often get a raw deal, receiving hospital treatment in inappropriate facilities catering for children or the elderly.

Teenage Cancer Trust understands that teenage cancer requires specialist care and knows that young people have a much better chance in their fight against cancer if they are treated by teenage cancers experts, in an environment tailored to their needs. So the charity is working every day to make that happen, building specialist units in NHS hospitals.

Teenage Cancer Trust units aren’t like ordinary cancer wards. Everything about them has been designed to give teenagers the very best chance of a positive outcome. The charity estimates that, with the units they currently have around the UK, around half of teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to the dedicated, specialist support they provide. But Teenage Cancer Trust’s aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every teenager will be treated on one.

The Weston Park Teenage Cancer Trust unit in Sheffield opened in 2002 and has five beds. Teenage Cancer Trust also funded the development of a new conservatory extension for the unit which opened in September 2007.