Snooker

I stumbled upon a bit of trivia a couple of months back.

As you probably know the game was invented in the nineteenth century by some British army officers in India. The man who is credited with inventing it was called Chamberlain. So what? you probably say. Did you know that he was the grandfather of Neville Chamberlain, the UK Prime Minister in 1939 who tried to appease Hitler and was eventually replaced, I think, by Winston Churchill?

Nice fact …. if it was correct. Unfortunately there is no connection between the two men.

Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, of snooker fame, was born in 1856, and produced only one daughter, Nora Mary Chamberlain. She married Lord Wigram in 1912. Neville Chamberlain (Prime Minister) was born in 1869, son of Joseph Chamberlain. The two Chamberlains were very nearly contemporaries.

Then I apologise unreservedly. It was in a book which I thought was a reliable source. I wouldn’t ever submit erroneous information to any site. There is already enough dubious stuff on the net. Maybe a moderator could oblige us all by deleting the entire thread.

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