Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[Cyril]

chasmmi's answers: -

a) Alec Brown - correct
b) Freddie van Rensburg - incorrect
c) John Pulman - correct
d) Sidney Smith - correct
e) Albert Brown - correct
f) Joe Davis - correct
g) Willie Smith - correct
h) Stan newman - incorrect
i) Walter Donaldson - correct
j) Gary Owen - incorrect
k) Fred Davis - correct
l) Sidney Lee- correct (Sydney Lee)

None of the incorrect names on this post are on the picture at all.

[chasmmi]

a) Alec Brown
b) Freddie van Rensburg
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Stan newman
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Gary Owen
k) Fred Davis
l) Sidney Lee

[chasmmi]

g'day i know which 4 are wrong i think just trying to think who could fill those gaps.

any in the wrong place

[Cyril]

a) Alec Brown
b) Tom Dennis
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Clark Mconarchy
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Rex Williams
k) Tom Newman
l) Sidney Lee

G'day chasmmi

Eight scored.

[chasmmi]

a) Alec Brown
b) Tom Dennis
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Clark Mconarchy
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Rex Williams
k) Tom Newman
l) Sidney Lee

[Cyril]

a) Alec Brown
b) Tom Newman
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e)
f) Joe Davias
g) Walter Lindrum
h)
i) Walter Donaldson
j)
k)
l) Sidney Lee

i

Ginge, did I miscounteth, or did you edit the post? You scored six, not five.

[Cyril]

a) Alec Brown
b) Eddie Charlton
c) Fred Davis
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Jackie Rea
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Rex Williams
k) Van Rensburg
l) Sidney Lee

Seven correct.

[chasmmi]

a) Alec Brown
b) Eddie Charlton
c) Fred Davis
d) Sidney Smith
e) Albert Brown
f) Joe Davis
g) Willie Smith
h) Jackie Rea
i) Walter Donaldson
j) Rex Williams
k) Van Rensburg
l) Sidney Lee

[Cyril]

I'm off out now.

[Cyril]

Is that including Joe Davias??

And Sidney Smith for d)

Is b) Melbourne Inmann?

Yeah, I gave you Joe and Sidney. Mel isn't on there.

[Ginger Freak]

Is that including Joe Davias??

And Sidney Smith for d)

Is b) Melbourne Inmann?

[Cyril]

five correct.

[Ginger Freak]

a) Alec Brown
b) Tom Newman
c) John Pulman
d) Sidney Smith
e)
f) Joe Davias
g) Walter Lindrum
h)
i) Walter Donaldson
j)
k)
l) Sidney Lee

i

[Cyril]

Round One Hundred And Seventeen

A galaxy of snooker stars!

One point for the first correct post naming all players.

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(from left to right)
a) The fountain pen cueman.
b) Once walked around the table holding a chair above his head with one hand – with Joe Davis sitting on it! One of the billiards greats.
c) Multiple world champion.
d) Winner of the 1952 News of the World.
e) Came within one frame of reaching a world final. As it was his career best was to lose in four semi’s.
f) The Greatest.
g) Regarded as the finest “all round” billiards player of all time.
h) His real surname was Smith, but played snooker under another name.
i) The lone Scot.
j) Great amateur career at both billiards and snooker. Played in the original Pot Black, in 1969.
k) Switched to contact lenses after playing in “sportsman’s glasses” for forty years.
l) Another player with an excellent amateur record at billiards. Later the referee in Pot Black.

[Cyril]

Updated scoreboard

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
Answers:
Player a) Warren Simpson (Ginger Freak)
Player b) Sidney Smith (chasmmi)
Player c) Con Stanbury (chasmmi)
Player d) Peter Mans (Lindea)

So here is the scoreboard after round 116:

Pos. . . . . . . . Score . . . . . . Player
..1 . . . . . . . . . 21½. . . . . . . snookersfun
..2 . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . Cessy143
..3 . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . . Lindea
..4 . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . . Robert602
..5 . . . . . . . . . 10½. . . . . . . Mitsuko
..6 . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . Davis greatest
..7 . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . chasmmi
..8 . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . The Statman
..9 . . . . . . . . . . 6½. . . . . . . Alex0Paul
10 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . Ginger Freak
11 . . . . . . . . . . 3½. . . . . . . Cyril
12 . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . PaulTheSoave
13 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . April madness
14 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Ellena
15 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Obligation
16 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . berolina
17 . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . Mal
18 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . kellie-text
19 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . mcmanusrules
20 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . semih_sayginer
21 . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . Hegeland

ROUND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN

Speak now, or I will post one in five minutes...