Snooker's Biggest Quiz

[RocketSwanie]

Can I ask the Next Question?

[Cyril]

I guess it is a bit much. 1 and 0.5 then?

I should think so! Can't give these points out like sweets can we?!

[dantuck_7]

I guess it is a bit much. 1 and 0.5 then?

[davis_greatest]

So Alex gets 2 points and Kellie-Text's example is in the list below too so add on a point there.

3 points for a question?

[dantuck_7]

Is it that the match winner never led in the match until the final frame? Another example is Williams v Swail 2007 1st round?

That is the correct answer. The match between Williams and Swail is correct. So Alex gets 2 points and Kellie-Text's example is in the list below too so add on a point there.

Year Round Player1 Player2 Result
1985 Final Davis, S. Taylor, Dennis 17–18
1992 Round 1 James O’Kane 9–10
1994 Round 1 Bond Thorburn 10–9
1996 Round 1 Griffiths Burnett 10–9
1997 Round 1 McManus Snaddon 10–9
1998 Round 1 Wattana O’Brien 9–10
2003 Semi-Final Hunter Doherty 16–17
2004 Round 1 Dott King, M. 10–9
2007 Round 1 Williams, M. Swail 9-10
2007 Quarter-Final Stevens, M. Murphy, Shaun 12-13

Round 231 Anyone??

[Cyril]

Bang on but he did not decline without having some options to choose from.
Ray Reardon made a complaint that as Cliff was an amateur he would be taking the place of a Pro which would not be acceptable as one of the Pro's not playing would lose out on the chance of the prize money.
So the old man was given three options.

1. Turn Pro then and there and play in the Masters.

2. Not play and drop out of the Masters.

3. Or accept the invite and chance that the Masters be cancelled for that year due to the threat of a boycott from the Pro players.

He decided to drop out and he declined the invite I bet that is news to most

I think my knowing of this came from reading one of Clive Everton's books. Of course, most events back then tended to be Pro-Am. Willie Thorne had a similar thing happen to him in 1975 (76?) when Ted Lowe invited him to play in Pot Black. He took the option to turn pro., which, he later admitted was probably a year or two too early for him, at the time.

[Alex0paul]

ROUND TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE

What do the following matches have in common?

1985 Final Davis, S Taylor, Dennis 17-18
2003 Semi-Final Hunter Doherty 16-17
2007 Quarter-Final Stevens, M. Murphy, Shaun 12-13

For a bonus point find another match from the Crucible where the same thing happened.

Is it that the match winner never led in the match until the final frame? Another example is Williams v Swail 2007 1st round?

[Son of Cliff]

It was your dad but he declined. Wasn't it after he'd won the World Amateur, 1978? That would make it the '79 Masters, the first at Wembley.

Bang on but he did not decline without having some options to choose from.
Ray Reardon made a complaint that as Cliff was an amateur he would be taking the place of a Pro which would not be acceptable as one of the Pro's not playing would lose out on the chance of the prize money.
So the old man was given three options.

1. Turn Pro then and there and play in the Masters.

2. Not play and drop out of the Masters.

3. Or accept the invite and chance that the Masters be cancelled for that year due to the threat of a boycott from the Pro players.

He decided to drop out and he declined the invite I bet that is news to most

[Cyril]

ROUND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY

Who is the only amateur to have been invited to The Benson&Hedges (The Masters) at Wembley and in what year.

It was your dad but he declined. Wasn't it after he'd won the World Amateur, 1978? That would make it the '79 Masters, the first at Wembley.

[dantuck_7]

Nope that's not it.

[RocketSwanie]

is it that one of the players in each was making his first appearance that far into the event?

[dantuck_7]

R229 is still open.

It's more to do with the fact that they went to a deciding frame.

Kellie, your example for the bonus point is another match (one of about 10) where this has happened.

[Son of Cliff]

ROUND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY

Who is the only amateur to have been invited to The Benson&Hedges (The Masters) at Wembley and in what year.

[dantuck_7]

Not quite what I'm looking for.

In the Hunter Doherty match the maximum lead was 6 frames.

[kellie-text]

Was it the eventual loser had a 7 frame lead but lost?

And the bonus point, Bond v Thorburn in 1994?