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Re: Never Ending Quiz

Postby Iranu

Juddernaut88 wrote:Ronnie Wood?

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Ronnie tells a story in his first autobiography of him and Jimmy playing a match with Ronnie Wood pouring them drinks. Best either of them ever played, he said.

Re: Never Ending Quiz

Postby Juddernaut88

Stephen Hendry won 5 ranking titles in 1990/1991 seaaon. Name the 5 tournaments.

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Postby SnookerEd25

Reality? :chin:

Used to be a friend of his … :sad:

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Postby HappyCamper

uk championship
thai masters
british open
grand prix
maybe the classic as well?

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Postby Juddernaut88

HappyCamper wrote:uk championship
thai masters
british open
grand prix
maybe the classic as well?


4 of 5. The Thai Masters is the only incorrect one.

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Postby SnookerEd25

Juddernaut88 wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:uk championship
thai masters
british open
grand prix
maybe the classic as well?


4 of 5. The Thai Masters is the only incorrect one.


Those four then, plus the International Open? (sponsored by Fidelity Unit Trusts that season, if I remember correctly)

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Postby Juddernaut88

SnookerEd25 wrote:
Juddernaut88 wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:uk championship
thai masters
british open
grand prix
maybe the classic as well?


4 of 5. The Thai Masters is the only incorrect one.


Those four then, plus the International Open? (sponsored by Fidelity Unit Trusts that season, if I remember correctly)


Not International Open I'm afraid. I still will require all 5 tournaments to be named just to avoid any controversy.

Re: Never Ending Quiz

Postby SnookerEd25

So I’ll go with (plus sponsors, as best as I remember them, for old times sake) :

Rothmans Grand Prix
555 Asian Open
Tennents UK Championship
Mercantile Credit Classic
Pearl Assurance British Open

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Postby Juddernaut88

SnookerEd25 wrote:So I’ll go with (plus sponsors, as best as I remember them, for old times sake) :

Rothmans Grand Prix
555 Asian Open
Tennents UK Championship
Mercantile Credit Classic
Pearl Assurance British Open


He's done it :happy: also a bottle of coke for you for mentioning the sponsors.

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Postby HappyCamper

Oh yeah they moved the Thai masters to China didn't they.

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Postby SnookerEd25

Hurrah!

Going back to Tony Drago for a moment, as I often like to do; one of Tony’s other successes was to be a member of the Rest of the World team who were surprise finalists in the 1989 (Fersina Windows) Snooker World Cup.

Who were his two team-mates, who between them pushed a star-studded England team (S.Davis, J.White, N.Foulds) all the way to a deciding frame?

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Postby SnookerEd25

No no no, Canada were always represented by a team of their own in those days, almost always anchored by Captain Thorburn.

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Postby Juddernaut88

Silvino Francisco and Eddie Charlton?
I don't think Eddie was still playing then but it's worth a go.

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Postby SnookerEd25

Juddernaut88 wrote:Silvino Francisco and Eddie Charlton?
I don't think Eddie was still playing then but it's worth a go.


Silvino is one <ok>

But, like Canada, Australia were represented as a full team - with Steady Eddie in charge of Warren King and John Campbell, more often than not.

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Postby SnookerEd25

Oh, and Eddie was playing well into the 90s - it was 92 when Parrott inflicted the first Crucible whitewash on him

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Postby Juddernaut88

SnookerEd25 wrote:Oh, and Eddie was playing well into the 90s - it was 92 when Parrott inflicted the first Crucible whitewash on him


Oh yes I should have known that <doh>

Re: Never Ending Quiz

Postby chengdufan

Francisco and Wattana?

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Postby SnookerEd25

No he’s not. Apologies, thought I had communicated that yesterday.

Now I remember, I was on the tube with no signal and message didn’t send. I forgot to come back to it :-(

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Postby SnookerEd25

HappyCamper wrote:Was it both Francisci, Peter and Silvino.


‘fraid not. The missing player isn’t Irish, but sounds like he could be…

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Postby SnookerEd25

Love your plural of Francisco though, by the way :lol:

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Postby SnookerEd25

Empire State Human wrote:Presumably Mr O'Kane?


Yes indeed; the ‘Irish’ Kiwi - Dene O’Kane :clap:

Yours ESH <ok>

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Postby Empire State Human

The usually uncontroversial Dene O'Kane was fined during the 1995 Thailand Classic for an infraction with his dress code.

What was it in particular that the WPBSA took a dim view of?

(I will give the answer if someone gets close enough.)


   

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