Never Ending Quiz

Mark Selby?
Luca Brecel?

Last 2 players to beat Ding this season. The Ding curse

Yes.

Oh you can feel the relief

What was the first professional Snooker title Dennis Taylor won?

Rothmans Grand Prix, 1984

beat Cliff Thorburn in the final after almost pulling out of the tournament after his first match due to the sudden death of his mother.

SnookerEd25 wrote:Rothmans Grand Prix, 1984

beat Cliff Thorburn in the final after almost pulling out of the tournament after his first match due to the sudden death of his mother.

Correct

Who is next in this sequence, and what is the sequence?

Perrie Mans
Dennis Taylor
Steve Davis
Steve Davis
Tony Knowles
Steve Davis
Mike Hallett
Steve Davis
Steve James
Alan McManus
John Higgins
Mark Williams
Joe Swail
Stephen Hendry
Paul Hunter
Peter Ebdon
Ian McCulloch
Judd Trump
Anthony McGill
Ali Carter
Kyren Wilson
David Gilbert

Lei Peifan

The players who have all beaten the first time world champion trying to defend their title and beat the Crucible Curse.

Yes, spot on; the human form that the Curse has taken on each time there’s been a first-time Champion at the Crucible

What object did Terry Griffiths knock over in the 1988 World Championship Final?

He knocked over the world!

(the globe that was part of the arena set)

Correct.

Ed is correct :)

Patiently waiting for a question

Will sort the day

What is this sequence?

1986: Alex Higgins L 7-10
1987: Steve Davis L 4-13
1997: Mark Williams L 9-10
1994: Nigel Bond L 9-10
2010: Neil Robertson L 5-13

NB, I’m not looking for the next in the sequence, just what the sequence is. I shall keep adding the next line each 24hour period that elapses until somebody cracks it

The first five world champions who won at the Crucible their last ever match they played there.

mack501 wrote:The first five world champions who won at the Crucible their last ever match they played there.

Perfect

Who won the 1993 Asian Open title as a 500/1 outsider?

James Wattana?

Dave Harold, I think

Yes that is correct, Snookered25.

Ed is correct :)

Who was the equally surprising winner of the 1991 European Open?

Neal Foulds?

It was not; Foulds’ only Ranking success was the 1986 International Open, although it was firmly expected at the time that he would go on to lift several more…

Gary Wilkinson?

Juddernaut88 wrote:Gary Wilkinson?

No, Gary never won a Ranker; closest he came was a 9-10 defeat to Stephen Hendry in the 1991 British Open Final. He did win the (then) prestigious World Matchplay invitational later that year, beating Steve Davis 18-11 in the final.

Tony Jones he beat Mark Johnston-Allen 9-7.

mack501 wrote:Tony Jones he beat Mark Johnston-Allen 9-7.

Indeed he did