Mastermind Club
Quiz 2022
Number 9
World Championship Snooker
Set by John Grasham
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1/ In 2020 who became the youngest referee to officiate in the World Championship final?
Marcel Eckhardt
2/ In 2020, Alexander Ursenbacher became the first player from which mainland European country to play at the Crucible?
Switzerland
3/ Who is the last player from outside the top sixteen to win the world title?
Ronnie O’Sullivan
4/ Who is the only African player to play in the World Championship final?
Perrie Mans
5/ Which player has the longest gap between appearances in the semi-finals, losing to Stephen Hendry in 1993 and Ding Junhui in 2016?
Alan McManus
6/ Which player reached the semi-finals in 1995 and reached a career high ranking of seventeen the same year?
Andy Hicks
7/ Who beat defending champion Steve Davis 10-1 in the first round in 1982?
Tony Knowles
8/ In 2019 James Cahill became the only amateur to win a match at the crucible, who did he beat in the first round?
Ronnie O’Sullivan
9/ Which left-handed player has played in more finals than any other left-handed player?
Jimmy White
10/ Three finals have finished 18-17, in 1985, 1994 and 2002. Who was the referee on all three occasions?
John Williams
11/ What did Mark Allen and Graeme Dott both do at the World Championship in 2010 that had never previously been achieved before in the tournament?
Break of 146
12/ Who won the last third place play off at the event beating John Virgo 7-3 in 1979?
Eddie Charlton
13/ Eddie Charlton suffered the first whitewash at the crucible losing 10-0 in 1992. Who was the defending champion that beat him?
John Parrott
14/ In the 1985 final how many frames had Steve Davis won before Dennis Taylor won his first?
Eight
15/ Who is the only Yorkshireman to win the title at the Crucible?
Joe Johnson
16/ In which year was the latest ever finish in a final, at six minutes to one on the Tuesday morning? John Higgins beat Mark Selby 18-13.
2007
17/ In making the fastest ever 147 in professional play in 1997, who was Ronnie O’Sullivan playing in the first round?
Mick Price
18/ Who beat defending champion Stephen Hendry 10-7 in the first round in 2000, 15 years before he won the title?
Stuart Bingham
19/ Stephen Hendry made his last appearance as a professional player at the World Championship in 2012. Which other world champion did he beat 13-4 in the second round before going out to Stephen Maguire in the quarter finals?
John Higgins
20/ In the highest scoring frame in Crucible history, who beat Anthony McGill 103-83 in the deciding frame of their 2020 semi-final?
Kyren Wilson
21/ What was the name of the South African player that was banned from snooker for 5 years after suspicious betting patterns caused betting to be suspended before his first-round match with Jimmy White in 1995?
Peter Francisco
22/ Who did Mark Williams beat 10-9 in the first round in 1997? It was Williams’ debut in the event and this fellow Welsh player’s last appearance.
Terry Griffiths
23/ Between 2018 and 2021 there has been a player with what surname that has made the semi-finals in each of the four years?
Wilson
24/ In 2022, who became the first Iranian player to play a match at the Crucible Theatre?
Hossein Vafaei
25/ In 2018, Mark Williams was so convinced he would not win a third a world title, he said he would attend a post-match press conference how? On winning the title, he carried out this promise.
Naked/ No clothes