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Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:39 am

Pastoral Symphony?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:25 pm

Otherwise known as #6? Nope. I'll accept either the number or name.

stuart4010 · Post by **stuart4010** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:10 pm

Eroica

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:13 pm

#3 - Nope.

stuart4010 · Post by **stuart4010** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:12 pm

Choral?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:21 pm

#9 - Correct!

Philips, the company that had started the work on the new audio format, originally planned for a CD to have a diameter of 11.5 cm (needed for one hour of music). But when Sony, the other company involved, insisted in 1979 that it should be possible for one disc to contain the entire Ninth, the diameter was increased to 12 cm to allow 74 minutes of recording; the longest recording of the symphony in the archives of Philips' recording company PolyGram was 74 minutes.

Over to you Stu.

stuart4010 · Post by **stuart4010** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:36 pm

Thanks Weyland.

Excluding Phoenix 53, what is the average number of Replies to each Phoenix thread in the last year (that is, from 18-52)??

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:07 am

Er.... 5?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:38 am

As they now seem to be 160+ but I am sure the Phoenix was generally reborn a bit quicker a yr ago so I will go 155

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:59 am

20 posts a page, I reckon an average of 7 pages... that gives me 140.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:08 am

I'll stop being thick and go for a real guess - 165

stuart4010 · Post by **stuart4010** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:59 pm

The answer lies between Weyland and Northern monkey.

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:06 pm

I'll go for the break that's 8 less than the maximum in snooker ie 147.

stuart4010 · Post by **stuart4010** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:09 pm

I'd agrue that the maximum break possible in snooker is 155, but that's me being a bit anal about things.

You're as good as there Harry, it's actually 146(.3), so I believe it's your question.

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:23 pm

16 Red Ball Clearances
In competition
The highest snooker break in competition is Wally West's 151. He made the break in the final of a club handicap at the Hounslow Lucania Club in 1976 against Derek "Butch" Rogers, in front of about 100 spectators. The qualified referee John Posner was in charge of the match.

Wally won the first frame with the aid of a 104. In the second, Butch clipped the blue and left Wally snookered. Wally potted green as his free ball with a brown to follow. He then took 14 red and blacks and a pink off the last red. He then cleared up to make the 151.

Jamie Burnett (Scotland) made a break of 148 on 16 October 2004, at the Prestatyn qualifiers for the Travis Perkins UK Championship. This was the first break over 147 in professional snooker. Burnett made the break in the 14th frame of his match against Leo Fernandez. He potted the brown as the extra red, then another brown followed by the 15 reds and all the colours. He made a blue on the first red, a pink on the last one and another pink on one of the other reds. The rest went with blacks. He went on to win the match 9-8.

The first 16 red clearance in a tournament was by Steve James (b. 2 May 1961) who made 135 against Alex Higgins in the World Professional Championships at Sheffield, S Yorks on 14 Apr 1990.

Dean Reynolds (England) a 16 red clearance of 143 in the seniors event of the 2006 European Team championships, in Carlow, Ireland.

Which snooker player was undefeated from 09/06/2001-03/03/2003 winning 15 tournaments and sixty nine games ?