Episode 13 A Question of Sport

Lining up on tonight's show...

Olympic champion swimmer Rebecca Adlington.

England defender turned pundit Danny Mills.

Wales' record try scorer, Shane Williams.

And a Super Bowl winner, Osi Umenyiora.

Who will come out on top on A Question Of Sport?

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Hello. Welcome to the show.

Tonight's guests have coped with the pressure of World Cups, Olympics

and Super Bowls. But how will they cope with the pressure

of the Question Of Sport studio?

We are about to find out. First up, the Picture Board.

OK, Matt, there are 12 pictures on the board

and you have a minute to get through as many as you can.

OK. Let's start with number nine, please.

Who's that? Becky Cooke. Yes. Ten.

Noble. Mark Noble. Yes. 11.

Jade Jones. Yes.

12.

Oh... Ralph Schu... No, Schum... Ye... No.

Ralph Schumacher? Yes. Wow.

Eight.

James DeGale. Yes.

Seven.

William... Willem... Willem...

Willem... William...

Prince William!

Oh... The fullback! Move on.

Oh, my goodness me! What is his name? Six.

Who is that? Oh, Danny Evans. Yes.

Five.

Katie Ledecky. Yes.

One.

Christine Ohuruogu? Yep. Two.

Stokes! Yes. Three.

Oh, that is Martial! Yes. Join in, Danny, any time. Four.

WHISTLE BLOWS, LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE, MUFFLED SPEECH

I know we look alike, but there are two people not just one here.

I thought it was individual. You were doing so well.

I just thought, "Why interrupt a genius?"

LAUGHTER But I must admit,

I did think I had just come on the set of EastEnders.

LAUGHTER

It's the swimming cap team over here.

Grant...? Barbara Windsor, what is going on?

LAUGHTER

Tufnell, that's terrible! IMITATES HER: 'Get out of my pub.'

So the only one you missed was the rugby player, then.

Was it le Roux? Yes, it was.

Willie le Roux was the only one you missed.

And you ran out of time for

Graeme McDowell.

But at the end of the round, you scored ten. Well done.

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All right, Phil, you have 60 seconds. Right.

What is your first number?

Number one, please, Sue.

Sanderson, Tessa. Yeah. Two.

Oh, Calvin Johnson. Yes! Three.

Watson. No. Um... Um...

Mauresmo. No. No. Move on, move on.

Four.

Ryan Giggs. Yes. Five.

Drew Mitchell. Yes! Six.

Derek Jeter. Yes. Oh, get in! Seven.

Oh, oh, Mitchell! No. No. What's his name?

Oh, The Big Show. What's his name?

Winston Churchill. No!

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Oh, move on! Eight.

Aaron Rodgers. Yes. Oh, lovely!

Nine.

Dusautoir. Yes. Yes, Dusautoir. Ten.

Oh!

Is that Johnson? Yes. Yes! 11.

That's Ibrahimovic. Yes, yes, yes! 12.

WHISTLE BLOWS ALL: Oh! Selby, Selby!

Yeah. Too late, I'm afraid, the whistle had gone.

It was The Big Show, the cricketer.

Sorry, the cricketer. That's OK.

The Big Show, the cricketer, Australian. Glen Maxwell. Maxwell!

Oh, man. I got the Ms mixed up.

And the tennis player we were looking for was Jennifer Capriati.

Of course it is!

So at the end of the opening round,

Phil is on nine,

Matt in front on ten.

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It is sports action now, where, Matt, your team are up first.

Make a note of the people you see.

CROWD CHEERS

'Four minutes, 6.28.

'She is just outside of that,

'but a gold, a second gold medal at the these championships.'

'And a goal!'

'Bowling really well.

'Look at that. There you are.' Yes!

'If brown is in...

'It's over!'

'Seven times world champion...'

So, to start with, can you name the five people that you saw in action?

There is a point for each one that you get right.

Argh!

The swimmer? Caitlin McClatchey.

Correct. Well done, Becky. Very good.

Papiss Demba Cisse. Yes.

Oh, the golfer was Ben Curtis. Yes.

Stephen Hendry was the snooker player.

And Peter Ebdon. Yes.

Peter Ebdon is the one we were looking for, but that is fine.

Kiwi cricketer...

Vettori.

Yes! Well done. A total of five.

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So you have names of the stars, but for two bonus points,

we would like you to put them in order of when the action took place.

Oh, Susan! From earliest first to latest.

Caitlin was 2006.

Oh, oh, hold on!

Swimming. Yeah.

Peter Ebdon, hm. Vettori, hm.

Cisse.

Against Chelsea was that? A couple of years ago. A couple of years?

You happy with '13? Yeah, something like that. Yeah? Recently.

Could we be a little more specific? No. No?

LAUGHTER That's a fair enough. That's fair enough. Right on.

What was Curtis?

Well, Curtis was 100% 2003.

OK. 100%.

OK. Let's go with... Ben Curtis.

Ebdon.

Caitlin.

Vettori.

Cissi, Cisse.

Cisse. So those are the five that you put in order.

But it's not right.

You don't get the bonus points. It was... Peter Ebdon was 2002.

All the others you had right.

'03 for Curtis. '06 for Caitlin McClatchy.

And then Vettori and Cisse. So just missed out. No bonus point.

But still five points scored. That was good.

OK, Phil. Well done, Matt(!)

LAUGHTER

Got lucky on the date. Same for you, make a note of everyone you see.

'Good for the win.'

'Big receivers to the left side.

'Rivers steps up, goes underneath, makes the move for the touchdown!

'How was he able to break free?'

'Close to the line, but he gets it -

'9.82!'

'Oh, I think that's a try.'

Oooh, oooh...

Do you have all five? Right, OK. Big fella.

You got Philip Rivers, LaDainian Tomlinson...

Go on. Go on. Oh.

Philip Rivers and LaDainian Tomlinson.

The LaDainian Tomlinson is the one we were looking for, yes.

Well done. You know your stuff!

Just a shame about the captain.

LAUGHTER

Um...

Shane Horgan. Shane... Horgan.

Yes, correct again. Yes.

Runner, Maurice Greene? Maurice Greene. It is.

And I think the tennis player is...

Kim Clijsters. Or is it Henin?

Clijsters. Kim Clijsters, yeah. You thought it was Kim Clijsters?

Clijsters? Kim Clijsters. Kim Clijsters.

Went with the right one, yes. Oh, get in, boys! Well done.

Thank you, thank you.

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Tim Duncan. It is Tim Duncan, yes. You got them all, well done.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Good, five.

That is a good score.

Right, dates.

So you got those... LAUGHTER

..five points on the board, can you get the two bonus points?

Right. Put them in order.

Tim Duncan, that was the Olympics so... Basketball.

I don't know if he made the team in 2012, though.

Oh, OK, so it would be four years before, you reckon?

It might have been 2008.

OK. Good.

2008. Rugby.

They had old shirts on. Yeah, so around about 2004, I'd say.

2005, maybe.

Good. We're getting there slowly.

Maurice Greene. Maurice Greene.

That is going back in the day a bit.

Do you reckon that was before the rugby or after the rugby?

I'd say before. I'd say before, too. Before? Before.

What have we got left? We've got LaDainian Tomlinson.

Yeah. Who was he playing for?

He was playing for the Chargers,

so he played for the Jets after the Chargers.

I would say that was probably...

2006, maybe.

Then we have got Clijsters.

That looks like some old footage, though. Yeah. When was she about?

'06?

It would be after '05. You reckon after '05? I'd say.

I'd say. It could be '07!

Could squeeze it in between the basketball. Yeah.

LAUGHTER Just squeeze it in!

Um... Right, that is what we're going to go with.

Sue, we're going to go with the first up, Maurice Greene. Yep.

Second, the rugby.

Third... LT. LT.

Clijsters. And then the...basketball.

You got one right.

LAUGHTER

Maurice Greene was indeed 2001, but Tim Duncan,

that was at the Athens Olympics. 2006 was the rugby.

And then the touchdown at Wembley in '08.

And Kim, 2011. Yes, winning the Australian Open on her comeback.

Unlucky. Tough, that was tough, boys. That was tough. It was tough.

So end of the round, Phil is on 14.

Matt in front, on 15.

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So now for the guests, it is the choice of a home question

or an away question.

And, Becky, we are coming to you first. Home. Home question?

All right. In Kazan,

which freestyle swimmer became the first woman to win

a sixth consecutive world championship medal in the same event?

That is a lot. Six? Six on the bounce?

Yeah, six consecutive world championship medals

in the same event.

Freestyler. Trying to think who's that old.

LAUGHTER That sounds really bad.

You're not very old when you're swimming.

They start when they are like eight.

The only one I think it could be would be maybe Pellegrini?

But she doesn't seem that old.

How old is she?

Maybe 28? Oh, she's ancient!

LAUGHTER Ancient! Oh, my...

No, can't be her(!) I mean, she must be grey...

..with worry and age.

28.

So could she have started when she was 18?

Pellegrini, that is the only one I can think it could be.

Pellegrini? Yeah.

It's the right answer!

CHEERING

Hurrah!

Osi, over to you. Home question or away? Home. Home. Home.

Yeah. Take your time.

Which quarterback this season started for his fourth different

team in four years, winning his opening match 31-10,

having previously started for the Buffalo Bills,

the Tennessee Titans and the Houston Texans?

So...

It is his fourth team.

So, Houston. Mm-hm.

Buffalo. Yeah.

Who's their quarterback?

This should be easy.

But those are the ones that usually trip you up.

Well, I find that as well!

LAUGHTER

And they won their opening game this year?

Who won, yeah, their opening game this year?

31-10. That is quite a good spanking.

Jets?

Minnesota...

San Francisco...

I think they won 31-10.

Yeah, but their quarterback wasn't... Who's their quarterback?

Their quarterback now is...

You're right.

Is it? Yeah. It has to be. They did win 31-10. Definitely, man. Is it?

Yeah, no question about that.

LAUGHTER

Now I know. What is his name?

And since you did the honours, I'm going to let you go ahead

and shout it out. No, no, no!

Cos I just... No, you get it, you go. He was just naming teams.

Ryan Fitzpatrick. Is the right answer.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Now, Osi, tell us about that ring and what that means to you. This?

Yeah, this is a Super Bowl ring. This was the second one we won.

And, you know, it means the world to me.

Actually, what I should've done was rubbed it

because usually an American genie comes out

LAUGHTER with the answer.

But it didn't happen this time.

We beat the Patriots for the second time.

Yeah, it is really an outstanding accomplishment for the Giants

and I am happy to be here.

Yeah, it is great to have you here.

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It really seems to be taking off here.

I know you are very much involved. The games are getting great crowds.

Yeah, yeah. 84,000, 85,000. It is only going to keep

getting bigger, so I am excited.

It is a great time for football over here.

American football, that is. LAUGHTER

Hopefully, people will come out and keep on supporting the games.

Now, some of the rugby guys... I don't know, would Matt qualify?

Or do you have to be a bit bigger, do you think?

LAUGHTER A bit younger, maybe?

He could be the ball.

LAUGHTER

Some of the rugby guys have had a go. I think they have similar traits.

You know, similar physicality. I think they can translate.

Actually, I am looking for some British players that actually

translate to the game or actually make them,

transform them into American football players.

Yeah. LAUGHTER

Look at that.

There is a six-pack in there. There is!

It's just covered by a one-pack.

LAUGHTER

Anyway, well done, Osi.

Got the point there. Danny, over to you. So, home question?

They seem to be very easy at the moment.

LAUGHTER Yeah, really!

I will take direction from the captain.

Home is OK. OK, we will go home, we will risk it. OK.

Who this season became only the second British player

in Premier League history to come on as a substitute

and score a hat-trick?

Wow.

Oh, I've got it.

I think I have got it. This season or this year?

Who this season...

Better go through... Shall we go through the cities?

Sunderland, no. Newcastle, no.

West Ham?

Have they been scoring some goals?

No, Payet scored for them. Top scorer. Everton.

No.

Yes. Is it? Good stuff.

Which team do you support, Daws? Everton. OK.

LAUGHTER

Naismith! Of course, Chelsea. Yeah.

Did he come off of the bench? Yeah.

Wow. Naismith, Everton. It is. Steven Naismith, well done.

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Well done. Over to you, Shane. Home, please. Home.

Which Lion's forward won his 100th cap for his country against

Wales in 2015, 13 years after making his debut against the same team?

So...

Gah, it could be.

I mean, he has been around for a while, hasn't he?

It has got to be. Go on. Yeah? Paul O'Connor?

It is the right answer. Paul O'Connor.

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Great start with Japan. That big upset against South Africa.

Of course, the World Cup is going to be in Japan.

How do you think that will be? It is going to be great.

You know, it was 24 years since Japan won their last game and then

they go and beat two-time world champions, it's just incredible.

But, yeah, next World Cup in Japan.

It is just going to be absolutely mental.

They are so fanatical about the sport.

And I think it'll just be a great spectacle.

And the Japanese now, after

especially such a successful workup, they think they are going to win it.

LAUGHING: Absolutely.

Well, they are passionate about it and they love their rugby.

And they love you as well.

This is Shane meeting his number one fan, take a look at this.

Sign, please. No worries.

Sign the shirt?

BREATHLESSLY: Yeah. Yeah!

Japanese... Really famous.

Hey, it's OK.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Please take picture.

Japanese... Famous.

Do you want me to give it a try? Yes. OK.

It's OK, buddy. Chill out.

LAUGHTER

OK. And one more. There you are.

Thank you. Once more.

LAUGHTER

He's got another ten in his bag.

I loved your quote at the end. "He's got ten more in the bag."

He did! That's the thing.

No, quite excited. Fair play to him.

Well done. OK, well, the guests have done well.

And we want you to join in in this one.

Because as you are all pundits,

we thought we'd put you to the test in this round.

On the board are four subjects.

Once you have picked a subject,

you'll have 30 seconds to talk about it.

And then I'll have five keywords on my card,

and you get marks for every one that you mention.

OK, Tuffers, you are trailing, so you are up first.

OK, right, OK. We are going to have a little stab at baseball, Sue.

Fire away, your 30 seconds start now.

Pitcher. Home run. Catcher. Home run. Bat. Baseball bat.

First base, second base, third base. World Series. Yes.

Derek Jeter. Red Sox. No. Yankees, New York Yankees. Yes. Keep going.

Red Sox. Boston Red Sox. No.

Fastball. Slow ball. Pitch. Mound.

Mound. Referee. Strike. Stolen base.

Stolen base. Strike. No. No.

Fastball. Baseball.

WHISTLE BLOWS Oh!

You did so well! So well.

So well. You got four, that's four points. The one you missed...

Glove. Oh, mitt!

Oh, glove, of course!

Matt, what are you going to go for?

I think we are going to go with Alan Shearer.

Your time starts now.

Striker. Yes. Newcastle. Yes. Number nine. England. Scoring goals.

Yeah, number nine. Celebration. England captain. Penalties.

200 goals. Premier League.

Match of the Day. Pundit. Southampton.

No. One more.

Sutton. He's bald. Blackburn.

He's bald. Blackburn. Oh, no! Come on.

Shaven headed, I think, is the technical term.

What else did he do? Captain!

WHISTLE BLOWS

You did well.

You did well, you got four very early on. The one you missed out on...

Euro '96. Euro '96.

And at the end of the round, Phil

on 20, Matt still in front on 21.

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OK, it is Mystery Guest time now.

And as it is Children in Need next week,

one of their themes is, Be A Hero.

So with that in mind, Matt, who is this living out his childhood dream?

THEY GROAN

No. He's got loads of stubble, hasn't he? Yeah, yeah.

I just thought cos he's married, yeah. Wow. You got it, have you?

No. Pudsey Bear we got.

LAUGHTER

His hands looked as if he has used them.

LAUGHTER

A bit more specific? What does that mean?!

Like a rower. Or they are part of his...

Body.

LAUGHTER

So we're looking for a married man with hands. Yeah.

Yeah. A man who has been good with his hands.

Couldn't be him, could it?

No, too dark. No. No, definitely not.

No, definitely not. Short dark hair.

So he had very dark hair, did he? I thought he did. Yeah.

Unless he's done a Vaughany, dyed it, coloured it

and had it grown again.

Vaughany? Could it have been Vaughany?

Mm... Is it...? No? No?

It was more like Shane's hair. So hair like Shane.

Falling out?

LAUGHTER

No, like dark. Yeah, Vaughany is back into play now.

Um...

Wow. We have no clue, so... So we're going to go with James Toseland.

You're going with James Toseland.

Uh... No.

HE LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY

You know what is coming now, don't you?

Why don't you say his name another couple of times, why don't you?

Was that Vaughany? I think it is Michael Vaughan, Sue.

IRONICALLY: Do you, Tuffers? Oh, let's see if you are right.

Was it Vaughany?

Yes! England cricketer Michael Vaughan.

Vaughany, Vaughany, Vaughany, Vaughany... James Toseland.

LAUGHTER

You are a genius!

OK, Tuffers, your go now. All right, boys, we need this.

Who is this playing wheelchair basketball?

MUSIC: Lean On by Major Lazer

No, you. You. I knew...

You've written Pudsey Bear again.

LAUGHTER

Beth Tweddle, gymnast.

Not the other one. What's her name?

No, it's her. It's her? Yeah. Do you want it? You go.

Beth Tweddle. Let's see.

Yes, it is. Gymnast Beth Tweddle.

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Well done indeed. Beth was actually playing wheelchair basketball with

children from Warrington Disability Partnership.

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Talking of a difference, there is

in the scores, because Matt is still

on 21, Phil is now ahead on 24.

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It is the final round tonight and it is the Buzzer Round.

It could make a big difference cos it's one point if you

get it right, but it is one point away if you get it wrong.

OK, everyone ready? Here we go.

In 2015, Flavia Pennetta won her first major title in which sport?

Tennis. Yes.

In which position do NFL stars Jordy Nelson,

Dez Bryant and Julio Jones...?

Wide receiver. Yes.

Who were the last Welsh team to win the Pro 12?

Ospreys. Yes.

Which Australian sisters medalled in the 100m freestyle...?

Campbell sisters. Yes.

Ashton Gate is the home ground...?

Bristol. Bristol...?

Bristol City. Yes. Doh!

LAUGHTER Good guess.

Which Englishman took the most wickets in the 2015 Ashes?

Stuart Broad. Yes.

Paula Creamer secured the winning point for the USA in which event?

Solheim Cup. Yes.

A Major League baseball team from Texas

and an ice hockey team from New York share the...?

Rangers. Yes.

Drivers from which country won four Formula One world championships

in the 1980s?

Going to have a guess? Got to have a go.

Got to have a guess.

Brazil. Yes! Doh!

WHISTLE BLOWS

Oh, bad luck, Matt, you just ran out of time,

which means that Phil's team are the winners tonight.

And a big thank you to all of our guests here - to Osi and Shane,

to Becky and Danny. The three of us will be back very soon,

but don't forget to tune in to Children in Need next week.

From all of us here, goodbye.

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