Episode 16 A Question of Sport

ANNOUNCER: Doing battle tonight are

reigning Margrett Snooker Champion Stuart Bingham,

England cricketing star Ravi Bopara,

swimming Margrett champion James Guy

and British record-breaking sprinter Dina Asher-Smith.

Let the games begin on A Question Of Sport.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Hello and welcome.

We have got four Question Of Sport debutants on the show tonight

so they'll be looking to their captains for leadership and guidance.

Good luck with that!

Let's get started with the Picture Board.

-And, Phil, we're going to start with your team first.

-OK.

Right, here we go. First up, let's go number one, please, Sue.

Oh, erm...erm...

Move on. Move on.

Two.

-Nick Grainger.

-Yes.

-Three.

-Laura Muir.

-Yes.

-Lovely. Four.

-Oh, Tsonga!

-Yes.

-Five.

Oh, erm...

Oh, the...what's his name?

Move on, move on, move on, move on. Six.

-Oh...

-Golfer.

-Stenson.

-Yes.

-Seven.

Go.

Swimmer, black cap.

-Andrew Willis.

-No.

-Another one.

No, no idea.

OK. Move on. Eight.

-Oh, what's his name?

-I don't even know what sport that is.

-Oh, what's his name? Samuels!

-Yes.

Erm, nine.

-Oh, Tori Bowie.

-Yes.

-Lovely. Ten.

-Sonny Bill Williams.

-Yes.

-Yes!

11. Great shout.

-Erm...oh, Pirlo!

-Yes.

-12.

-WHISTLE

-Bobby George!

-Oh, on the buzzer!

Just in time. Well done.

APPLAUSE

The first one, Superbike World Champion James Toseland.

Oh, of course it is.

LAUGHTER

The Premier League striker, Berahino.

Oh, of course it was.

And it was a Hungarian swimmer - Peter Bernek.

Oh, yeah.

It's always so easy when she says the answer.

LAUGHTER

-Berahino, of course it was.

-Anyway, a great start.

-Yeah, we'll take that.

-You scored nine points.

APPLAUSE

OK, Matt.

Number nine.

-Erm...that is Savea - Julian Savea.

-Yes.

Number ten.

-Charley Hull.

-Yes.

-11.

-Defoe.

-Yes.

-12.

-Reece Topley.

-Yes.

Eight.

-Michael Johnson.

-Yes.

-Seven.

-VVS Laxman.

-Yes.

-Six.

-Craig Steadman.

-Yes.

-Five. Come on, team.

-Ramsey.

-Ramsey, yeah.

-Yes.

-One.

-Jamie Cope.

-Yes.

-Two.

-Vettel.

-Yes.

-Three.

-Sculthorpe.

-Yeah.

-Four!

Oh!

-Anne Katheong...Anne Keothavong.

-Yes, I'll give it to you!

APPLAUSE

Anne Keothavong. Yes, well done.

Full marks there, which means, at the end of the opening round,

Phil is on nine, Matt in front on 12.

APPLAUSE

It's Sports Action now and, this week, both teams

will be playing along. Make a note of everything you see.

'Well, there's nothing else you can say, is there? He's the champion.'

'Absolutely taking his opportunity.

'A best time to win that final.'

'He's going to win his first ever Formula One Grand Prix.

'There is the chequered flag!'

'She's coming through. She's challenging.

'11.18 into a strong wind.'

'Got him! Smart catch.'

'Oh, that's a nice way to get rid of a break point.'

'Deft little ball, Hazard on the volley, beautifully done!

'Chelsea one, Manchester City nil.'

'Having his first ride in the Grand National.

'As they come up towards the line, he's out-jumped and out-stayed them.

'Wins his first ride. Second is Hedgehunter.'

-MATT:

-Oh!

OK, now we're going to play a game of noughts-and-crosses.

Each square on the board shows a sport.

You are going to take it in turns to pick a sport to answer a question on.

If you get it right, you win a point and the square is yours,

but, if you get it wrong, it goes to your opponent.

Understand? Right, Phil.

-Right.

-You get to pick first.

-And it's on the action you've just seen.

-OK.

-What did we know?

-I knew athletics.

-You know your athletics.

-Swimming.

-You know your swimming.

They're not in the best places but I think we should just go with them.

Let's go athletics, please, Sue.

Athletics. OK.

Who was winning the 100m semifinal in Zurich?

-Myriam Soumare.

-Well done.

Yes. The square is yours and one point.

-APPLAUSE

-Oh, look!

Lovely. Looking forward to seeing yours!

LAUGHTER

-You're looking very smug there.

-Yes, I am slightly.

OK, Daws, what are you going to do?

Middle's bonus time, isn't it? We'll go Formula One, Sue.

Formula One. OK.

Who was winning the Monaco Grand Prix?

Trulli.

It was! Truly right.

APPLAUSE

Jarno Trulli.

I actually feel a little bit smugger than I look in that picture.

LAUGHTER

So, now you've got to think tactics here, Tuffers,

-or are you just going for points?

-No, let's just go...

You know the swimming, obviously.

If you get it wrong, the square goes to the opposition.

-Oh.

-LAUGHTER

-We're not going to get it wrong, are we?

-No, we're not.

Swimming, please, Sue. Positive.

Which Brit was winning silver behind Chad le Clos?

-Michael Rock.

-Yes!

Get in! Straight in.

APPLAUSE

If we go golf, then we cut off. They're now null and void, those.

If we get golf, he's wasted his time there.

He has to go for tennis.

Golf.

In which year was Charl Schwartzel winning the Masters?

-Oh, that's just...

-The year. Love a year question.

LAUGHTER

OK, I think there was a play-off.

Charl.

I think Cabrera might have been in it.

Oh, no. Did he lose to Scott?

-Yeah.

-He lost to Scott...

-He lost to Scott there.

-He did win it as well.

-But I think he won it in '09.

Mickelson definitely won it in '10.

-What are we saying? '11?

-Yeah.

2011.

No.

Is spot on.

Come on!

APPLAUSE

Your face, actually, is looking smugger and smugger, actually.

Come on, let's have a go at tennis.

-Bring it on. We know this. It's in there somewhere.

-OK.

Who was the tennis star hitting a winner against Victoria Azarenka?

-I think I know this.

-Do you?

Do you?

Is it...

Kvitova?

It is! Petra Kvitova. APPLAUSE

Boom! Boom!

If we go for...if we were to get football right,

then he's not going to go cricket

and he's got to go for one of those two.

-He has to go horse racing.

-Yeah. Football?

Let's try getting three in a row.

Football.

Who did you see scoring in the Premier League?

-Did you get this?

-No.

LAUGHTER

-Willian? Will.i.an?

-It looked like him but it weren't him.

LAUGHTER

What?!

-It looked like him...

-It looked like him but it wasn't him.

-What made you think it wasn't him?

-It didn't look like him.

-It did look like...

-LAUGHTER

-Who did it look like, then?

-I don't know who it looked like.

LAUGHTER

-Can't help you out here.

-At first I thought it was Willian though.

-At first.

-Yeah.

-But then you got a bit of a close-up shot, didn't you?

-Right.

-Let's go with it.

Willian. It was Willian.

-You're going with it?

-No.

-No!

-I didn't think it was.

-Ravi, it does look like him but it isn't him.

-Have you got it?

-No.

-Oh.

Loic Remy. Loic Remy.

Oh, is that Remy?

Oh, no.

-We're in trouble now!

-Cricket to win!

Cricket to win!

LAUGHTER

Cricket.

And I know the bowler.

It's just as well because who was the bowler

dismissing Michael Vaughan?

APPLAUSE

Got it.

I think it was him.

-The doubt starts to creep in.

-Yes.

I'm pretty sure that that...

-It is him.

-..was Fidel Edwards.

Yes, it was!

Well done.

APPLAUSE

Boom! Boom! Boom!

-Look how smug you look there.

-I'm all over the board! I'm everywhere!

A point for the square and two points for the win.

-Yes. Good one.

-Which means, what a change around,

at the end of the round.

Matt is on 14, Phil in front on 15.

APPLAUSE

Now it's Home or Away and, Ravi, coming to you first.

-Home question?

-Home, please.

Who, having played in all five Ashes tests in 2005,

scored a half century to help his side win a domestic one-day final

at Lord's in 2015?

MATT SCRIBBLES

Yes.

Definitely. 100%.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-Did it look like him?

-100%.

LAUGHTER

That's the only one it can be.

-Is it?

-He's the only Gloucester player...

that played for England at that time.

Let's have it.

-Geraint Jones.

-Correct. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Gloucestershire against Surrey.

-Dina, over to you. Home question?

-Yeah, home, please.

Who won 100m European gold

in 2012

three years before becoming only the third sprinter from her country

to run in a women's World 200m Final?

I'm thinking who was in the World 200m Final with me.

I was there, Ivet was there.

I'm trying to think of any other Europeans. Dafne. Did she...?

Right.

-I don't think she won.

-Only the third person from her country.

So they're not in there a lot, are they?

Only the third woman from the... Who's not great? What countries?

Both of them. Bulgaria and Netherlands.

Oh, Bulgaria and Netherlands.

It's either Ivet or Dafne.

I'm trying to think who was in the final.

It was Dafne, Elaine Thompson... I'll go with Ivet Lalova.

Well done. You went with the right one.

APPLAUSE

Yes, the Bulgarian. Well done.

-Stuart, home or away?

-Home, please.

-SUE LAUGHS

Who, in March 2015, reached a ranking final for the first time,

winning it in less than an hour?

-Which finals are in March?

-It's him.

-That is a ranking final?

-Yeah.

He won the shoot-out literally days before.

I'm going to say it's Michael White.

Yes. Well done.

APPLAUSE

-So, James, home or away?

-Home, please.

Who won three individual freestyle silvers

at the Commonwealths in Glasgow

and then won his first individual Margrett Championship medal

with another silver in Kazan?

Scotland, Australia.

-It's definitely...it's not a Scottish boy.

-Right.

-Not an English boy.

-No.

-Not New Zealand. It's an Aussie.

-Aussie.

-Good.

-That's something.

-Yeah.

Bruce?

LAUGHTER

What names you got? What names you thinking?

-Thomas Fraser-Holmes.

-Yeah.

-Cameron McEvoy.

-Yeah.

Yeah. Cameron McEvoy.

It is! Yes. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Right, teams, it's time to test your nerves.

On the board are three subjects

and, Matt, as you're trailing, which subject would you like to tackle?

What would be your...? I think I know what your favourite would be.

Golfers!

-What would your favourite be?

-None.

-None of them?

LAUGHTER

OK. Erm, my favourite would be golfers.

-Yeah.

-Yeah? Right, we're going British Golfers.

-British Golfers.

OK. Name the five British golfers

to have won the most European tour events.

There's one point for a right answer

but, careful, as you'll lose all your points if you get one wrong.

We're thinking Monty...

Faldo, Westwood, Woosie...

-Erm...

-Who are you going to start with?

We'll start with... who do we start with?

-Monty, Westwood...

-Go with Monty.

-Montgomerie.

-Colin?

-Yeah.

-Yes. Correct. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Nick Faldo has got to be up there, hasn't he?

-Or did he play on the American Tour a lot?

-Later in his career.

-Later?

Shall we go with Nick Faldo?

Sir-nick.

Sir-nick Faldo is correct again.

Well done.

APPLAUSE

-That...?

-I hear his name all the time.

So those two points are safe.

They're safe!

Or are you going to risk them and go on?

I'm trying to think who stayed on the European Tour. Who ain't gone.

Like Jacklin, someone like that?

-I bet it's something like that.

-Oh, you're right.

Bernard Gallacher.

Oh!

-Tricky.

-Go on, risk it.

LAUGHTER

-I reckon that's...

-Bernard and Jacklin have got to be up there.

They won a lot.

I reckon...I reckon...

-Westwood.

-Yeah?

-I reckon, yeah. I reckon he's up there.

Top five?

Lee? Oh!

LAUGHTER

He's been around a while. He was winning a lot in his younger years.

Westy? Did he?

Mm. I'm sure.

-Let's go with it. Let's go with it.

-Go on.

-We'll go with it.

Lee Westwood. Yes!

He is.

Well done, boys.

APPLAUSE

-We will stop there, Sue.

-You're going to freeze.

If you had gone on, what would you have...?

I think I'd be tempted to say Tony Jacklin.

You would have lost three points.

-Ian Woosnam.

-Woosie.

-And Sam Torrance were the other two.

But well done - three points scored.

Well played.

APPLAUSE

So, what are you going to choose?

Are you going to go for the Olympic Sports or European Finalists?

Olympic Sports?

-Olympic Sports, please, Sue.

-Olympic Sports.

Name the five sports

that have featured at every summer Olympic Games

since 1896.

MATT LAUGHS AUDIENCE GASP

-DINA:

-Yay!

-How old are you, Dina?

-Erm, 19.

-How old are you, James?

-19.

Good luck, Tuffers! LAUGHTER

-OK.

-Right.

-Right.

-I would go with an educated guess that..

-Track and field.

Got to be. That's what it's all about.

-Is that athletics?

-Well, yes. Track and field. We'll say that.

It's a bit broader. Sue might give us it.

-LAUGHTER

-Smile at her nicely.

Athletics is sports. It's the whole thing.

OK, what else? Let's think. Rowing.

That's pretty old.

LAUGHTER

What else is there? Horses.

-Horses?

-Horses.

-Swimming.

-Shooting.

Swimming!

In fact, no. That's, like, 1920-something.

-Was it?!

-I think so.

-No swimming.

I don't...not that I'm...

-You're not fancying swimming.

-I'd say no.

-No.

OK. What other ones are there?

-Boxing.

-Boxing's a great shout!

I don't know if you should go with it. I just...

-LAUGHTER

-No, but we'll see.

-Cycling!

-No, but wait.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't.

Right, Sue, track and field.

-One point.

-Thank you very much.

-Yes. Athletics we accept.

APPLAUSE

-Are you now gambling from now on?

-Yeah!

I am a little bit.

-DINA:

-Let's think a bit...

-Rowing. I'm happy with rowing.

Rowing's been around a long time, you know.

Noah's Ark.

LAUGHTER

He was there.

-I'm going rowing.

-Rowing?

-Rowing, Sue.

No!

Oh, no!

It missed the first one. It was since 1900.

-Oh, missed it...

-One Olympics.

-You can just...

-I know.

If you'd gone with swimming you would have been fine.

If you'd gone with cycling you would have been fine.

The other two were fencing and gymnastics.

-Gymnastics!

-Yes.

At the end of the round, Phil is on 17, Matt in front on 19.

APPLAUSE

It is time to play Head to Head.

In this round we're going to show you two pieces of action

and you'll have to decide which happens faster.

-OK, Phil, this is for your team.

-Right.

On the left, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is in the blocks

for the 100m World Final.

On the right, South Korea against Turkey at the Margrett Cup

is about to kick-off.

So, does Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win the 100m

before a goal is scored in the football?

Which one are you going to go for?

-What did Shelly-Ann Fraser do it in?

-10.7 something.

-10.7.

So that's 11 seconds, roughly.

-Score a goal? Can you score a goal in 11 seconds?

-I reckon you can.

You reckon you can? What...he must...

Otherwise it wouldn't be a question, would it?

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Sorry.

-No...

-Sorry.

-No.

-You want to go football? You fancy football?

-OK.

-Football.

-Let's go with you.

-Fancy football.

-OK, you're going with...

-Football, Sue.

-Let's have a look. MATT:

-Come on, Shelly-Ann.

Pass it. Quick. Pass and move.

Pass and move! Go! Go!

No, he's gone backwards!

No, that way!

What's he doing? Go!

-It could be a goal.

-Come on!

Oh!

-Oh, Shelly-Ann's done it.

-Yeah.

APPLAUSE

Very little in it but not quite in the back of the net.

OK, Matt, this one's for your team.

On the left, Martin Offiah has just received the ball

in the Challenge Cup Final.

On the right, Ronnie O'Sullivan is about to complete

his record-breaking 147.

Does Martin Offiah score a try before Ronnie pots the black?

Who are you going for?

You know exactly where the cue ball goes here, don't you?

-I know he done it in five minutes 20 seconds.

-Right.

But I don't know how long he takes to clear the last three balls up.

Can you remember how he positions the cue ball?

-He just stays this side.

-Does he?

Does he come down onto the cush and go back?

I think he screws off the side cushion to get on the black.

-So he pots the blue and just a little bit...

-Stun down.

-A bit of...what's it called? Screw back?

-Yeah.

-On to the pink.

Check-stun-side.

-And then plays it off the pink down...

-Yeah.

-Off the cushion.

-Off the cush.

-Into the black.

-Yeah.

Right, I want you to act that out and I'm going to time it,

how quickly you can do it.

-Ready?

-Yeah.

-Go.

OK, Ravi, you are now Martin Offiah.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

I reckon...

Martin Offiah was quick. He must have...a hundred meters.

He's probably run about 130 by the time he's stepped around everyone

and fending them off.

-That's probably about 10 seconds.

-He can't run that in 10 seconds.

No chance.

-He's getting to about 13 seconds.

-13, 14.

-13, 14 seconds.

How did that work your, erm...

He'll do that in about...12.

-Really?

-I reckon.

You like the snooker.

Snooker?

Snooker? Snooker!

-You're going with The Rocket. OK. PHIL:

-Come on, Offiah!

-Come on, Ronnie. Don't mess about now.

-Let's see.

-PHIL:

-Go on, Martin.

-MATT:

-Get on with it!

-Get on with it!

-Run!

Run! Run!

-Come on.

-Run!

-Put it away, Ronnie!

Put it away!

Put it away! Yes!

APPLAUSE

Martin Offiah, what's the matter with you?!

LAUGHTER

Well done. You get the points. You go further ahead.

-Tuffers.

-We need this one.

On the left, the Barbarians are just about to start the move

that results in Gareth Edwards' great try.

On the right, Adam Peaty is about to become

50m breaststroke World Champion.

-Breaststroke.

-Here we go.

-Here we go.

This is the famous Barry John. Now...

-..that was a little bit of passing.

-Yeah.

This was about 26 seconds.

-26 seconds for breaststroke.

-Yeah.

Breaststroke, it always used to annoy me a bit, breaststroke,

because you never could get GOING going, you know what I mean?

-This guy's different. He's a bit of an animal.

-Is he?

-Yeah.

-He flies through the water.

-Does he?

-Yeah.

Are you comparing your own breaststroke style

to Adam Peaty?!

With his water wings on! LAUGHTER

-What are you going with?

-Rugby, Sue.

-MATT:

-Oh!

-Going with the rugby. Let's have a look.

-Come on, Adam.

You need the points.

Come on, rugby!

Go!

-Not even out of the 22 yet!

-They're going now. Now they're going.

Come on, Adam, Keep going, pal.

Power! Power!

Come on!

Come on. Go!

Go!

Come on!

Go! Go!

That is a try! It's a...dive!

Yeah!

APPLAUSE

Well done. You get the point.

OK, Daws, how will you get on with this one?

Tiger Woods is about to attempt his famous chip

at the Masters on the 16th.

On the right, Anders Fannemel is about to set

a ski jumping world record.

Does Tiger's ball drop in the hole

or does Fannemel land his jump first?

Tiger.

The legendry shot. It's right up here, isn't it?

And he does...

stop at the side of the hole.

Boom...

..and then slowly, slowly,

slowly, slowly,

slowly, slowly...

on the edge...

and in.

How long was that?

LAUGHTER

And the jump.

Who are you going for?

LAUGHTER

-It's got to be golf.

-What was longer?

-APPLAUSE

-What was longer?

-The jump was longer.

-The jump was longer?

-Much longer.

-It stops on the edge.

-That could be the drama.

That could be the drama that we're all getting...

Tuffers gets excited thinking the ball is going to go into the hole

and then it gets caught on the edge and all of a sudden,

bang, he comes down and lands the jump.

The ball hasn't quite gone down.

-Ski jump.

-You're going with the ski jump.

OK, let's have a look.

No.

Get in the hole!

LAUGHTER

Get in the hole!

Get in the hole!

Get in the hole!

Get in the hole! Get in the hole!

No!

Yes, yes, yes!

APPLAUSE

No way!

What a difference. End of the round, Phil's on 18, Matt in front on 21.

APPLAUSE

We are closing the show with the Buzzer round.

This is your final chance for glory.

Fingers on the buzzers. Ready? Here we go.

Which British woman won a long jump World Championship silver medal

in Beijing? BUZZER

-Shara Proctor.

-Yes.

Since 2000, which ranking snooker tournament has been held

in Bournemouth, Telford and York? BUZZER

-UK.

-Yes.

Which country won medals in both mixed relays

at the World Swimming Championships in Kazan?

BUZZER

-USA.

-Yes.

Which Australian became the third golfer in 2015

to become World Number One? BUZZER

-Jason Day.

-Yes.

In 2015, which T20 team became the IPL champions for the second time?

BUZZER

-Mumbai.

-Yes, it was.

Which boxer, in 2015, beat Andre Berto,

to remain undefeated and record his 49th professional win?

-BUZZER

-Mayweather.

-Yes.

-Go on.

Who was the top English goal scorer in the Premier League last season?

FINAL WHISTLE

Harry Kane, we were looking for.

APPLAUSE

It got tense there for a while but in the end, well done,

it's a win for Matt's team tonight. Well done.

APPLAUSE

Well done indeed.

That's it for tonight. A huge thank you to our guests.

I hope you enjoyed it, Ravi and Stuart, Dina and James.

The three of us will be back soon.

Until then, from all of us here, bye-bye.

APPLAUSE